I’m frequently confused by amazing paint jobs on awful models.Mireadur wrote:In the end, good models draw inspiration while crap ones kill it..
That’s the Death eye sockets, right there!Mireadur wrote:1 more skellie..
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I’m frequently confused by amazing paint jobs on awful models.Mireadur wrote:In the end, good models draw inspiration while crap ones kill it..
That’s the Death eye sockets, right there!Mireadur wrote:1 more skellie..
Indeed. Your explanation makes sense. And the scratches etc on them look great. perhaps this is indeed the best that can be gotten out of these models. You're right that sometimes a model almost paints itself and others keep feeling like an uphill paint job the whole way.Mireadur wrote:I guess you are thinking of a freehand on them, and i tried!
Yeah this is the feeling i meant when painting these models. Fortunately im only a few days away from my seaguard . Im really in the mood for them.. Just need to finish these 4 skellies...Prince of Spires wrote:You're right that sometimes a model almost paints itself and others keep feeling like an uphill paint job the whole way.Mireadur wrote:I guess you are thinking of a freehand on them, and i tried!
Rod
Old or new models? I preferred painting the old, metal ones. They felt very elegant to me.Mireadur wrote:im only a few days away from my seaguard . Im really in the mood for them
The plastic ones i started last year. I have 4 half painted since last summer and then another 6 for the last row. Im gonna try to paint them all this month. And then, in the beginning of april i hope to paint this amazing model:Prince of Spires wrote:Old or new models? I preferred painting the old, metal ones. They felt very elegant to me.Mireadur wrote:im only a few days away from my seaguard . Im really in the mood for them
Looking forward to the next bunch of models
Rod
Yes thanks, i also think is a win-win decision to paint the bones with different colours.Prince of Spires wrote:Looking forward to seeing the seahelm painted.
I think the purple shield is my favorite of that unit so far. The purple works well with the bone color.
It's shaping up to be an impressive unit. The variations in bone color are indeed there. I like that they are reasonably subtle, which makes it a complete unit but still interesting to look at compared to uniform "bleached bone". I suspect it will also make your life easier once you've painted a couple of units. If you have all bone color the same then when you're a year or two down the line then you still have to paint the bones the same way. Now you can vary within a unit and from unit to unit without looking weird and your painting can grow with the army.
Rod
I think you’re doing a good job of getting variety into a unit that could be very formulaic Mireadur.Mireadur wrote:From here on it started getting repetitive.
Thanks! Its really hard for me to paint one model after another always the same, this is really how i came up with adding small variations, to skin tones, bones, shields or switching colours around like in these seaguard.SpellArcher wrote:I think you’re doing a good job of getting variety into a unit that could be very formulaic Mireadur.Mireadur wrote:From here on it started getting repetitive.
This is very much true. You would expect blue on blue to not work. But it very much does. The unit is becoming lovely.SpellArcher wrote:The thing I really envy is the delicate colour balance, especially with the shields. Painting Harlequins for example would be my worst nightmare.
jejeje thanks.SpellArcher wrote:Basing is just right Mireadur.
It's probably the fact that he's made of plastic. It's looking good though. And the seaguard are impressive (even if I do have to add another vote for the metal unit).SpellArcher wrote:He looks a bit angry about something...
Shannar, Sealord wrote:It's probably the fact that he's made of plastic.SpellArcher wrote:He looks a bit angry about something...
This. Is. Lothern!Mireadur wrote:based on Leonidas in 300?
I saw an absolutely amazing paint job on an Ariel the other day. It haunts me like a scene in a horror movie.SpellArcher wrote:I’m frequently confused by amazing paint jobs on awful models.Mireadur wrote:In the end, good models draw inspiration while crap ones kill it..
There's the reverse as well though. GW often seems guilty of this, with bad paintjobs on otherwise nice models.Shannar, Sealord wrote:I saw an absolutely amazing paint job on an Ariel the other day. It haunts me like a scene in a horror movie.SpellArcher wrote:I’m frequently confused by amazing paint jobs on awful models.Mireadur wrote:In the end, good models draw inspiration while crap ones kill it..
Lol really the only model i find grotesque from GW is the daemon prince primarch magnus, which looks more like a tenerife's carnival queen than a WH miniature. For the rest i really like the paint jobs and of course all of the models of late.Prince of Spires wrote: There's the reverse as well though. GW often seems guilty of this, with bad paintjobs on otherwise nice models.
I've had this issue myself lately. Things are just taking longer than they should.UPDATE on the seahelm: This one is coming out hard, i dont know if its too busy or what but im a little stuck and ive been having trouble to paint it since i started a week ago. Today's been the best day, however, and i could finally put a decent amount of time on it. Still half way, i guess.
Thats exactly the feeling with this guy. It reminds me of the azhag the butcherer i painted, that wyvern was a pain, deleted and started over 3 times.Shannar, Sealord wrote:I've had this issue myself lately. Things are just taking longer than they should.
The progress you are making looks good though. Someday I'll paint up this era of models.