Matney's WIP Thread (Obviously pic heavy)

[Matney X]

I figure I might as well start a WIP thread to document my progress -- seems like everyone else is doing it.

A bit of history, if you're interested.. I started playing D&D in 1996 and immediately started painting my own miniatures. I did that pretty solidly until 1999 or so, then I discovered girls, and I returned to the hobby side of gaming (I never stopped rolling dice) in 2012.

The very first thing I painted when I came back was an older Reaper demon:
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Followed by a Reaper dwarf:
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And then I got into WH40K. A friend of mine decided he didn't want to paint his own army, so he paid me to assemble and paint a Dark Eldar army for him, which I remembered that I really liked drybrushing from when I did ceramics as a kid:
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And finally, my wife got me Dark Vengeance for Christmas, so I started on my Dark Angels (I know the eyes are awful... they're a little better, now, but I recognize that eyes are an area I need to work on, even if all I'm doing is inking them in a single color):
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And, thank you for your time. Hopefully by documenting my WIPs, I'll show improvement.
If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

 

[pariahrob]

Hi! Great to see another new WIP thread. My favourite kind.

Are they bobbins from cotton reels the DE are on? That's a good idea, as I can't seem to drink enough wine to keep me in corks!

 

[Matney X]

Are they bobbins from cotton reels the DE are on? That's a good idea, as I can't seem to drink enough wine to keep me in corks!

Yes, they are. I'm not a wine drinker, so I don't come into corks all that often. Hobby Lobby (Love 'em or hate 'em, they're the closest craft store to my house AND they carry Vallejo Model paints) has corks for ~$1 each, but they have a 20 pack of wooden thread spools for $3.99.

It's not obvious, but there are two different sizes of spools in that pic -- I bought a small pack of smaller ones to see if I'd really like having something to hold onto while I painted, and once I was sold they didn't have the smaller spools when I returned to Hobby Lobby. Now I prefer the bigger ones, anyway.

 

[secretpaintgeek]

Goo didea with the cotton reel things (I think thats the technical term ). Not being a drinker i have the same problem getting corks so this is something i'll be stealing to use myself so thanks for that
The Dark eldar are looking good. Always struck me as a nice army to paint

 

[Matney X]

Oh, wow, it's been awhile (and I've done A LOT!)... here's a quick blast of all my Imgur WIP threads, each with descriptions of what techniques I was using, before I drop my most recent work.

The Dark Eldar, posted above - October 2013 (this ended up getting scrapped when the owner decided he was done with 40k)
Malifaux Dark Debts - September 2013
Malifaux Razorspine Rattler - June 2014
Scale 75 Dianne Tianseen w/ Display Base - February 2015
Circle Orboros Feral Warpwolf - March 2015
Skin-Practice: Bust #1 - September 2015
Skin-Practice: Bust #2 - September 2015
Malifaux War Wabbit - October 2015
Reaper Chibi Graveyard - October 2015

 

[Matney X]

And now the most current stuff...

If you look at the last post, there are two titled "Skin-Practice." This is because I realized my flesh painting was seriously lacking, so I picked up some cheap busts and set to work practicing my fleshtones.

Most recently, I decided to start knocking out my Reaper Storm Giant, from the first Bones Kickstarter, and I opted to use more traditional painting styles (why are we reinventing the wheel when the Old Masters were painting beautiful, lush, fleshtones centuries ago?), starting with a verdaccio underpainting.

The WIP Imgur album for this can be found here: http://imgur.com/a/4PPOf

 

[Matney X]

I figured out how to crop and resize Imgur pictures -- my life is totally changed!

 

[Matney X]

I figured out how to crop and resize Imgur pictures -- my life is totally changed!

I'm embarrassed to say I totally forgot how to do that.

However, I think I've become a better painter, at least.

Case in point -- WIP thread for my 1:4 Dwarf Bust:http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums...arf-bust-WIP-(Huge-images-I-m-really-sorry-(-)

And, since I got a Foldio for Christmas, I'm going to be taking pictures of things I've completed, over the years. Here's the first one with the Foldio: http://www.coolminiornot.com/407832