Steward's Gallery Feedback

[Tim C]

Please post all comments and advice to Stewards gallery images here.

[Tim C]

I will be the first to post in your feedback thread. Firstly I had to remove the first imag tag as it was just a link to the photobucket home page, now onto the mini, lets start with the preparation. This is most important as everything you do after will be directly effected by it.
Make sure you remove all mould lines and extra bits of metal (flash) before you begin with painting, if these are left on they will spoil the best of paint jobs.
Secondly and Lotr minis suffer with this alot, bent weapons make sure to straighten them out as best as you can, I have a pair of small flat pliers to do this with.
Now onto the painting. Your minis are ok certainly good enough for gaming but if you want to go further then you will need to practice neatness, also thin your paints to get a smoother look.
Try experimenting with highlights and shades these are difficult to get the hang of at first but it shouldn't take long before you get some good results.
Nice first posts and i don't mean to sound cruel but if you want to develop and progress as a painter then you will need to do these things I mentioned.

Don't let my waffle put you off putting more images in your gallery though.

[steward]

thank you, all comments welcome and thanks for getting these on here. Do you know I hadn't noticed the mould lines and esp the extra metal on the sword until I took the pictures! Dont worry I take the comments in the spirit intended, and having seen other people's minis on here I know myself I have a way to go. I shall put more pics up as I go on.

[woodspeed]

firstly i cant realy say much as tim has covered most just a little point about bases if these are to be used constantly together then try and keep constant basing materials as a wooden floor doesnt go very well with field grass if you get my drift as some bases can make and break minis but if you dont understand how to highlight or where to highlight(or shading for that matter) then feel free to ask tim or anyone for a quick tut or explanation thats what were all here for to help eachother. (sorry if this seems a little harsh)

[Tim C]

Ok here is a bit of advice on your pictures, you need to get the lighting sorted out a bit better mate when taking photos as the lighting is washing the colours out on the minis. This is going to make it difficult to give any real constructive opinions on the painting you have done. I can see these are an improvement for sure on the Hobbits. You mentioned in your pm about the colours going chalky, what are you using to add to the base colour for the highlights, if it is white you are using this often has the effect of going chalky when thinned down it has something to do with the pigment. I think this is more a GW thing than white pigment in general, I am not certain if other brands have the same issues.

[Tim C]

Your newer picture is clearer and the lighting is alot better, but you need to crop more of the background out as it is too far away to really see it properly mate.

[woodspeed]

the way i take my pics and i think is an easy way of taking photos is with a white piece of paper behind and under the mini and use the closeup setting (flower icon) setting on ur cam and resting it on a flat surface if your hand is a lil shaky like mine (this is the way i take my photos with an old 3mp camera) and just take a few practice pics to see whether the lighting is too bright/dark.

but from what i can see looking very neat. one little nitpick is mold lines i do this with modeling knife or files and gently remove them best to do this slowly rather than all at once ive found as to not take out chunks or put file marks onto the mini.

Definate improvement on the hobbits. practice makes perfect