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Subject: BS: Historical miniatures From: Matt_R Date: 22 Apr 08 - 04:53 PM Anyone else love painting these little guys? I do! http://www.flickr.com/photos/25596722@N06/ |
Subject: RE: BS: Historical miniatures From: artbrooks Date: 22 Apr 08 - 05:20 PM 35mm or 54mm? |
Subject: RE: BS: Historical miniatures From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor Date: 22 Apr 08 - 05:31 PM Are they your work? They are very nice. |
Subject: RE: BS: Historical miniatures From: Sorcha Date: 22 Apr 08 - 06:20 PM Hi Mbo! And no...I just can't do it. Hands not steady enough and it's just too tedious for me. Some 'tedious' things I can do...like quilt but not things that take steady hands. |
Subject: RE: BS: Historical miniatures From: katlaughing Date: 22 Apr 08 - 06:28 PM Kinda cute. Great job of painting. GREATER even to *see* you here! |
Subject: RE: BS: Historical miniatures From: wysiwyg Date: 22 Apr 08 - 06:43 PM Pirates please! Need pirates! Great work, great photography, great YOU. ~Your old pals Praise & Hardi |
Subject: RE: BS: Historical miniatures From: Matt_R Date: 22 Apr 08 - 06:56 PM They're 28mm from Wargames Foundry ... and yep, I painted them. I have no pirates as yet, but I do I have a sort of fantasy skeleton pirate in my painting queue. Aside from the Napoleonics, I have some ancient Greeks, Old West and ton of fantasy and Lord of the Rings ones. |
Subject: RE: BS: Historical miniatures From: wysiwyg Date: 22 Apr 08 - 07:12 PM Want to see more! Using some art school techniques to get the lovely effects in your painting? They look so real. I put 'em in my screensaver. ~Susan |
Subject: RE: BS: Historical miniatures From: open mike Date: 22 Apr 08 - 07:24 PM Mini-Blicky here |
Subject: RE: BS: Historical miniatures From: artbrooks Date: 22 Apr 08 - 07:39 PM That is going to be my next hobby - after the yard projects are finished. I like the larger ones (54mm) better - the figures don't look quite as squashed and the painting can be more detailed. Here is one from Andrea. You did a wonderful job with those little ones, though. |
Subject: RE: BS: Historical miniatures From: Matt_R Date: 23 Apr 08 - 02:44 AM ^ Awesome cuirassier! Yeah, one of the big complaints about the 25/28mms is that the proportions are really off. But then again, smaller is cheaper, which is always good. It's crazy ... I have my old art school toolbox full of materials and tools I haven't used in eight years. Now with my rekindled interest in building models and painting miniatures, I've been using stuff I forgot I had. And now most recently I've been scratchbuilding these flying ships from a game called Space 1889 (Alternate universe were Europe has colonized Mars). Because of that, I've been working with wood more than I have since I graduated. You can see the ships in progress here |
Subject: RE: BS: Historical miniatures From: frogprince Date: 23 Apr 08 - 11:28 PM I find either scale delightful; the larger for the stunning realism, and the smaller for their own chunky, graphic, character. Great work on all of 'em! |
Subject: RE: BS: Historical miniatures From: Donuel Date: 24 Apr 08 - 12:15 AM I've taken miniatures to an extreme my whole life. (buildings, ships planes people, animals, you name it...) Yesterday I finished a 3D "painting" miniature of the Multiverse. The Earth is a sphere of Peitrosite, the Sun is pure Citrone (illuminated from below with LED, the moon is an enameled quartz, the dozen asteroids are black opals, the Milky war has 30 real diamonds and beneath the silk surface of the 3D universe lies the multiverse with optocal refractory representations of other universes occupying their own space time. It is an ultra mini miniature measuring feet by two feet. My harshest critic, my 12 year old, told me that it is beautiful, so I will have to concur, it is pretty and in the broad sense of the term historical. |
Subject: RE: BS: Historical miniatures From: Matt_R Date: 24 Apr 08 - 12:16 AM COOL! I demand pictures. |
