Since we do not have a painting subforums let's start a community thread that can serve as inspiration for other people.

Especially as we already have some great examples on the forums:
https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/228026-painted-miniatures/?hl=painted

I'm going to kick this off with a resource section.

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Useful resources and tutorials from all over the Internet:

Incredibly simple Acrylic gel veins by The Red Right Hand

http://morebloodypulp.blogspot.sk/2011/06/slimy-veins-tutorial.html

Floating rocks and magic effects from Massive Voodoo site.
http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.sk/2014/12/tutorial-magic-effects-on-miniatures.html

A series of tutorials on various basing techniques if you do not want to go with clear plastic circles. Posted on Handcannon Online

http://handcannononline.com/blog/2011/03/28/tutorial-thematic-basing-part-1-base-building-basics-2/

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Collected painting threads

bulldoguk 's full set of painted second edition models
https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/228026-painted-miniatures/

Elrath 's investigators
https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/228026-painted-miniatures/?p=2386762

WWPDSteven 's investigators:
https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/230779-my-painted-investigators/

My two cents:

Well, here are my 2nd edition investigators. I'm continuing next to the 1st edition investigators and then I'll see about painting the monsters. Since the character art only shows the upper body I've more or less guessed the coloring of boots and pants.

EDIT: Sorry about the poor shots. I just snapped the photos real quick and maybe the camera could have been 5 cm closer or so.

Byakhee from Forbidden Alchemy

Someone asked about colors and painting tips in the other painting thread here so I thought I'll tackle colors. At least my color choices for painting my investigators. Maybe they'll help someone. Here's my first: Preston.

For investigators the hero card art gives good clues. But it doesn't show the hero's lower body so one has to guess the color of the pants and shoes. Period photos don't really help since they're black and white but the Internet is still a good way to find reference colors. Lets start matching colors with the easiest character of all: Preston.

Now he's easy. He seems to be wearing a brown suit so that's what I painted him wearing. I used Citadel's Steel Legion Drab for the suit, washed with Agrax Earthshade and highlighted back with Steel Legion Drab mixed in with some Screaming Skull. You can Google for paint compatibility charts if you need other colors.

The shirt is obviously white and the shirt actually shows under the suit's jacket a little from the sleeve so you can see that I missed that detail when I painted the figure. For boardgaming, it's not a huge problem though.

Tie I painted with Screaming Pink and highlighted a little by mixing Evil Sunz Scarlet into the Screaming Pink. I think I used a wash too but I can't remember.

Skin is done using Sorastro's method for painting Caucasian skin. He described the method in his Imperial Assault painting tutorials, for example painting Han Solo.

The hair is done with Black with a little gray mixed into it, washed with Nuln Oil and then highlighted with Eshin Grey.

Shoes and walking stick I painted with warm brown using Mournfang Brown. I washed with Agrax Earthshade and highlighted with Mournfang Brown and then with Skrag Brown.

So, those are my color choices. I admit that using the same color for the walking stick as the shoes was pure laziness from my part. A darker, shinier wood might look better. Anyway, I'll try to post my color choices about another Mansions of Madness investigator soon.

I have a question and I hope someone can help me. I'm a perfectionist and it would irk me if I made an obvious mistake painting my minis so I thought I'd ask other painters here but I'm sorely confused by whatever the hell Wendy Adams is wearing, the reference picture only shows part of he outfit and it seems different to the sculpt, and it also doesn't help that I'm red-green colour blind.

Reference:

On the picture above it looks like she's wearing a grey shirt, over that a white blouse, and over that a purple dress. On the miniature, however, that wouldn't make any sense because she also has an apron in addition to her dress and it looks like the apron and the blouse are the same piece of fabric, but at the same time from the back it looks like she's wearing a dress with a blouse over it and no sign of an apron going past her waist in the back unless it's part of the actual blouse but then is she just not wearing the apron in the picture? Or is the apron part of the purple thing she's wearing in the picture? The miniature has a what looks like an open row of buttons in the front that would match the blouse in the picture above, but there's no sign of another layer in the miniature that would suggest that she's wearing anything over the white blouse, at least nothing with a round neckline like an apron would have. So what colour is her actual dress? Is it grey like her sleeves or white like the blouse or purple like in the picture? Then what colour is that darn apron? Where does the dress start and the apron end? At first I thought it's kind of an Alice in Wonderland style apron but there's nothing in the back that would separate the apron from the blouse. I'm just sorely confused at this point. Also, whatever the miniature is wearing surely doesn't look like the's some destitute street urchin...

Idk. I know I'm overthinking it but if there's anything I hate when painting miniatures then it's when I have to guess that the hell the sculptor tried to depict because it makes no logical sense or is so mangled that you can't make out what it's supposed to be (looking at you 15mm pewter miniatures). Anyway. Hope someone has any insight that makes sense.

I know your pain Timpro. I struggled with Loku Kanoalo (I spelled it wrong, didn't I?) from Imperial Assault since his character art and the figure were so far behind.

Wendy. (and again I'm not saying that my color choices are perfect or even good. For me matching colors doesn't have to be 100% accurate as long as the character is easily recognizable but I try to get the colors as close as possible)

The dress I painted white, washed with Nuln Oil+Lahmian Medium mix and highlighted back white.

The apron I painted with Screamer Pink mixed in with a little Daemonette Hide to make the color just a bit more purple. Washed with Druchii Violet (though Carroburg Crimson would be fine too) and highlighted back up. The highlights were a bit tricky since I mixed the original base color with Wild Rider Red and White Scar. Just white will make the highlights too pink and just Wild Rider Red will make the highlights too red. Genestealer Purple might also be good to lighten the original mix.

