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Finishing Touch Miniatures
painting miniatures for over 10 years now, and have won a number of
awards. I will be finishing up the last of my current backlog within the
next couple of weeks, so I do not have a long wait time for orders
placed now. Come check out my site and gallery, it's a bit sparse at the
moment but I'm filling it in quickly.
http://www.finishingtouchminiatures.com
Here is a sample, a daemonette I won best fantasy single model with at
my local GW store recently.
http://www.finishingtouchminiatures.com/Pics/daemonette-3.jpg
Ancient Gamer
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>
> Here is a sample, a daemonette I won best fantasy single model with at
> my local GW store recently.
>
> http://www.finishingtouchminiatures.com/Pics/daemonette-3.jpg
>
>
Nice base..
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Myrmidon
in...@finishingtouchminiatures.com, Finishing Touch Miniatures shouted out
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but there's no arguing that it's a skillful paint job. I do like very
much the techniques used in the leg armor, cloth, and on the jewlery.
Can't really see the head well enough to make a judgement call on that.
Overall though, the figure shows a lot of talent. (I like the Stern Mini
on your main site as well.)
Myrmidon
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Re: What are you painting...
RTM - Dark Eldar.
Old Bear - Poof.
RTM - Christ, I've had the little blighters for three years now.
It's about time this f'ing army wasn't all krylon grey. You
should be supportive.
Old Bear - OK. Well done, you poof.
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Finishing Touch Miniatures
> In article <XVpbb.2406$YO5.2...@news3.news.adelphia.net>,
> in...@finishingtouchminiatures.com, Finishing Touch Miniatures shouted out
> the following words of wit...
>
>>At long last, I am offering my painting services on the web. I have been
>>painting miniatures for over 10 years now, and have won a number of
>>awards. I will be finishing up the last of my current backlog within the
>>next couple of weeks, so I do not have a long wait time for orders
>>placed now. Come check out my site and gallery, it's a bit sparse at the
>>moment but I'm filling it in quickly.
>>
>>http://www.finishingtouchminiatures.com
>>
>>Here is a sample, a daemonette I won best fantasy single model with at
>>my local GW store recently.
>>
>>http://www.finishingtouchminiatures.com/Pics/daemonette-3.jpg
>>
>
> I'm not a huge fan of your choice of skin color for the daemonette,
> but there's no arguing that it's a skillful paint job. I do like very
> much the techniques used in the leg armor, cloth, and on the jewlery.
> Can't really see the head well enough to make a judgement call on that.
> Overall though, the figure shows a lot of talent. (I like the Stern Mini
> on your main site as well.)
>
> Myrmidon
Thanks. What color do you think would have been more apropriate? The
idea with the grey was to go with a more otherworldly look, as human
flesh tones just seemed so out of place. I was trying to maintain a look
of unatural beauty, as well as creating a counterpoint to the strong
colors used for the armor and clothing.
Myrmidon
dead guy's skin is gray and rotting' etc. Since you've gone with strong
reds and oranges in the armor & cloth, you could have gone with a pale to
very pale blue or green skin tone. It would have pushed each towards it's
complementry color (i.e. in green it would have made the reds look
brighter, and in blue it would have made the orange tones look brighter.)
Hence the reason you'd want to make the skin tone pale as the bright
complimentry colors will make it 'look' brighter than it is too and you
want 'other worldly' rather than 'cartoony'. This has to do with the way
the cones and rods in the human eye work. If you took a two or three inch
square of neutral gray paper and cut a one inch square hole in the center,
you can then experiment and see this effect for yourself. Just lay your
neutral gray square on any brightly colored flat surface. If the surface
is bright blue, stare at the opening in your gray square where the bright
blue is showing. After a short time the 'neutral gray' surface of the
square around the bright blue opening will start to look like it's
orangish gray. In effect the bright color 'pushes' other colors near by
towards it's complimentry color.
Hope that's useful,
Myrmidon
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Andy O'Neill
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<<>>
> > I'm not a huge fan of your choice of skin color for the daemonette,
> > but there's no arguing that it's a skillful paint job.
<<>>
> idea with the grey was to go with a more otherworldly look, as human
> flesh tones just seemed so out of place. I was trying to maintain a look
> of unatural beauty, as well as creating a counterpoint to the strong
> colors used for the armor and clothing.
>
Straight grey is rarely good.
Colour is better and if you're using red and orange on clothers then you
want blue or purple.
Chrispy has an article on cmon ( where you advertised that figure ) about
colour theory.
It's a good intro without the BS so often attends arty descriptions.
As well as the colour wheel there's warm and cold colours.
Contrast makes stuff stand out and blue is cold, red is warm....
Nothing you eat or see lives is blue, so blue looks particularly alien to
the human mind.
Whether unnatural beauty or otherwordly I'd leave to viewers to decide.
YMMV.
I also thought the contrast between lo and hi lights on the skin isn't
sufficient.
There's also some background to WFB.
Slaanesh has a colour and it ain't red.
Interesting that the rates for figure painting seem rather higher in the
States.
Mind you, my experience is years back, perhaps things have changed over
here.
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> Nothing you eat or see lives is blue, so blue looks particularly alien to
> the human mind.
Don't know many Northern Europeans, do you?
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Finishing Touch Miniatures
>
> Straight grey is rarely good.
It's really not straight grey. The shaded areas have a blue tone to
them, although it seems it's just not being picked up by the camera, and
I'm thinking it might have been better to add more of it.
> Colour is better and if you're using red and orange on clothers then you
> want blue or purple.
> Chrispy has an article on cmon ( where you advertised that figure ) about
> colour theory.
> It's a good intro without the BS so often attends arty descriptions.
> As well as the colour wheel there's warm and cold colours.
I'll take a look at it, thanks.
> I also thought the contrast between lo and hi lights on the skin isn't
> sufficient.
I think part of this is the camera missing some of this due to the
colors used, as it the contrast is quite a bit clearer in person.
> Interesting that the rates for figure painting seem rather higher in the
> States.
> Mind you, my experience is years back, perhaps things have changed over
> here.
It really depends on what you are looking for. There are people who
offer cheaper services for those who are just interested in getting
stuff done to a "tournament legal" standard, but for a higher quality
job it simply takes more time, which equals more money.