Tabris_
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Hello people, i think it's my first post here and i thought it would be interesting to show you guys my brief history as a mini painter, this serves as both an introduction and a way through which i could ask for advice and tips from the much more experienced folks here from CMON.
I'm from Duque de Caxias, a large city that borders the more well know Rio de Janeiro here in Brazil. I've being playing RPGs for more than 10 years (and i'm only 22), but never paid attention to "real" minis as i saw them as overly expensive and unnecessary. We used chess pieces, metal markers, paper counters and finally paper minis that went more and more complicated with time.
It was not until the beginning of this year that i've taken the next step and went to real miniatures, i began with pre-painted but quickly began painting them myself. I sort of feel in love with the hobby, even more than it's utility in my rpgs i noticed i liked painting for painting sake.
But let's begin talking about the practical things. I began with some skeletons i bought from a friends that had never painted them. I've used Acrilex paints (a low quality national producer of Acrylic paints, the only ones i could readly find on my city) and Condor brushes (about the same thing).
This was the final result: http://coolminiornot.com/252119
Noticed the minis didn't came with bases so i super-glued them to 5 Centavos coins that i painted black. All those were minis were also primed using Acrilex Acrylic Base, prime on brush.
Next came my first real challenge, a group of zombies, they look ok, the skin in a bit to reddish for my tastes, i didn't have a lot of color options and mixing was always at random: http://coolminiornot.com/252118
Them i did some DDM repaints, i don't know if i can submit them to CMON but i'll directly post them there:
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/3339/goliathmini1.jpg
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/5386/calistomini.jpg
They are not really great, but i'm really proud of the Goliath. The Barbarian in a player character and the guy liked it so that's ok.
After that i painted just two more minis that looked ugly like hell when i finished them, but that's ok.
After that i decided i would stop using Acrilex paints, making an investment and buying some GW and Vallejo ones, i also bought some LOTR GW miniatures. More than a month after (yes, about 40 days to receive just some paints from the UK by Air Mail. The LOTR minis i managed to find here in Brazil.) i did my first primer by spray. And utterly and catastrophic failure that almost made me give up, i managed to strip the paint from the worst minis that had lost almost all detail to the overpriming and paint over the ones that lost just some.
Those Gondorians where the first ones, i think they are my best work so far even with some mistakes: http://coolminiornot.com/255330
One of my last works was this elf, i didn't shaded it properly because i was trying to follow a tutorial, the highlights are ugly because of the old brushes i used (it's hard to find brushes that stay with round points there): http://coolminiornot.com/255331
After all, i think i'm really immersed by the hobby and that's why i'm posting this there. It's also a way to show that you can accomplish something even with the limited and poor quality materials i can find there, so far the only imported things i used were the paints and the minis and i'm sure somebody who lives in São Paulo, Rio or some other larger city could find better materials.
Yes, you can be a decent painter and make minis for you RPGs and Wargames even if you live in Brazil or someother country that is not in Europe, North America or the Far East. I'm just in the beginning and i'm far from the marvelous painters from this site but i'm sure i'll get there someday.
EDIT: Please, if you are from South America, Africa or some other country outside that main "miniature painting sphere of influence" please share your experiences too. Brazilians are specially welcomed.
I'm from Duque de Caxias, a large city that borders the more well know Rio de Janeiro here in Brazil. I've being playing RPGs for more than 10 years (and i'm only 22), but never paid attention to "real" minis as i saw them as overly expensive and unnecessary. We used chess pieces, metal markers, paper counters and finally paper minis that went more and more complicated with time.
It was not until the beginning of this year that i've taken the next step and went to real miniatures, i began with pre-painted but quickly began painting them myself. I sort of feel in love with the hobby, even more than it's utility in my rpgs i noticed i liked painting for painting sake.
But let's begin talking about the practical things. I began with some skeletons i bought from a friends that had never painted them. I've used Acrilex paints (a low quality national producer of Acrylic paints, the only ones i could readly find on my city) and Condor brushes (about the same thing).
This was the final result: http://coolminiornot.com/252119
Noticed the minis didn't came with bases so i super-glued them to 5 Centavos coins that i painted black. All those were minis were also primed using Acrilex Acrylic Base, prime on brush.
Next came my first real challenge, a group of zombies, they look ok, the skin in a bit to reddish for my tastes, i didn't have a lot of color options and mixing was always at random: http://coolminiornot.com/252118
Them i did some DDM repaints, i don't know if i can submit them to CMON but i'll directly post them there:
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/3339/goliathmini1.jpg
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/5386/calistomini.jpg
They are not really great, but i'm really proud of the Goliath. The Barbarian in a player character and the guy liked it so that's ok.
After that i painted just two more minis that looked ugly like hell when i finished them, but that's ok.
After that i decided i would stop using Acrilex paints, making an investment and buying some GW and Vallejo ones, i also bought some LOTR GW miniatures. More than a month after (yes, about 40 days to receive just some paints from the UK by Air Mail. The LOTR minis i managed to find here in Brazil.) i did my first primer by spray. And utterly and catastrophic failure that almost made me give up, i managed to strip the paint from the worst minis that had lost almost all detail to the overpriming and paint over the ones that lost just some.
Those Gondorians where the first ones, i think they are my best work so far even with some mistakes: http://coolminiornot.com/255330
One of my last works was this elf, i didn't shaded it properly because i was trying to follow a tutorial, the highlights are ugly because of the old brushes i used (it's hard to find brushes that stay with round points there): http://coolminiornot.com/255331
After all, i think i'm really immersed by the hobby and that's why i'm posting this there. It's also a way to show that you can accomplish something even with the limited and poor quality materials i can find there, so far the only imported things i used were the paints and the minis and i'm sure somebody who lives in São Paulo, Rio or some other larger city could find better materials.
Yes, you can be a decent painter and make minis for you RPGs and Wargames even if you live in Brazil or someother country that is not in Europe, North America or the Far East. I'm just in the beginning and i'm far from the marvelous painters from this site but i'm sure i'll get there someday.
EDIT: Please, if you are from South America, Africa or some other country outside that main "miniature painting sphere of influence" please share your experiences too. Brazilians are specially welcomed.
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