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Post by dansemacabre on Oct 21, 2006 16:03:33 GMT
Hi, i'm trying to increase my skills with metallics, any comment and tip is apreciated.
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Post by racssirt on Oct 21, 2006 16:13:04 GMT
Very nice work dan! Awesome mini!
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Post by dansemacabre on Oct 21, 2006 16:53:37 GMT
thx a lot racssirt!
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Post by jabberwocky on Oct 22, 2006 6:22:52 GMT
Looks good thus far, Dansemacabre! The golds look good, but I think the shading could be a bit darker--maybe a thin brown glaze. The steel metallics definitely could use additional shading and the highlights seem a bit scattered.
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Post by Tim C on Oct 22, 2006 13:39:22 GMT
Looks very good, especially the gold, on the winged sections you may want to add a little darker shade onder the ribbing blending it back away from the ribbed area, another good trick with gold is to take one part Scorched Brown to two parts Chaos Black and then add about three drops of water from an eye dropper and mix thoroughly, then paint on washes into the recesses of the gold armour, let each one dry and then re-do. this will gradually darken the shaded areas and the gold will then look naturally weathered. The grey metal areas need more a very good way to do that is to just very lightly drybrush Boltgun Metal straight over the black undercoat to the falt of the sword, you can then pick out the cutting edge with Boltgun metal, and then Chainmail blending it back into the previous coat and then Mithril Silver likewise. Remember to keep the lighter shades for the areas that would naturally be catching the most light on the model.
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Post by jabberwocky on Oct 22, 2006 18:00:27 GMT
Looks very good, especially the gold, on the winged sections you may want to add a little darker shade onder the ribbing blending it back away from the ribbed area, another good trick with gold is to take one part Scorched Brown to two parts Chaos Black and then add about three drops of water from an eye dropper and mix thoroughly, then paint on washes into the recesses of the gold armour, let each one dry and then re-do. this will gradually darken the shaded areas and the gold will then look naturally weathered. The grey metal areas need more a very good way to do that is to just very lightly drybrush Boltgun Metal straight over the black undercoat to the falt of the sword, you can then pick out the cutting edge with Boltgun metal, and then Chainmail blending it back into the previous coat and then Mithril Silver likewise. Remember to keep the lighter shades for the areas that would naturally be catching the most light on the model. LOL--this is why Tim is the expert. Somehow my advice of "it needs more shading and the highlights look scattered" seems a bit puny...
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Post by dansemacabre on Oct 23, 2006 14:54:30 GMT
Hi, thx for tips, i've tried to follow them: i've redone the blades but i'm still not happy i've putted extra shading on the winged armor, the elm and wrist increased highlights on the base and made the hilt black to differentiate it by the blade.
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Post by mminiatures on Oct 23, 2006 19:39:59 GMT
Very nice paint job, it looks very good. The only thing pulling it back is the choice of colour, I think. All the gold plus the brown bags and brown pants sort of blend together. I'd have used silver armour or some other colour bags or pants, but whatever. The technical skill is obviously there.
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Post by racssirt on Oct 23, 2006 20:59:06 GMT
Umm... well I'm not exactly sure what to say now... I'm not quite sure whether that's an improvement or not...
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Post by Tim C on Oct 23, 2006 22:13:29 GMT
Yeah the sword blades are the weak point, the trouble with these is that the blades are very thin and don't have alot of area to work on, I am not surehow to improve them I will have a think about it and see what I can come up with.
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Post by dansemacabre on Oct 25, 2006 9:44:23 GMT
Yep the blades are the problem, i'll try another solution:the hilt in bordeaux taking part of the low blade and the metallic in flat chainmail then working with brown ink for shading.
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