Hey jungle,

another miniature has left Peter´s painting table. Another longtime wip is finished! This time it´s the Sentinel of R´lyeh, sculpted by Raffa and published by FeR Miniatures.

Peter is a great fan of the Game of Thrones series and chose the King´s Guard as his source of inspiration.









If you like the bust, feel free to comment below or leave a vote on Putty&Paint.
The bust is for sale. You will find more details in Peter´s catalogue, which you will find here.

Best regards,
Your MV-Team

Hi Jungle,

you might remember the review we did on some cool looking
Football Player Models in 32 mm by Franchise Draft.

Their Kickstarter arrives in its final stage - four days left - and not much is missing to make this become alive. Maybe it just misses your help? Well, Roman decided to go for the angry Ref Miniature and the Heavy Metal Anthem singer, really cool.You can have a look over here:

Franchise Draft - Indigogo

In the meantime Roman also painted two of the reviewed players. Just for fun and joy. They look pretty cool and as Roman was asked to do photos of two painted players, painted by MG Studios from Spain - he also did photos of all four. Frankly, what amazes him the most is the superdynamic poses and action going on as soon as more of these miniatures come together. 

Check these:



Roman painted exactly the models he was reviewing last week. A catcher with the number 13:
 And a linebacker ready to tackle with the number 87:

Both painted on high gaming standard, but nothing too superfancy, only the shoes of number 13:



So superdynamic moves. 
Let's hope this comes alive!

Well,

wtf is RTGIFI #002?
First, the follow up to RTGIFI #001.
Rest is easy maths: Roman's thank god its friday inspiration! Numero 2!
Stay tuned and enjoy.

I will do these posts regularly, not every Friday, but regularly. They will sum up my irregular inspiration or music posts. It will also help me to clean my inspiration link list and maybe I even create a fine playlist to listen to while painting up little warriors or cowboys.
It is about music, inspiration and stuff that keeps my mind inspired.

Let's start with music: Love this song for painting at the moment :)



And another one...  about Whisky.


Some more inspiration for me this week was the following:

Volomir.com - DO NOT MISS 2017 Week 5
Chris Suhre' Spotlight on Composition
Space Wolf Imperial Knight

When it comes to painting I am pretty much in a Frank Frazetta phase. Really enjoying seeing his artwork of high fantasy all around me and study his colors to let this influance my own way of painting my miniature projects. A cool ride, but sometimes really hard for the brain. This week I got three of my favourite paintings of him linked up:

Frank Frazetta - Sound
Frank Frazetta - Chained
Frank Frazetta - Captive Princess

I mean just look at these colors, this ambience, this dynamic bodies, this power. I love it and I continue to study it. Let's see how this will influance my own little painting world. I might have some more lined up on the next RTGIFI :D 

Keep on happy painting!
- Roman

Time for another review on MV. 


This is review #94 - if you are interested in getting to know more products or miniatures we regularly use, check the overview on the Miniatures/Material Unpacked, in short MU.



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Kadddaadddisch!
Look what landed on my table.




This review took me a little longer than usual, but it makes it also special as I already painted the model to finish.


As you know we always write frank reviews on models that we present in such a MU. It will be no different with this one by ...


That was blunt advertisment, yes.
Frankly the box is just so sexy.

On the back you got a lot of information about the model and two version painted of this model. 



When you open it up it is still very sexy. A paper sheet of information appears.


The sheet of paper includes more information, the box arts again and on the inside a big poster of the artwork of the character "Dumah".


Very sexy indeed. 
Our painters heart strives to the upcoming content of the box. Shall we procedd?



This is what makes this Kimera sculpt so special. Very common in smaller scales - for example Games Workshop sprues - you can decide how to build up your model from different poses and equipment. Very unusual for larger scales like this 75 mm range indeed, but with this kit you can. You can decide how to build your own Dumah character. That is sexy.

The presentation online, via the actual content of the box and the presentation of Kimera on events - for example - Monte San Savino Show is high end quality. High class. Every thumb up, even my toes.



Now this is a sword. Oversized? No, it is to slay oversized enemies.

Casual Mould lines here and there. Nothing to hard to handle on this quality resin.

This might be annoying, but time and effort will tell and hopefully nothing delicate will break.

These are the two very obvious mould line issues. Rest does look very good and should be no problem to get it ready for painting A really big plus on this sculpt is how good everything fits. High advantage of 3D sculpting I guess.

Everything is well prepared for smooth fixation, even the cool base.

The two heads and an icon that you can attach to his back and on it there you can attach the skeleton. Both, the face and helmet version do look so full of character. Can't wait to see someone paint up Skeletor.

Several shoulder pads, a chest plate, a shield or an arm without shield offer a variety of options.




To be frank on the first impression I really enjoyed the grade of detail for example on the kneepad. On the second glimpse I miss some sharper edges and interesting volumes here. I believe also this is concerned to the 3D sculpt, but somehow I personally felt this while doing the review.


