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Post by darkmessiah on Feb 23, 2009 13:41:45 GMT
Alright guys, back again after a bit of a break over crimbo, been chippig away at a few projects and heres wot i have so far  Waterfall - at the moment this is just a practice piece in making realistic natural bases, am goin to try to emulate cascading falling water, its either going to be a spring theme (with cherry blossom) or a winter them (with snow and ice), not too sure yet am also thinking about making a small raid on hasslefree to buy their Hanako geisha ninja mini any suggestiosn for places that sell light pink coloured scatter/flock would really help!   iv take a few pics of this as i was workin so it may end up being a tutorial :nerd: Grot Duel Finally got around to buying some grots and putting the industrial wasteland base i finished a few pages back to some use! still got a fair bit of work to do. planning on having them fighting ova a big orksy head wiv big pointy teef! if any one knows where i can get 28mm scale pliers (for pullin teef!) and a eavy spanner (for bashin!) id appreciate it!    PH Marine backpack, finally got hold of some acrylic tubing, had to heat it and stretch it to get it to the right diameter, still lots of work to do on this as well, the tubes are goin to end up being alot shorter and have end caps and prob some tubing connected to em. thanks to a suggestion from demonherald am lookin at capillary tubes as the acrylics ones iv made arnt quite uniformally the right shape or diameter. Am looking for This type of effect  WL finally got these bad boys done, am quite happy with em, nice dynamic simple poses with all the variants      all the best Dark |
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Post by jabberwocky on Feb 23, 2009 18:38:16 GMT
Oh, my...these are all really great! I love the landscaping scene with waterfall. The dynamic poses look awesome. The grot scene is looking amazing as well. Nice to see you back, Dark!
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Post by dogfacedboyuk1 on Feb 23, 2009 18:39:52 GMT
Jesus man, those two display bases are amazing! Love the gobbos especially. Nicely designed and well painted, so I am looking forward to seeing the finished piece. I saw a post on cmon asking about cherry blossom, I guess that was you! That waterfall idea sounds great and I m really looking forward to seeing that to. You ve got alot on the go here so this thread should be good.....
ps i think you should make the spanner and pliers out of milliput mate, might be easier than tracking one down, although i would have thought they d be on an orc sprue that comes with those war truck models??!?
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Post by Tim C on Feb 27, 2009 20:09:49 GMT
Stunning basework on these and the conversions are looking promising too. Welcome back stranger.
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Post by darkmessiah on Mar 4, 2009 16:10:48 GMT
Cheers for the comments guys, their really appreciated righteo time for a little update, got a nice little parcel from hasslefree yesterday and i could help but have a little tinker last night after work so little freddy bagshott, got him nice and cleaned up    i cant get over how small his base is!  And Hanako on her base  @dog - As for the basha and teef pulla i think ill be making em, a bit of plasticard and putty, how hard can it be?  |
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Post by dogfacedboyuk1 on Mar 4, 2009 20:56:18 GMT
hehehe - you got it.
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Post by darkmessiah on Mar 6, 2009 4:38:48 GMT
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Post by magie on Mar 6, 2009 9:22:02 GMT
Oh My God! Your bases are amazing!
Love that you're giving those gretchin the base they deserve, I really like those minis.
Would you mind sharing your rust effect recipe?
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Post by darkmessiah on Mar 10, 2009 4:26:14 GMT
Magie, the rust is fairly straight forward, i start out with a black undercaot, then a coat of dark flesh, then i use watered down mig pigments, standard and light rust, i just start to stipple and dot the rust randomly. then i go back over with heavily diluted burnt umber oil paint (although u can use DF+Chaos black) to define the shadows again. the only reason i use oils like this some times is because once uv diluted it u can just dab it in to an area and the capillary action with draw it into all the recess, makes things 10 times easier a little update on freddy, the painting is quite a way along, although theirs still alot of cleaning and sharpening up to do, although the base is pretty much done        also i need a bit of help identifying part of the mini. theirs somethin attached to his belt but i cant tell wot it is! a bayonet, a pistol holster? i just cant tell! :lol:   anyone have any ideas? Dark |
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Post by jabberwocky on Mar 10, 2009 9:33:18 GMT
Hmmm...good question! At first glance, I thought it might be a "potato masher"--one of the WW1 style grenades.
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Post by Tim C on Mar 10, 2009 11:51:36 GMT
Looks great, the item in question is the holster for his pistol, btw Jabber the potato masher was the knick name for the German stick grenade.