Subject: RE: BS: Historical miniatures From: Donuel Date: 24 Apr 08 - 09:56 AM Bear in mind that gems, silks and interference materials change appearence by angle and light conditions so the actual picture is ever changing with movment. These unaltered snap shots start at an angle which shows mostly the surface 3D image and gradually start to show more of the mutliverse beyond. I zoom in on only one gem at the end but they all have nice color if you get close enough. The sun is "turned on for a couple of pictures and is turned off for the rest. http://usera.imagecave.com/donuel/don1/mv0.jpg http://usera.imagecave.com/donuel/don1/mv1.jpg http://usera.imagecave.com/donuel/don1/mv2.jpg http://usera.imagecave.com/donuel/don1/mv3.jpg http://usera.imagecave.com/donuel/don1/mv4.jpg http://usera.imagecave.com/donuel/don1/mv5.jpg http://usera.imagecave.com/donuel/don1/mv6.jpg http://usera.imagecave.com/donuel/don1/mv7.jpg http://usera.imagecave.com/donuel/don1/mv8.jpg the back: http://usera.imagecave.com/donuel/don1/mv9.jpg one gem close up: http://usera.imagecave.com/donuel/don1/mv91.jpg |
Subject: RE: BS: Historical miniatures From: Donuel Date: 24 Apr 08 - 09:59 AM In black light there are surprises as well. Also I discovered that the gem Citrone glows neon orange in ultraviolet light. |
Subject: RE: BS: Historical miniatures From: Donuel Date: 24 Apr 08 - 12:09 PM an average view of the universe on the wall http://usera.imagecave.com/donuel/don1/mv.jpg Here is a ficticious ship The Mermaid looking inside the captains quarters (I just noticed a bookcase has fallen) http://usera.imagecave.com/donuel/don1/ship2.jpg The sextant on the table is out of scale but that was as small as I could make one out of brass photo etched parts. |
Subject: RE: BS: Historical miniatures From: wysiwyg Date: 24 Apr 08 - 07:08 PM Damn pirates always leave a mess behind. :~) No doubt looking for the brandy. ~S~ |
Subject: RE: BS: Historical miniatures From: Donuel Date: 25 Apr 08 - 05:57 AM Recreating a ship from blueprints or scale drawings is far more difficult than people realize. Is harder than recreating a Rodan sculpture. I always stuck to kits in some way or another. |
Subject: RE: BS: Historical miniatures From: Grab Date: 25 Apr 08 - 09:33 AM Nice work Matt. I used to do Games Workshop (28mm) for a number of years when I was younger - through most of senior school and into the start of uni. Then I discovered guitar, and miniature painting kind of dropped off the radar! ;-) All this stuff sat around at my folks' place for a while, then spent some time in our loft. I finally sold it a couple of years back. A 12-year-old kid got the deal of a lifetime - probably the better part of £300-worth of miniatures, mostly painted or part-painted, plus two fairly well-filled margarine tub "bits boxes" with random bits for conversions, plus several years' worth of White Dwarf and Dragon. All for £45. I could have got a whole lot more on eBay, but I thought I'd rather sell to someone who was going to get some real enjoyment out of them. I always enjoyed the building and conversion side more than the painting side, although I got fairly good at the painting by the end. But the model-making side was always my forte. So roughly three-quarters of my figures were converted in some way or another, whether by adding standards, changing weapons or adding backpacks/satchels/webbing belts. Or sometimes more significant changes - a whole squad of guardsmen (normally armed with rifles or pistols) got various swords, cudgels, shields and other hand-to-hand weaponry instead, which entailed lots of chopping and changing of hands and arms. On 28mm, the dimensions are deliberately a little off, because that's the Games Workshop style. Early GW models *were* to scale, but when GW changed the house style they all started looking like WWF wrestlers instead of, well, people. That tied in with the whole shift in GW approach at the same time, changing from a very dark, gothic style to a much more kiddie-friendly feel (and simplified rules accordingly). I remember TSR 25mm miniatures were pretty well to scale though. Graham. |
Subject: RE: BS: Historical miniatures From: Donuel Date: 26 Apr 08 - 07:27 AM The only white figures I've done were Vikings for a diarama of a ship in the ocean encountering a large serpant. Tinted Lexan was great for the water with submerged dolphin and serpant. One figure had a gaping mouth which served well as the guy getting sea sick over the rail (composed of fiber optic and glue). In the movie Ground Hog Day Bill Murry had a funny comment about this craft. |