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.

CMON voting link: overall viewhttp://www.coolminiornot.com/430014

CMON voting link: close ups http://www.coolminiornot.com/430015

Putty&Paint voting link: https://www.puttyandpaint.com/projects/18687

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.

CMON voting link: overall viewhttp://www.coolminiornot.com/430014

CMON voting link: close ups http://www.coolminiornot.com/430015

Putty&Paint voting link: https://www.puttyandpaint.com/projects/18687

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.

#NMMonday #1

Happy NMMonday everyone! Today is early WIP of the Grumlok and Gazbag miniature. In this mini I wanted to "return to the roots" and used German cam. Black Brown as base color for NMM. I did this axe more brown to do a more chiped and dirty looks.