Worse than not painted at all?

[halon]

\"it\'s supposed to look grainy it\'s called rust\"

I understood that when I posted the comment. The effect you were trying to achieve IMO didn\'t work. The effect looks more like grainy paint then rust. The site is flooded with 4-5 score paint jobs that have the same visual appearance to their metallic paint. The net result of copying the technique will be a score commensurate because most people won\'t take the time to analyze why you would paint it that way intentionally. So the painting on the scyth blade doesn\'t help the overall appearance of the piece.
You tried something that may not have worked. You can learn from the experience and go talk to the treadheads in the group about how to paint rusted steel so that it looks better. Or, there are other people who have posted this same figure that also have rusted blades and you could ask them how they did it. Myself, I would have used the metal technique I described in my earlier post and then hit the low spots with pastel chalks for the rust effect. I would have done it that way because black oxidation is very hard to duplicate on this scale without the piece ending up looking blotchy or grainy.

 

[Pellimore]

Wow, talk about a changing thread

It\'s funny to read a thread after its been going for a little while and see all of the switches in topic, this thread especially stuck out. Nearly every other post starts out directed as a reply and ends up with a new subject (even this post changes topic). I just thought that was a wierd thing.

Anyways, its pretty much been said already, but I figure I\'ll throw in my 2 cents (mainly because I feel like posting and this was the first thread I went too)

There\'s 2 things you have to remember about CMON:
1-Your mini\'s score never reflects what you personally feel it is (justify this however you will, good reasons are that most people know all the work they put into their pieces or the scorer is in a bad mood that day)

2-No matter how much someone wants to be judged overall, how \"cool\" thier ENTIRE mini is, the majority of the judges here have pet-peeves that are reflected in their scorres (even if you won\'t admit it, its probably some sub-conscious thing such as a nack against NNM models and such)
Just my thoughts...

Have fun,
Pellimore

 

[vincegamer]

More whining

I just want to vent, so pardon but

Why would a figure that is unbased, and just basecoated with one color drybrushed on top, score the same as my dwarf which has some basing, multiple shades to the skin, eye whites and even an attempt at fingernails??? (and my dwarf is at least half the size....)

End of venting.

 

[KatieG]

I can tell you exactly why the other mini is scoring the same as yours - even though yours has more done with it and perhaps better technique, the other mini is newer and has more detail. That dwarf is an old and rather crappy sculpt I\'m afraid, and that always factors into the score, much as many of us wishes it didn\'t (I too am somewhat nostalgic for older minis - but I had people tell me to start painting newer minis cause it would help my skills).
--Katie G.