What did you do today.

[me_in_japan]

Nice pj Pikey The plastic witch is especially well done. Its a fairly cartoony style, but it totally works well. With regards to your metals, a lot of folks hold that the way to approach TMM is just the same as NMM, just using metallic tones. Shade, highlight, wash and so forth just as you would with regular paints. One thing is to use black as your shade colour for silver, not a dark silver. As long as your metals go from silvery silver (mithril/aluminium or whatever) down to black then they should look good. If you want to get fancy a few washes of colour in specific parts of the mini can liven it up a bit, but basically silver-->black is where its at. I can dig you up a really good article about TMM on CMON if you fancy?

[Tenorikuma]

Great face work. The NMM looks fine to me — the highlights and strong contrast make it work.

[Spevna]

Great face work. The NMM looks fine to me — the highlights and strong contrast make it work.

I agree with this.

Today I took possession of an OOP RT era Eldar War Walker

[kojibear]

I finally finished with my new sorceress. First time trying NMM, as I'm sick of how my 'real' metals look.

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Looks great! Your facial detailing is awesome

[me_in_japan]

Today I painted some lion and looked at lots f photos of lions faces. Despite setting out to paint a mountain lion, I seem to have produced an African one. Ho hum. We'll see how it looks with lelith on top...


Here's a question: lions, and mountain lions in particular, tend towards being paler on the underside, right up to white in many cases. However, traditional painting wisdom says that one should shade the underside of a model to represent the top-down nature of the sun. How does one reconcile these two particular tendencies?

[kojibear]

Today I painted some lion and looked at lots f photos of lions faces. Despite setting out to paint a mountain lion, I seem to have produced an African one. Ho hum. We'll see how it looks with lelith on top...


Here's a question: lions, and mountain lions in particular, tend towards being paler on the underside, right up to white in many cases. However, traditional painting wisdom says that one should shade the underside of a model to represent the top-down nature of the sun. How does one reconcile these two particular tendencies?

Hmm...good question. I don't know. I think given the guerrilla style warfare of Wood ELves they would try to stay in the shadows as much as possible. I don't know if that helps?

[Spevna]

Today I painted some lion and looked at lots f photos of lions faces. Despite setting out to paint a mountain lion, I seem to have produced an African one. Ho hum. We'll see how it looks with lelith on top...


Here's a question: lions, and mountain lions in particular, tend towards being paler on the underside, right up to white in many cases. However, traditional painting wisdom says that one should shade the underside of a model to represent the top-down nature of the sun. How does one reconcile these two particular tendencies?

I have an idea but am not sure how well I can explain it. Here goes.

Highlight the ridge running along it's backbone and then start to shade down to about 3/4 of the way down it's side.

From there, have the highlight of the base colour for it's underside, and start to shade down again.

Alternatively, don't worry too much about it, make it one colour all over, and just use muscle contours to add highlights were needed.

[The Other Dave]

I thought, against my better judgment, about color schemes for the Scythes of the Emperor.

[Tenorikuma]

MiJ: I had the same issue with my wolves.

[YellowStreak]

@MtP: awesome work on the sorceress. And as far as the ogre goes, overcompensating? I don't know what you're talking about, the big ones just shoot farther! Or was that more accurately? Whichever it was, it was unrelated to other 'more personal' matters!