Miniature Painting - Blog Posts
Kitbashed a lil gaze of the dark gods token for my Blooded killteam! The body is from a 40k grot and the head is from a chaos marine.
Made some hellish bases for the Blooded killteam! Once I’ve added the ogre to the skull base I’m filling the ground with blood like on the others to really make it look like he’s standing in it!
FINISHED!!!!
Love these squigs, especially happy with the grots’ skin
Wip mangler squigs
Grot’s face melted slightly while priming so I added some blood to make it look like his face got smashed
I found these plastic dinosaur minies and decided to paint them to look like Lucky and Wuerhosaurus from paleo pines & and i will show you all the steps in case you want to do something like this yourself
This was my firs time painting minie figures and i tried using the same techniques people use for DnD figures so you can just look up those tutorials on youtube.
I found these ugly plastic dinosaurs on at a flee market for like 5 hryvnias and this is how they looked before their makeover:
First thing i did was wash them with soap and strip off all the spray paint from them using polish remover/acetone, untill they were this weird yellowish plastic color. (Idk if this step was necessary but i wanted to romoves all the dirt & dust so the paint sticks better)
Then i painted them fully with a dark color. I dont advise using pure black. I used a more dark-ish grey with a bit of blue so the undertone works better.
By the way here are these mfs near a match (for size comparison ofc).
Next i dry-brushed them with a cream color to bring out the texture and leave the dark color in the creases and shadows. I had to go over with a few coats so that they were not too dark.
Fore some reason they made these guys all wrinkly instead of scaly but it did help with the texture lol.
(The more i looked at them the more i saw how weird and inaccurate they are. Still cute though)
And the last steps were to cover them in colorfull washes:
The key is to go slowly, building up the colors layer by layer. I also added a bit of different hues in some places to make the colors less more alive (like a bit of pink on the plates, or some green in certain places idk it just gives more variety to the colors. with out it it the colors look a bit monotonous).
Also, seriously go play the game!!!! it`s just so cute. Dinosaur designs are cutified but still faithfull to how the animal looked according to science (minus the pastel colors lol) and you just know that it was made by true dinosaur lovers.
They do have a tumblr blog at @paleopinesofficial but i see their content more on tiktok
This painting is quite small (smaller than A5 I believe) with miniature details, which you see enhanced here. I used tiny brushes to make it and applied the paint in many thin layers. I would have wished to show you the physical piece. Unlike big paintings, you need to hold this close to you and get closer and closer to see each detail. I love that.
I am immensely captivated by early Renaissance landscape art. How they paint each tree and rock, the bizarre architecture, the blue mountains far away, the silence and magic… It just feels like somewhere I know and very real. This is a painting that come about because of those feelings.
Sadly I still lack a name for it. Well, maybe...
Castle of Alchemists, 2020
A small painting with miniature details.
Heres some more miniature wood I did that I haven't uploaded here. The 2 at the bottom are the most recent ones, which I think look the best. time to start designing the full structure now for real
some results of my newer method for making miniature wood grain on plastic (tamiya pla plate 0.5 mm). I carve the lines on it under a magnifying glass, and paint over it afterwards. I think i've made more than enough of these, so I'm now going to try to design the actual building that I'm going to put these on... it can be hard to come up with ideas though
More practice painting miniature wood grain. work in progress. I'm going to make some newer ones once I get some new paints (I ran out of some)
Practicing painting wood grain effect on plastic. This is the attempt I just finished. First post here to tumblr... hello
Contest season is upon us, time to paint 80’s and 90’s minis to a higher standard in anticipation of going hard on a single mini!
I like my thrones miniature, and my kings dying as a plot device in Fire Emblem games.
I’m going to my Friendly Local Gaming Store today, here are some minis from pro painters in the painting cabinet including some names you might recognize!
Some tips for hobbying while being cheap and neurodivergent:
If you, like me, pick up cool rocks and want to show them off and have cool terrain at the same time: glue them into cool piles on a piece of cardboard to make landmarks. People have been stacking large rocks in piles for millennia to mark trails and denote distances. And now everyone can see your cool rocks on the tabletop!
Do you ever worry about mixing up too much Green Stuff or Milliput? Have a leftover epoxy putty project. Don’t rush it, it’s just where you put all the leftover stuff. It doesn’t look like much now, but one day I’ll have a four armed, two headed Chaos Giant because I keep mixing up a little too much putty!
Do you ever want to do make statues for your terrain, but you don’t want to sacrifice a whole mini to make one? Glue extra horns and weapons onto Knights and Warriors style army men from the dollar stores! You’ll have some convincing statues after just a prime and a dry brush or two!
I made a comic, a minifigure recreation of Moss controversy by @pocketss