Anna Lovelace

This is very interesting and characterful miniature. It git a lot of fun while paint this one. In think I'll do a bronze version of her clockwork dress in the future.

NMMonday #13

#NMMonday in the snow! What did you painted using non-metallic technique during last week? Here is the backpack with the Legion Vexilia for my Iron Warriors second tactical squad.

Reva's shieldbearer 1/3

  Here is one of Reva’s shield bearers. The miniatures from this set not so interestning for painting as majority of Malifaux, their simplicity is not compensated by their character, like, for example, Master Queeg or an alternative sergeant. So I decided to do a little freehand to liven up the miniature a bit.

Iron Warriors legionnaire Teur

Legionnaire Teur is an example of the Iron Warriors. Just a faceless killing machine, without any  remarkable features. But he is survive long enough to get an appointment to the third company. Born on a same planet as veteran sergeant Teron so he would be the first candidate to lead squad if Teron become the centurion.

One more Iron Warriors legionnaire attached to the XCV Grand Battalion. Second in this year and third to the current Tactical Squad. I think there is a visible step forward in quality thanks to the experiments with maodern style of the NMM

NMMonday#12

Back to the #NMMonday! What did you paint in NMM technique during last week? RWD did a some repainting on the Anna Lovelace clockwork dress. I shifted highlight position on the 45 degrees, hope I think it looks better now

Inquisitor

Meet  Inquisitor Marc Greenshpon from Ordo Xenos and his friend Walter the Servoskull.

Chaos Warrior Bust

 My first painted bust - a chaos warrior bust boxart for Micromancer miniatures. This was graet experience so I hope to paint some busts in 2019.

NMMonday #11

Lord of the #NMMonday! What did you paint in NMM technique during last week? RWD started an Inquisitor in the shining armor

NMMonday #10

Back to the #NMMonday! What did you paint in NMM technique during last week? RWD did a Walter the servo-skull, an Inquisitor Greenshpon's little friend

XIII Zwerg

 One more chaos dwarf to my chaos dwarf army. On this model I tested the new bronze NMM scheme based on Pacific88  paints.

NMMonday #9

NMMonday is coming! What did you paint in NMM technique during last week? RWD returned to paint some Iron Warriors

Custodes test mini

 This is training Custudes piece I started to get a practice in new for my style of the golden NMM just before start painting of Trajann Valoris. So this mini was half painted for several weeks before I got enough time to finish the model.
I was very enjoyed by the process of painting Custodes so I plan to paint some of them in the next year. Characters and a dreadnought perhaps.
I hope you like the result as much I like the process.

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More custodes wip

Chaos Warrior bust early WIP

NMMonday #8

 Lord of the #NMMonday! What do you painted in non-metallic style during last week? This is a Anna Lovelace from Malifaux in her Clockwork Dress.

more and more golden NMM wips

Trajann Valoris of the Adeptus Custodes

The current Captain-General of the Adeptus Custodes, all in red and gold. I decided to do this model in the modern style of NMM. To do this, I looked at many works of Michal Pisarski (aka Lan) and his followers as refs. For the basis of the color scheme, I took the one that was used by Lan to paint Ixion Hale, but gradually I replaced all the paints with others and added orange in the shadows.

The fact is that for my taste absolutely matte paints are not very well suited for NMM, because IMHO the lack of gloss a bit spoils the feeling of NMM, if we consider the model live (not in the glass cabinet).

Therefore, I used the colors of Pacific88 for the gold NMM, and I made rags based on Andrea and Scalecolor paints, since in this case the matt is a plus.

Separately, I want to note that I really liked the process of painting the lion head, since it is fairly well sculpted and also has a smooth texture. So it was a pleasure to paint it.

In general, I really liked to paint Custodes, so that next year I plan to do several similar works with other heroes and/or dreadnoughts especially if there will be another Golden Demon Europe

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NMMonday #7

The Return of the #NMMonday! What did you paint in NMM technique during last week? This is a Chaos Dwarf armor study with another bronze recipe developing.

Custodes trainig piece

Valoris red cape WIP

NMMonday #6

#NMMonday forever! What did you paint in NMM technique during last week? This is Guardian Axe from Trajann Valoris.

More Golden NMM suffering

 Golden NMM suffering is continues. I did some progress on the Valoris body and the base. Some parts are fully repainted, some - reworked. And now I call this part done.

