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Almost astonishingly dark orange shades creep up the rear of the mini as the author screams yellow, yellow, put down the red paint you fool, yellow! into the storm. High Masking Boss Mini WIP

A single actually-yellow heel highlight added and, if you squint, the rest of it may start to look like the same colour but in shade/lit by a secondary source? High Masking Boss Mini WIP

The rear of the Ork boss is mostly still primer, but an attempt is being made to remember yellow on his leg. The majority of this mini will be trying to remember yellow on things. High Masking Boss Mini WIP

Our friendly Ork chum now has some ‘yellow’ (orange, wearing many hats) on his hoodie and a start at some NMM on his dentures. The denture adventure left a visible wound above one eyebrow. As can happen. High Masking Boss Mini WIP

Starting to enyellow one of the mini’s arms, mainly using reds and oranges 🤷‍♂️. The photo is 10x clearer than normal in its new light box! Worryingly, defect-exposingly, clear… oh no High Masking Boss Mini WIP

A little bit of detailing has been added to the faces and some variation to the skin tone, just to see how obvious any mask lines might be. High Masking Boss Mini WIP

A friendly, smiling 40K Ork and chum. A green base layer has been applied as a starting skin tone and the surrounding areas ‘cleaned up’ with white overspray. There are small spots of white remaining on the green where the masking layer didn’t fully detach. High Masking Boss Mini WIP

Some careful poking and sweaty blending and finally the mini is now almost indistinguishable from the previous shot. Except that he seems to have something in his right eye? He’s not crying, _you’re_ crying. Fancy Lad Mini WIP

An attempt at a beaten-up but still shiny Space Metal on the sword, reflecting brighter blue light from above and some off-stage possibly-firey orange from below. Fancy Lad Mini WIP

Fancy Lad’s skirt and… tiara?… are now picked out in purples, while ‘metallics’ are picked out in grey. They really need more of a contrast jump to read as metallic, but they currently have a stone-y vibe that I don’t hate. Fancy Lad Mini WIP

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. Tyrion Mini

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. Fancy Lad Mini WIP

Continuing the stippling effect across both legs of the mini, trying to give a sense of age or tarnish rather than damage, trying to keep the contrast established on the first boot. Fancy Lad Mini WIP

Slowly moving up the mini, picking out more of the armour. Its gauntlets now have the same stippled ivory, with a slightly brighter highlight. Fancy Lad Mini WIP

The front of the mini now has the majority of the ‘bone-coloured’ armour sketched in… we shall not speak here of the rear. I think I’ve gone a step too bright for the upper half, but it can be filtered down. Fancy Lad Mini WIP

Six macro shots of the lower leg of a Little Man™️ showing different stages in an attempt at blending a curved volume. The first shows nine discrete bands of colour with a bright ivory as the main central highlight, falling off to dark brown for the shadows. The successive images show attempts to blend these stripes together. The final image still shows quite a scratchy, streaky transition. Fancy Lad Mini WIP

Little Fancy Man ™️ now has additional paint up to his kneecap, the start of stippled approach to blending applied to knee and foot. It lends a high-contrast but dingy look to his armour. Fancy Lad Mini WIP

Some progress towards the gold (more ‘bronze’ at the moment, if anything) of the breastplate on the Jaime bust. Major ‘reflections’ to the upper and mid right of the photo, some initial bounce reflections from the lower left. Mini

Inside you are two Jaime Lannisters... one enormous but armless, the other small but only able to use its arms for rude gestures. Timeless. Sobering. Mini

The bust of Jamie Lannister now has the upper part of its breastplate highlighted with a mix of browns and ivories, attempting to mimic the look of a reflective metal. Mini

An infinity rune has been painted onto the upper thigh of the right leg and the diamond pattern from the chest continued onto the left pauldron. It’s ‘more’, but I think it may lead to a lesser overall effect? Two-Tone Eldar Mini WIP

A very similar mini to the last, this time with Averland Sunset (Citadel) as the primary colour and Berserker Red (Two Thin Coats) as the accent. No details are specifically picked out, just letting the sculpt be the sculpt. Craven Yellow (TTC) used very sparingly as an extreme highlight. Two-Tone Eldar Mini WIP

The definitely-not-a-cop blue-grey space Eldar mini from before, still just referred in blue-grey and black, but with an extra point of interest added to their right pec: a brighter blue-grey diamond pattern that reads like white. Two-Tone Eldar Mini WIP

A friendly neighbourhood space elf (definitely not a cop) in blue-grey with black accents. This was a test to see if minimal base colours just shaded and highlighted to accentuate the model’s sculpted volumes would look good without further futzing. I think it works. Two-Tone Eldar Mini WIP

A generally much softer and less contrasty greyscale replaces the big black blotch on the steps of the mini. It’s not particularly interesting, but that’s ultimately the point, it shouldn’t actually draw the eye. It still may or may not actually look like a cast shadow 🤷‍♂️. Tyrion Mini WIP

Someone has clearly spilled a whole can of oil all over this little step in King’s Landing. No wonder he looks dour. Tyrion Mini WIP

Only the plinth and ‘boot ribbons’ now have no colour at all. Tyrion Mini WIP

An unusual, some might say bold, choice has been made to focus painted light like a green laser on the lower part of his arms. Tyrion Mini WIP

Starting to pick out the jerkin volumes in pinks and reds, trying to give the impression that the patterning around his neck is traced out in gold. Tyrion Mini WIP

