Yeti’s Guild Ball WIP
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YetiSA
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YetiSA
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So Tapper and Hooper have been reset back to blue and are ready for re-tartaning. This time I think that I will tartan first and then look at shading. There is just so little of the original blue left after the green and red that the careful work is lost.
Unfortunately for the boys they are going to take a bad seat on my painting table for a while. I picked up a joker mini from the batman game for my brother that I want to have painted to give him for Christmas. Anyone who's been following this WIP will know how painfully slowly I paint (mostly due to lack of time) and if I want to get this done with any sort of float I need to start now... which I have duly done.
He is not a particularly complicated model so base coat went on fairly quickly. I'll be starting by shading the assorted clothes and finally coming back to that awesome face. I'm actually blown away by the likeness to Heath Ledger that they captured there. I really want to spend some time getting the makeup right.
Anyway, here he is...
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Unfortunately for the boys they are going to take a bad seat on my painting table for a while. I picked up a joker mini from the batman game for my brother that I want to have painted to give him for Christmas. Anyone who's been following this WIP will know how painfully slowly I paint (mostly due to lack of time) and if I want to get this done with any sort of float I need to start now... which I have duly done.
He is not a particularly complicated model so base coat went on fairly quickly. I'll be starting by shading the assorted clothes and finally coming back to that awesome face. I'm actually blown away by the likeness to Heath Ledger that they captured there. I really want to spend some time getting the makeup right.
Anyway, here he is...
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YetiSA
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My brother was around this weekend so Joker had to go into the cupboard and Tapper and Hooper got a little unexpected love.
This time I took the tartan a LOT more slowly (really don't know what got into me last time) and gave more attention to following the curves of the fabric. It's still not really where I'd like it to be, particularly from a consistency point of view, but I think that I am going to live with them (the paint is already starting to cover the stitches...). I really struggled to keep them all the same width, particularly because the cloaks/skirts/things are so much wider at the bottom than they are at the top without enough folds to really cover the fact (probably for the best).
The other thing I did differently this time is I left the blue unhighlighted, meaning that I could go back and touch up my messes. Still plenty of touch up to do but my eyes were starting to cross so I called it a night. Next step is to fill in the pure green squares, then highlight the checks (should be fun...). After that i'll add the red lines and then a broad touch up and the minis will be done.
As always, I'd really appreciate any input that anyone has (on the minis in general as well as the proto-tartan). I'm pushing my painting level pretty hard at the moment and am looking for any way that I can improve it.
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This time I took the tartan a LOT more slowly (really don't know what got into me last time) and gave more attention to following the curves of the fabric. It's still not really where I'd like it to be, particularly from a consistency point of view, but I think that I am going to live with them (the paint is already starting to cover the stitches...). I really struggled to keep them all the same width, particularly because the cloaks/skirts/things are so much wider at the bottom than they are at the top without enough folds to really cover the fact (probably for the best).
The other thing I did differently this time is I left the blue unhighlighted, meaning that I could go back and touch up my messes. Still plenty of touch up to do but my eyes were starting to cross so I called it a night. Next step is to fill in the pure green squares, then highlight the checks (should be fun...). After that i'll add the red lines and then a broad touch up and the minis will be done.
As always, I'd really appreciate any input that anyone has (on the minis in general as well as the proto-tartan). I'm pushing my painting level pretty hard at the moment and am looking for any way that I can improve it.
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wargamesculptor
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The tartan is progressing nicely, on a seperate piece of tartan, (Make two small mock up's on a piece of scrap) try adding a blue or green wash over both colours before highlighting as this could work as a shading layer and see which wash works best
YetiSA
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Lighter portion added and it's starting to look like tartan. Still a little clean up to do but as before I needed a break... so many little green squares!
Now I'm trying to decide whether to shade/highlight now or do so after the red stripes are in place.
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Now I'm trying to decide whether to shade/highlight now or do so after the red stripes are in place.
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YetiSA
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Yeah... It's c. Stoker's tartan area is a lot smaller than these two so I'm not particularly worried. Rest of the team will follow these two too.
This colour actually stands out better than the other, even if it isn't as accurate, so all in all I'm not too upset with the change.
This colour actually stands out better than the other, even if it isn't as accurate, so all in all I'm not too upset with the change.
YetiSA
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Just a small update today. I've done a bit of shading around the tartan and decided to put it up so I'd have a complete step by step here. I followed wargamessculptor's advice and put together a few mockups of the tartan then shaded the entire thing with a number of paints/combinations to see which worked best across the colours. The one that won was an extremely thinned mix of nuln oil, which I built up in a number of thin layers. I think it's worked quite nicely. I've been toying with adding some across the board highlights with a light blue or cream, but I'm worried that it may be a little much with so much going on in the tartan already.
Next I'm going to add a thin red line to the tartan then paint the patches and stitches, add Hooper's barrels and do a final clean up... Lots of work but the end is in sight.
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Next I'm going to add a thin red line to the tartan then paint the patches and stitches, add Hooper's barrels and do a final clean up... Lots of work but the end is in sight.
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