The sleeves seem to be from a shirt she wears under the dress. It's a greenish-bluish-gray color and I think I used Thunderhawk Blue for them. Russ Gray or Fenrisian Gray might be good too. And Fenrisian Gray would be good for highlights at least. Coelia Greenshade is probably the best wash for this.

I don't know what color shoes she wears so I painted them the same color as the apron.

Thanks for your response, Elrath. I guess I'll just have to make something up...

So after all this back and forth about Wendy, I finally completed the miniature on Saturday, but then I went to spray some Army Painter matte varnish over the gloss coat but in a moment of temporary retardation I grabbed the Army Painter white primer and this happened:

Luckily, the the front was spared,

but nonetheless I can't help but feel pretty discouraged at this point. Looks like she's been sleeping in a snow flurry or something. I guess I'll paint over it at some point...

Aww, man, that sucks. It was a really nicely painted miniature. I hope you don't get completely discouraged. I think it would be a shame if you didn't fix it up. The world deserves more nicely painted Mansions of Madness figures

Wendy is well done. Always best to do a quick test spray to clean the head, make sure it isn't clogged and you know, it is what you think it is.

Don't despair, there are several things you can do.

http://creativetwilight.com/how-to-deal-with-fuzzy-primer/

http://pitoftheoni.blogspot.dk/2009/08/when-good-models-go-bad.html

Timpro, any tips on doing eyes? I've managed decent eyes with a pin dipped in paint, but it's really hit-or-miss.

Timpro, any tips on doing eyes? I've managed decent eyes with a pin dipped in paint, but it's really hit-or-miss.

I may be the wrong person to answer this as I rarely paint eyes because the figures are too small to see them anyway and the eyes often look like character is really amazed, surprised or on drugs (Or very, very scared which could be appropriate for Mansions of Madness). But when viewing from playing distance, the viewing angle would hide the eyes anyway.

When I paint eyes, I paint them immediately after highlighting the face. I use a small brush and carefully paint the eye socket. The black pupil I often paint with very dark gray (black tends to look too dark) and I try to paint it as a sort of streak. Splitting the eye 50%/50% with the stroke tends to make the figure look cross-eyed so it's better to paint closer to the nose. So, from the eye surface area and going from nose to outside: 30% white, black stroke resembling pupil, 70% white. Then, since I have the highlight colors mixed and ready for the face, I can use them to neaten the areas around the eyes and cover any areas where white or the pupil color might have hit accidentally.

I've found painting eyebrows to be more important for the figure look than the eyes. I paint the eyebrows trying to be as careful as possible and again neaten up with the face highlight colors if the eyebrows look too thick, long or otherwise wrong.

For Imperial Assault figures (they seem a tad larger scale), I try to paint the eyes and eyebrows and I use the method above.

Cool, thanks! And yeah, the investigators are so dang tiny, trying to do eyes might be an effort in futility on my part. Ah well.

Timpro, any tips on doing eyes? I've managed decent eyes with a pin dipped in paint, but it's really hit-or-miss.

Sorry for the late response but I didn't see this until just now.

I've learned a little trick for painting simple eyes that makes it very easy.

First of all, you have to start with the eyes. You paint the white first and the secret is that you don't try to paint a dot in the middle, but instead you draw a vertical line straight through the eyes. That's why you do the eyes first so that you can draw this line basically from eyebrows down to cheekbone without messing up the skin. This line is your eyes. Now all you have to do is paint the face around it and shape the eyes using the skin color. Remember that using this technique you will not be able to do a flesh wash on the face without it looking weird. I never use flesh wash anyway, really. Anyway, that's how Wendy's eyes were painted too and if you look closely you can see that her pupils aren't really round but you can hardly tell.

Dedicated two shelves for MoM storage ((includes unfinished pieces).

Edit - the entire monster collection:

On 10/5/2016 at 11:55 PM, Timpro said:

I have a question and I hope someone can help me. I'm a perfectionist and it would irk me if I made an obvious mistake painting my minis so I thought I'd ask other painters here but I'm sorely confused by whatever the hell Wendy Adams is wearing, the reference picture only shows part of he outfit and it seems different to the sculpt, and it also doesn't help that I'm red-green colour blind.

Reference:

On the picture above it looks like she's wearing a grey shirt, over that a white blouse, and over that a purple dress. On the miniature, however, that wouldn't make any sense because she also has an apron in addition to her dress and it looks like the apron and the blouse are the same piece of fabric, but at the same time from the back it looks like she's wearing a dress with a blouse over it and no sign of an apron going past her waist in the back unless it's part of the actual blouse but then is she just not wearing the apron in the picture? Or is the apron part of the purple thing she's wearing in the picture? The miniature has a what looks like an open row of buttons in the front that would match the blouse in the picture above, but there's no sign of another layer in the miniature that would suggest that she's wearing anything over the white blouse, at least nothing with a round neckline like an apron would have. So what colour is her actual dress? Is it grey like her sleeves or white like the blouse or purple like in the picture? Then what colour is that darn apron? Where does the dress start and the apron end? At first I thought it's kind of an Alice in Wonderland style apron but there's nothing in the back that would separate the apron from the blouse. I'm just sorely confused at this point. Also, whatever the miniature is wearing surely doesn't look like the's some destitute street urchin...

Idk. I know I'm overthinking it but if there's anything I hate when painting miniatures then it's when I have to guess that the hell the sculptor tried to depict because it makes no logical sense or is so mangled that you can't make out what it's supposed to be (looking at you 15mm pewter miniatures). Anyway. Hope someone has any insight that makes sense.

I know it is too late now since you re done with it but i guess this could have helped in your conundrum