First ‘contrast’ pass, what do we reckon? Better? Worse? Legally indistinguishable?
I think one of my problems is that I’ve pushed the skin so bright in the highlight (no regrets).
More detail, both dark and bright, and secondary reflections have been added to the shell casings and the gun barrel. Still, the only thing you really notice in the shot is GREEEN.
I always intended to go back to this one and do a finishing pass or two before submitting to the competition on MMF, but the thought of doing so put me off any hobbying at all for several days 😅. So I’m calling this guy done. This will be the hero shot. Also the first mini photo I’ve ever removed the ‘WIP’ tag from.
It’s the same little Tyrion model at the same level of finish as the previous shot in the thread, but now against a stark black ‘please take me seriously’ background.
Sketching in the light placement for Fancy Lad’s eventual Fancy Backside. Very rough sketch. (Please only squint while viewing 😅)
As grim and dark a posterior as John Warhammer ever could have dreamed. I’m trying for a beaten-up pearlescent effect rather than a metallic. I think the secondary reflections on the underside of the pauldrons are doing the heavy lifting at the moment.
… just now learning that the performance was a last-minute booking for a song that she had just finished writing and wasn’t even on her current album at the time.
I think it may be too dense a reference to use in mere human language.
Okay HobbyPals, let’s see if I can top last year’s record of one (1) completed mini. I’m semi-confident I may be able to match that same pace again in 2026 if the knees hold out.
Not a great start tbf - even with my red-green deficiency I can tell that the yellow-red and black-purple here are nails-on-blackboard clashing. Maybe I can do an oil filter when I see how bad the rest of my colour choices turn out to be?