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http://miniaturemonstrosities.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1

First completed mini in a good few years. It was a graft.

Love the face and that's a nice use for turquoise. Metals are a bit poo though. I'm not the best person to give advice on metallic paint use (hopefully Tim C and Sturmhalo will offer up some tidbits) but I would say to water them down more and either layer them just like you would other paints, or apply them in the same way you would if doing NMM.

Neat & tidy

Well done, about time you finished something, although didn't you start this last year?! I agree with the metals but it's a massive pic so you aren't helping yourself! Nice work

Duff wrote:Love the face and that's a nice use for turquoise. Metals are a bit poo though. I'm not the best person to give advice on metallic paint use (hopefully Tim C and Sturmhalo will offer up some tidbits) but I would say to water them down more and either layer them just like you would other paints, or apply them in the same way you would if doing NMM.

Chainmail aside, I hated every minute of the metals. Awful scenes. I've yet to hit on a successful system. I just can't see it as I can with normal colour. Tim and Si are class on the metals front. Painting envy.

Dags - cheers man!

freak - it's the man room ain't it. Inspired to push on. Happy times . Correct re the image size to an extent, but it's uniformly shit in the flesh too

Before I started playing around with NMM the only way I ever got it to look OK was to undercoat in flat black then drybrush a darker metal like boltgun over the it, give it good coverage and keep building it up until it looks right. The do the same with a lighter metal like mithril silver to highlight the edges on blades, etc. It was never great but it did the job, was quick and meant I didn't have to fuck around with metals too much.

Looks really good - and I think the metals look fine, too, kind of the way I expect metals to look on old school Citadel figures, if that makes any sense?