Salute 2012 Gold - Street bot willy

monkeyman7x

monkeyman7x

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Hey guys and gals,

always get a bit nervous posting stuff up here, but i thought i'd throw this up for people to comment on. This was the mini i entered at Salute on the weekend and luckily managed to pick up a gold with in the scifi monster/vehicle category. It was my first attempt at painting a really rusty figure (very stylised rust) and I'm pretty happy with how it came out. I hope some of you like what i've done!!

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and for anyone thats kind enough, here is a voting link
http://www.coolminiornot.com/304069?browseid=1357287 (Bigger image)
http://www.coolminiornot.com/304068?browseid=1357391

thanks for looking!

Chris
 
AndyG

AndyG

Active member
Yeah a brilliant mini and a deserved win well done! Entered salute my self realy enjoyed it and now I've seen the standard to work towards:good: voted and commented.
 
jcichon

jcichon

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I want to know how you did the chrome blue!! THats stunning!! The first thing that caught my eye and kept bringing me back!
 
monkeyman7x

monkeyman7x

New member
Thanks a lot for the kind words guys. Means a lot to me :).

@AndyG - look at the salute winners as the standard to beat because by next year they will have all improved again. It's a hard game of catch up, taken me quite some time but I feel like I'm finally getting there.

@Jcichon - I'm happy you like the blue because it was REALLY hard lol. I have so much respect for joe from the 'EM team for his marneus Calgary because I would go insane trying to do a whole mini like that.
If your interested though, the blue was basecoated with ultramarine blue and then I blocked in the highlights with a mix of ultra and sw.grey. I pushed the highlights up to pure sw.grey and then used an off white(towards orange) for the highlights. Then I started shading by using regal blue and then black. Finally I used some black and orange for the deepest bits. I then did a lot of glazes with Windsor and Newton deep blue ink (not sure of the name) finally I used white for spot highlights. If you attempt it I suggest a lot of patience...it's very time consuming lol.
 
Pictish Mini Painting

Pictish Mini Painting

I'm actually a man!
Thats a lovely mini, i like the shiny vs the old n damaged, and the cutesy but threatening nature of the scene, if that makes sense. Well done on the gold :)
 
K

Kalidane

New member
Great mini! So many cool things to look at over and over. It's not that often that there is a mini to spend minutes looking at and examining.
 
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