Maulwurfmann

A few points on Grootslang. He looks like standing on a diamond cookie

Next time try a little less obvious rock. Maybe not so big and shaped inwards. Try a rock like wall with natural cork and work the diamonds in.

Something like that from Amazon. Just cut a small bit out and use it as rock/rockface.

You drybrushed really hard on that big fellow. Try to make the color a little bit brighter and wash him afterwards. That will merge the color together and you would have smoother color blendings. Also he is only in one tone. Try to make the face brighter to pop out. So you can focus his face more.

Is that a gloss varnish on the gems? If that`s the case look where the light is reflected try to paint the same reflex next time with color instead If it`s not you did a good job.

Hopefully that doesn´t sound too harsh. I like your progress and with a little extra work he would be great.

Working on my Iron Painter mini

On 14.9.2017 at 12:52 AM, FatRat said:

wow the black on the Gaki looks realy good. Could u make a guide or somethingXD?

I´m not sure if there is very mucht to make a guide of. Its plain Model Color Black highlighted as smooth as possible with some blue-grey like sombre grey or shadow grey. Maybe i can take pictures next time i try the black.

On 16.9.2017 at 11:50 AM, Ramona Laydon said:

Just WOW! I'm impressed how all your work looks like. The dress on Student of conflict has so pretty color, I think I will try to grub this color scheme for some of my minis.

It´s magenta flou from Model Color. But it´s glossy as hell when i used it. Had to prime the whole mini matt so the gloss would fade. Feel free to do so.

Like Treehouse said, the white needs to build up from a darker tone like a "bone" color.  Painting straight clean white will look abnormal. Also the red and the black could use some more highlights. But for a beginner you´re very good!

Give the book some letters... not actually real letters but shaky doodle lines in black... (hopefully this makes sense in english)

Start with a capital letter in the upper left corner like in old bibles or medieval books. That will improve the book by far.

Also i´ve updatet the older postings without photobucket. Maybe there are some new pictures, i did not replace them with the same as before. Just added every pic i had on my hands.

Seems like photobucket did not work out for me.

Next time i try to upload my pics into the forum.

I heard about the Iron Painter and decided to give it a try. Meanwhile i´m painting on Lilitu for Neverborn. A first WiP:

Why the heck are all my pictures on the side? How can i upload more pics then 0,5 mb?

Very nice love the color harmony with the green and the purple.

But before we can begin with the skeeters i finished the first mate.

Really inspiring how you play with the colors from base to miniature. Looking forward to see more.

The whole mini ist great but the metal works and reflections are outstanding! Love it!

These are very nice paintings, is there a hidden link to x-men rogue in the last picture ?

You clearly have the skill but from what i can see on the pictures you could give their eyes a little more treatment they are lacking some contrast .  Besides that point they are looking fantastic.

On 23.4.2017 at 8:57 PM, ChrisB76 said:

Do you mask out the other areas when doing the base colors? By any chance You don't have any photos from the airbrush step of your model? 

Not really, just doing the first step with ab so i can paint over the things it should not hit.

I have a photo of the finished smoke effect after i´m done with the Airbrush. But i will do more step fotos of the iron skeeters which are planned to be sprayed on weekend. Also i´m trying to do some weathering with masking on them.

On 23.4.2017 at 10:58 PM, sigmar3 said:

Hey, really nice painting. Across the board great

Thank you very much

Yesterday i finished Earl Burns, not totally happy with the blue dungarees but he will do.

So stay tuned for more pirates

There is plenty of use. Especialliy the ground colors. Most of the fog and light effect of the rockets was made with Airbrush (and a little with normal brush). The swamp and wood was made with AB. I painted the captain and the backpack seperate so i could work free with the fog. Added a litte light to the captian afterwards with normal brush. I can´t do eyes or small things but it really fastens your work on large base colors.

From what i can see, skin looks good now show us some more paint.

Plz give us a "how to paint"

It was Vallejo Model Color Flat Brown 70.984 for the trousers and Vallejo Game Color 72.040 Leather brown both individually darkened and brightened with black and a cream white As long as i remember.

Looks great, personally i would have painted the tubes and/or the "Mount" of the sword in another tone. The bronce and the fiery sword build no contrast and nearly look the same. Perhaps it would better stand out in the metal tone you painted the armor with. Also the bronce could have some more depth/shadows especially on the shield.

For your first mini it is really really impressive.

Just for hair and skin. Most people would paint skin first with the bright tone and than darken it with various dark tones or shades. Personally i prefer building up skin from something dark like GW Dark flesh up to elf flesh. First base colour with dark flesh than doing the eyes so i can always repair around the eye with dark flesh and then brighten it up to nearly white for caucasian skin tone.

Hair is a different thing because it would have a light reflection on it. Look at all the commercials for hair color. The hair on the package has that reflections where you really go into the white but not loosing the base tone. Thats what you aim for

For beginning just darken the hair a little bit and try to workout some reflections on the  vertex?

Sorry if my english isn´t the best.

I´m excited to see your version of McGabe.

Back to your Hoffmann Crew: I would really like to see a bright light effect on that blue lenses of the crew. Just like you keyboard in the background. The whole crew is that grim dark metal theme and that dark red doesn´t really shine because its dark in dark. Maybe its the picture but if you made some bright highlights or light effects they would look even more astonishing.

I found two old pictures of my Lady J crew. The rest will follow as i make fresh pictures when unpacking my transport box again

Outstanding! I really love the metal works on the wheel with its light green tone which makes a perfect contrast to the orange!

Give us more

Hi there, i just stumbled over your post. But you really have to take a picture for us to help you out there.

I´m not sure about washes on her big armor pieces though. If you posess a wet palett which i would recommend to start with, you could do some wet in wet blending on the miniature.

But again a picture would really help if its not too late.