Okay - My first ever submissions.

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BigJim

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Yay! After much, much flailing, wailing & shouting at my laptop, I\'ve finally got my first ever CMON pics up.

I\'ve wanted to submit pics here since \'03, but I could never get good enough pics & fit everything in under 100K, but thanks to the help I recieved yesterday (cheers, you know who you are ;)) I\'ve been able to upload my first 3 pics.

Anyway, enough of my life story, I\'d really appreciate some feedback & opinions on my first submissions, if it\'s no trouble.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/84265
Ballog
http://www.coolminiornot.com/84266
Cagliostro
http://www.coolminiornot.com/84267
Maug

What\'s good, bad, & how you would appraoch the picces as well would help, I must say I\'ve seen some cracking shots on CMON, but I can\'t tell for the life of me how somepeople get the WD-quality photos in under the limit, so any additional advice would be really helpful.

Thanks everyone!
 
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freakinacage

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nice stuff. i wish my first posted minis were that good (mind you i wish my minis now were that good!)

have voted as for comments, SUPERB free hand on them all and great blending on the power weapons. my only complaint about those three really good minis is that maybe the blending on the white in the dreadnought could be a little smoother other than that, great!
 
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donga666

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Dont I know you from Portent?

I recognise the name, the Avatar AND the location (Chesterfield lads can smell each other from miles off).

Welcome to a new forum, your miniatures look great. The freehand looks very very good, the one thing that stops your miniatures getting \'stupendous\' scores is the highlighting. This shows up most on the Landraider, and the Dread to a lesser extent.

Get the blending right and the skys the limit :D

BTW; Gave em all eights, would be nines with more/smoother blending. Did I say the freehand was outstanding!

Andy (Chesterfield a great place to come FROM lollol)
 
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Ritual

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Good stuff, there! And... what Donga said! Except that part about guys from Chesterfield smelling each other... I\'m not from Chesterfield.
 
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Broke n English

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I\'m not from Chesterfield and I can smell you all.....

.....Nice work Big Jim :cool: Welcome to the forums:bouncy::flip: That\'s great stuff you\'ve got there,the army must look good! I\'ve voted on them all,I also gave eights,love your freehand work ;) i also reckon a little more blending/highlighting up will look cool,cheers :D
 
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BigJim

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Yowser, I haven\'t had this warm a welcome since I woke up drunk in Chesterfield town centre that time with nothing on but a strip of \"free Pint & Kebab\" vouchers.
(I smell you too mate, heya Donga)

Cheers for the comments, I agree the LR in particular is a bit dodgy, I sprayed in in UM blue, & used drybrushing.
Unfortunately the stuff is horrible to paint onto, almost like that fluid you get on resin models.
Anyway, not an excuse - I could have easily solved it had I given it a quick blast of matte at the start, or even bitten the bullet & used proper highlighting.
(I have done on Rhino sized models, but I wasn\'t that confident I\'d do the LR justice at the time)

I\'m part way through another Dread, so I\'ll take special notice of the advice on Ballog, & yup, I agree with you on the highlighting.
Hopefully when I get pics up of my command squad you\'ll be able to see where I\'ve begun (ever so slowly ;)) to move in that direction.

Cheers for all the comments so far, it\'s all really helpful. :)
 
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donga666

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The secret of highlighting bigger models is........use a bigger brush (its that simple :rolleyes: )

Up the Spire-ites!

Hows rude!

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kmdl1066

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@donga666 It\'s not the size of the brush but what the ... err, nevermind. ;)

@BigJim Been and voted, nice work.

Sean
 
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BigJim

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Cheers. :cool:

I wanted to try & post a photo of my Command squad, but the pics I got don\'t really lend themselves to be resized for the site, so basically I just cropped out the guy on the end, the Standard Bearer.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/84369
1st Co Standard bearer

It was the first time I\'d ever used gold other than reluctantly splashing some on the tops of banner-tops when I couldn\'t be bothered to do bone, since I used the extra gold bits to denote them as an HQ squad, normally I always try & use a bone colour for stuff like that, but my brother talked me into trying it in gold.

Reading those comments above about my highlighting, I can see the point, the highlighting on some parts of the Termie are still a bit dodgy.
Thanks a lot for the kind comments about the freehand, it was coming on cmon about 2 years ago that prompted me to try, & while it\'s nowhere near as good as a lot of the stuff I\'ve seen on this site, it is one of the most fun parts of any model to do.
Oh, except for the base. That\'s the most fun part to do, because it means you\'re finished. ;)

Anyways, this is one of the more recent models I\'ve painted in the army, is this guy more in the right direction, or am I kind of repeating my mistakes?
I\'ve seen so much of these dudes they all begin to blend into one.
By the way as you can probably tell the black & red pattern is a bit of theme across the army. :)

Thanks very much for all the crits so far, I\'m finding it useful already.
 
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donga666

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Good stuff Jim!

Bet that goes down well at Martins Frames lollol Or have they stopped selling GW stuff ??? Is Brian still working there? (Brian used to run \'Books N stuff\' where I got my first GW Miniature).

Sorry everyone who is not from Chesterfield, I\'m going to beat myself now lol

Andy
 
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BigJim

New member
*waits while Donga finishes beating himself*

Ok, are you quite done now? ;) :p

To be perfectly honest, I\'m more familar with Nottingham than Chesterfield, having gone to school & then later college that way up the motorway.

I\'d not been to a gaming shop or club in Chesterfield since ooh, must be \'97 or even before that.
I used to go to the club at the YMCA, that later moved to the town hall & became COGS (I don\'t think they used the name while I was there, but the might have).

Anyway, that long & slightly boring story aside, the point being that I don\'t know Chesterfield all that well thb.

I\'m rousing some players from another board in Sheffield to come down & storm Chesterfield one day, I\'ve only ever heard good stuff about COGS & I\'ve been on about going again for months now but not really done much about it. :rolleyes:

BTW, if you\'re on about the gaming shop that used to sponsor the club, I remeber the guy in question, because he once supplied the 1st prize for a painting comp I entered (I was about 13, 14yrs old).
My brother ended up winning with a to be fair, very nice metal Hive Tyrant (I came second with a Falcon grav tank that had just come out, & I still have), it was a LoTD Space Marine mini he\'d sculpted himself, with bones & everything, as far as I know long before GW themselves produced thier own LoTD SM mini.

Of course I may be thinking of someone entirely different.
 
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