My first ever fully painted miniature that didn’t come free in a box with paints.

Paints used:

  1. 2:2:1 Black Templar:Lahmian Medium:Ultramarine Contrast (Citadel)

  2. Pure Red (Warpaints)

  3. Skeleton Bone (Warpaints)

  4. Greedy Gold (Warpaints)

  5. Cobalt Metal (Warpaints)

  6. Skeleton Horde (Citadel)

  7. Nuln Oil (Citadel)

I’ve got some places I definitely want to touch up. Places where my brush control was lacking for sure and I’m not happy with the tone on the belt. I find it mixes too much with the gold. I’ll be adding some more layers to that as well as touching up any spots I missed with paint.

Overall I’m pretty happy with it. I’ll be continuing to edge highlight with the cobalt Metal on any exposed armour and will attempt my first OSL from the eyes.

Funny thing is, this isn’t even from my main army. I have 2500 points of Nids I need to prime and paint. I’ve just been having a bit of the winter blues so I forced myself to paint something to try and kickstart my engines. Building has been really therapeutic though and painting was even moreso.

  • antaymonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Honestly it looks pretty good. Maybe some added shading here and there but my main question is why the texture appears so gritty? Did you spray prime it outside in the cold?

    • Adm_Drummer@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Thanks boss!

      Honestly I wish I could tell you. My primer layer looked pretty good to start. I think I probably haven’t mixed my paints well enough. I don’t have a vortex or mixing beads in my pots so I have to give them the ol’ shake-a shake-a.

      Could also be a side effect of my paints being too thinned down. Definitely something I want to figure out as I proceed.

      EDIT: Okay, so I’ve actually gone to take a look at the model and then looked through my camera roll. My phone does some weird scaling that causes a fuzzy artifact on all my pictures when I look closely. That may be what we’re seeing.

      In person I don’t seem to have any of the grit we see here.

      • Twotone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 days ago

        I almost wonder if it is a camera artifact and not necessarily just gritty looking. My cellphone makes stuff look worse with all the junk ‘ai enhancing’ it tries to do.

        • Edit * lol, yeah, just read the other half of that. Maybe I shouldn’t rush reading. My google pixel gums up all the photos I take of my minis
        • Adm_Drummer@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          10 days ago

          I think there’s definitely some camera fuckery going on. In person there’s some texture but like, nowhere near as drastic as the photo shows. As supporting evidence I present to you a photo of a deer I took recently. It has the very same weird “fuzz” to it. The camera wasn’t zoomed in, no filters applied either. But when you look closely it all has a grain to it.

          • Twotone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 days ago

            Yeah, same thing on my camera. It likes to blend similar colors together and try to make up it’s own ‘texture’ for detail. Tired of ‘ai enhanced’ garbage camera phones. They used to be good.

            • Adm_Drummer@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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              8 days ago

              It’s very annoying. I’ve looked through every setting I possibly could and I just don’t have the option to turn it off.

              That face looks really great btw. I haven’t dove into painting faces yet. I hope I can do it half as well as you.