Mega's menagerie of miniature madness

[wargamesculptor]

Very subtle mate, progressing nicely

 

[BloodFather of Kharnath]

Skin tone is spot on!!! Probably very hard to get that just right. While the blue is both authentic and very well painted, you have a TON of more intricate freehanding oppurtunities to pursue if you so choose.

 

[megazord_man]

Thanks guys , I certainly do have some crazy freehand opportunities!

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[Stewsayer]

Love the face. So much going on there and the blue is looking great.

 

[megazord_man]

Thanks so much Stewsayer

 

[AndyG]

It's coming along nicely mate

 

[BloodFather of Kharnath]

May I ask what you used for his skin? Some VMC Iraqi Sands, maybe? Just would like to know, for future reference cuz this is perfect Middle East/Central Asian skin tone.

Love how you were actually able to make his skin look rough!

 

[megazord_man]

Thanks fellas, for the skin I've used

scale 75 African shadow, Arabic shadow as the shading, scale 75 basic flesh and light skin as the mid tones and Vallejo model colour ice yellow and a tiny amount of light flesh as the lights. There's a few glazes of gw scab red to give him som life too. Hope that helps!

oh I forgot the liver spots with gw agrax earth shade.

 

[wargamesculptor]

Really captured the feel of the character on this one and the way blue has a sheer look is brilliant

 

[BloodFather of Kharnath]

Hmm...yet again I see great things from these Scale 75 paints. More and more reason to order them all, me thinks.

 

[megazord_man]

Thanks guys!

The scale 75 paints are quite tricky as they're very different to what you're used too, particularly they're very matt and dilute differently. But with practice they're very very good.

 

[BloodFather of Kharnath]

Yes I've seen how matt they are, which is actually very attractive. Though I imagine they require quite a bit of shaking to mix them properly. What do you mean by their diluting differently?

 

[megazord_man]

It's hard to define exactly, I find they're thicker out of the bottle than the others, then seem to need to have a more accurate amount of water to hit the sweet spot (rather than being too thin or thick). Some of this comes from working the paint (like you would an oil paint) to get it to flow as much as watering it down. I've also found they seem to dry out very quickly even on a wet palette. None of those things are necessary negative, rather it's just different and takes getting used to.

 

[BloodFather of Kharnath]

It's hard to define exactly, I find they're thicker out of the bottle than the others, then seem to need to have a more accurate amount of water to hit the sweet spot (rather than being too thin or thick). Some of this comes from working the paint (like you would an oil paint) to get it to flow as much as watering it down. I've also found they seem to dry out very quickly even on a wet palette. None of those things are necessary negative, rather it's just different and takes getting used to.

Thank you, a very informative account that I'll have to keep in mind...

 

[megazord_man]

Sorry, other than FB I've not really been online recently....

 

[KruleBear]

A worthy update. Nice progress.

 

[BloodFather of Kharnath]

Yup. That's a Pashtun.

 

[megazord_man]

Thanks guys

 

[wargamesculptor]

Very nicely done mate, all the clothing has a natural feel to it, great work as always

 

[megazord_man]

It's been a little while, life is busy but here's a couple of updates -


I've decided to do a little freehand (if you can call lines freehand!) and some weathering.....


















and something I've been playing with for quite sometime (about 5mins at a time!).