My NMM Internet lesson...

As I mentioned in my last blog about my chaos lords plate metal not looking like it should i was approached on Flickr by a fellow painter in a group I run about how to go about improving my effect and getting it to look like plate/sheet metal.

 

It turns out I was on the right lines in the first place which is great. But I just hadn't executed the shading and highlights enough to give it the nmm feel.

So the other painter took my photo and ran it through photo shop to show me how to improve it.

Step 1 the shadow contrast

Step 2 the white highlights

Step 1&2 together

Obviously it's just rough to show me the idea but I totally get it now!

A Bit more Competition Fun!

Every month now the hobby group I participate in on Facebook throws a little painting competition. As you've seen on here my other entries.
So it's been around 2 competitions since I posted up my last mini so I thought I would give a buy one get one free special on my entries. That's right, not 1, but 2!

The month before lasts competition was the Warhammer goblin shaman. My entry is of a grot Rigga sitting upon the tank he's fixing. A simple conversion of the model but an entirely scratch built tank using the ork track as a basis.

Hope you like!

And last months was the new warriors of chaos lord. Now with this chap I went for no conversion at all. In fact I was kind of enticed to paint him with a limited pallet also. So much in fact it turned into me not painting him with anything more than 5 colours!
This was my most successful attempt at non metallic metals, especially around the gold. But as I was pointed out on Flickr the plate metal just simply looked nothing like plate metal. Still was a nice effect I thought ha ha!

More on this guy in my next blog...