Thanks. Its nearly finished, I just have to spend an afternoon or so bulking out the number of gravestones. The crypts are the GW Garden of Morr which is a fantastic set that I cant recommend highly enough. Most of the gravestones are from Renedra.
There are more photos of my graveyard here if you are interested.
Thanks very much. Your work is inspirational, muted in all the right places, understated in a way that my painting never is. I tend to end up going for a cartoony, high contrast result which is fine, but I do envy the control of the overall finish and tone that your work displays.
The style that my figures have has developed from an effort to paint armies to a level that I am satisfied with, while still managing to get a turnover that allows me to make a dent in the lead mountain. To that end I have experimented successfully and unsuccessfully with numerous techniques and have finally ended up with what you see here. Weirdly, the final result is a slightly "tighter" version of the techniques that I used twenty years ago...
A confession: like weathering vehicles, I have never properly tried OSL. Fear of screwing up a perfectly good paint job has stopped me from trying it. Do you have any pointers or a link to a guide? It is something that I would like to try properly and your comment has made me want to up my game a bit
The flame in the Marshals coffin was a fudge. I had recently painted a flaming figure that I was quite pleased with and figured that I could translate the effect to a different palette easily enough. I was wrong, so I settled on what is shown here.
I looked up photos of real birds for the austringer and became daunted by the complexity of the patterns. Then I started looking up photos of birds from animated movies and the like. Animators are very experienced in simplifying complex patterns for easy repetition without losing the important details, so I find colour schemes from animation to translate very well to miniatures.
So I copied things like these...
...rather than beautiful real life things like these...
If you have any pointers or links regarding OSL techniques then I would love to see them. Thanks for the feedback.