lusciousmccabe Posted December 30, 2020 Report Share Posted December 30, 2020 ^^ Very creepy looking. Good job! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eHobo Posted January 17, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2021 Paul Crockett and The Scorpius finished the keyword for now. There's only the Razorspine Rattlers left, and I'll be painting them when they show up at my FLGS. The Scorpius will get get a coat of gloss varnish on the syringes after I give it the usual protective coating. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post eHobo Posted February 3, 2021 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted February 3, 2021 Something different this time. A pair of Doomseekers from The Other Side, that I'll be using as wizard and apprentice in Frostgrave. The purple guy is the wizard. They're already varnished, so they have the dusty look that only my camera can pick up. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedrosos101 Posted February 18, 2021 Report Share Posted February 18, 2021 Wow! Just awesome and I really like these colorful shots, thanks. https://fixthephoto.com/aurora-hdr-vs-lightroom.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post eHobo Posted June 6, 2021 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted June 6, 2021 I've been in a painting slump for a while. I bought a resin 3d printer, and a ton of friends and family did the whole "print and paint me this!"-thing, and I hate it. Now I've pissed off a bunch of people by telling them that I'm not a print shop, and that all freebies have been doled out, but at least I have time and peace to paint something that I want to. I broke out of the slump with my favorite Malifaux model that I'll never use; the Wrastler that's about to powerslam a pig. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post eHobo Posted June 8, 2021 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted June 8, 2021 The painting contest is over, so I can say that I made the Flower Child Willie. The contest also helped me break out of my slump, so that was great! 10 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eHobo Posted August 15, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2021 Right, I painted the Alt Firestarter for the painting contest. I went a bit too light on the OSL for this, so it's not super great, but at least it's done so I have a super cool/impractical Firestarter to put on the table 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikodemus Posted August 19, 2021 Report Share Posted August 19, 2021 Slumps come and go. Good to see your work here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eHobo Posted September 12, 2021 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2021 I'm doing something! It's time to actually paint the actual Union guys, so they can beat the crap out of whatever is in their way. I always do a gimmick, and this time is no exception, but it's more of a technique than a gimmick. I'm practicing using oil paints for something besides washes, so the M&SU will be painted using nothing but oils. Also, all metal will be NMM. Toni is the first model that I've painted this way, and it went okay! She might need a little violet in the shadows of her face, but otherwise, she's done. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikodemus Posted September 18, 2021 Report Share Posted September 18, 2021 I'm getting into oils myself soon. Feel free to write more about using oils. Triumphs, tribulations and all. I'd like to hear how it'll work out for you. Toni's looking good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eHobo Posted September 18, 2021 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2021 8 hours ago, Nikodemus said: I'm getting into oils myself soon. Feel free to write more about using oils. Triumphs, tribulations and all. I'd like to hear how it'll work out for you. Toni's looking good. Sure thing! I'll write something more when I've painted a couple of figures, but I'm following Marco Frisoni's way of doing things. You basically cover everything with a thick wash of oil paint, then remove most of it again, so you have a super thin layer of paint everywhere. Then you wetblend everything, which works really well with oils. I painted Toni from a layer of completely white primer, but I think it be much easier to start from a zenithal priming. That'll get the deep shadows using less paint, which'll cut days off the drying time, while still allowing for the very high, almost white, highlights. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eHobo Posted September 28, 2021 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2021 More oil painting, mostly to show the process. I'm re-priming all my M&SU minis, because a zenithal priming is very useful. A lot of oils are transparent in a not-obvious way when coming from acrylics, and that transparency can be put to very good use. The transparency also means that it can be very useful to put down a basecoat of acrylic paint, for example under the red, to avoid chalky white highlights and to make the colors more unified. Both the red I use, and the brown for the shadows, is transparent to some degree, so push it around too much and you suddenly have a white spot. My goal here is to use only oils (except for priming and the eyes), to try and really figure them out and get the technique down, so I'm doing it the hard way. Step 1, covered in a thick oil wash. Just beautiful. Step 2: pretty much everything cleaned off again. There is a super thin layer of oil all over the mini, which makes blending easy. The deepest recesses are also full of paint. Step 3: put some paint on, blend it. Actually incredible simple, in theory. It took me about 2 hours to get here from step two. Now it needs to dry for a few days, before I can give it a few pin washes, do the eyes, and base it. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eHobo Posted October 28, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2021 I completely forgot to upload Mouse. It's nice for me to see that I'm already doing better with the oil paints, since I don't think this guy is very good now. Doesn't matter though it's all about learning something new. I also completely missed that he's wearing spectacles, so I had to add those in with acrylics. I thought he just had a weird face until I looked at his artwork. