Sionid's Clean Your Plate WIP Thread
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Gandalf the Grey
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Love that sword.
Darthmarsh
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I think she looks awesome personally. if you're really not happy though why not go with the ivory grip as Kbear surgests you could also paint the holsters a deep brown rather than tan just to force a contrast.
Sionid
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Thanks for the suggestions and support! Krule, I didn't even think about ivory grips, that could've looked nifty with darker holsters. As it is, though, I like the dark grip because of the lightness of her skin.
Sigmar & Gandalf, that's good to hear--I find weapons really intimidating to paint, for some reason.
Testing with one of Massive Voodoo's photo backgrounds. Still cell phone pics, though. >.<
The previous image of the base is more true to IRL color, the high points on the "rock" look much paler in these pics than they do in person, it's much more gray and less white. Makes it look like a perch favored by seagulls...
Sigmar & Gandalf, that's good to hear--I find weapons really intimidating to paint, for some reason.
Testing with one of Massive Voodoo's photo backgrounds. Still cell phone pics, though. >.<
The previous image of the base is more true to IRL color, the high points on the "rock" look much paler in these pics than they do in person, it's much more gray and less white. Makes it look like a perch favored by seagulls...
BloodFather of Kharnath
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Strange minis. Like your flair for oddities...
Sionid
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AHHH I KNOW. So much excellence. And a bunch of Confrontation for 50% off...!
I went to visit the display cases and somehow Viktoria has some white powdery substance, in which there is a big ol' fingerprint, on the most obvious part of her base. I'm just about positive that it wasn't there when I entered it. I should be able to ask to take her out of the cabinet and brush her off tomorrow but in the meantime I'm just gonna worry about it really hard
I went to visit the display cases and somehow Viktoria has some white powdery substance, in which there is a big ol' fingerprint, on the most obvious part of her base. I'm just about positive that it wasn't there when I entered it. I should be able to ask to take her out of the cabinet and brush her off tomorrow but in the meantime I'm just gonna worry about it really hard
BloodFather of Kharnath
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I'm sorry, where are you?
BloodFather of Kharnath
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Lucky! I grew up in Columbus btw. So what it the painting competition all about at Gen?
Sionid
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Moetle, thanks 
we actually call it our Christmas (and more money is certainly spent now than in December, heh). Bad timing, Grandaddy Nurgle!
BloodFather, the rules are here. Basically, there's your usual categories like Single Figure and Unit and whatever, and this year there are two sections to every category--"Open," a more casual competition, like for people who've never entered a competition before, and "Master," for the more experienced. Weirdly (or maybe not? This is my first contest), Open has a single gold, silver, and bronze award to give out, while Master rates each entry individually from no award up to gold. Seems like it'd be the other way around.
There's also Manufacturer's Awards, so Wyrd or Dark Sword or whoever could also pick your mini out for an award outside of the GenCon judges' decision. So it looks like there are lots of ways to win stuff.
we actually call it our Christmas (and more money is certainly spent now than in December, heh). Bad timing, Grandaddy Nurgle!BloodFather, the rules are here. Basically, there's your usual categories like Single Figure and Unit and whatever, and this year there are two sections to every category--"Open," a more casual competition, like for people who've never entered a competition before, and "Master," for the more experienced. Weirdly (or maybe not? This is my first contest), Open has a single gold, silver, and bronze award to give out, while Master rates each entry individually from no award up to gold. Seems like it'd be the other way around.
There's also Manufacturer's Awards, so Wyrd or Dark Sword or whoever could also pick your mini out for an award outside of the GenCon judges' decision. So it looks like there are lots of ways to win stuff.
Darthmarsh
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Looks cool mate, how long did he take you?
Sionid
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We had 45 minutes (with the model pre-assembled and primed), using their brushes and paints. Felt bad for some other folks whose shields broke off! I'll be doing one for Wyrd tomorrow. 45 minutes of intense, focused silence punctuated by occasional cursing about the paint not being dry is more fun than it sounds, I swear...!
