Jenkiis
Skirmisher
44 Posts
    
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I love these guys. I hope to get alot more and get a couple of the recent Reaper fungus creatures to go along with them. The green specs on their caps and eyes are little blobs of glow-in-the dark paint, don't know if it's thick enough.
Behold pale fleshy buttocks.
 
Two undead for a lost city project I'm working on. (will include maps) I finished some dwarf skeletons with this batch as well, but they don't scan well. I need so many more undead, especially Karnathi Zombies.
Another fig I love that's offbeat. (along with madslashers) And just like the rest here an exercise in controlled drybrushing and inks.
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Blade
Sergeant
412 Posts
| | 07/13/2006 7:56 AM |
| | Dude, those look sweet! | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 07/13/2006 8:18 AM |
| | Excellent work. I love the look of the skeletons. [}:)] | | | |
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griffrat
Commander
3507 Posts
| | 07/13/2006 8:19 AM |
| | Those are really nice....thanks for sharing. | |
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Username
Warlord
5692 Posts
| | 07/13/2006 9:34 AM |
| | Your paint jobs are GREAT! Nice work. | |
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glumag
Warlord
5968 Posts
| | 07/13/2006 9:46 AM |
| | dude! very nice style you got there. great pictures!Those myconoids look edible [:D] | |
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Kunimatyu
Sergeant
725 Posts
| | 07/13/2006 10:59 AM |
| | ...and all of a sudden, the myconid goes from "if I eat one will I gain the effects of Enlarge Person?" to "kinda creepy". I love it. | |
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Malin Lug
Sergeant
742 Posts
| | 07/13/2006 12:07 PM |
| Nice job detailing. You put a big improvement on an OK mini.
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Thokk
Warrior
321 Posts
| | 07/13/2006 2:25 PM |
| | VERY cool!! makes me want to go out and grab a few more of the guys! What paint did you use? (colors and type) Thanks for sharing! | |
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Jenkiis
Skirmisher
44 Posts
| | 07/13/2006 4:35 PM |
| Malin Lug:"Nice job detailing. You put a big improvement on an OK mini."
Painting is so far behind the sculpting on production minis it's kinda sad. :)
Thokk: "VERY cool!! makes me want to go out and grab a few more of the guys! What paint did you use? (colors and type) Thanks for sharing!"
You mean the Myconids? The print on the labels has worn off due to constant use. :) I used a base of a chocolate brown, the rest is drybrushing doing progressively lighter drybrushings. Did a couple layers of that mixed with various amounts of Nutmeg Brown. A couple layers of Nutmeg mixed with something called Sugar Maple Tan (or something similar). And then a couple of layers of the tan mixed with white. And then a very light drybush of white. An old Gamesworkshop color called Bilious Green, but that's real old, so I don't know what it's called now, it's a step away from neon green. :) And the spots are a gloss glow in the dark green from Plaid. Alot of steps but pretty fast.
The browns and tans are Apple Barrel and Delta Ceramcoat. I use the tan, nutmeg, and the chocoloate brown colors for just about everything. If you're asking about the skeletons I did a similar process with alot fewer layers and mixed Folkart medium yellow into most of it. And added a couple splotches of nutmeg and watered down Chestnut (reddish brown) ink for color.
If you wanna know about any of the other colors just ask. | |
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yack
Commander
3321 Posts
Gatineau Canada
| | 07/13/2006 5:23 PM |
| Love it..love it! love it!!!
Esp. the undead man thoses are cool, wouldn't mind thoses on my gaming table. Awesome job. | |
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Hejas
Sergeant
435 Posts
Poland
| | 07/13/2006 6:57 PM |
| Oh my God... These are A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. O_o
Skeletons are PERFECT, but Myconids need more "underdarkish" bases. I wouldn't mind trading them for any rare from my collection though. [)] | |
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MechaKingGhidra
Sergeant
632 Posts
| | 07/13/2006 9:53 PM |
| | MUST HAVE GRICKS............................................................................................... | |
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Can of the Cave Beer
Commander
2838 Posts
| | 07/13/2006 10:34 PM |
| Fantastic stuff!
Those Gricks are almost beyond belief, and the Myconids are wonderful, too. Those skeletons would look great in any Warhammer army! | |
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Jenkiis
Skirmisher
44 Posts
| | 07/13/2006 11:17 PM |
| Can of the Cave Beer: "Those skeletons would look great in any Warhammer army!"
