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Marco is great! (And definitely an airbrush wizard) Will do, thanks!

Hi there! Just a quick WiP update, it has been a weird month and almost didn't have time to paint until yesterday, when i managed to put the base paint & some highlights on the obsidian onis. Is it possible that those guys have a particular tiny face even for malifaux standards??? 🤔 @Caedrus & @Nikodemus impressive NMM skills on the Talos & samurai 👏👏👏 In another painting related news, I'm finally getting myself an airbrush! Does any one have particular advice? or know good online resources to learn how to use it and more important, how to care for it? Thanks! ♥️

Those prospectors look super cool 😮 👏

Hi there! This july is gonna be weird for work reasons, i hope i'll find the time and inspiration to paint. The victims this month will be the 3 obsidian oni, and with this I'll have finished my Asami crew 👏 As for video reccomendations all of them from youtube, there's lots i like, but let's try not to repeat any of the previously mentioned 1- NJM marco frisoni: If you have 1 hour to spend, watch his "color theory" playlist. 2- Vince venturella: the "hobby cheating" guy, lovely explanations of hundreds of topics 3- Kujo Painting: very nice tutorials, some of them with mali minis Honorable mention: Miniac: Maybe not my favourite painter, but most definitely my favourite host andf the most entertaining videos, covers losts of topics in a fun way.

@Caedrus thanks for the nice words ^^. TBH Asami's mini was no way near any of my favourite sculpts (fun fact, i liked it more while painting it, i don't know why, something about the details i guess...), when i face one of those I try to think how to make the process more interesting, in this case the "forced motivation" was trying to give a spooky ghostly vibe in the face, and speed paint the fabric (I spent much more time in the tengu cloak than on asami's dress). I also experimented with the hair, the base color is dark blue and then washed with black, a lot, result: can't tell if it really makes a difference, so lesson learned 😬 @Viruk I really like the color pics of bases and minis, and the work in the fur is amazing 👏

hello @GroundPounderX welcome to the forums 🙌 First of all, nice job, this base is super cool, love the reds with the blues & the green leaves. Second, this thread is intended to push ourselves to paint some minis monthly, and share with other users while learning in the process. You pledge how many soulstones value in minis want to paint every month, and you should commit to it and share it here, for more detailed and better written info, check the 1st post in the thread So i'd say is not the wrong place to post this, plus i'd invite you to join the monthly challenges, Caedrus is in charge, and if i'm not wrong you might join mid year, not sure though, it's up to him

Done with Asami. Togheter with the tengus will make a total of 27ss for june.

Finished the Tengu! (for a total of 12SS ) SInce it's an early finish for this month's pledge i'll try to do Asami herself too for june

Nice job, if you're not a big fan of basing, i have to say that how it's now it looks good and consistent. But if your'e still up for working on baby kade's one, I've definitely remember seeing a base with something drawn in blood, a 5 pointed star i think, and it looked great, you could add some candles too (just wanted to put a simple link, can't figure out how to avoid the autoformat 😕 )

I wanted to try a different color precisely bc the red was already on the base, but it is true that since i cannot make the highlight work as much as i'd like with hue, i might as well try with saturation 👌 Thanks!

Thanks, this bit was very "highlighteable" there was plenty of space and the curve was going in outwards which made it easy to handle, the small folds in the trousers and the back of the cape are a different story... just the eyes, the NMMs and the oni-style red glow bases to go and will be done.

Hello everyone! Here's some WiP for the Tengus happy with the beaks (the guy on the right has an almos finished beak) and the cloth (the guy on the left cloack will be the to-go color) not so happy with the feathers 😕 the intention is go from a dark green and highlight to purple/magenta colors (the guy on the center has the best version so far) I feel i'm missing sth here but not quite sure what, any suggestion is more than welcome EDIT: i used already paint 2, and 3 of my favorites list (might use #1 too for highlights in the beak)

Hi there! My pledge for June will definitely be the 3 Tengu. June Challenge - 3 Fave Paints 1: 2: 3: Those 3 are my most consistently favourite colors, but the truth is I find myself finding new "favourite colors" every month or so XD Among the most recent there's the model VMC green sky i used for the jorogumos skin, and later the whole fairy flesh set by nocturna models, comes with the right colos and a quick guide and basically is almost "auto-pilot" skin 🙃 There are some wips using just the set

Hey there! How's everybody doing? I finally finished my Jorogumos ( 27 SS total ), highlighting the legs on the 1st one was hard, so bc i'm lazy i gave a try to drybrushing for the other two (haven't tried that for a while), and honestly, it took 1/10 of the time and looks much better, the spider bits just happen to have very small irregularities, which were great for the drybrush. For the NMM i repeated the yokais recipe, which i think worked pretty well, and will add crew-consistency. For next month i'll keep doing Oni for sure, probably tengus 🤔

Hey @Viruk i saw that your spiders got featured on greenstuffworld's facebook and instagram, congrats! They do look really cool, well deserved 👏

Finished the 1st Jorogumo, 2 to go!

yeah, the idea is to use glossy paint & varnish, but i reckon that some propperly added highlights might help to look better, maybe no very strong ones? 🤔

Hi there! finally figured out the jorogumo skin, here's a WiP. Next will be struggling with the legs, i want them to be very glossy, and i'm not quite sure how to aproach the lighting & shadows on glossy surfaces.

Hi there! I built de Dawn Serpent recently, and was trying to figure out how to hold it in a base while flying. At the same time I wanted to give my pending "last blossom" crew a "sakura vibe". This week i decided to get a wiggle on and figured out how to do both and I wanted to share it here. It has nothing to do with my pledge for this month, but the serpent's basing got into my head and had to try it out. I'm still up for the painted jorogumos. Gotta figure a way to paint pale skin that looks good...

I was gonna say, I'm not very familiar with Colette's minis, but i didn't remember seeing this dove basing anywhere. Smart and lovely, and as usual astonishing paintjob @PetitDalek 🙌 Did you sculpt the stands?

Hello there, I'll pledge my 3 jorogumos for 27ss!!! I already kind of have the scheme in my head, i hope it works once i work on it 😬

i really like the color scheme for The misaki crew 👏Well thought and really well executed

@Viruk the color scheme in those minis is perfect, i specially like Thoon’s face 🙌 and here’s ohaguro bettari to finish the month and add 8ss to my april pledge. I have to say I’m very happy about how it came out

@Caedrus thx! to be honest i was kind of lucky with the NMM, i wanted to try something different for the metal, go for a redish metal (to add contrast with the dominant green/blue) instead of the blue/gray formula i usually do. After a couple of failures on the highlights attempting with redish grays, i ended up going with the steel gray + white, wich is kind of blue, and it created this very contrasted highlight on the redish blade. @Rathnard the red glow is not lava, it's just glow, honestly XD. Let's call it Oni Glow, there's no much explanation about why is there other than give "consistency" to the whole oni band. I'll be adding this bright red in all the Oni minis (either in the base, lamps, eyes... ) this way i'm not tied to a whole color scheme for all the minis and can try things i think will look best in each one of them, while keeping the feeling of a "team" at the saem time. I already did that for my hamelin crew with a green glow and i liked it.

Yokais done for 18ss! I ll see if i can finish Ohaguro Bettari for this month too and add 8ss more. @catsgamesandpizza i’m in love with this red 👏👏👏 which color is it?