What Minis Are You Painting?

Finished some more Sigmar stuff, signed up for my first tournament in February.

Still early WIP. But this big ork is coming along... Just making him for fun and to test some sculpting and scratchbuilding... who knows maybe he'll be the start of a new army.

Spent the May Day holiday working on these. Still work in progress.

Are those Renedra? I want some generic knights for a human army I want to do.

These are actually Perry's! They're tad smaller than your usual 28mm (such as Oathmark). These are the metals, but couple of months after I have these, the Perry released some plastics. Just my rotten luck.

Perry has two range of medieval knights: Agincourt & War of the Roses, you just need to pick 1. If you need something chunkier, check out the Fireforge plastics (although their website is a pain to work with).

Their plastic medieval infantry are also very good (but, again, smaller), available both in Agincourt & War of the Roses setting. Although I have to warn you about the kits peculiarities. These kits are super-historical, that their weapon loadout will be according to their historical prevalence in battles. The WotR infantry box has 36 dudes, but can only make 18 billmen, but up to 30 archers. At 20 pounds for 40 dudes, I can't complain though.

I just started painting minis for the first time in my life. On a whim, I bought a Reaper paint starter kit which comes with three minis and a "guide book" to walk you through how to paint them. The starter kit is pretty genius marketing, because it did exactly what they wanted -- it got me hooked. I bought a second Reaper paint kit, and a handful of their resin Bones minis, and some brushes, and before I knew it ... I'm neck deep in another goddamn hobby.

What I've decided is that with some patience, it's not hard to paint a mini that looks "okay." That's about where I'm at. But then I see stuff like in this thread, or on the internet, and I realize there is a VERY HIGH ceiling to what can be done. It's honestly kind of intimidating. But I'm having fun so far!

Joebot wrote: What I've decided is that with some patience, it's not hard to paint a mini that looks "okay." That's about where I'm at. But then I see stuff like in this thread, or on the internet, and I realize there is a VERY HIGH ceiling to what can be done. It's honestly kind of intimidating. But I'm having fun so far!

Congrats on the new hobby. May it be fulfilling for you.

The ceiling gets raised every year as well. Mostly because, the hobby is broader in participation, the people that do participate who now had a lot of practice, and since YouTube has been created we now have epic tutorial videos free of charge.

But don't let the height stop you.

Miniatures are merely three dimensional coloring books.

Once you have brush control, palette technique, and a few other personal tricks up your sleeve after some experience, you develop your own style and you get results you can be quite happy with

Don't fall into the trap of comparing the work of others with your own. Unless your trying to build a technique, there is no point in the jealousy that results in such comparisons.

Colorcrayons wrote:
Once you have brush control, palette technique, and a few other personal tricks up your sleeve after some experience, you develop your own style and you get results you can be quite happy with

Don't fall into the trap of comparing the work of others with your own. Unless your trying to build a technique, there is no point in the jealousy that results in such comparisons.

Brush control! Is that what you call it when I slop white paint all over the mini's face when I'm trying to paint a fucking eyeball? I swear, my minis all look like they're wearing goggles, or they look very startled.

But thanks for the encouragement! It's much appreciated.

I get by on the notion that Duncan Rhodes is actually a demon, sent to cause chaos.

I think my secret, such as it is, is “don’t paint eyeballs.” At least, not usually. A lot of the pleasure of going for a pretty-darn-good painted miniature can be lost in the quest to master a few unnecessary details.

85 per cent of all miniatures look great without painted eyeballs. And the truth is, badly painted eyeballs will really ruin a figure, at least for me.

See also “edge highlighting.”