OK, so after two years I've finally given in to having a section of the FORUM specifically set up to discuss painting techniques, display examples, show your latest projects and chat about this vital part of the hobby. Manufacturers please feel free to post up your sculpts, ask questions about what the gamers are after and generally promote your work.. no charge! Painters, please also feel free to post up your work for comment and critique. I can't promise the unreserved adulation characteristic of some other fora but I would hope you'd get constructive and measured comment!
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by PaulMc » Mon Apr 28, 2014 3:15 pm
Hi folks. Here are the two guns, I finally got around to photographing them, and the rest of the commission. Now en route to their owner!
A couple more shots to follow. Off to paint some TYW figs!
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by Prince Henry » Tue Apr 29, 2014 4:28 am
Very nice! Did you make the planks for the base yourself?
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by PaulMc » Tue Apr 29, 2014 3:14 pm
Hi, I "procured" some coffee stirrers, cut them to the size I wanted and used a craft knife to score a wood grain effect into them. I then painted them in the grey colour as I wanted the wood to look weathered and slightly old.
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by Prince Henry » Thu May 01, 2014 4:32 am
Great effect!
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by Gunfreak » Thu May 01, 2014 1:05 pm
Such big ones too!!
I love the wood effect you got in the cannon, I've never been able to get good effects on cannon, be the natural wood or painted.
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by PaulMc » Fri May 02, 2014 12:24 am
Hi gents,
Thanks very much for your comments! Coffee stirrers are my new modelling friends Prince Henry.
Gunfreak, with the way your painting is developing, I'm sure you'll be doing that before too long. I use washes and gentle drybrushing to build up the look on the guns, it took me a bit of practise the first time I painted a gun like that. I'm really pleased with how they turned out.
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by chema1986 » Fri May 02, 2014 10:42 am
What a fine painting! I'm going to copy your ground work of wood for my siege artillery bases in the future!
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by PaulMc » Fri May 02, 2014 12:05 pm
Hi Chema,
Credit where it's due, I took influences from a lot of painters on the LOA site. Barry's work, David Imrie, Bob Talbot, Dave O'Brien, Clarence Harrison and many others have all influenced and inspired me. That's what's so great about LOA, I've learned a lot here. Your work too Chema has impressed me a great deal, I love the vibrancy of the colours you produce and the way you do faces on miniatures.
Thanks for your compliments!
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