Nocturna — Princess Of Night
Simply stunning painting on this miniature; the flowing dress looks like it’s made of velvet and such subtle shades of colour are usually very difficult to make look so natural.
Archive for the ‘painting’ Category
Dark Sword Miniatures — Mouse Witch (Painted Miniature Of The Week)
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
Dark Sword Miniatures have produced this female mouse witch as a tribute to this year’s halloween festival and… Winning my coveted “Painted Miniature Of The Week” award in the process!
Dark Sword Miniatures Mouse Witch — Sculpted by Dave Summers, Painted by Marike Reimer
ReaperCon 2010 winners gallery up (finally)
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
Reaper have finally posted the gallery of the winners of the painting competitions on their site.
Painting in a hurry (Dip Technique)
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Now I’ve never tried this, but it sounds like an easy way to get reasonable paint effects for the least amount of effort. Useful for when you are in a hurry! This usually means you have a platoon/horde/unit of figures primed for that next battle and you’ve left painting them till a couple of days before the event!
Take a look at these sites of people who have attempted dipping (with various levels of success)…
Phil does the dip!
The screaming alpha
Black Powder Gaming
There and blog again
And here is a couple of videos from one of the better (from blog reviews) products to use…
You can get some quickshade dip straight off ebay
Going to have to try this out myself sometime soon.
Angela Imrie’s take on NMM (Non-Metallic Metal)
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
NMM or Non-Metallic Metal is a painting technique to reproduce the look of shiny metal without using metallic paints. In order to do this you need to mimic the reflective properties of the metal and the way the metal imparts its own colouration to the objects reflected within in.
Wikipedia Image of Jet Jewellery — Some animal eyes look like this…
The NMM technique can also be applied to gemstones and glass materials as the painting techniques are essentially the same, although the reflective properties are different since with glass and (to a much lesser extent) gems you can see through to the objects on the other side.
Some animal’s eyes could be considered to be very like jet (lignite). Keep it black for small animals like guinea pigs and hamsters; a touch of brown for deer or horses; green or red for various dungeon dwelling monsters.
Check out Angela’s site on NMM painting techniques, including examples of her painted works having this technique applied.
Also take a look Elfwood’s Fantasy Art Resource Project for tips from the artist perspective.
This video also shows the technique being performed on a miniature’s sword.