posted by Oli, HonourGuard, silver leaf
Hey Readers,
after a long time without posting anything here, I have to catch up everyting.
In this thread, I want to show you my actual projects and my chaos painting table :D
Lets start with the first WIP, and its really, really early WIP, I wanted to create a Display with two centaurs running on a rock pat, while seeing their village burning. They can already see their opponents and so they preparing their bows. Seems like their is too much fantasy in my head.. 2 weeks ago Raffa said me, don't think how you create it, think of the story you wanna tell. Because everything can be built up anyhow. It was a the first time I created the band between the bow. It wasn't easy, but possible, even with my big fingers and a lot of superglue :)
Also there are some Minis, which wait for their bases.. damn.. I am to slow, even with my new airbrush^^
And yea.. my workplace
The salt technique with airbrush is so nice, you can get so cool surfaces without any talent in using airbrush. And the turquoise lack is just for the armor parts. The rest will be painted up one day.
Yea and that wasn't all WIPs, but I forced myself, to finish them all now before starting new projects. But the centaur display still belongs to the old projects :)
I hope I find time to post my last finished miniatures and some competition news later, after making some monkey party :)
Best regards
Oli
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Hey, great stuff on your desk.
I like this tiny miniatures that you paint.
Steamthing looks nice. I've been meaning to get and paint one. Maybe once I get an airbrush, so I can try out the salt technique.
For the bow, your bowstring looks a little bit on the thick side, and also not terribly straight. Instead of what looks like thread, which doesn't make very good bowstrings (in my opinion), I would recommend trying either very fine wire or human hair. If you put a tiny bit of tension on it, that will keep it straight.
Thanks :)
@David, yes, you are right, I will try it with the human hair. But if I have no more hair someday, you are guilty :P
Oli, if you're worried about that, cut off a piece with scissors instead of pulling it out by the root. That way you don't lose the follicle, but only what would be cut off anyways after your next haircut.
P.S. I keep having issues leaving comments, and have to log out and log back in to fix them. Does anyone know how to fix that?
Hi Oli, great stuff you are showing to us. Love the way you approach your Centaur story. For the bowstring i would also use human hair, but would put it in place after the complete painting process as i would be sure it get damaged during the painting process. Nop problem with that later on, but you should ask for some longer hair to be able to really work with it.
@David
I will check this soon about your login issues - just came home from the painting class. I'll keep you informed, sorry for these circumstances, many thanks for your effort to live with these issues for the moment!