Lone Lemming's WIP

[Lone Lemming]

Thanks Darthmarsh!

And the assembled mini so far:

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[Lone Lemming]

I added the dagger and the pouches to the back.
Unfortunately I used plastic glue (my instant glue disappeared to the empyrean), and as I failed the place the pouches correctly, I peeled of some of the yellow paint from the leg, meh :angry:.

After fixing it:

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[Lone Lemming]

I painted the studded shoulder pad:

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As the right shoulder is in the front, it needs to be reinforced, so I added it to the right side:

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[Lone Lemming]

After second try to paint white undercoat (switched back to Vallejo White Primer), and second try to sketch with pencil the check pattern (the first one did not go around correctly):

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And proof of concept, aka pre-painting the black squares:

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Any suggestion for shading color?

 

[Zab]

Shade the white warmer with some yellow and cooler with some purple/grey. That will tie it all into his armor maybe.

 

[Lone Lemming]

Checkers are painted:

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[Darthmarsh]

That looks great dude. I really have nothing else to add, keep doing what you're doing

 

[Lone Lemming]

I was(or more correctly, my children were ) on vacation, but now have some time to post my progress.

What I actually did not expect (this is my first SM) is that the shoulder pad is BIG!

BTW I used the same ArmourBrown:GunshipGreen 1:1 mix I used as shading for the main body to glaze the shoulder pad. Strangely it resulted in a reddish tone, not a greenish one:

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[SaintToad]

Awesome work, my friend! Your first one? No way. Too good.
The details on the checkered shoulder pad really take this guy to another level for me.

 

[Lone Lemming]

Awesome work, my friend! Your first one? No way. Too good.

Well, I feel that the result of my studies (like Ben Komets' Painting Buddha videos, to paint the Stormcast Eternal was very similar experience) are getting stabilized, and I do feel that I can paint on this level consistently.
TBH I was afraid to start this mini, took me a while to begin with it.

Furthermore almost all of my models can be seen here or in my gallery

 

[Lone Lemming]

And here is the finished model:

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[eyeayen]

That's awesome, not just the paint but the photography is perfect too. Love the shading on the marine. How are you going to base him ? Something opposite to make him stand out ?

 

[BloodASmedium]

Impressive ,really impressive painting bud!!!

 

[MAXXxxx]

have to agree, looks super.

Knowing how the other entries are usually I have a hunch, that this will get a prize of a light yellowish color.
Unless you create a really bad base, but I think the base you choose will look good too.

 

[Lone Lemming]

For the base I planned to do some industrial floor, pipes and spilled blue fluid:

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However when I tried to add Vallejo Still Water, it flowed off the base, so I had to scrap and redo the base. Meh.

 

[Lone Lemming]

That's awesome, not just the paint but the photography is perfect too.

Thanks, but these were made just with two lamps, a ~$100 Tesco Phone, from ~10cm, then autotuned with snapseed, cropped and resized to 50%.

 

[Lone Lemming]

BloodASMedium, MAXXxxx, thanks!

 

[Lone Lemming]

Well, I could not really paint in the last couple of days, but I would like to show my progress on the Space Marine base.

First I painted the ground with different color layers, like VMC 70822 German Camo Black Brown, VMC 70872 Chocolate Brown, VMC 70859 Black Red and VMC 70873 US Field Drab, then added some Nuln Oil wash, and dry brushed with some light VMC 70843 Cork Brown.

The grill was painted with VAC 71065 Steel, then received some Nuln Oil wash.
The big pipe was painted with VAC 71065 Steel, but was blended with VMC 70950 Black.
The small pipe was painted with GC 72060 Tinny Tin.

Separator band is the usual ArmourBrown:GunshipGreen 1:1 mix and JapaneseUniform stripes.

The pipes were weathered with ModelMates rust effect:

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[KruleBear]

The stripes look good. I always seem to have problemes executing straight lines and stripes and yours are spot on.

 

[Lone Lemming]

The stripes look good. I always seem to have problemes executing straight lines and stripes and yours are spot on.

Hi KruleBear!

The stripes were kind of easy (meaning it succeeded on 2nd time ).
The band is 2mm wide, and I draw a line across it with a sharp pencil 2mm from each other, then connected the lines diagonally, looked like: |/| |/| |/| |/| |/| |/|
Trick is to balance the metal ruler on the middle of the base