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[Commission] Black Templarised Huron and Claudio


winterdyne

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Just finished this chap off. Pretty low budget job - tabletop level (character) paintwork and an interesting conversion. Think I could get the claw closer to the original if I were to do it again.

 

http://www.winterdyne.co.uk/maz/images/commissions/wiesen/huron_prepaint.jpg

http://www.winterdyne.co.uk/maz/images/commissions/wiesen/huron_done.jpg

 

http://www.winterdyne.co.uk/maz/images/commissions/wiesen/claudio_done.jpg

 

It's a dirty cheating paint job. Lots of back-blending which looks good but is dead fast to do. Basically the whole paint job is about 6-7 hours. Including doing the cloak twice cause I screwed up the ermine effect. Forgot to add tails to it, lol. Did not know the black bits on ermine trimming were actually tails.
Pretty much what it sounds like; base coat, do one or more rough highlights then blend back toward the base. Here I used charcoal grey and codex grey. Then blending back with thin charcoal grey (to sharpen up the edge highlight) and finally plain thin black to soften in the charcoal grey. It speeds the process because you don't really need to be very precise; you're working away from the edge rather than trying to just touch it.

That's the same method I use to paint my Templars...and here I thought they were well above TT quality. :(

 

I'm off to repair my ego now.  Meany.

Just think of it as your table being promoted a rank or so. One mans tabletop is another mans display. :-)

 

To be fair though what I call 'tabletop' is what I'd be happy putting on the table for whatever the model is. It's a pretty subjective term at the end of the day.

Very nice! I just can't get over what you did to the lion, which was the selling point of the whole mini for me, since I was aiming for a DA TDA Company Master. Sniff, poor kitty :D

Yeah, I felt a bit dirty snipping his face off with pliers....

For what I charged for this, you don't get GD level work. :-/ My wife would have my nadgers.

Same here.

I stopped doing commission work because I just couldn't get myself to charge more and in the end it took money out of my own pocket. Plus I couldn't stop myself from going above and beyond for the uber cheap stuff so it defeated the purpose of having different tiers of painting...

Oh well, awesome job on the two Termies though!

You did a great job on that second Lion Claw.

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