Trying to add something like a dirty blonde colouration, even though they had him much more red in the show… (until they lost interest and stopped colouring it). Tyrion Mini WIP

It’s the tiniest little Tyrion Lannister you ever did see! Tyrion Mini WIP

A little flesh colour added to his face and this mini starts to look even more like Peter Dinklage… Tyrion Mini WIP

The little man’s hat is a little less stark, maybe? Turns out white is trickier to smooth than yellow. This seems unfair, somehow. Farseer Mini WIP

A sketchy start to trying to make a contrasty scale-appropriate pearlescent white on the shoulder-pads and Big Hat. All the more dispiriting as the zenithal underpainting was a lovely smooth white. But not an _appropriate_ smooth white. Farseer Mini WIP

A front view of the mini showing that the only remaining white primer is the helmet, 80’s shoulder pads, and spear tip. Lots of tidy up still needed. Farseer Mini WIP

A rear view of the mini showing work started on some dangly gems and broaches. Farseer Mini WIP

The little man now has some little bags and little gems. Also: is headless (ideally temporarily). Farseer Mini WIP

Front view of the lil guy with the remaining fabric elements now red instead of primer white. Farseer Mini WIP

_Rear_ view of the same lil guy showing the folds in his flappy red cape/overcoat. Definitely more blending needed, but shadow and highlights are now picked out in Actual Colour. Farseer Mini WIP

A crop of the little man’s funky ‘metal’ t-shirt with the sliders adjusted per the toot. The artificial increase in contrast shifts the effect closer to what an actual reflective surface might look like. Farseer Mini WIP

It’s not exactly shiny yet, but I think the ‘metallic’ area at least looks like it’s reflecting light a little differently from the ‘cloth’. Farseer Mini WIP

A tiny lil guy, possibly true 28mm scale unlike most modern minis from The Company. His adorable little hand is raised as though to reach out and softly, softly brush the hair from your face… wait, what was I saying? Eldar Farseer with a spear. That’s what I meant. Farseer Mini WIP

The tabard… smock?… of the tiny man has a variety of Reds applied, in a manner that suggests that many, many hours of blending lie ahead, all for an area approximately the size of one (1) human thumbnail. Farseer Mini WIP

A little bit of green for his pouches, a little bit of yellow for his t-shirt. Really the perfect set of colours for a painter with partial _red-green colour blindness_ who has self-imposed smooth blending on himself. Farseer Mini WIP

An ork ‘kommando’ model, which is approximately 90% knives, in various stages of finish. Large portions are still white primer, but he has an attempted-NMM blade mostly sketched in and a Punisher-esque logo on his red shirt. His green skin may be either too yellow or just not yellow enough, depending on my mood. Da Punishork Mini WIP

Three miniatures in various early stages of being painted (and repaired). A little half-yellow guy, a little partly-green guy, and one great big guy missing a left ear. Festive background lights though, so all is well. Mini WIP

A sketching-in of the jade bracer and NMM golden housing, mostly focused on light placement. Big Floof Mini WIP

A big old floof, now with the beginnings of a reddish cloak and blueish skirt. Too big? Almost certainly. But _never_ too floof. Big Floof Mini WIP

A freshly primed mini. So much promise. So little likelihood of finishing. Big Floof Mini WIP

Just a lil guy with a lil yellow arm. The miniature is approximately half the size of one (1) human thumb but will take eleventy billion years to paint smoothly. Kings in Yellow Mini

Starting to add the first sketchy texture marks to differentiate materials on the Spooky Lady. Spooky Lady Mini WIP

A pointy bit of the Spooky Lady may be casting a small pointy shadow, or her spooky cape may just need a wash. Spooky Lady Mini WIP

A spooky lady, zenithal primed to highlight light volumes. One of the armour panels is being painted in various shades of purple, the stark changes of contrast aiming for a non-metallic-metal effect. Spooky Lady Mini WIP

The same spooky lady, now with a spooky red sash. Spooky Lady Mini WIP

Shiny, shiny, shiny knee of purple… Not Skeletor Mini WIP

An increasingly non-canonical He-Man-adjacent skele-man. Not Skeletor Mini WIP

Skele-man _triumphantly_ raising a lack-of-hand aloft. Not Skeletor Mini WIP

Slowly adding more paint over the primer of this Bombadil-ised Terminator mini. A freehand of clouds and tiny birds has been started on his sky-blue ‘jacket’. Old Tominator Mini WIP

A 40K terminator miniature WIP still showing mainly primer. But his boot is yellow. Old Tominator Mini WIP

The absurdity begins. Old Tom will be the grimmest of the grimdark. Old Tominator Mini WIP

Just three lil guys, hanging out. A chunky boy, a stabby boy and a boy with an ice cream cone🍦 Mini WIP

A freshly-primed 40K Terminator mini with some 3D-printed GreyTide Studios bits added for theme. Mini WIP

A shot from above of three minis sitting on a colourful paint-covered texture palette. Mini WIP

A white-on-grey primed Games Workshop Terminator mini. Mini WIP

The same bust from before, but with yellows and browns starting to replace the monochrome. Faceless King Mini WIP

A (pretty spooky) WitchSong Miniatures bust painted in greyscale non-metallic metal. Faceless King Mini WIP

Chicago skyline from Lake Michigan. Photo

'Precipitation is in the area'. Photo