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Post by jabberwocky on Mar 10, 2009 15:39:38 GMT
Looks great, the item in question is the holster for his pistol, btw Jabber the potato masher was the knick name for the German stick grenade. Ahh, thanks for the clarification on both counts . |
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Post by darkmessiah on Mar 15, 2009 17:32:42 GMT
A little update, freddy is pretty much finished, ill prob go back and tinker with a few details but hes mostly finished, decided to paint the odd lookin bit as a holster, i think it makes most sense, but i think its far from lookin like a holster... thanks for the suggestion though guys    Just wondering wot u guys think of this idea? i want gollum to be on the bend of a river. now lookin at the composition of the base i want a low point (river bed) a mid point (gollum and his rock) and then a high point (a tree) but am thinking perhaps their isnt enough space for the trunk. so how about suspending the actual branches over gollum to make em look like their coming in from outside the base. of course the rod needs to be hidden better, but would it work? or is it too much?   Dark |
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Post by scarecrow4560 on Mar 15, 2009 21:18:54 GMT
i think it would work. To hide the rod, you could always have a small amount of the trunk showing, and that could be built up the rod
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Post by jabberwocky on Mar 16, 2009 15:59:27 GMT
I like the concept for gollum very much. The trick will be how to hide the rod, though.
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Post by darkmessiah on Mar 31, 2009 1:55:49 GMT
alrite guys, havnt had an update for a while, iv not long got back from salute (no prizes am dissapointed to say :cry:) iv also been concentrating on a commission recently, so not much time for my own stuff, but here is a little update on gollum iv resolved the tree issue, its bending around from the back of the cliff, their will eventually be a small waterfalls trickling down the rockface into the pool below. am thinking about doing this piece in a monochrome, or a moonlight colour scheme (since we can only see in black and white in the dark/low light, so i thought it make sense ) am gunna use these pics as reference but any advice about monochrome techniques would really be helpful    am also working on This mini, am still working out how the base will look, he will be walking down a small staircase in somethin like a old/abandoned Turkish/Indian tiled palace, more progress will follow soon hopefully! All the best Dark |
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Post by magie on Apr 1, 2009 15:25:56 GMT
Great job on the base! It really suits the mini and the setting in the story.
Unfortunately I cannot give you any tips on monochrome techniques, haven't tried it myself yet.
MiniatureMentor has a nice tutorial by Jennifer Haley though
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Post by jabberwocky on Apr 5, 2009 7:35:55 GMT
Looks great, Dark! This will be a beaut painted up!
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Post by darkmessiah on Apr 16, 2009 22:04:42 GMT
am rethinking gollum for now, iv removed the tree and am rethinking the cliff face am not entirely sold on it, i was hoping just to take slot out of the cliff and erase the rest but its not working, it needs to wrap around the base a little more so thats on hold at the moment anyways, at the moment am waiting on some new wooden bases, so the pieces i wanted to work on i cant (i like to have a scene and atmosphere all set out before i start painting a mini) so instead of taking a break i decided to revisit an old project (squigball) and reinvent it as GrottyRaces or Squiggy races, idk! here is the original  and here is the updated project     its now a diorama, i wanted a dick dastardly scene, i need to a grot jockey flying off his stead and add another squig coming over the brow. i may add an accomplice over the other side. the squig also needs the bottom of his mouth cut away and resculpted so its open in surprise and ill prob increase the size of the eyes so i can make him less menacing and more cartoony let me know wot u think! |
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Post by Tim C on Apr 17, 2009 8:22:27 GMT
Your basework is great. An area that I am not adventurous in at all. Would be nice to see some of these projects finished though.
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Post by jabberwocky on Apr 20, 2009 0:51:23 GMT
Ha! Great little scene! I'm looking forward to seeing a bit of paint on these, that's for sure!
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Post by darkmessiah on Apr 21, 2009 2:57:34 GMT
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Post by magie on Apr 21, 2009 20:23:26 GMT
This looks so cool! I really like what you do with the forest bases. It's nice to see that you put so much effort in these wonderful bases, for minis that are quite regular. Overall it tells a very vivid story. The squig looks really good, his lower lip is huge but that's ok! I'm not to sure about the weewee though, so I'll leave that decision up to you |
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Post by reddogfive on Apr 25, 2009 14:36:16 GMT
I love the work in progress pics!
Show the hard work that you do...
Can't wait to see the finished art!
ArrrOOooo!
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Post by darkmessiah on Apr 26, 2009 21:39:40 GMT
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