Funny you should mention that. Despite my vastly diminished financial status I've been wanting to do an undead army for warhammer using 25mm undead. Mostly inspired by Ral Partha skeletons and their parts bin they take to conventions. I'm definitaley going to spend some money at Ral Partha's booth at Historicon this year. And if I can find any place that sells CMG figs at decent prices on this trip I'll be picking up as many undead from D&D as I can find. (SWM clones too :) )
And thanks for the comments everyone. | |
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glumag
Warlord
5968 Posts
| | 07/13/2006 11:51 PM |
| | just wow on those Griks...so real! or how I picture they would look if real [:D] | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 07/14/2006 12:27 AM |
| | Fantastic work on the Gricks! [:D] | | | |
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Zozo
Warrior
218 Posts
| | 07/14/2006 12:37 AM |
| | Wonderful job on everything. I like the Gricks the best.[:D] | |
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yack
Commander
3321 Posts
Gatineau Canada
| | 07/14/2006 12:53 AM |
| | Double post but I love the dark feel for paint you have. | |
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Username
Warlord
5692 Posts
| | 07/14/2006 9:11 AM |
| | Man, those gricks look very nice! | |
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Vash
Underboss
1995 Posts
| | 07/14/2006 9:41 AM |
| | I too have a soft spot for the Gricks, and you did a fantastic job on them | |
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Sulaco
Underboss
1605 Posts
| | 07/14/2006 10:17 AM |
| | I love the Gricks! I have a bunch I am goign to use for a future campaign even. How much would you charge to repaint, say, 10 or 12 of them as you have the ones above? | |
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Jenkiis
Skirmisher
44 Posts
| | 07/14/2006 12:45 PM |
| | @ Sulaco: Sent you an email. | |
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The Beer Baron
Underboss
1553 Posts
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| | 07/14/2006 4:52 PM |
| | I love seeing stuff done in a series. Those Myconids look great, so do the gricks! | |
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HK
Warrior
210 Posts
| | 07/14/2006 8:05 PM |
| | That is the best aged bone I have seen please advise on how you did them. | |
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Jenkiis
Skirmisher
44 Posts
| | 07/14/2006 10:21 PM |
| HK:"That is the best aged bone I have seen please advise on how you did them."
I just started with a dark brown and the first couple of layers is it mixed with a lighter brown and yellow. I keep working in lighter mixes, adding in a tan paint. Then I go to just tan, yellow, and white with increasingly lighter drybrush layers over smaller and more selective areas, concentrating around ridges and stuff. And then one really really light with just white just on edges, ridges and the like. Unlike most other cases where you use a drybrush technique the more powdery and messy the final result is on the figs the better it'll work as a texture for bone, then you just have to go back and clean up wherever. In this case, little bits of really watered down medium brown and red/brown ink to stain certain areas.
Really, it's all technique; knowing how your brushes and paints react when you use them. For example, the craft paints I use most often dry out faster and give more of a powdery effect the more white I mix in. And that's the result that works best on the lighter layers on the skeltons.
And aesthetics, which is studying the effect you want and figuring out what paints to mix to get it. Yellow for aged bone, a red, red/brown wash at the end for the flesh freshly stripped from bone look, or just white and tan for a bleached effect. It's also how heavy you go on things, and when to go subtle. Like the cloth/leather on the undead is all one or two layers of paint, but just one color, no highlights or shading and just letting the local lighting do it's thing. (of course, that works best with thinner paint, where it'll naturally vary because of how transparent the paint is)
Maybe I'll do up a step by step tutorial when I get back from Historicon in about a week and a half. | |
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bigbadjon
Sergeant
546 Posts
| | 07/15/2006 10:10 AM |
| Those skeletons are excellent. They look like they crawled out of the ground yesterday.
The mushroom men are very natural looking. Good job!
The grick is equally lifelike. Great work! | |
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HK
Warrior
210 Posts
| | 07/15/2006 2:46 PM |
| | Thanks. A tutorial would be great. They all look great but the skeletons are the ones I really like. | |
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Beast
Sneak
143 Posts
| | 07/15/2006 8:49 PM |
| | Those are simply stunning! | |
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MuscledDestroyer
Sergeant
435 Posts
Prospect Park, Pa
| | 07/16/2006 11:06 PM |
| | Truly Awesome! I wish I had a shred of artistic ability.Nice job. | |
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