Moondog Posted April 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 HA HA. Love killing these models every Thursday. Must say they do look good in real life too! Ha! You wait until get Yan Lo and his skellingtons after you! Just seeing this thread for the first time, there's a lot of cool stuff in here! I like how your greens turned out, it's a colour I often struggle with. Cheers! I'm getting a bit sick of it now.... the later models haven't turned out as well but a change in crew and colour should help motivate me hopefully! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malifuk Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 Then next game we will try Yan lo against Lilith and Nekima!!!!!! mwah ha ha!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victoria Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 I'm loving on Perdita's hair! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondog Posted May 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 Ok I'm moving on to Yan Lo.... starting with Chiaki. Not finished yet so any suggestions on improvements would be cool. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malifuk Posted May 31, 2015 Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 Nice. Really like the little freehand flowers. How long did it take start to finish? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondog Posted May 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 Nice. Really like the little freehand flowers. How long did it take start to finish? Thanks, not really sure but I've been doing it on and off since I last played Yan Lo on the last Thursday I played him. How long is that? You should start your own thread here, you've got some ace stuff. You were quick replying! Need an idea on how to break up Yan Lo's cloak and ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malifuk Posted May 31, 2015 Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 Maybe more of the freehand flowers, to tie him in with his niece. I will start a log but not too technical. You will have to help me with the computers on next game round my house! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgraz Posted June 1, 2015 Report Share Posted June 1, 2015 Need an idea on how to break up Yan Lo's cloak and ideas? Meh. Just finished one http://wyrd-games.net/community/topic/97304-dgrazs-new-painting-thread/?p=840098 and he's not a very interesting model. Some free hand certainly helps (or painting rough spun stitching texture on him if you're a psycho like Mako.....his Chronicles Yan Lo was ridiculous)......if I didn't have such a strong concept for the crew's color coordination (with lots of white) I would have probably tried to break him up with some blocks of color in a pattern.....maybe something similar to this example worn by Richard Chamberlain in the Shogun mini-series: Good luck with him. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kretcher Posted June 2, 2015 Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 Just watched the begining of the thread, really like the hair on perdita really nicelly done. /K 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondog Posted June 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 OK all done - If you want to vote on coolmini the ink is here - http://www.coolminiornot.com/380702 Cheers On a side note can anyone recommend a good brush on varnish? I have tried army painter, vallejo and Liquitex - all of them seem to change the appearance - or maybe I'm putting too much on? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadpool Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 I love how vibrant she is great work! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argentbadger Posted July 13, 2015 Report Share Posted July 13, 2015 Great painting throughout. Are those freehand flowers on Chiaki's dress? If so, they are amazing. I think her eyes look like they're open a little too wide, but maybe I'd be surprised if I started playing a flute and suddenly the puddle I was standing in exploded . The depth of that blue you are using is just amazing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondog Posted July 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2015 Cheers argent, I have been practising freehand. They were OK but still something is not quite right with them. Also I have real difficulty painting eyes now, must be an age thing! They are a little wide but I couldn't face doing them again after continuously having to re-do them after mistake after mistake! OK well after a major mental block where I just couldn't think what to do with all that empty space on Yan Lo's cloak and while browsing for inspiration I found a great tutorial - thanks! http://fantasygames.com.pl/blog/random-faces-tutorial/ I probably overdid it a bit with the flowers but hey everyone likes flowers even the undead right? You can also vote for him here - http://www.coolminiornot.com/383304 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgraz Posted July 20, 2015 Report Share Posted July 20, 2015 cool. I used to have a tee shirt that looked just like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoHero Posted July 21, 2015 Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 From the pictures your freehand looks very well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zFiend Posted July 21, 2015 Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 Damn. That's a nice freehand there. Wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otylia Posted July 21, 2015 Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 I love the bold choice in palette - they all look great. Can you take a close up pic of the freehand? It looks incredible and I'd love to get a closer look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrella Posted July 21, 2015 Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 That is one impressive Yan-Lo, I like how bold and strong the colours are without becoming garish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondog Posted July 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2015 I love the bold choice in palette - they all look great. Can you take a close up pic of the freehand? It looks incredible and I'd love to get a closer look. Well the 'secret' is that it's not neat at all. if you look up very close as you see below (not too great a picture as the photo has gone a bit blocky due to the camera) it's a bit messy with bits of thinned white paint spreading out in a few places. This is because the start of it was simply me painting in lots of thinned randomly placed paint splotches and lines. Once you have done that, just look at it and see if you can see any skulls / faces start to appear, and then start to fill them in slowly with white and deepen things like the eye sockets with the base colour. It's a technique I learnt following the tutorial here http://fantasygames.com.pl/blog/random-faces-tutorial/ Cheers! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondog Posted August 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2015 Got some Ashigaru painted!! "Thy soul shall find itself alone 'Mid dark thoughts of the grey tomb-stone -- Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy: Be silent in that solitude Which is not loneliness -- for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee -- and their will Shall then overshadow thee: be still." Edgar Allen Poe (1829) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondog Posted November 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 (edited) Yan Lo has some new buddies! Edited November 10, 2015 by Moondog 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticPangolin Posted November 11, 2015 Report Share Posted November 11, 2015 Toshiro, letting it all hang out! The blue theme is very pleasant and unifying, do you have a group shot of the crew so far? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondog Posted November 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 (edited) Toshiro, letting it all hang out! The blue theme is very pleasant and unifying, do you have a group shot of the crew so far?Thanks! No group shot sorry. Once they get varnished they are never the same and I tend to varnish each one as I go in order to game with them. I may do a final group shot shortly though.OK, Izamu is here! Not 100% pleased with it, especially with they eyes (I wanted dead eyes - clouded over white - not sure I achieved that) but I must crack on with making the crew so no going back! Edited November 13, 2015 by Moondog 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondog Posted November 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2015 The Yan Lo crew is varnished and ready to play! 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondog Posted May 1, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2016 Nurse is done. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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