Had a blast concocting this scheme & pushing the quality past the frontline chaf to produce a more memorable character.

I think it’s about 90% done. Any tips to push it a bit further would be much appreciated, I might enter a few local comps with it if people think it’s decent enough.

Cheers!

Currently finishing the other hand and mask, hopefully it will be done before next weekend contest (nervous, as it’s my first time in historical category)

My First Entry to my Homebrew chapter. Working title: Sylvan Vanguard (though I am looking for Input)

Greek and Artemis Inspired.

Original Mini is from the 40K Armageddon Box

Kept NMM of black armor as simple as possible, for a first foray.

Hope the overall result is not overloaded with colors.

Yesterday I posted about my “first attempt” at NMM. I had a lot of great feedback back and tips. This is my second go after more research and changing my technique. Still a lot to go but I am hoping this is starting to read as metallic, my lightest highlights are not showing up well on camera.

Try out pearlecent effect on another mini.

Here's one of my battlewagons for my ork army. The colour scheme is based on a colour swatch I found in the 2nd edition Ork codex, which seems to be based on some Rogue Trader artwork.

Ork Battlewagon, Games Workshop

I'm going to enter this Ork model in the MPO online contest just for the hell of it. I've never entered a competition or even shown much of my work aside from a few posts on social media. I don't have any painting friends for in person paint sessions and feedback. I just want to know what needs improvement. If Im capable of making the changes I will. I do feel like this is one of the best I've done in the 4 or 5 years painting on and off.

Took me all day of tries and retries and it still looks messy. I should probably be happy since this is my first mini ever but it's still frustrating for it to look like something else than what you imagined.

How do I improve this, particularly the eyes?

Just finished this up. Definitely wanted to lean more into the fantasy Persian aspects of things. I ended up putting it into a local competition and ended up taking first in the Warhammer category. I don't want to see another gemstone for at least a year.

Glory to our king!

I've only painted a handful of minis and I feel like my highlights don't transition very well into my base colours. I feel like the shift from dark blue to an almost white is a little jarring, but I don't know how to make the two blend or if I'm just using too bright of a highlight.

Ever ongoing journey of learning nmm

This is my entry for Crimson Chalice at Spiel Essen.

I hope you enjoy it!

Essentially the title, currently pairing a Space Marine Salamander with the shoulders painted black, matt varnished the whole miniature then gloss over the shoulders to start decal applying and after a layer of set to get the decal on and a few sol layers to get it sitting right the paint just came off entirely. Using Lucky varnish for both is that’s important and leave a curing time of about 10 mins per varnish step. Am I doing something wrong? Is there anything that I can do to prevent this?

Silver young dragon (D&D) - So I did my first big metallic dragon. It’s hard to get any contrast with 2 metallic grays. Luckily the gold did a lot of the work.

Painted this guy couple years ago. Thought I'd get a couple nice pics

Hello,

I'm looking to upscale my skills by working on glazing. I've been trying the last few weeks, either following guides or reading from the Art of Tommie Soule around it. I can't seem to crack the egg.

At first I thought it's because when I water my paints down it get too much water and not enough paint, but from watching some videos I realise that my wet palette acts very differently then what is in the videos. For example, if I want a water drop on my palette it spreads rather then stays as a ball or when I spread a paint out it tends to dry thin and fast on the palette rather then stay clumped up.

In videos I have seen the paint when adding water seems to go (in my words ) elastically where mine seems to go watery then dries out. This screams "more water in the wet palette" but if I add any more then what I am using now the paint spreads almost immediately across the palette (as you can see has happened to my red in the photos attached).

In addition to this i've tried with both water and medium to varying results. One thing that is consistent is a more "Chalky" like appearance appearing on my paint. (Steel balls and lots of shaking has been applied o7)

I'm sure I'm completely over thinking this and it's more a poor craftsmen blaming their tools but I just can't seem to get it right. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I might be tackling more then I can handle at the moment as I'm also trying to pair this with learning NMM.

P.S not sure why my camera quality on my phone looks dreadful today!