tangy yet delightful posted:

First off I should say that I like what you've done with this rat! I am assuming you are going for a more sketching/brush stroke style given everything I see here, which is something I'm looking to play with more as it definitely feels faster than perfectly smooth glaze transitions on everything and everywhere - and it still looks great in the end. If you were aiming for smooth glaze transitions then I guess go back and make everything much smoother with many more glaze layers.

In no particular order other than what I see first:
1. Fix up your base rim.
2. Consider building up the base more with some sort of swampy sewer water mess, right now your rat is in a sewer that's got bone dry dirt in it.
3. I like the rusty blade, I might recommend putting some of the same metallics for the pommel end on the blade itself, as some scratches and spots where the use of the blade has caused the rust to fall/scrape off (as the blade is withdrawn scraping against a femur or drug along a wall I dunno).
4. The dark gray pants look to have highlighting but not much in the way of darker shadows, can you get some more tonal variation in the pants?
5. It's a bit hard to tell from the photos but the yellow cloak could maybe do with some more shading too. Texture work (fabric lines) and/or some work to dirty up the edges of the cloak would be nice IMO. That yellow cloak is dragging through a sewer but the bottom half looks as clean as the top half. Poop on it, but with paint.

As I was typing this up I remembered my golden demon compendium had a similar piece, dug it out and it's this one (twitter post versus me taking pictures of my book - although the book does have a nice writeup): https://twitter.com/maxfaleij/status/898933665614315521

grassy gnoll posted:

I hate to ask this while I can't get a decent white balance in my camera, but I'm hoping to turn this into something approximating a display piece. If y'all could critique the poo poo out of this, I'd appreciate it.

Images one and two are pretty accurate for colors, three and four are blown out like crazy.






No varnishes yet so I can still make corrections.

welcome 2 Clown Town posted:

Silhouette posted:

I miss citadel foundation paints

Lamuella posted:

Really like those mechs. Good work on the details and your bases look great.

mllaneza posted:

Already above average compared to BT mini pics a friend links me. Keep going!

Marx Headroom posted:

I get the feeling Battletech is tougher than your typical warhams bc
1) the scale is 1:285 and most tutorials/painters deal with contrast on a much looser scale
2) vehicles elicit weathering but again, most weathering techniques are for like 1:100 or 1:60 and it's very very easy to overdo it (also some techniques like salt chipping just don't make sense at 1:285, it's a lot of extra steps for a result you have to constrain unless you want half your model to look rusted)
3) it's difficult to make big flat surfaces interesting and that's 80% of a typical Battlemech. Like zenithal highlighting does barely anything to a flat upwards facing rectangle. It's like trying to add contrast to a kitchen table. When Richard Gray did a warham AT-ST lookin thing, he did lighting from an angle. If you want to pop these things you have to think harder and that's hard
4) contrast painting is very popular and well documented but that has mixed results on these flat panel mans. You can always tell right away when someone leaned on contrast paints and that limits what you can do with the look

But it's awesome that Battletech is becoming more popular bc I'm seeing new techniques pop up all the time and that rules. Thank christ CGL knows what they're doing with mini design.

Spanish Manlove posted:

Bad pictures of my WIP of a model I've had on my shelf for a while so I'm putting in some serious effort:





Doing a gradient and glazing on all the parts of the cloak was a bad idea. I did fix a little bit of them later so it was even more of a task. I also don't know what color to paint the staff, I'm leaning more turquoise green kinda similar to the chest, rather than a yellow-green typical to necron weapons

Al-Saqr posted:

Painted all the gradient base for my whole Into the Dark Terrain, now that I have a general idea of what I'm doing with the paint scheme in general it's alot easier now to systematize the process and just get the entire base gradient done then sit back, relax and do the details and lighting at a relaxing pace as I get to them, I'm super hyped to have this whole terrain done soon!



BIG shoutout to the fine folks at 'FolkArt' acrylics for giving me an insanely cheap option to do massive terrain coverage like this without running out of precious mini paint, they really did me a solid, it's not as solid as Vallejo or Citadel but it's absolutely perfect for big wide sweeps like this.

moths posted:

Folk Art is awesome, craft paints in general are severely underrated by miniatures painters.

w00tmonger posted:

Any recomendations for painting clear resin? Should I be sticking to inks? Or will contrast paints do the trick for tinting it?

SkyeAuroline posted:

Painted a Crusader for my pirates. I don't like this mech one bit, so naturally I used him as a test bed to vary my scheme a bit. Not pictured: all the copper heat sinks on the back, because he's constantly on fire from how poor the Crud's heat management is.

a7m2 posted:

Made a Slime sponsored buggy:


Also magnetized the gun:

Jonny Nox posted:

By the way Harvey Mantaco saw your video, it was great as always. But if you're looking at an easier way to airbrush stars, try this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xey6J8aCEY&t=170s

DaysBefore posted:

I haven't painted since high school, picked up some of the new Imperial Guard the other day and there are so many non-optional fiddly details on these guys

SkyeAuroline posted:

Crossing over from the Battletech thread.

AndyElusive posted:

Finished Lord Inquisitor Kyria Draxus of the Ordo Xenos tonight!

My white balance is all over the place with these pictures:

Putrid Grin posted:

Let me know what you think!

grassy gnoll posted:

Calling this done. I've gone over that drat mask so many times it's a miracle it's not blobbed to hell and back.







The water effects were a good idea in theory and a near disaster in practice. I used Vallejo standing water, which is a single-component acrylic pour I've used before fairly successfully; it's basically thick acrylic medium and nothing else. I dunno if there was a reaction between the earth medium underneath or I got a ton of air trapped between my water layers, but you're seeing the bottom layer in front after I stripped the top water layer back off after it clouded like mad and refused to dry. Lotta white junk leaching out of something, and I'm not entirely sure what happened. On top of that, the water effect really did its best to creep up any surface it could. This works for the weird sewer-y base, but I'd hate to have it try to climb something I didn't want to see gross and moist. I think I'll stick with resins for any larger-scale water effects in the future.

AndyElusive posted:

Finished Lord Inquisitor Kyria Draxus of the Ordo Xenos tonight!

My white balance is all over the place with these pictures:

Al-Saqr posted:

more gallowdark terrain completed!

I cant believe I'm saying this, but I'm 75% finished with Gallowdark Terrain! I'm only a few big wall pieces away from being totally done! and just in time for Soulshackle! now I can focus on finishing the units!