Wolphebayte's WIP

WolpheBayte

WolpheBayte

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Next was this bugger, a $1.00 pickup outta a bin. He had some bigger areas that I had to blend. The biggest problem I had with him is once I was happy with the blend, you could hardly tell there was a highlight. This seemed to be worse on the larger areas.

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I did have some fun playing with metallic on him. I really like the way his belly plate and helmet came out.

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WolpheBayte

WolpheBayte

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This guys is my latest project. A much nicer model. Though I did mess it up a bit trying to experiment with ways to polish up pewter. A friend told me that he uses a wire-wheel on his dremel at a high RPM to polish his pewter metals. Swore by this technique, said it didn't leave scratches or anything... I beg to differ. I tried to clean up the mess as much as possible, but gave up after a while.

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This were from a couple of days ago. Last night I sat back down with him, and tried to clean up the blending and shadows on his skin a little bit, as will move forward with other areas.

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I think it looks a little better. I still need do some of the detail work and finish his axe. I am hoping to be able to sit down tonight or tomorrow and finish him up.

Any advice or critique is welcome and the past few mini's. And as always, thanks for looking.
 
ArchArad

ArchArad

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You're back. :D

My biggest advice would be that you need to push the contrast between the shadows and highlights even more. Especially on the cloak and skin. I can see that the colours are there, I just think that you're not taking advantage of the way that highlights and shadows can help to give definition to areas.
 
WolpheBayte

WolpheBayte

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I had an epiphany last night that I want to share. I have a lot of miniatures that I really like and have not wanted to paint because I wanted to make sure they looked the best that they could. But after finishing the last guy, I realized that if I really like the mini, I enjoy painting it much better. Which also means that I don't mind going slower, and putting more time into it, which gives me better results. Besides, if I really screw it up, or decide I want to redo it, I can always strip and start over.
 
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warrior4520

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I get that same feeling a lot, where I don't want to paint something because I want to be able to paint in perfectly, so I paint something I don't like as much instead. Maybe I should start working on my favorite mini.

Oh, and I agree on the belly plate and helmet on the ogre; the metallics came out really nicely.
 
WolpheBayte

WolpheBayte

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I think I am going to start on one of the mini's I have been hesitant to try. He is on the smaller side and has really nice detail. Every time I am think about starting it, I am worried that I don't have the skills and I am going to screw it up. I guess there is only one way to see...

Oh yeah, thanks for the compliment on the helmet and belly plate :)
 
ten ball

ten ball

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Just paint what you love, that feeling of wanting to do the mini more credit than you feel you can achieve never goes away , even when you've been painting for years !
 
Sicks

Sicks

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WolpheBayte said:
I had an epiphany last night that I want to share. I have a lot of miniatures that I really like and have not wanted to paint because I wanted to make sure they looked the best that they could. But after finishing the last guy, I realized that if I really like the mini, I enjoy painting it much better. Which also means that I don't mind going slower, and putting more time into it, which gives me better results. Besides, if I really screw it up, or decide I want to redo it, I can always strip and start over.
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I had that epiphany too, painting minis that I like more means I try harder to make it look good, I have a box of partly painted and assembled space marines that I used for practice which certainly helped my painting, but I came on much further when I concentrated more on minis I really like, even if one of them have taken multiple attempts, I've also switched to focusing more on getting single figures rather than a squad box, I get bored halfway through a squad but I enjoy doing characters and individual minis much much more
 
WolpheBayte

WolpheBayte

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I had a couple of sleepless nights over the weekend, so I decided to play with the airbrush. Pulled these guys out and started working on them. These may have been the some of the hardest models I have ever tried to put together.

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Since I had the airbrush out I decided to start working on this guy too.

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I have been going back and forth between the two. The spirit hosts still need touch up work done. I also still have to paint the skeletons, tombstones and figure out what I want to do about the weapons. The other guy I have just been working on while I am waiting on other stuff. Let me know what you think.
 
ArchArad

ArchArad

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The spirit hosts look very effective. There's quite an interesting tutorial on painting them on Warhammer TV's YouTube channel in the Nagash tutorial. Worth checking out for the effect at least.
 
WolpheBayte

WolpheBayte

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Thank you everyone. The spirit host were a lot of fun to paint, especially with the airbrush. I used a lot of color combinations that I never would have thought of to get the results I was looking for. It was neat to all of a sudden see the color come out on them. I was trying to get a glowing effect. I watched Ghostbusters with my kids last week and had the thought for green from seeing Slimer. Now I am trying to figure out how to get a little bit more contrast for the details. My gut is telling me to avoid doing to much with the shadows as I am afraid I will loose the look. I was kicking around the idea of maybe trying some very gentle pigments. I saw a video online where somebody did edge highlighting with a watercolor pencil and I though about giving this a try for some additional highlights. Any thoughts you have would be greatly appropriated.
 
ArchArad

ArchArad

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Trollbloods rock! Loving the colours so far. A copper/brass trim might work well.

Just a thought to keep in mind: you're using primarily cool colours at the moment (green and blue) so you might want to consider bringing in a bit of the warm tones (eg an orange or maroon) on the cloth over his shoulder. Doesn't need to be too bright and overpowering, but I think it'll balance the overall colour scheme nicely.
 
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