Starting on gloves and bangles. Critical aspects of any wargaming mini.
Filling in the remaining white space on the torso. It’s only when you take the photo that you realise there’s a fair bit more imprecision than you saw with your Human Eyeball. Fair play to the YouTubers out there getting crispy lines while filming what they’re up to.
Expanding the red, waiting for the storm.
Slowly now pushing the painted contrast to better match the boosted version, trying to make the chest ornamentation seem like a distinct material from the fabric.
I can’t remember who originally shared the tip, but if you struggle (like me) to get your non-metallics to actually look ‘shiny’, you can take a photo of your initial light placement on the mini and just boost the contrast to max and brightness to min. Try to match what you see with paint.
Of course, gentle reader, he would start into some non-metallic nonsense before he even has the base colours down. The boy’s a fool.
The order in which I choose to apply paint is both baffling and entirely self-inflicted.
Never painted an elf before, space or otherwise, despite falling in love with Jes Goodwin’s art back in the day. But this little sculpt is gorgeous.
I’m determined that 2025 is the year I actually finish painting a thing. Anything. Just one will do. I’m nominating this lil guy. Still a long way to go, but I’ve stopped myself giving up in disgust and re-priming him three separate times now, so that’s progress!
Definitely time to start some regular creative stuff again and hope to carry hobby-momentum through into the new year.
Not the greatest start to day one though, I’m going to have to learn how to putty re-sculpt a resin-related-injury on the fuzzy fella.
Trying to mimic some of the light placement on the bracer referencing Sergio’s timelapse video. Still using quite a large brush at this point due to the Unaccustomed Vastness of space.
Even just roughly blocking in the base colours is going to take the rest of my natural life…
There’s something profane in tarnishing a pristine blank canvas.
And lo, the world’s slowest painter of yellows picks up again his burden.
Wait… why exactly are we all using acrylics? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3XRwj5l3Eo
Hmm. Not sure if this reads as cast-shadow or just brush-slip…
Slowly increasing purpleation and general red enyellowment.
Kinda like these reds too.
Not only did the arm snap off, I hadn’t noticed that the face didn’t even print correctly until I reached it, so a quick segue into something else entirely. Let’s keep the purple theme and see if I can ultimately get this to read as metallic.
Well that’s less than ideal. Just starting on the non-metallics and he tried to run away. Now showing one of the real downsides of resin prints - on contact with soft carpet from maybe a one metre drop, ‘his arm’s off’. Half tempted to bodge an oversize Ork power claw on there.