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eHobo Posted November 11, 2021 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2021 The contest is over so I can show off what I painted. I don't care enough about contests to stop messing around with whatever I'm doing, so all of these are done with oils. I'm still not great with the oils, but I'm getting better. I got a combined 0 votes for these three, so there's certainly room for improvement Hamelin. I got a comment that the eyes should be brighter, and I tend to agree on the spell thingy. The black sunken eyes on Hamelin is on purpose. The Blood Hunter is annoyingly out of focus. I borrowed this guy from a friend of mine because "I didn't have any mosters at all". Then I looked in my drawers and had all of the Rasputina's, Sandeep's, Hamelin's, and Jedza's figures. I need to organize my crap. Mouse on fire, to go with my Toni Firesides. Yellow oil colors are super opaque, so the yellow took over a bit. Everything is highlighted and shades as usual, but it's stupidly subtle because of the gimmick. I used some pure linseed oil to create the initial oil film on this guy, because I didn't want the base coat to be tinted by paint. It worked very well, I can recommend doing that. I also chucked them in the oven to speed up the drying. Preheat to 50C, turn off the oven, then bake your minis for 20 minutes to speed up the drying time and matten the oils. This is based on something Marco Frisoni said, so it's not just a crazy idea I had. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eHobo Posted March 13, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2022 Holy crap, I painted something! Amina Naidu and the two Gunsmiths for my upcoming escalation league. Oils on top of acrylics, I feel like I'm getting better with the oils. Those plants on the bases are also new to me! I like them, they let me make weirder bases with little effort. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eHobo Posted March 28, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 And The Captain. This guy was a challenge! All the little details are pretty hard to blend with oils, but I should probably just accept that it'll look fine with a simple one-stroke blend. I'm also still fighting my yellow, because I don't paint a lot straight yellow on my minis. It is incredibly opaque, while a lot of browns are at least semi-transparent so I need a different workflow. I think that I'll paint the versatile Arcanist robots in a yellow scheme to get some practice. Finally, I tried starting the NMM from black. Didn't work out for me, the black is too powerful and makes it take way more effort than just starting from clean oil. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eHobo Posted April 22, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2022 Howard Langston joins the fray. He took a million years, because this is the first time I did a lot of NMM on a model. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eHobo Posted August 19, 2022 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2022 I keep forgetting to post what I paint in here. Fitzsimmons and 2 of the Miners. I remembered how boring I find it to paint ordinary people, so I still need the last miner, the 3 steamfitter, and a new Toni and Mouse. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eHobo Posted September 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2022 Returning to my original crew, I painted Kaeris Reborn for the painting contest. I got 0 votes again, so still plenty of room for improvement! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nudelpullover Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 A great looking model in a category with alot and also stiff competition. Given the topic of lighting effects you didnt pick the easiest model to choose. Those fiery wings would bathe her in light, leaving harsh shadows in certain areas. Alot of "light-value" contrast. Positioning of the light looks great and the wings look proper fiery. I also really like the broken, glowing ground rising with her, nice base. Keep at it 😜 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eHobo Posted September 2, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 6 hours ago, Nudelpullover said: A great looking model in a category with alot and also stiff competition. Given the topic of lighting effects you didnt pick the easiest model to choose. Those fiery wings would bathe her in light, leaving harsh shadows in certain areas. Alot of "light-value" contrast. Positioning of the light looks great and the wings look proper fiery. I also really like the broken, glowing ground rising with her, nice base. Keep at it 😜 The August contest has usually been the Hot Hot Hot one, where the theme is fire, so I had her ready to go for that. I just painted her anyway, because I'm not very competitive The only part of her that isn't directly hit by light, is her face, neck, top of the torso, and the front of her hair, and I actually made those areas dark at first. It just looked weird because everything else is bright, so I dropped that idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eHobo Posted January 17, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2023 I'm shamefully mostly painting Warhammer stuff right now, but I really wanted to paint Thirty-Three. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sockwithaticket Posted January 21, 2023 Report Share Posted January 21, 2023 Definitely visually arresting with the two virbant flame colours. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eHobo Posted February 11 Author Report Share Posted February 11 Riiiiight, I haven't been painting a lot of Malifaux, and I've forgotten to post what I actually did paint. But here's Lohith. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eHobo Posted Wednesday at 07:24 AM Author Report Share Posted Wednesday at 07:24 AM I painted this happy snake for the contest. It's technically legal in-game as it's on a 40mm base, but I had to glue it down to keep it from tipping over. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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