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Catiline · 03-31-2002, 01:18 PM

Old style painting 
 
<img src="http://[email protected]/Ed/A cold dy at Thermopylae.jpg"> 
 
New style 
 
<img src="http://[email protected]/Ed/spartoi.jpg"> 
 
Not sure they're the best scans but as i said I need a digital camera. That way they could be pictured with their weapons in all their martial glory

***Praefectusclassis*** · 04-02-2002, 04:34 PM

Hi Catiline, 
As gnomes go, very nice Do I see some transparency where it shouldn't be (top of hands)? I find that's always a problem with the lighter colours, especially when using washes. 
Eager to see them in 'all their martial glory'! Greets 
 
Jasper

Catiline · 05-12-2002, 05:03 PM

One in slightly more martial glory, a decadent Athenian, this one has how i did it images if you're interested 
 
<img src="http://www.coolminiornot.com/pics/img3cd69bf9e9c1e.jpg"> Unless the Persians fly away like birds, hide in the earth like mice, or leap into a lake like frogs, they will never see their homes again, but will die under our arrows

***Praefectusclassis*** · 05-12-2002, 05:08 PM

Very nice, just a bit dark maybe. Do you add highlights on the red? And yeah, show us some in-progress photos! Greets 
 
Jasper

Catiline · 05-12-2002, 05:23 PM

The darkness is just a result of using a scanner rather than a lack of highlights on the red, which if anything are over evident in reality... Unless the Persians fly away like birds, hide in the earth like mice, or leap into a lake like frogs, they will never see their homes again, but will die under our arrows

Catiline · 05-12-2002, 05:51 PM

<img src="http://[email protected]/Ed/img1.jpg"> 
 
1 hoplite, given a snappy new haircut with green stuff and some additions to the cloack you can't really see. Milliput cobbles, which seemed a better idea than they were, seeing as how when they dried they all fell off and had to be stuck on with superglue anyway. Spear was steel rod bashed flat and filed to a point. 
 
<img src="http://[email protected]/Ed/Img2.jpg"> 
 
Black undercoat, plus removal of the monument which i should have realised was going to be totally in the way anyway. 
 
<img src="http://[email protected]/Ed/img3.jpg"> 
 
Blocked in all the colours, with a couplwe of thin coats of each until they covered the undercoat well, which took ages for the crappy citadel scab red. Bronze got an base of brown to warm up the final result 
 
<img src="http://[email protected]/Ed/img4.jpg"> 
 
Everything got a wash of ink. On the base it was nut brown, and the hoplite a 3:2:1 mix of water, purple ink and flesh wash. Looks v. crap 
 
<img src="http://[email protected]/Ed/Img5.jpg"> 
 
Did the flesh, using a goden brown(the base colour) a pink flesh and very light flesh colour. Again very thin coats, makes it easy to blend in the highlights. Takes ages and when you smear it all over the ink between the fingers is v. frustrating. eyes painted in as wellusing v. pale grey, then pupils added with a micropen 
 
<img src="http://[email protected]/Ed/img6.jpg"> 
 
Highlights on the clothes and equipment as per the flesh, cobbles dry brushed. 
 
<img src="http://[email protected]/Ed/img7.jpg"> 
 
Metal area got the same treatment with metallic paint seeing as how i can't handle non metallic metal tchnique properly. 
 
<img src="http://[email protected]/Ed/tombstone.jpg"> 
 
this was fun to do, messy dry brushing on the blue, the thin washes on the stone, which is real life is v. realistic. 
 
<img src="http://[email protected]/Ed/hoplite.jpg"> 
 
All done completed with static grass 
 
Apologies for the lack of colour, perils of a cheap scanner, but hopefully if you're interested at all you get the general idea. 
Unless the Persians fly away like birds, hide in the earth like mice, or leap into a lake like frogs, they will never see their homes again, but will die under our arrowsEdited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/ucatiline.showPublicProfile?language=EN>Catiline</A> <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://images.honesty.com/imagedata/h/634/27/26342710.jpg" BORDER=0> at: 5/12/02 8:02:24 pm

06-05-2002, 01:05 AM

They're beautifully painted minis. I have a question: what paints do you use (as in manufacturer)? I only have Citadel paints, and while the range is generally good, there are certain colours that don't quite meet my requirements. One example is bronze. You seem to have gotten a convincing bronze metal on your hoplites. Citadel's Dwarf Bronze is too 'orangey' and I'm starting to wonder if I need to use a kind of gold drybrushed on brass to get the same effect as your hoplites. 
 
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Catiline · 06-08-2002, 12:42 PM

I've got some in progress scans somwhere, i'll dig them out with an explanation. The simple answer is a mix of different manufacturers because that's hwat was hanging around Unless the Persians fly away like birds, hide in the earth like mice, or leap into a lake like frogs, they will never see their homes again, but will die under our arrows

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