Alternative Katanaka sniper v3

 This is already the third version of the Katanaka sniper painted by myself. Launched and abandoned halfway back last year, he finally waited for his turn to finish. Now, of course, I would paint it a little differently, it’s good that I have one more)

NMMonday #5

#NMMonday and Robin! What did you paint in NMM technique during last week? This is some golden NMM on Trajann Valoris armor

Helga

Suddenly "Helga" from Klukva miniatures ! But we know what she is none other than Cerys an Craite from Witcher 3!

Alternative Bishop

And here is alternative Bishop. Firstly I wanted yo paint him as Lobo but lately I changed the decision to moкe classical Malifaux theme. Maybe next time I'll do a second version as Lobo.

NMMonday #4

#NMMonday strikes back! What did you paint in NMM technique during last week? This is some golden NMM tests before Trajann Valoris armor painting

Trajann Valoris base

Trajann Valoris base WIP. I am not 100% satisfied by OSL and some details. What do you think?

Monday's Morning

NMMonday #3

More NMM to #NMMonday! For this work I decided to return to more older steel NMM recipe based on German cam. Black Brown (VMC)

Grumlok & Gazbag

  Grumlok & Gazbag is a very strange miniature. Honestly it more looks like the brick of the white metal mocking up the orc and the goblin. Also is is one of the kind of the "flat" miniatures where only two informative views exist. So there is only front and rear pictures and a face close up to see the watching eye.

NMMonday #3

Hook and chain arm from special edition Bishop miniature from Malifaux

Grumlok&Gazbag WIP

Viking Warlord

The renowned "lonely historical miniature" from MD'18. The Viking Warlord converted from Alfred the Great (Gripping Best). My first and highly likely last painted Saga miniature. For sale now.

NMMonday #2

Marines Malevolent close ups

I did this Marines Malevolent squad as Golden Demon Europe entry. I tried to represent my feelings after reading Nick Kyme (Author) Marines Malevolent short stories. I didn't want to represent these marines exactly as written but my senses of them. Also I tried to personalize every marine, do anyone different from the others. I am very hope that I did this work well.

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Marines Malevolent squad

I did this Marines Malevolent squad as Golden Demon Europe entry. I tried to represent my feelings after reading Nick Kyme (Author) Marines Malevolent short stories. I didn't want to represent these marines exactly as written but my senses of them. Also I tried to personalize every marine, do anyone different from the others. I am very hope that I did this work well.

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Painting yellow armor (for whom who don't have an airbrush like me)

When painting the Marines Malevolent, I encountered a small problem: the way I paint usually was not suitable for painting yellow armor. Usually I go from dark to light through a lot of layers, but in this case it gave a sad result, since yellow is very difficult to work with. I tried to go from light to dark, but it gave too little depth and color saturation.
In the end, I decided on the method used by a fairly large number of painters: I did a contrasting underpainting and then painted on it.
So, at first, I covered the black undercoat with a layer of Khaki (Vallejo Game Color) [Fig. 1] and then made base mixes for underpainting. For this purpose I used Brown, Dark Tangerine and Yellow from Pacific88 Art-Color.

I divided these mixtures into three parts: for shades the mix of brown + dark tangerine, for lights - dark tangerine + yellow, and something mean for the middle. With the help of these mixtures I made the underpainting [Fig. 2]

The next task was to make the transitions smoother. I started with light areas. For this, I first made a few glazes with a mixture of yellow and dark tangerine made several openings on the borders of the underpainting to blur them. After that, I used pure yellow to brighten the lightest areas, and finally all those openings blurred the boundaries remaining after the highlighting [Fig. 3]

Then I started to use shadows in a similar manner, only using brown and dark tangerine with different proportions for glazing. [Fig. 4]

After smooth transitions, I needed to increase the contrast. To do this, I first made extreme highlights with a mixture of yellow and pearl white (Pacific88 Art-Color), after which I made them glazed by clear yellow, so as not to lose color. And, finally, once again, a mixture of yellow and pearly white, but thinner and more accurate [Fig. 5]

And, finally, I drew additional details of black and battle damage by the brown and a mixture of yellow and pearly white [Fig. 6]

For reference, a color track and used colors are attached. And as bonus for whom who don't have a P88 paints: the alternative variant with more common paints used. It do a little less color depth but looks very similar.