Ok so i finished my first minis ever:D Those are the axis gorillas, the easy ones it is said:P It took my some time, so now i'm looking foward for your opinions and advice;) I haven't used any washes, those guys are just painted once and that's all;)

You shouldn't really hot-link to other sites as it uses their bandwidth. The links don't work as you are linking to a page rather than a pic (right click > properties to get pics URL. Your best bet is to use photobucket as it gives you the url to post here using the insert image icon. As to the painting itself, I think the brown grilla is to brown and think a black wash all over will finish it off nicely.

Thx for the tips Seems to be working now..

Nice start, but you really should put some black wash over the whole thing. Right now it's looking too.... chocolaty.

Today i'm gona get some badab black and try to wash one of those guys. I'm interested how will this turn out;)

Hmm so i washed one monkey for testing and i'm not sure do i like the result. Surely the fur looks better and shiny

Now just do some drybrushing to add the highlights.

You mean the fur? And what colour schould i use? Some mixed b-w?

Yeah, some light gray on the fur, some beige on the skin, light metal on the gloves....

I think you are overestimating my color abilities:D All i got is 2 versions of silver and some basic skin tone:D Or we can get back to cholcolate skin;) Ok so how exactly i schould do it ? :/ I know the theory in drybrushing, schould i just make it a one quick move and leave it till it's dry?

Well.... if you're going to do some painting you really should get more than 3 colours. But if you're not interested, you can still mix what you have and try to arrive at something that works.

Drybrushing is quite simple. Get the paint on your brush, then wipe most of it out on a piece of cloth or paper, then you lightly brush your model, so that the colour sticks to the raised parts of it.

Well i meanted for those colours i could use for that. Generally i have the most basic colours + some valileo uniform colours for americans and russians. Will try mxing black with a little white and drybrushing the fur

OK, so it's time to show some tank buster. I haven't seem a lot of these guys painted so here are my versions of them + strangly shiny armor OZZ. I'm still afraid of weathering so some advices about that in those minis would be great:D

It's fun getting into a painting hobby, isn't it?! All the things you will learn to do will later amaze you.

Instead of using a grey tone to highlight black I usually will use a mix of turquoise and black. Look at a crows feathers in real life and let me know if you see grey highlights. ;-)

Sometimes we rely too much on the color wheel and not enough on lifelong observations. Also, here on the forum I don't see the advanced uses of non-metallic metallics, and other advanced painting techniques.

That's because NMM is for little girls.

JigBakerSugar said:

It is a big PITA, but from a battlefield perspective it really makes a difference. The idea is to make a 1 inch tall model with a 1/3 inch rifle look like a 6 foot tall soldier with lifesize equipment from far away.

Im going to go brush my Barbie's hair now.

Ummm, so schould i higlit armor in some places with more gray?

My approach when using metallic paints is to not paint 100% of the metallic surface. And to basecoat it in a much darker shade of metallic. For example use black and metal mixed together on 80% of the surface, then paint over in your primary metallic about 50% of the surface. Kind of like how shading is doneon a tattoo.

In a few days I'll post a pic so it will make more sense.

In past few weeks i hedn't had much time for painting. I gave monkeys and TB some work, made an experiment with gorillas bases, and yesterday painted the DD. Also today i found out how much i suck at making photos and how much a photo can change how the mini looks like.

All opinions appreciated.

That's a lot of painting. I find the Dust minis to be easier than most to paint, and very rewarding.

Hen the sculpts and molds are good it doesn't feel like you're taking a buffing wheel to a turd pile.

Well, that's definitely an improvement. Why don't you try some drybrush or wash? These are really simple techniques that get stuff done quickly and almost automatically.

I think he was using testers enamel paint early on.

one thing he needs to learn is to stop painting 100% of each surface in the base color.

Working on that:P

As for washes all of them exept for coats of DD were washed and the gorrilas fur was drybrushed for some 3D effect. Also i drybrushed the DD guns to mach the weapons from orginaly painted core set;) Where else schould i add some of that?

The folds in pants and clothes could use a little highlight on the creases. That might make a different on the DD's