Yeti’s Guild Ball WIP
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YetiSA
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What are you doing out of your study. *readies roll of newspaper...*
Ahem, anyway. Bit of progress on Avarisse and Greede. I've completed the base coats and done some work on the skin. Broadly happy but I am not impressed with the big guy's face. It's the first time the the GuildBall minis have really let me down quality wise. I've done what I can and I think the result is passable but it isn't a patch on the other faces of theirs. It also turned out that the right eye was completely unrecoverable so I made it a little patch out of green stuff. This was my first ever greenstuff addition to a model (I'm so proud)
Ahem... anyway. The little guy's face(s) is(are) actually quite large with nice big eyes so I have given him blue irises as well as a black dot... another first for me. Unfortunately you can't see them in the photo.
Next up is the cream shirts which will be worked to a dirty white, then the grey jackets and on... Have I mentioned yet that I'm pretty glad there is no tartan on these guys?
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wargamesculptor
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Great first attempt at grenstuffing an addition to a model, with the big guys face you may want to push the contrast further as it looks a little flat in the picture
YetiSA
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Thanks guys.
@Hairster... there are no words
@Sicks, yup that's what I'm worried about We saw how well that worked on Esters' dress
@WGS, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I've been painting nice faces and that makes the stuff easy. Going to have to try to raise the contrast a little more manually on this guy.
@Maens, I'm glad you like it.
@Hairster... there are no words
@Sicks, yup that's what I'm worried about
We saw how well that worked on Esters' dress@WGS, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I've been painting nice faces and that makes the stuff easy. Going to have to try to raise the contrast a little more manually on this guy.
@Maens, I'm glad you like it.
YetiSA
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Touched up the face and made a start on the coats. I decided to change things up and went in a littler more heavy handed than normal on the initial shading. I am going to take the highlights up and then work on blending them back in. I've not tried this before but my normal glazing methods haven't been working for me recently so thought I'd give this a try.
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YetiSA
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More work on the blacks, browns and greys. I think that they're finally starting to come together.
To add some interest to the grey jacket I added a little bit of colour shading, blues in the shadows, yellows in the light. It doesn't come through that well in the photograph but it makes quite a marked difference in the flesh. It's amazing how adding that colour brought the greys to life... it's almost as if the people that advocate colour theory know what they're talking about.
Next up will be the woods and metals, mainly so I can get the plug into the big guy's chest. That gaping void looks really ugly and I think that it's throwing the rest of the mini off. After that it'll be reds and stitches before going back to the faces. I'm really not happy with how any of them turned out so they'll get another pass.
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To add some interest to the grey jacket I added a little bit of colour shading, blues in the shadows, yellows in the light. It doesn't come through that well in the photograph but it makes quite a marked difference in the flesh. It's amazing how adding that colour brought the greys to life... it's almost as if the people that advocate colour theory know what they're talking about.
Next up will be the woods and metals, mainly so I can get the plug into the big guy's chest. That gaping void looks really ugly and I think that it's throwing the rest of the mini off. After that it'll be reds and stitches before going back to the faces. I'm really not happy with how any of them turned out so they'll get another pass.
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YetiSA
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Avarisse and Greede are going to be taking a bit of a break (they're not being resigned to the shelf of shame... I want to play them in the game ). A buddy of mine has asked me to paint his Hunters team (yes... from Guild Ball) and I'd like to get them out of the way before Webmonkey's July painting competition so I'm bumping them up the queue.
The goal is to paint them quickly to table top standard so it'll be base, wash and a quick highlight. I'm actually quite looking forward to painting more quickly and not worrying about pushing my boundaries for a bit. I think that it'll be a fun diversion.
There are 6 minis (plus a ball and pit trap) plus another two that will come at some later point. I'll be painting these guys in a batch for speed. My buddy has asked for a Wildlingish look with blues and greys as the main colours with brown accents. I think if I were to paint them myself it would be greens and browns with red accents, but I'm happy to work with his theme. They are actually fantastic minis (except that lynx thing... not quite sure what to do with that) so I may well pick up some for myself in the future.
I've assembled and undercoated them but I see that there are a couple of gaps that need to be filled before I get going.
Does anyone have any advice on painting quickly to a reasonable quality?
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). A buddy of mine has asked me to paint his Hunters team (yes... from Guild Ball) and I'd like to get them out of the way before Webmonkey's July painting competition so I'm bumping them up the queue.The goal is to paint them quickly to table top standard so it'll be base, wash and a quick highlight. I'm actually quite looking forward to painting more quickly and not worrying about pushing my boundaries for a bit. I think that it'll be a fun diversion.
There are 6 minis (plus a ball and pit trap) plus another two that will come at some later point. I'll be painting these guys in a batch for speed. My buddy has asked for a Wildlingish look with blues and greys as the main colours with brown accents. I think if I were to paint them myself it would be greens and browns with red accents, but I'm happy to work with his theme. They are actually fantastic minis (except that lynx thing... not quite sure what to do with that) so I may well pick up some for myself in the future.
I've assembled and undercoated them but I see that there are a couple of gaps that need to be filled before I get going.
Does anyone have any advice on painting quickly to a reasonable quality?
