Steve Troughton-SmithOne thing I'm noticing, doing these poxwalkers, is that it's really satisfying finishing one miniature at a time. It's quicker, I'm having more fun, and the variation makes each one interesting. I'm also more willing to try more advanced things, like mixing, glazing, etc, because I only have to worry about what's in front of me, and as a result I am learning and (I think I’m) getting better at this with each one. Batch painting doesn't give me that same dopamine hit
Poxwalkers on the turntable 😄
If you think painting miniature eyes is bad, wait till you try teeth 😅
Almost started painting the base before painting the horns 🤦♂️ Disaster averted
On the one hand, painting Poxwalkers to this standard takes a certain kind of madness…
On the other hand, they look sooo goood 🤤
New techniques time! Not 100% sure this is giving me what I’m looking for, but I’ll play it out and see
Might have to shelve this guy for a few days; need some colors I don’t want to have to mix, so I gotta pick up some paints before I continue. The blues are making for an interesting tint, too
Reasonable progress on this guy! Capturing the right facial expression makes or breaks a mini like this
Right now, cloaks are my least favorite thing to paint. Blending is hard
Starting to come together. I’m kinda procrastinating until my new paints get here, but it’s nearly done
My first Inquisitor! Real happy with how closely I could match him to the box art. Still some cleanup to do (he’s not glued to the base yet), but overall great mini
He’s in better shape today for sure. Still gotta figure out those tentacles though
If I’m to make any progress on my backlog at all, I need to work on more than one mini per day 😅 That’s a pretty fking tall order…
Little morning diversion. Saw a great painted commissar online and it spurred me into action
I could paint Imperial Agents all day long. I really enjoy painting up once-off minis
The face was the first part I painted, as a subassembly. It turned out OK but I stressed about it for a long time, and it took many attempts to get it somewhere I liked. Painting faces is hard, man. And it’s still nowhere near as good as those from any decent painter
It’s been a while since I painted anything, and I now have a lifetime’s worth of minis inherited from @pilky, so I figured rebasing some of them would help me ease myself back in. So Thousand Sons it is today!
Pushing my way through the ugly phase on my Cathay test model 🐉
It's been a while, huh. Painting faces is so damn hard, but very rewarding
I think the head maketh the model, in this case, but I still have a lot of highlights to do to bring it all up
A quick composite paintover in Photoshop has me excited to finish this thing 😄 It actually is gonna look ok in the end. I just need to do it for reals
And now for real, the final assembly 🥳 Even better than the Photoshop version
Tonight's rebound project: re-basing and magnetizing a bunch of pilky's dwarfs
It's fun to go back and see the mini painting progress I've made in the past couple years in specific details, like faces. They're one of my favorite things to do now
Continuing with the re-basing project on pilky's dwarfs, and gave the leader a tiny bit of a face/hand touch-up too
Been pretty sick for a week, so recovering by slowly making progress on the first mini of the year
Finally pushed these Star Wars Legion stormtroopers off my painting desk after them being there for the past year. Soft plastics: never again. I'm so glad they've moved to hard plastic minis in later editions. Lesson learned
Joe Chott@stroughtonsmith Genuinely curious here - what happens on the soft plastics??
@Verxion couple of things, first paint is allergic to the plastic so if you missed a spot with the primer, you will have a lot of trouble painting over it. But mostly the detail is fairly soft so edges don't catch paint nicely, so you need to put a lot more effort into drawing them yourself
@stroughtonsmith thanks!
Gabriel N@stroughtonsmith wow! Awesome!
Local@stroughtonsmith uhh noice! 🤌
vt102
masukomi@stroughtonsmith wow. Nicely done.