There is nothing like painting up some Games Workshop white metal figures for practicing Modulation and Shading lol. The final pictures got washed out and the swampy water looks too blue, but with the proper lighting it looks greenish enough.
The mushrooms are simple melted sprue. I just stuck the end of some sprue over a candle and they form themselves.
He turned out really well for an ugly spud. Or an Eeevil Garden Gnome from hell. lol
Thanks for looking. Sorry for the bad pictures.
Turned out really well.I like looking at figures but ain’t got the patience to do one.
Very cool!!! Always been more a Grenadier, Ral Partha, Reaper guy than GW but they do some really detailed figures.
Thanks guys. I’ve got some Ral Partha figs that seriously need to be repainted. I painted them when I was 15 and I was not really any good then lol.
I’m not too bad now so I should give them a new lease on life, eh?
Yeap, I go back, strip, and repaint them sometimes. I’ve been thinking though it might be better to leave some though so I can look back and see how much better I’ve gotten over the years.
I do find it funny when gaming several people will always select some horrible looking figure I did 10-20 years ago instead of the newer ones I’m more proud of!
I believe its because people identify with the skill level they, themselves can imagine doing. Some sort of subliminal thing I assume.
But yeah, wtf? Lol. The more annoying types are the ones that are nowhere near your skill level and totally nit-pick your work because they could’ve done way better. But even as humble as I am, I’m like, “are you serious?”
As I always say, its only a matter of time and experience that makes the difference. But some people just seem to have huge confidence issues so they tear you down to make themselves feel better. Its just the wrong approach.
I love helping people get better and sharing what I know, but not if someone is just a jerk about it lol. Fortunately I don’t run into too many of those types much.
Sorry for the mini rant. Not sure where that came from. I’m not talking about anyone in peticular, and certainly not anyone here at FSM. You guys are great. 
Thank you for the compliments!!
I’m not afraid to admit it. I totally suck at figures and could use all the help I can get.
Looks good Mike, and what a great idea with the mushrooms.
Lol I know what you mean Mike. The weirdest I’ve encountered was one guy who played in D&D group with custom painted figures I provided for years and seemed to completely take them for granted till another guy showed up with some cheap unpainted plastic toys and he spent the whole session gushing about how cool they were. [:|]
I guess I should have explained more- in our D&D game I generally supply the figures, both players and monsters. I guess I have somewhere north of a few thousand figures by now. So when someone wants to play say a dwarf I’ll hand him the box with a hundred or so dwarves in it and invariably you’ll have someone want to use the twenty year old krap figure from where I was first learning to paint over the newer ones I’m more happy with!
Lol! I’ve only got a hand full painted up right now. Thousands?! Wow! I used to hate painting figures. When I eventually did get one that was half decent I was pretty proud of it. He’s in the spares box, all broken up now. Perhaps I’ll show a few more later. I’d like to think I’m pretty good these days lol. But reality is what it is, y’know? Lol. You guys can judge for yourselves. 
Lol, not trying to brag or anything- it’s just you buy a hundred or so every year for twenty years and they add up. It’s getting to be more in the vein of hording behavior.
I’d love to see more of your work, I posted a few years ago but there wasn’t much interest so I stopped.
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Howdy!
Nice figs!
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Good luck with your next builds and have a nice day
Paweł
I don’t know much about the Warhammer setting Mike, but those are beautiful figures.
Well thank you VERY much!
I get lost in them sometimes. My style has never truly been Warhammer though. I’ve pushed myself to make them more like that. I can’t help but to paint them more realistically then most Warhammer guys would. My blends are typically more subtle, I don’t highlight edges as much, and I don’t just use acrylics. I use enamels for my blocking because they cover better in one cote. Then I switch to acrylics and a pallet and let my imagination take over.
That has also helped me in my 1/35 and 1/48 scale figures and painting them in a similar fashion. But without edge highlights and unrealistic facial tones lol.
I’m not saying that the Warhammer Codex preferred method isn’t beautiful in it’s own way, just that I can’t copy that style. It wouldn’t be me.
Dang, I got lost in word soup again. sorry about that.
Thanks again Gamera. I really do appreciate it.
Nice!
Warhammer led me back to modeling some time ago, unfortunately I enjoy the modeling more than the playing. So I’m trying to move to something a little more fiscally sustainable.
I like the crisp it all looks, like your dwarf’s? scale mail, it looks like you used multiple colors for the separate scales, I’d have just mass drybrushed it all the same color. I guess clearly defined might be a little more appropriate term.
Out of curiosity how did you do the cloak on the Chaos Dwarf? I like how it came out and I’ve been have issues with, well honestly everything lately, but mainly organic type material. Hard edged type stuff doesn’t seem as well hard for me.
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Understood completely. I was never much into the gaming aspect of Warhammer, but the figures were the best detailed figures of their time.
I used very thin acrylic washes that I lighten as I work over the figure. I use this method featured in the video for most of the objects I paint.
That’s the method I used for the cloak.
The chain mail was steel enamel with a brown filter applied and then a black wash to fill the recesses. After that I ran another black filter where I wanted shadows. Since I wanted it to look slightly rusty and dirty I did not dry brush any highlights on after the process was done.
I block with enamels for my main colors and then paint with thinned acrylics to get the blends the way I want them.
