My first ever fully painted miniature that didn’t come free in a box with paints.

Paints used:

  1. 2:2:1 Black Templar:Lahmian Medium:Ultramarine Contrast (Citadel)

  2. Pure Red (Warpaints)

  3. Skeleton Bone (Warpaints)

  4. Greedy Gold (Warpaints)

  5. Cobalt Metal (Warpaints)

  6. Skeleton Horde (Citadel)

  7. Nuln Oil (Citadel)

I’ve got some places I definitely want to touch up. Places where my brush control was lacking for sure and I’m not happy with the tone on the belt. I find it mixes too much with the gold. I’ll be adding some more layers to that as well as touching up any spots I missed with paint.

Overall I’m pretty happy with it. I’ll be continuing to edge highlight with the cobalt Metal on any exposed armour and will attempt my first OSL from the eyes.

Funny thing is, this isn’t even from my main army. I have 2500 points of Nids I need to prime and paint. I’ve just been having a bit of the winter blues so I forced myself to paint something to try and kickstart my engines. Building has been really therapeutic though and painting was even moreso.

  • TwotoneEnglish
    2•7 days ago

    I almost wonder if it is a camera artifact and not necessarily just gritty looking. My cellphone makes stuff look worse with all the junk ‘ai enhancing’ it tries to do.

    • Edit * lol, yeah, just read the other half of that. Maybe I shouldn’t rush reading. My google pixel gums up all the photos I take of my minis
    • @Adm_DrummerOPEnglish
      2•7 days ago

      I think there’s definitely some camera fuckery going on. In person there’s some texture but like, nowhere near as drastic as the photo shows. As supporting evidence I present to you a photo of a deer I took recently. It has the very same weird “fuzz” to it. The camera wasn’t zoomed in, no filters applied either. But when you look closely it all has a grain to it.

      • TwotoneEnglish
        1•5 days ago

        Yeah, same thing on my camera. It likes to blend similar colors together and try to make up it’s own ‘texture’ for detail. Tired of ‘ai enhanced’ garbage camera phones. They used to be good.

        • @Adm_DrummerOPEnglish
          2•5 days ago

          It’s very annoying. I’ve looked through every setting I possibly could and I just don’t have the option to turn it off.

          That face looks really great btw. I haven’t dove into painting faces yet. I hope I can do it half as well as you.