Blog Joshua's Paint Blog - Back from the dead!

Hello Lustria!

I have been an on and off again painting and wargamer for about 4-5 years. I have dabbled in a little bit of everything. I also paint DnD miniatures. I'm going to share some of my minis and some of my current WIPs. I have a fairly busy life right now so future posts my be varied in terms of timing, but I hope this encourages me to paint more. I am a decent painter and I'd be happy to answer any questions or listen to your advice!

Start things off with some older, table top quality DnD models. I paint these pretty quickly to just a tabletop level:

 

Those look great. I enjoyed painting that dwarf a few years back. I love how you layered the beard!

The tattoos on the barbarian are awesome too

 

Next up is a little higher quality mini and my current WIP Seraphon The Stegadon still has bit too go, but the skinks are nearly finished. Let me know what you think!







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I'm not very good at taking pictures of minis. I will wait for some sunshine and try a white backdrop next time. These are a little washed out. But I hope you like them!

 

Epic highlight work. How long did each skink take?

Also, I know they are taked on a cap, but your skinks are always open?

 

Thank you! I usually hot glue them to whatever I painting them on. I popped them off and stood them on top of the Stegadon to see how they looked.I spent a good amount of time of the skinks. Maybe 3 sessions of 2 hours? Can't remember. I am slow painter Still working on my green color. I did bright pre-highlighting and then a lot of thin washes/shades. First time I tried heavy glazing rather just then just a million thin layers.

 

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Nonesene they are fine. However, as a suggestion:

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Ah. My recipe nets me a box of skinks in 4-6 hours with no interruptions. @NIGHTBRINGER calls me the speed demon for some Reason

 

Very nice work, especially on the Steggy. That beastie looks fierce!!

 

I also like the steggie. Especially the blended soft tissue around the eyes

 

Really crispy highlights... they look awesome

 

Goodness, those Skinks look amazing! All of this is so good!

 

Thanks everyone for the kind words. This is my first time ever sharing some of my work, so I really appreciate it!

If anyone is curious I took parts of the following paint guide, http://wappellious.blogspot.com/p/using-shaded-basecoat-technique-to.html and applied them to how I painted the skinks. First time I got outside my normal basecoat and thin layers box. I'm going to keep working on it!

 

I just can't wrap my brain around 3 hours on a skink.....

 

That's perfectly possible...

 

This was the first time I painted this way and this color scheme. I also took the time to write down the different steps and colors. I usually take my time on fast batch or so of units, exploring colors and shades. Then when you lock in a system, you can pump units out more efficiently.

I want to try some Zenithal highlighting for the first time on a whole batch of Skinks, to see if it the preshading speeds things up.