winterdyne Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olis Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Very nice work. Lovely paintjob, too, as per usual. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqui Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Holy Feth! ^_^ That's table top quality? I've got a long way to go to get to that standard! :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterdyne Posted January 31, 2013 Author Share Posted January 31, 2013 For what I charged for this, you don't get GD level work. :-/ My wife would have my nadgers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chronotonic Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 yeah makes mine look like 3 paint minimum...haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pingo Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Truly excellent work. I always like to see a very well re-purposed model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firepower Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 With the bare sculpt I was like 'Hmmm...' But with it painted I was all like 'Bawwww!' Bawww is good. You earned it. I just hate when people refer to stuff like this as 'tabletop quality' though. Makes the rest of us look bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterdyne Posted January 31, 2013 Author Share Posted January 31, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Clausel Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Back blending? Whats that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterdyne Posted January 31, 2013 Author Share Posted January 31, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Clausel Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 That sounds really simple. Gotta try that out. Btw that mini is just stunning. Love the twin claws. And the black is very nicely done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicMan Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Hah, damn. Really need to work on my ''tabletop'' quality. Awesome looking model, man. Huron makes a great BT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
War Angel Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 That is some sickening weapons. I would hate to fight that in close combat. I'll have to try this back blending sometime, it looks great on you're model Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firepower Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugar-free Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 very nice model. always have a soft spot for my BT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterdyne Posted February 2, 2013 Author Share Posted February 2, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honda Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 TT or not, it's excellent work...and you should look in the mail for your royalty check as I'm pretty sure you just sold a Huron model for FW. Cheers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterdyne Posted February 2, 2013 Author Share Posted February 2, 2013 Claudio added to first post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafen_2 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Awesome as usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxyogi Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Awesome work even for "table top"......Oooh I hate that term! Once again awesome work Winters! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimdarkness Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Nice very very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kastor Krieg Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterdyne Posted February 3, 2013 Author Share Posted February 3, 2013 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.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battle Brother Kevin Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Sgt. Steine Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 YES! These are nice... More! More! More! BSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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