I am also confused on the looks of the fabrics. Just by the sculpt, they do look weird and do not seem to have wrinkles based on weight or wind. Well, that is just my personal oppinion.



Now to the fitting quality.

Some size comparisions of the main body.

The parts fit so well together. Really well thought of the Kimera team.
Wonderful, well done. Arm fits to body like arm should fit to body.


As I have already painted up this model on comission I can tell a little more on how it feels while painting it. Here are some angles on the finished model. More will follow soon via Massive Voodoo or can already be seen on Putty&Paint.


I gotta say I was scared first of some volumes might feel weird while painting them. Especially the ones who looked pretty much out of the 3D Printer. Also the pose is nothing very special, standing there presenting his oversized sword to kill oversized enemies. Well, I was wrong. I really enjoyed this paintjob. The character presented here is a true demon lord and the kit allows you to build up your vision of him. Painting wise it was a joy to breathe life into him. On some areas I was not able to paint edges like I used to as there were only strange edges, but this did push the breaks on my painting joy. It works and is enjoyable when you paint it.

So let me sum up my thoughts on this kit in this
Summary:

PLUS:
+ A Fantasy sculpt with an original and fresh concept in 75 mm, that is rare
+ Multikit: Really cool to build your own unique version
+ high quality resin cast, great fitting quality
+ super high end product quality and presentation, very sexy
+ beginner friendly, even with so many parts
+ very fast from out of the boy to ready for painting
+ A lot of painting fun, paints by itself

 Good Morning Jungle,

incoming private coaching review.
This time with Meg.

Roman enjoyed some really cool days with Meg Maples while she did her Europe Class Tour in 2016. Main subject on the coaching with Meg from Australia was 
"how to create atmosphere while painting a miniature and get back to a healthy painting spirit".

Both did start right away and painted like crazy fools
during the two day MV private coaching. 



"I booked 2 days with Roman to cover Atmosphere. I felt like my painting had stalled out after doing my time at Privateer Press as a studio painter. While working for them, I got to focus on my technique and painting for print work but that's a very different approach than painting for "art". I had lost my way a bit and hoped that Roman would help inspire me and guide me through the murky haze I'd found myself trying to wade through." - Meg





But first Meg had to do some color mixing exercises to understand the principles of "how atmosphere works". Done on Roman's famous teaching example of the wolve.


"Once he explained how to tackle atmosphere - using some very nicely drawn PowerPoint slides - he then set me to a task. He broke out a photo of a wolf and a piece of paper that had a line drawing of that very wolf. "I want you to paint the colors you see. I need to understand what level you are," Roman said. " - Meg


"Roman watched the evolution of this painting the entire time. Not like a hawk over my shoulder but he kept checking back to see how I was going. He gave me the thumbs up and said it was great and that he wasn't worried about my understanding of how to read color I observe. So, we went back over to the couch and discussed more about Atmosphere. He pulled out photos this time of different examples of atmoshpere and he wanted me to choose one. The idea was, that whatever environmental colors you were seeing in the image, you had to then apply to the wolf. He pulled out the hardest examples he had and put them off to the side. I immediately grabbed one of them because it's one of my favorite pieces of art. Then I set about applying it to my wolf." - Meg



"Pretty pleased with myself after completing this task I was eager to apply it to a model! Roman and I had decided weeks before that we would paint Spira Miribalis's Garfio Pirate Bust together. He asked what I had in mind for my atmosphere. I explained that I wanted to keep on trying the hard stuff. No reason to be pussy-footing around, it's balls to the wall! YEAH, BABY!

I told him my idea is that Garfio has found a treasure chest and is carrying it back to the ship while one of his crewman holds a torch over his shoulder. I showed him where I wanted the torchlight placed and we discussed how to tackle it. And then . . . we were OFF! " - Meg




"I should have stated earlier - it probably seemed like the beginning with the Wolf Painting exercise like that would take a day, right? We did that in a couple of hours. It went so quickly because I already had a good understanding of what was meant to be happening, it was really just applying the technical aspect with some guidance that I needed. Roman even remarked on how quickly I got through painting sections." - Meg



"I left the studio feeling exhilirated! I got my motivation back and I'm really looking forward to digging into painting over the next year. I want to get back to painting for myself and advancing my own craft instead of continuing to produce "clean" models. I want to get more story, more life, into my pieces and I can't wait to try my hand at it. I'm sure I will fail a few times along the way but that's how you learn." - Meg


Well, it truely was Roman's pleasure too, Meg.
Thank you for writing up your full private coaching experience to Arcane Paintworks.

For Roman it was a very interesting teaching session too as it is not often that you teach another teacher. First curious than relaxed Roman was still able to open Meg's heart and eyes to his happy painting philosphy and teach her a thing or two.

"Thank you for the cool moments we shared and the splendid talks. May you strive forward as a painter, find your inner peace and ways of painting and like Alfonso would say: Paint as you are!"
- Roman