Hi guys. This is my first post on the forum, so thought i\'d just say a quick Hello 
. I\'m John, i\'m english but living in cyprus at the moment (for ever i hope ) I used to roleplay and wargame in my younger days and used to enjoy painting my mini\'s for tabletop use. Then after many years i chanced on this site and rediscovered the magic of mini painting. Unfortunately after only a couple of months i got so busy i had to give it up again for a couple of years, but i\'m back again with more time and even more enthusiasm to improve my painting .
I don\'t play anymore so i\'m completely out of touch with what\'s what, i just paint mini\'s because i enjoy it, so correct colour scheme\'s, etc might be a bit hit and miss, hehe. I\'ll link my latest submission for you to have a look at. I\'d really like to hear comments as i see myself as a bit of an amateur and would be stoked to learn how to create some of the masterpieces i\'ve seen on this site.
http://www.coolminiornot.com/200447
This is my latest of a whole bag of old style chaos warriors i picked up on ebay when i first got back into painting a few years back. It\'s my 3rd chaos warrior and i think i\'m ready for a change, lol.
I\'m really inspired by the colourful painting style of some of the artists i\'ve seen here. I was amazed tho to see how different a photo can look to the real thing, i\'ve actually gone back and added more highlights after seeing the pics and i\'m still not 100% happy with the final pics. My wife\'s teaching me how the camera works tho, she quite good at all that, so hopefully they will get better. I should just get her to take the pics i think, hehe.
i was thinking about my paints too. I have quite a good range of acrylics but they aren\'t GW or Vallejo or anything and they\'re all about 2-3 years old (but not been used in that time). They\'ve only been used to paint the 4 mini\'s posted so i\'m wondering are GW/Vallejo paints a must? Is it worth replacing them all?
k, think that\'s about all for now, i\'ve waffled on enough. Please do make comments, i really want to hear what you think and what i can do to improve.
Cheers J.
edit: hmm, apparently \'2 posts\' says it\'s not my first post on the site... wonder what the first was, lol.
. I\'m John, i\'m english but living in cyprus at the moment (for ever i hope ) I used to roleplay and wargame in my younger days and used to enjoy painting my mini\'s for tabletop use. Then after many years i chanced on this site and rediscovered the magic of mini painting. Unfortunately after only a couple of months i got so busy i had to give it up again for a couple of years, but i\'m back again with more time and even more enthusiasm to improve my painting .I don\'t play anymore so i\'m completely out of touch with what\'s what, i just paint mini\'s because i enjoy it, so correct colour scheme\'s, etc might be a bit hit and miss, hehe. I\'ll link my latest submission for you to have a look at. I\'d really like to hear comments as i see myself as a bit of an amateur and would be stoked to learn how to create some of the masterpieces i\'ve seen on this site.
http://www.coolminiornot.com/200447
This is my latest of a whole bag of old style chaos warriors i picked up on ebay when i first got back into painting a few years back. It\'s my 3rd chaos warrior and i think i\'m ready for a change, lol.
I\'m really inspired by the colourful painting style of some of the artists i\'ve seen here. I was amazed tho to see how different a photo can look to the real thing, i\'ve actually gone back and added more highlights after seeing the pics and i\'m still not 100% happy with the final pics. My wife\'s teaching me how the camera works tho, she quite good at all that, so hopefully they will get better. I should just get her to take the pics i think, hehe.
i was thinking about my paints too. I have quite a good range of acrylics but they aren\'t GW or Vallejo or anything and they\'re all about 2-3 years old (but not been used in that time). They\'ve only been used to paint the 4 mini\'s posted so i\'m wondering are GW/Vallejo paints a must? Is it worth replacing them all?
k, think that\'s about all for now, i\'ve waffled on enough. Please do make comments, i really want to hear what you think and what i can do to improve.
Cheers J.
edit: hmm, apparently \'2 posts\' says it\'s not my first post on the site... wonder what the first was, lol.
