learning new techniques

[me_in_japan]

Bravo, sir! Much better all round. Better photo, eyes stand out more, wire complements eyes, gun looks good. Job's a good un

Only things I'd recommend now would be to make the eyeball itself the same colour as your highest highlight on the power unit on the gun, and drybrush(!) the base to bring out the texture more.

Still, even as-is, it's v nice : )

[Colonel Voss]

Both good points. But first I need a finer detailed brush. As for the base, I have an idea for it but I need a few extra colors to make it work. Slowly but surely we are getting there.

On another note, paint schemes for the retribution and skaven have been selected and I'll start working on them as soon as I get the colors I want

[Colonel Voss]

Just showing off some of my projects. Should make Job happy to see some color on the tanks.

[job]

Yahoo!

Now paint big blue, red and white targets for me to shoot at. :

Just kidding, but do you have an idea for what scheme you want to imitate? Of course some camo techniques are hard to imitate without an airbrush, but there are all sorts of schemes out there for the Wehrmacht.

One area you can hit now, is usually the track wheels and the tank schemes were usually the same. The wheels were rubber rimmed, so you want to leave them black or whatever grey/brown/grimy/dirty color you think is suitable. Still, if you start looking at other models you find a lot of people overlook this detail and paint the wheels the same color of the tank.

Keep up the work!

[Colonel Voss]

I've got the colors and the scheme picked out, just need to get a wet pallet to work with. Anyways just started the last night. The color I am using is from a paint line called Mr.Color and I bought it at the local Tamiya store. Goes on poorly and has basically ruined the brush (thankfully it was a old one). But it got me the color I needed to start the tanks.

[Colonel Voss]

Well end of days, the wet pallet arrived along with all my P3 paints so I shall be trying to continue this story. After too many necron heads flying off (and one landing in my spagetti) , I have for the time being put the metal boney ones on the back burner until they get their heads straight. I admit I haven't painted anything since my last post, time and other pressures have made it hard to sit down and relax enough to paint. Also I've been having a huge rethink of what I want to do, namely going from a gamer to a hobbyist since I don't get many chances to play. I'm hoping that the new demons and paints help push me back into being able to paint.

The P3 wet pallet is quite nice. Perfect size for what I need and is built quite well, better than I could have done. So onwards and upwards as they say. Hopefully new pictures coming soon!

[me_in_japan]

Goodly good

Youll hopefully find that changing from gamer to painter/modeller takes some pressure off, as long as you don't worry too much about getting minis painted in time for a game on xxx day. Paint at your own pace, and paint what you like. Speaking from painful personal experience, you should allow yourself to feel ok about leaving that pile of necrons, even if it means occasionally playing with a half painted army, if what you feel like painting is a warp wolf stalker or whatever. Also, don't push yourself to produce a beautifully painted army. You can do a good job on a single mini, or you can do an ok job on an army. Trying to do a good job on an army is a highway to frustration, either because you take so long you feel you're not making progress, or because you have to paint so fast you lose that "perfect paint job" feeling. Don't try. If you want to practice a technique, do it on one mini at a time. If you want to take a chunk out of that to-do pile, don't worry about fancy stuff - just get them neatly base coated and give em a couple of highlights/shades and call em done.

Good luck on your odyssey, and keep us posted

Ps don't feel bad about not painting since may. All I've done is an eldar corsair and a machine wraith I managed to sneak in while I was in Scotland. It's just life - it leaves little room for fun stuff these days. Still, all the more reason to paint for fun, not army building

[ashmie]

Great workspace you have there. Good idea to spend more time on the hobby side of things. I too will be joining you on that angle. Wish I had more than a floor space and a box under the bed of unpainted models to get going with.

[Tenorikuma]

Glad to see you're back at it!

[Primarch]

Thats great Voss.

Might I suggest a lance of Mechs be added to your workbench? My star of clanners is on it's way.