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@Lone Lemming: Cheers, I've bought one anyway after all and tried it out. I think I need to spend some time understanding my camera a little and playing around with the settings more! Thanks for the suggestion about the eyes, I wasn't quite happy with them, I think I just needed a nudge to revisit them really and give them another go.
I've not had a great deal of hobby time this week (excuses, excuses) as this week was sprint change-over at work for my team, and I had two customer demonstrations at the end of the week (so Tuesday: Internal Demo and next sprint prep, Wednesday: Sprint Planning, Thursday & Friday: Customer Demos!).
It didn't help that I also have been watching an episode of Game of Thrones (season one now complete) every evening, and with fitness training too 4 out of 5 weeknights, I've not really always had as much time to paint as I wanted. Fortunately, I still had half an hour here and there, but focused on actually putting paint on model on trying to get passable photos and updating this thread.
This week I started work on the other axe haft, put a few basecoats down on the axe heads, touched up the eyes (cheers Lone Lemmings!), and added another couple of layers to the trousers. I'm not sure whether I'll push on and try the stripes on the trousers on this model, as I already feel I'm overworking bits and pieces. I'd rather get to somewhere I'm happy with it and complete the model, over trying too many new techniques and losing interest. Also I'm starting to find myself drawn towards placing an order for quite a large amount of the new Necromunda models, and if I don't push on I reckon I may fall into the trap of "new model syndrome" haha
Anyway a picture:
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The axe heads need some work, particularly the gold needs some defining. The Dwarf's left axe haft (the one on the right of the photo) is a little clumsy, but I wanted something more interesting than just straight line wood grain as on the other axe. Could use some more highlighting. The eyes were redone using "The Fang" (stupid paint colour name) rather than black, and they look a little more symmetrical than before. I find eyes challenging, which I imagine most do, but as long as it's relatively neat, I'm OK with it for now until I figure out a technique that works for me.
Picture was taken using the photo booth, with the lights, which I think has washed out some of the highlights - but I'm sure once I've got into the swing of things and have a consistent level of light I'll figure out a bunch of settings that work OK for my purposes.
Thanks for looking folks, and have a good evening, morning or afternoon wherever you are
I've not had a great deal of hobby time this week (excuses, excuses) as this week was sprint change-over at work for my team, and I had two customer demonstrations at the end of the week (so Tuesday: Internal Demo and next sprint prep, Wednesday: Sprint Planning, Thursday & Friday: Customer Demos!).
It didn't help that I also have been watching an episode of Game of Thrones (season one now complete) every evening, and with fitness training too 4 out of 5 weeknights, I've not really always had as much time to paint as I wanted. Fortunately, I still had half an hour here and there, but focused on actually putting paint on model on trying to get passable photos and updating this thread.
This week I started work on the other axe haft, put a few basecoats down on the axe heads, touched up the eyes (cheers Lone Lemmings!), and added another couple of layers to the trousers. I'm not sure whether I'll push on and try the stripes on the trousers on this model, as I already feel I'm overworking bits and pieces. I'd rather get to somewhere I'm happy with it and complete the model, over trying too many new techniques and losing interest. Also I'm starting to find myself drawn towards placing an order for quite a large amount of the new Necromunda models, and if I don't push on I reckon I may fall into the trap of "new model syndrome" haha
Anyway a picture:
View attachment 61629
The axe heads need some work, particularly the gold needs some defining. The Dwarf's left axe haft (the one on the right of the photo) is a little clumsy, but I wanted something more interesting than just straight line wood grain as on the other axe. Could use some more highlighting. The eyes were redone using "The Fang" (stupid paint colour name) rather than black, and they look a little more symmetrical than before. I find eyes challenging, which I imagine most do, but as long as it's relatively neat, I'm OK with it for now until I figure out a technique that works for me.
Picture was taken using the photo booth, with the lights, which I think has washed out some of the highlights - but I'm sure once I've got into the swing of things and have a consistent level of light I'll figure out a bunch of settings that work OK for my purposes.
Thanks for looking folks, and have a good evening, morning or afternoon wherever you are
