jamsessionein
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So I\'m getting back into painting for a little bit to kill the time while I wait for some buzzsaws to arrive in the mail for my dreadnought.
As it\'s been a very long time since I\'ve held a brush (ignoring, perhaps, a christmas gift or two I made for the girlfriend) I thought I might throw up the paint-in-progress here for criticism. The more brutal, the better, as I really do want to improve.
I\'ll start off with the Nob. I\'m very rapidly becoming a fan of the idea of very rusty things for my orks, half because I like the way it looks and half because I need a fair bit of practice before I even consider throwing a loaded brush at my Gargant. To that end, I\'ve mostly done the rusty bits on him so far, as well as the base and lower body. The rusty parts are mostly an experiment, honestly, because I am not all that enamored with the tin bitz & boltgun appearance of a lot of orky metals.
I\'m not in love with the pants, yet. I did a lot of drybrushing to the metals, but I was trying to highlight and shade his lower body, rather than drybrush. Unfortunately, I\'m not very good at that - my highlights tend to be very.. visible, when I try, and I end up trying to wash them back down again. Still got a ways to go to make them pop.
The boots are minimally highlighted - really only two shades of red on them, but I think they look decent.
I actually painted some of the skin Vallejo\'s dark green, but it\'s so freakin\' dark of a shade I might as well not have bothered.
The base was all drybrushed, and I tried to rust down the metal parts of his boots in the same manner. I think it looks passable.
Moving on to the ammo runt...
I actually think this fella looks awful in person, but for some reason the pictures flatter it a bit. He\'s very, very glossy in person, which I think contributes to how I feel about it a bit. I tried using a wonder wash thing I got from The Warstore, and while it shaded the whole thing nicely, it also made the recesses very glossy, which can look confusing - reflective shadows. It\'s actually a bit entertaining - I got mad at the whole grot\'s base coat looking so terrible, so I took the mini and just dunked the parts I\'d painted into the wonder wash, then pulled it out and let it sit - sort\'ve like dipping. It shaded things pretty decently, but it also glossed up the whole mini. I\'ve since tried knocking it back with a bit of brushed on matte varnish, which helped in the pictures a bit. He\'s only about half done - I\'m not sure what color to make some of the other stuff, but I\'ll figure it out eventually. He also needs his base highlighted up to match the nob\'z.
The metal can he\'s carrying bothers me a lot. I think I am going to go over it and drybrush the rust colors all over it to try and knock it down a bit, because the boltgun metal is far brighter than I remember it ever being.
So, guys. Be brutally honest, please, as I want to improve.
As it\'s been a very long time since I\'ve held a brush (ignoring, perhaps, a christmas gift or two I made for the girlfriend) I thought I might throw up the paint-in-progress here for criticism. The more brutal, the better, as I really do want to improve.
I\'ll start off with the Nob. I\'m very rapidly becoming a fan of the idea of very rusty things for my orks, half because I like the way it looks and half because I need a fair bit of practice before I even consider throwing a loaded brush at my Gargant. To that end, I\'ve mostly done the rusty bits on him so far, as well as the base and lower body. The rusty parts are mostly an experiment, honestly, because I am not all that enamored with the tin bitz & boltgun appearance of a lot of orky metals.
I\'m not in love with the pants, yet. I did a lot of drybrushing to the metals, but I was trying to highlight and shade his lower body, rather than drybrush. Unfortunately, I\'m not very good at that - my highlights tend to be very.. visible, when I try, and I end up trying to wash them back down again. Still got a ways to go to make them pop.
The boots are minimally highlighted - really only two shades of red on them, but I think they look decent.
I actually painted some of the skin Vallejo\'s dark green, but it\'s so freakin\' dark of a shade I might as well not have bothered.
The base was all drybrushed, and I tried to rust down the metal parts of his boots in the same manner. I think it looks passable.
Moving on to the ammo runt...
I actually think this fella looks awful in person, but for some reason the pictures flatter it a bit. He\'s very, very glossy in person, which I think contributes to how I feel about it a bit. I tried using a wonder wash thing I got from The Warstore, and while it shaded the whole thing nicely, it also made the recesses very glossy, which can look confusing - reflective shadows. It\'s actually a bit entertaining - I got mad at the whole grot\'s base coat looking so terrible, so I took the mini and just dunked the parts I\'d painted into the wonder wash, then pulled it out and let it sit - sort\'ve like dipping. It shaded things pretty decently, but it also glossed up the whole mini. I\'ve since tried knocking it back with a bit of brushed on matte varnish, which helped in the pictures a bit. He\'s only about half done - I\'m not sure what color to make some of the other stuff, but I\'ll figure it out eventually. He also needs his base highlighted up to match the nob\'z.
The metal can he\'s carrying bothers me a lot. I think I am going to go over it and drybrush the rust colors all over it to try and knock it down a bit, because the boltgun metal is far brighter than I remember it ever being.
So, guys. Be brutally honest, please, as I want to improve.
