Sjeng's miniatures

[tasoe]

the shields are absolutely awesome and the cape is ... absolutely awesome! I really like your choice of colours, perhaps you could add a yellow one in the 3 black orcs. Also the blood spatters look very realistic.

only thing I don't like is the white (or is it yellow?) around the eyes. I had to come clean, sorry about that!
other than that, to me that's a magnificent looking orc army, waiting to be slaughtered!

[Maike05]

Love them !

But Tasoe's right, the eyes really need to be corrected :s That's too bad, because your painting skill is really great on the rest of the mini !!
In my opinion, you should repaint them in black, then add a big red dot and finish it with a little yellow dot. This way, their eyes will look like burning fire.

[Sjeng]

Thanks! I'm quite happy with the colours too

About the eyes: I feel orcs should have yellowish eyes, and red irises just look cool. I like having them as in LotR, and those orcs have either black eyes (large irises) or sickly yellow.


And this is really the best I can manage (besides, they're already varnished with matt spray)

[el_flesh]

Oh man, after such an utterly amazing paintjob I really hate to say this, but...

several such fantastic paintjobs seem to me lowered by half due to the presence of the mold seam! I would advise everyone to spend a good 20 minutes for each fig with a hobby knife to gently and precisely remove that damn seam that distracts me to no end! (Not only do I remove the seam - you can see by my avatar I also elected to remove the ball between the horns on the bad guys with that same hobby knife.)

I'm really sorry for taking a dump on the parade of several really skilled painters - not just Sjeng!

[Sjeng]

My Fimir are done! I tried cutting away as much of the mouldlines as possible, but after the painting and specifically the washing with thraka green, I still see some lines. But meh, *shrug* I like em

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I started with the bases, adding Milliput to them, and adding bumps and lines in them. After they hardened, I basecoated the miniatures Chaos Black.
Then I drybrushed the bases with dark and light grey. Then I drybrushed the chainmail under the belly-shields, and painted the eyes red. When that dried, I added the yellow irises, and traced the eyes carefully with goblin green. Then I started the rest of the skin with more green, and then the gold and brown on the armor, and the metal and brown on the axes. Finally I did the details: tail-bones, toenails, teeth, dots on the leather armor parts etc.
After that was done I carefully drybrushed the skin snot green (lighter), and andded some highlights with my smallest brush. Then I washed the entire mini with thraka green wash, and that's it!
All that remains to be done are the edges of the bases (I always give them black edges) and then varnish them with matte spray to preserve the paint.

[el_flesh]

They're much better - I don't see much of mould lines; and as I recall the tail and fingers holding the axe could get pretty bad - you did a good job on them, and that isn't even talking about the amazing painting!

[knightkrawler]

They're awesome, though I prefer my Fimir brownish, which is personal taste.
I like the bases, which make sense in a dungeon.
You see so many HeroQuest minis beautifully painted and then put on grass bases, but I don't wanna open this can of worms...

Beautifully done!

[Sjeng]

Most of my mini's have tiles for bases so far, but I will make some outdoor tiles I think. I do have these outdoor boards as you can see, which I might create some quests on. But most will be on the good ol' HQ board, so yes, tiles work best
Thanks for the comments

[Maike05]

They look really nice ! What have you left to paint ?

[Ethica]

More nicely painted figures. I really like the clean, clear style you got, but it makes me regret splatting black ink all over mine.

I also wish to know what other figures you have in the pipeline?