Hello and first submissions

Sheriebee

Sheriebee

New member
Hi there,

I'm a busy mum of 5, and my husband introduced me to the hobby just a couple of years ago... I've finally decided to let a few of my miniatures out on the interwebs to play, so thought I'd join in the fun and hopefully pick up some tips along the way. I'm still getting my head around posting images, and working on my camera work, so hopefully they've turned out okay.

My Umber Hulk
http://www.coolminiornot.com/pics/pics16/img50b05dee0d714.jpg
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I thought this dude was kinda cool, and my husband wasn't planning on doing anything with him - he was just sitting in a bits box, gathering dust

Anyway, cheers and hope to get some feedback :)

Cheers,
Sheriebee
 
boubi

boubi

New member
Great start, good color scheme... Maybe you use washes too heavily. Let's start, first thin your paint, add water in the same quantity than paint but this only work if you have a light color primer (white / neutral gray). Apply the base color by 2 or 3 layers to get homogeneous thin base color, then shadow the base by adding a color which will make the base looks darker i.e. red + dark blue, black can also work but harder to apply and result can have a "dirty" look... Then apply your highlight with a lighter color into your base i.e. red + yellow. You can add extreme highlight touches with white or i often use off white, white with a slight tint of other color. One good effect, if to have cold color shadows (blue) and warm color highlight (yellow), not mandatory but can have nice color feel on the mini.
Then practice, practice and practice... If you ask question here you will get plenty of nice and complete answers so don't hesitate. One good way of improving with this forum is to post a Work In Progress and show to people how to you progress by asking them questions on the way and adapting your painting accordingly... It works really well!

By the way how do you do to still have time painting with 5 kids?? I have only two and struggle to have few hours painting per week, and I am not the one feeding the smallest one! :)
 
Sheriebee

Sheriebee

New member
Hi there,

Thanks for the feedback. The majority of my miniatures were undercoated black to start with, which explains the darker and dirtier tones. We've been playing around with different undercoats and at some point, I'll get some more of my minis up here for comparison.

Thanks for the tips - will hopefully get me painting some more, and get the rest of my minis online. I'm still a little nervous on the posting WIP front, but I'm sure I'll manage to get there in time.

And as for time with having 5 kids... Although they spend time at our respectives exes houses, which frees up some time, we've involved them a lot in the hobby, so manage to get whole days of all 7 of us (plus the neighbour's son), sitting around the dining table painting. I am blessed by the fact that the youngest is almost 8 though - it'd be harder with younger kids I think.
 
Flow

Flow

New member
The Umber Hulk is an awesome old school monster, and I applaud these old things getting some love. You did a good job!

I poked around and that apparently is from Grenadier, miniature "135a / 317", and was part of their Fantasy Classics series around 1986.
 
boubi

boubi

New member
Sheriebee said:
I'm still a little nervous on the posting WIP front, but I'm sure I'll manage to get there in time.

And as for time with having 5 kids... Although they spend time at our respectives exes houses, which frees up some time, we've involved them a lot in the hobby, so manage to get whole days of all 7 of us (plus the neighbour's son), sitting around the dining table painting. I am blessed by the fact that the youngest is almost 8 though - it'd be harder with younger kids I think.
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Don't be nervous to start a WIP, if you feed them well and enjoy it, people will continue to give you feedbacks and guide you through your painting. You will get many tips, best tools to use, colors mixing recipe, just lots of fun than you can share with your painting family!

I would enjoy to paint with family members or even a bunch of people. Living in China now, miniature painting not so popular yet but start to be... Not much folks to paint with, and foreigners here are mostly here for partying and making business sometimes both, and two kids are too small for it!
 
Thebladesmith@hotmail.com

Thebladesmith@hotmail.com

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I follow about 10 WIPs and it’s always cool, I think, toknow the back story of the painter. I have two little girls one of which is oldenough to paint water colors beside me while I paint minis. I can only imaginetrying to paint with five.
 
PegaZus

PegaZus

Stealth Freak
Thebladesmith@hotmail.com said:
I follow about 10 WIPs and it’s always cool, I think, toknow the back story of the painter. I have two little girls one of which is oldenough to paint water colors beside me while I paint minis. I can only imaginetrying to paint with five.
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A tip that was given to me, and worked until they noticed the difference, was to but a set of Crayola washable paint. Little caps and around 18 colors. Then give them a mini to paint. Since the paint is washable, the mini can be stripped quickly and they can paint it again. Didn't quite work as mine decided each was a treasured accomplishment, which meant buying a large boxed set for each. Buying gave them lots of stress free (for me at least) painting time. Plus they learned brush cleaning and other basics.

Back on topic, very pretty figure and not a lot I could add. About the only additional thing would be to get it onto a decorative base, but that may depend on your eventual use of it.

And welcome to the forums!
 
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