Brother Christopher's Purple Marines Project

[gaurdian31]

Missed a bunch of stuff while I have been sick. Great updates on the melta marines! I think you have differentiated the yellow and the tan enough they shouldn't look like they are blending from afar on the one you have painted a stripe on.  Also the brows on the helmetless marine look great! The new project you started on is looking good too! I am not anywhere near expert in painting but I think it looks really good. The higher up purple does look warmer to me so I think that is coming along very well! 

[Brother Christopher]

   

18 hours ago, kabaakaba said:

main boon of this approach you can make simplified version of this with less layers and harsher transition and combined with your standard approach it's give you pretty good result

 

I think you;re right. Even if it's not for the direct application of the technique/approach, trying this out gave me a better understanding of what I want from the hobby. I turns out that I was quite right in the first place: that I kind of want more of the familiar and don't really want to get outside my comfort zone. Especially since the results don't seem to justify the additional time spent.

 

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The last thing I tried yesterday was NMM. And I now know that it's something I don't wan to do. It turned out that it's an even larger effort than I expected. Given my non-hobby obligations, I'm not certain that at this stage of my life I don't want to make this drastic jump in the approach to paining miniatures. I think it's a bit sad, really, but I'd estimate that it's only around 10-15% sad (mostly because I see this giving up as a failure of sorts). But overall, I'm sure it's for the better.

 

Regardless, I'm sorry for oversharing! 

  

14 hours ago, gaurdian31 said:

Missed a bunch of stuff while I have been sick.

 

I'm sorry to hear that, but I'm assuming that you're on the mend and better now! Best wishes!

 

14 hours ago, gaurdian31 said:

Great updates on the melta marines! I think you have differentiated the yellow and the tan enough they shouldn't look like they are blending from afar on the one you have painted a stripe on.  Also the brows on the helmetless marine look great! The new project you started on is looking good too! I am not anywhere near expert in painting but I think it looks really good. The higher up purple does look warmer to me so I think that is coming along very well! 

 

Thanks for watching. As always, I'm thrilled you liked the updates and hope not to disappoint with more of them.

[gaurdian31]

Thank you for the well wishes! Pretty sure it was a flu of some sort but I am feeling better. I always look forward to your updates and I don't think you'll disappoint. Sorry to hear your experiments with NMM didn't turn out but from everything I have seen that it is a very, very involved and time consuming process. You should be proud to have given it a try. Can't wait to see more!

Edited 5 hours ago by gaurdian31
Fixed some grammar

[kabaakaba]

7 hours ago, Brother Christopher said:

The last thing I tried yesterday was NMM. And I now know that it's something I don't wan to do. It turned out that it's an even larger effort than I expected. Given my non-hobby obligations, I'm not certain that at this stage of my life I don't want to make this drastic jump in the approach to paining miniatures. I think it's a bit sad, really, but I'd estimate that it's only around 10-15% sad (mostly because I see this giving up as a failure of sorts). But overall, I'm sure it's for the better.

It's matter of practice. you can get good looking NMM pretty quick and in good batch Issue with NMM and volumetric is a dry time between layers. if you painting batch of 5 for example, first one dried once you finish a 5th.  But mainly if you really like it or not. For myself i decide to invest into volumetric and NMM painting which same thing just representing different materials.