Post your art in the gallery!

[KGeo777]

No more VP heads for a while or my head will explode.

 

[Mon0Zer0]

Or Apocalypse Now... with Tyranids

"What happened to you Kurtz?"

"The HORROR, The HORROR..."

 

[.matthew.]

Forgot to post this one. Had it finished for ages, but only got the snow base done when I did the last guy.

There's something about walkers that just say sci-fi more than nearly anything else.

 

[KGeo777]

The Nicholas Medina statue I made (in a rush) got smashed in the mail so I was asked to remake it.
I was also doing a Sebastian Medina figure at the same time. If life is a bowl of cherries, what am I doing in the pit and the pendulum?

 

[KGeo777]

3d printed Darren McGavin, Ursula Andress, and Vincent Price (with no hair)

 

[KGeo777]

 

[.matthew.]

There's something about the old-style Dreadnoughts that are both depressingly grim dark and utterly adorable at the same time.

 

[althea]

 

[Harpo]

In late 2021 I spent a few weeks using up the last dregs of ink in a few hundred “finished” pens I’d been saving for something like this. The images in this image are each of a double-page spread in an A3 sized book, about half the book is shown here, and the main point of it all is that the colours bleed through to the pages beneath. In some cases they bled through dozens of pages.
Which means no single image will get across the essence of the thing, and so this image will have to suffice.

Edit: forget it, file too large. Just imagine a load of leaking pens splurging all over a big sketchbook, and imagine a collage of three dozen pages showing the results.

I give up.

 

[althea]

 

[.matthew.]

Sometimes I think the only cause for power armour is to haul around all the flair.

 

[Toby Frost]

Nice shading on his cloak and sword!

 

[.matthew.]

Nice shading on his cloak and sword!

Thanks. Oddly enough they were the easiest and most relaxing parts to paint. Something about blending just soothes the savage brush.

 

[Phyrebrat]

Nice shading on his cloak and sword!

I always marvel at the talent people like you and @.matthew. uave when it comes to fine detailing and general painting of models. It’s exceptional work and I wish I could do it.

I’ve been a member of the replica props forum and R2 builders dot net for years and recognise what a skill this is. I enjoy the act of modelling but I’m all thumb and fingers (and dyspraxia doesn’t help) but …

 

[Toby Frost]

Thanks! To be honest, I don't think I've got a great amount of talent as a painter: for me, a lot of it is time, practice and figuring out which techniques give the best effect in the circumstances. There's also just getting your hands used to that sort of work: I recently read an article with a professional miniature painter, who said that she got noticeably worse if she didn't paint anything for a few days. This year, I have tried to do new things and attempt new techniques, and I'm pleased at how it's gone, but there's a level of sophistication and detail (and patience) that I can't do and probably never will.

But thanks, though!

 

[.matthew.]

Thanks, @Phyrebrat, but I struggle with it myself as well. Like Toby says, a lot comes down to practice. I have absolutely no mind's eye (aphantasia) so I never know what something is going to look like until after I've painted it. With an additive process like miniature painting which can take dozens of layers overlaid on top of it each other, let's just say things go wrong... a lot.

On the plus side, there's a ton to learn and techniques to try, which make it a rewarding hobby that never feels complete. Like I recently just got some Dirty Down effect paints which simulate Rust, Verdigris, and Moss. Haven't had the nerve to go to town on them yet though, as they're really a final step after many many hours of painting normally.

I've always liked the idea of prop design and making stuff like that, but it's a skill well outside my range. Making materials perfectly replicate other things is such a talent.

 

[KGeo777]

Got a batch of 3d head prints in the mail today. Also a couple of hats. And some hands that I did not make. I hate making hands and feet.

 

[KGeo777]

I have to redo a couple of heads dammit. 3d printing is tricky but this sort of thing is much harder.

Vincent Price in the Ten Commandments.
Won't be making this again.

 

[KGeo777]

Vincent Price in "Morella" from Tales of Terror. This was a request.

 

[althea]