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Post by knoffles on Jun 16, 2019 15:43:58 GMT
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Post by vulcan on Jun 17, 2019 0:35:26 GMT
Any chance of an army shot?
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Post by knoffles on Jun 17, 2019 6:27:27 GMT
Any chance of an army shot? At present I’ve literally only painted the Basildon, 1 Carnosaur and the Krox. The rest is just primed figures. As soon as I have a decent number painted, I’ll post one up.
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Post by grandmasterwang on Jun 19, 2019 17:11:58 GMT
Awesome work with the Bastiladon.
The shots on the grass make me think it's looking for ants to eat.
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Post by Mallo on Jun 20, 2019 16:43:35 GMT
fantastic work, the blues and purples are almost glowing, I love super bright colour schemes!
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Post by vulcan on Jun 20, 2019 16:55:31 GMT
A small criticism for you. Your basing is... very basic, especially for terrain a critter with foot-long claws and the weight of an elephant is walking on. There should at least be some tears in the sod where the claws dug in. And having only the two rocks the Basilidon is standing on present makes them stand out as unusual.
Basing is the art of making your miniature look like part of naturally occurring terrain. Taking a little extra effort can really boost the mini up to the next level with a fairly small amount of effort.
My go-to technique is to first, super-glue down any rocks or other such terrain features that would be embedded in the dirt. After that, you glue down a layer of fairly fine (but not even) grit sand. This gives the illusion that the rocks you attached earlier actually extend down into the ground. Next I use a watered-down mix of black paint to help anchor the sand down and prime it. You have to water it down so it flows evenly around all the grains of sand and down into all the gaps. The next step is to do the same thing with a dark brown to make it look more like dirt. From there you do a quick drybrush of a lighter brown, depending on how dry the dirt you're depicting is.
Go back and paint your rocks with whatever method you're using (I like dark grey basecoat, drybrushing up with lighter greys, and a thin wash of black, brown, and/or yellow in various combinations). Now you can add terrain features that would be laying on the ground but would have the grass growing around them (like branches and such) and paint them.
After that, you flock, tuft, and add static grass to suit. You can leave the dirt mostly exposed or cover almost all of it as you choose. But just having little peeks of dirt visible in and around the grass goes a long way to making the mini feel more real. And in a case like this, you can leave these big batches of bare dirt where the Basilidon tore up the sod as it walked by and really give it a sense of presence and weight...
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Post by strutsagget on Jun 20, 2019 17:11:09 GMT
vulcan you are correct that bases can be pretty awesome if time is put into them but we all choose ourselves at what level we want to craft and what is good enough.
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Post by vulcan on Jun 20, 2019 17:55:34 GMT
vulcan you are correct that bases can be pretty awesome if time is put into them but we all choose ourselves at what level we want to craft and what is good enough. Of course. I was just pointing out that taking a little extra time and effort on the bases goes a long way toward elevating a mini, and giving a basic tutorial on my techniques. You should see my Skaven army. It was the first one I ever did, and the army shot would look like a tidal wave of mice overrunning a pool table...
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Post by knoffles on Jun 21, 2019 5:41:07 GMT
Cheers for taking the time to talk through how you do your bases vulcan. I’ll definitely hold my hands up to being a lazy baser (I find the whole painting bit a chore too!). Originally I didn’t base any of the Lizards as I was going to actually try and put some effort into them but as the flock is just held down with pva, it’s easy to scrape off for when I come back to it and I just couldn’t stand the bare painted bases 😀
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Post by knoffles on Jun 21, 2019 18:01:36 GMT
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Post by knoffles on Jun 21, 2019 18:03:39 GMT
And for my own record. This is the fledgling army (with part built Steg)
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Post by Mallo on Jun 22, 2019 0:38:21 GMT
cool, that's a fairly sizeable amount of lizards!
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Post by mottdon on Jun 22, 2019 19:04:04 GMT
And for my own record. This is the fledgling army (with part built Steg) That's a great sized army! And there's a lot more color on it already, than most fledgling armies! My Skaven don't even have that much color on them and I've had them for a couple of years now! (That's making me think about working on them now...). The freedom you mentioned with painting a Lizardmen army was the primary reason I started collecting mine! I LOVE the multitude of bright colors you can use with them! "Life is just too short for beige" - this is one of the mottos that I live by. I loved them so much, I kinda went crazy buying them up. Great work! Keep it up!
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Post by azknight on Jun 23, 2019 0:21:30 GMT
Certainly monster heavy. I think it's awesome. Monsters attracted me to the DE army I'm building, but I'm still working on the core for now. Your blue and yellow monster is my favorite so far. Maybe because I had a He-Man monster that color when I was a little kid. My Warhammer buddy from my old town was building a Lizardmen army too. They are so cool.
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Post by strutsagget on Jun 23, 2019 7:15:42 GMT
Lovely armyshot knoffles! Thats going to be one fantastic colored army! Have you thought about the “new” gw contrast paints? Think they might work wonders in that kind of army? Have not tried them myself so its just speculation.
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