Ilyad Barbarian - First \"serious\" mini

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titan136

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This is the first miniature I\'ve spent some serious time on. Usually I just paint for gaming but I\'m looking to get into some better quality miniatures for display purposes.

The WIP thread\'s been a lotta help. Here\'s the finished piece. Its the first piece on which I worked with blending, shading and non-basic skin tones so please be gentle :)

This is the first of 6 Ilyad barbarians I got my hands on last year. Looking to improve so C&C is very welcome and appreciated

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OrkyDave

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Agree, very loveley stuff, saw this ovr in the WIP and was impressed by the skintones.

The only thing I would have done differently is removed him from the \'Brocolli\' base and put him on something a little more special. After all a mini this special, both sculpt and paint job wise deserves it!
 
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Hinton

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Great work. Really nice touch having some snow on his upraised foot; definitely helps add a touch of realism. Voted.
 
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Bignastyshark

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Very very nice

I love the skin on this mini,

Did you use purples and blue mixed in to create the cold effect?

Cheers Iain.

P.S.

Any chance of a recipie for the skin tones?
 
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electrolito 77

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Looks very cold. Great skintone too. A very \"serious\" mini. Overall paintjob is a complete success, makes me want to paint one. 8.0 from me. I would\'ve given you an extra point if the yellow on the skintone was a bit more discreet and if you would have put some more snow all over the mini, or a least some more at the top of the boot to make it seem like he is really running. Still a great mini overall, especially the fact that this is your first serious mini. Cheers! -Mike-
 
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titan136

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@ OrkyDave: I thought about a display base but could really come up with anything at the moment. I still have 5 more guys to paint so maybe in the end I\'ll put them all on some sort of diorama base?

@ Bignastyshark: Here\'s the recipe for the skin: (I\'m justcopying and pasting from another note i sent someone else) First I did a black primer followed by a couple of basecoats of GW bronze flesh.

Once I had a good clean area to work with, I took blood red and ice blue (about 50-50) and painted in the deep shadows with the roughly purple mix. For the really deep shadows I did 25-25-50 of Ultramarines blue, ice blue and blood red respectively.

When i started to highlight and work into the lighter regions, I mixed the 50-50 Blood red and ice blue mixture together with some bleached bone and did a glaze of the whole skin area kind of to lighten it. Then I gradually blended and highlighted with progressively more bleached bone until I was using pure bleached bone. to highlight. Finally in some extremeties i used 80-20 bleached bone and skull white

Thats pretty much it. Hope it helped some. If any part of this is not clear, lemme know

Thanks for all the comments, I\'m going to try to improve further for the next mini :)
 
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OrkyDave

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Thanks for sharing your skin \'recipie! Will have to give it a go sometime as the results are stunning.

A frozen tundre display diorama with a whole bunc of Ilyad barbarians would be so cool, good luck with the rest of them and be sure to keep us posted!
 
Tinweasel

Tinweasel

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Voted on it, but not able to comment as my email isn\'t registering as \"validated\" for some reason.

Been following this one over on the Relic P&M Forums, and it\'s some beautiful work for your first \"serious\" piece and I don\'t think I commented on it over there (yet). The skin tones have some excellent transitions on them and the scheme with the purple shading really gives it a \"cold\" feel as befits the subject.

So far as improvement goes on this particular figure, at least, I think the fur could benefit from one more step of highlights on the highest uppermost-facing parts, maybe adding a hint more yellow to tie everything together nicely. Personally, I\'d give the metals and the hair both a little bit more in the way of stark shading - you could get a little bit closer to black on each in the deepest recesses and I think it would make the high points stand out more as they all face upwards (especially on the shield arm).

Great work, though, all the same - and I\'m sure his friends will turn out even better. By the time you\'re done with \'em all, you\'re probably going to have to go back and touch this guy up just so he looks like he fits in again quality-wise. 8^)
 
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