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Sicks
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Maybe do them in groups of 2 or 3, by time you've finished a layer on the 2nd the first will probably be dry, I would probably do the lynx separately since hes only got a small bit of armour and aside from that probably won't share as many colours with the others, doing the 2 crouching ones together seems like a good choice because you won't have to change your thinking of highlights and shadows very much since theyre in similar poses, in fact the way they're grouped in the photos seems like a good choice, the top one has a smaller person and who I assume is the captain, the smaller one will probably be more fiddly to paint and the captain you might want to paint up a little better since hes the leader, the next 2 are similarly posed as mentioned, the big guy will take a bit longer per coat because of the larger size so I think working on the lynx between coats on him would be a nice little break, the ball and the trap you could work on as and when needed, probably towards the end of other groups while waiting for highlights to dry. Alternatively you could do it that way until they are all base coated then they will likely be sharing alot of highlight and shade colours but the problem with doing batch painting like that is you don't get to see finished minis until they are all more or less done
Also I seem to have missed the update on the union guys, they are coming along nicely
Also I seem to have missed the update on the union guys, they are coming along nicely
Dragonsreach
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The lighting in this photograph is showing you exactly where your shadows need to be strongest. Working using this as a reference will give these figures a good help.
Also try fading some of the edges with a pale grey/off white mixed into the main colour, you'll be surprised at just how much of a difference that can make to a figure.
I also noticed on the rear of the big guy that there's a path and a tear in his jacket. Emphasise the patch by making it a differing colour and fade a dark line around it, pick up the torn edges of the tear with a pale edge wipe from the brush.
As for painting large batches of figures quickly and easily, for these hunters limit your palette to close colours in natural tones, do two figures flesh in parallel and where possible work at long stretches on two figures together so that there's a harmony. Get something decent to listen to while you work and turf wife, kids, dog and or cat at the in-laws.
Good Painting.
YetiSA
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Thanks for the advice both of you.
DR, I'm bookmarking this post for when I come back to those guys.
I think that I'll play it by ear with the hunters. I only have 3 weeks to work on them so I'm not too worried about getting bored of them. The plan at the moment it's too block in the main colours in a group and then work on the subtleties in pairs, probably in the groups you suggested Sicks. I like your suggestion of natural tones DR, I'll try to bear that in mind.
DR, I'm bookmarking this post for when I come back to those guys.
I think that I'll play it by ear with the hunters. I only have 3 weeks to work on them so I'm not too worried about getting bored of them. The plan at the moment it's too block in the main colours in a group and then work on the subtleties in pairs, probably in the groups you suggested Sicks. I like your suggestion of natural tones DR, I'll try to bear that in mind.
YetiSA
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It's been a good while since my last post but I've been plodding along with the hunters in half hour to hour sessions whenever I can squeeze one in. With the exception of a few oopses their base coats are finally finished. I'm pretty happy with them at the moment and think that the scheme has worked fairly nicely, even if it is a little more complex than I had originally intended. Next step (clean up aside) will be to hit them with a heavy wash. After that has dried I will asses how I want to proceed and what highlighting I want to add. As I mentioned before, I'm painting these for a friend and he wants them to be in line with his existing minis, which were pro-painted to table top standard so I won't be aiming for a particularly high level of finish.
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I haven't put any paint onto the cat yet because it doesn't really fit in with the batch painting I've been doing. I'll probably end up leaving it to last and painting it alongside a different mini. I'm still not sure what I want to do with it though. To keep it inline with the team it should be black, grey, blue or brown. Of those black sounds most promising, but it'll be a ball ache to highlight, especially since I want to do it quickly. Any thoughts?
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I haven't put any paint onto the cat yet because it doesn't really fit in with the batch painting I've been doing. I'll probably end up leaving it to last and painting it alongside a different mini. I'm still not sure what I want to do with it though. To keep it inline with the team it should be black, grey, blue or brown. Of those black sounds most promising, but it'll be a ball ache to highlight, especially since I want to do it quickly. Any thoughts?
wargamesculptor
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Nice work, can be hard to work to a different standard than your used to, but you seem to be handling it well. As for the cat maybe brown with black markings would be a good compramise
YetiSA
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Cheers WGS. That sounds like a good idea but I'm a little hesitant of committing to freehand on these guys. That said, it may be easier to give it character through freehand than it would be by trying to shade those large smooth surfaces.
YetiSA
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So I was chatting with my buddy about options for the lynx and we came up with this paintjob.
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Now it's a higher standard than I'm aiming for with these guys, but I think the general idea will work fairly well at a lower standard too. The big advantage is that the spots add a lot of interest so I don't have to worry too much about highlighting. There is a fair amount of freehand, but it's pretty irregular and I think I could get it down relatively quickly.
I think I will try to do the light belly/muzzle but probably won't get the blending quite this smooth.
Incidentally, I think that this scheme was based off a cheetah.
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Now it's a higher standard than I'm aiming for with these guys, but I think the general idea will work fairly well at a lower standard too. The big advantage is that the spots add a lot of interest so I don't have to worry too much about highlighting. There is a fair amount of freehand, but it's pretty irregular and I think I could get it down relatively quickly.
I think I will try to do the light belly/muzzle but probably won't get the blending quite this smooth.
Incidentally, I think that this scheme was based off a cheetah.
wargamesculptor
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Agree it looks like a cheetah found a reference picture of a Lynx
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