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PostSubject: Re: Terminator 03 WIP - Suggestions Please   Tue Sep 15, 2009 3:57 am

John Gemrich wrote:
That is Jeff Wilhelm...
YES! That's him. He used to work for Ral Partha. I was kicking myself because I couldn't remember his name. He's a nice guy and quite a talented painter. I've known him for some time through Acme. Hate myself for not rememebring his name. Nice to hear he took another gold this year. Good for him.


John Gemrich wrote:
I think mini dragon posts picks of stuff he does on commission too. That tends to mean you can paint to different standards depending on the paying customer. Hence the wide variety in quality that you may see in his figures.


Truth. I hadn't really thought about him being a commission painter. It didn't really factor in to my reply above. That certainly explains the vagaries in the pics in his galleries. Though his NMM is still quite hit or miss. His silver is far better than his gold.


Also, when I hear 'Eavy Metal standard in comparison to us "regular people", I immediately think of the retail box art quality minis and the White Dwarf showcase models. So, I immediately think "not a chance so-and-so is that good". I guess it depends on which 'Eavy Metal paintjobs you're referring to. They have an unrealistic (for the majority of the population) level of painting, but they also have a lot of bang-up quickies like the studio armies for BatReps. It certainly stands to reason that many non-Golden Demon caliber people could paint to that 'Eavy Metal standard. However, that's typically not what people are referring to when they make that comparison.




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PostSubject: Re: Terminator 03 WIP - Suggestions Please   Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:40 pm

You guys should see Joe's (Minidragon's) Trollblood army.

I agree that his work varies alot. That picture somebody posted on the last page is only meh for him.

His trollbloods are crazy. He plays them up at Sci Fi once in a while with this other guy (whose name I can't remember). Both of their armies are some of the best work I have ever seen.

It's funny because the other guy does Golden Daemon quality work too, and I don't even think he realizes. He's not on the tournament scene. He doesn't seem to fraternize with any of the groups around town. He just pops up with these incredible minis and vanishes like the Legion of the Damned. Who was that masked man?
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PostSubject: Re: Terminator 03 WIP - Suggestions Please   Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:38 am

Update #2

POWER glove.... F-YEAH!

I am so freaking happy with the result of this blending job I'm ecstatic. It is by no means perfect, and I don't expect it to be, but I think I did a great job on it.

In addition to the blending job I did on the glove (Which took many steps and about an hour's time) I also did some highlighting on the rest of the armor, experimented with an alternating color pattern on the power cables (not done yet), basecoated the storm bolter and skulls, and base coated, inked and highlighted the wings and belt buckle.

Both the wings on the chest and the power glove blend job were accomplished thanks solely to John Gemrich's advice on the subjects in previous threads... thanks John.

And here it is:

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PostSubject: Re: Terminator 03 WIP - Suggestions Please   Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:59 am

Oh yeah John, I also attribute my vast improvement to the brushes you recommended. These things are SO much easier to do when you have good brushes... I didn't realize the truth of that until now.

Here is how I did the power glove.

I base coated it with watered down white. (About 2-3 applications) this gave me a fairly smooth finish to work from.

Then I made an orange wash by mixing some Citadel Baal Red wash with some old fashioned Citadel Yellow Ink, then added a little more water to thin it out more.

I used this mixture to wash over the whole power glove, then hit it with a blow dryer to speed up the drying process.

After the wash was dry I took the same thinned out white and re-painted all the flat surfaces with white, leaving only the crevasses and the areas around the bolts dark from the wash.

Then I added some yellow paint to the thinned out white and added a little more water.

I blended this yellow lightly, leaving only a small amount of white at the edge of the finger sections and the back of the hand.

Then I thinned out some straight Sunburst Yellow paint till it was almost like an Ink. Continued the blending process, always starting just a hair further back from the last layer.

Then added some Vallejo Fire Orange and some more water, and did it again.

Then added some Vallejo Blood Red and some more water and did it again till I finally finished.

I would have liked the transition from orange to red at the back to have been more smooth, but I can live with how it turned out.
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