Hunter Rose

Had another paint session last night, so I started by making the bright highlight on his chest slightly smaller by mixing up a slightly darker mix and then extending that midtone a little higher up his chest than before to help with the colour transition. IMG_20240423_195740439 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Then I mixed up the brighter highlight colour (caledor sky blue with a touch of night lords blue) and added this to the area of the helmet I want to be the bright spot. I also upped the brightness of the edge highlighting. IMG_20240423_195754590 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240423_195815112 by Nick Frost, on Flickr I've been looking at some classic Judge Dredd artwork for references and the stripe on his helmet visor should be thicker than the one I did, so I thickened it and then redid the highlights with lighter shades of grey as before and I added a white edge highlight to the outer edges of the underside. IMG_20240423_200843369 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240423_201047678 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240423_201410030 by Nick Frost, on Flickr In the above photo you can just about make out that I actually added a bit of the flesh colour to the grey and brushed it over in the areas where his face would be closest to try and and help with the illusion of it being clear, not sure its all that successful but I'm happy with how it looks anyway. Next thing was the white highlights for the visor, in the comics his classic look is to have a couple of lightning flash white highlights, so rather than worry about how it would be in reality I've decided to stick with the comic book look and replicate them on him. IMG_20240423_201808391 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Then I added the red base coat for the helmet, for this I used a a 60/40 mix of mephiston red and rhinox hide for my dark colour, for the highlights I'll work through pure mephiston up to eveil sunz scarlet for the brightest bits. IMG_20240423_202544856 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240423_203841833 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240423_204959238 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240423_205005217 by Nick Frost, on Flickr So next up I'll start the highlighting of the red and building up the colour. Thanks for looking, more soon

Wow that's looking totally tropical! Love it

Thanks Yg, appreciate it! Did a bit more on this last night, I was working on the highlights of the jacket, so I boosted them some more by using pure caledor sky, and then a final step of caledor sky with a bit of white in (dont want to add too much so the colour stays nice and strong) IMG_20240422_193609382 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240422_194009441 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Then I moved on to his helmet highlights using the same colours, as its metal I did some edge highlighting and made sure to highlight the cracks and scratches too. IMG_20240422_201018274 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240422_201441320 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240422_201614484 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240422_201628142 by Nick Frost, on Flickr At this point I also noticed that I missed a bit of his suit at the bottom, I thought under his belt was the base but it is actually the top bit of his legs so I just gave that a coat of night lords blue. And I'll leave it at that, I wont highlight that part as its down the bottom and its in shadow from the pouches. IMG_20240422_202006336 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240422_202017663 by Nick Frost, on Flickr So now the highlights on the jacket are done, but I still want to add a strong one to his helmet on the right hand side. IMG_20240422_202138714 by Nick Frost, on Flickr If you look in the above photo, I was initially thinking maybe I'd gone to bright with the highlight on his chest but actually the thing that throws it off a bit is the helmet is darker. It needs a highlight of the same strength just on the right hand side that is facing forward where his head is turned slightly, and also I may blend that highlight a little higher up his chest too. So thats all to come next, I think I'll get the red down on the helmet too to help get a better sense of how its looking overall. Thanks for looking, more soon

Glad you got your booth sorted, nice seeing some paint on it, and I like the sound of the camo

Thanks Andy!

Okay got myself another bit of 3D printed goodness, I've always wanted to make a judge dredd model, so as soon as I saw this cool bust I jumped at it! IMG_20240417_162912214 by Nick Frost, on Flickr It was a pretty good print, just a a bit of sanding here and there but with no support marks, only small thing I had to sort was a hole on the seam of his glove so I just re-sculpted over it with some green stuff. IMG_20240417_162929369 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240417_163406906 by Nick Frost, on Flickr With that done it was on to priming, so I sprayed him with some chaos black primer, and then I got some white laquer paint in the air brush and blasted over some white for a zenithal effect as a reference for my deep shadows and highlights. IMG_20240418_165013532 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240418_203253883 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Working on the inside out principal I started with his face (or what you can see of it!) This is the same process I use for most standard flesh, I start with a coat of bugmans glow IMG_20240420_195353862 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Then I mix 50/50 bugmans glow and cadian flesh and brush that over most of it except for the main shadow areas (this is very subtle as its a transition step to smooth the colours together) IMG_20240420_200541297 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Then its pure cadian flesh and I'm brushing it over making sure to leave my shadow areas and not to cover all of the previous transition colour. IMG_20240420_200940512 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Then I start to establish highlights with a 50/50 mix of cadian flesh and kislev flesh IMG_20240420_201749703 by Nick Frost, on Flickr And now I accentuate the highlights with pure kislev flesh IMG_20240420_202127768 by Nick Frost, on Flickr At this point I want to give them lips a bit of warmth as thats where the blood is closest to the surface, so I did a 50/50 mix of mephiston red and vallejos deep magenta to get a purply red, then brush some of this into my kislev flesh and applied it to the lips. IMG_20240420_202759599 by Nick Frost, on Flickr I then mixed some vallejo bone white into the kislev flesh to push some of the highlights further. IMG_20240420_205525236 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240420_205532618 by Nick Frost, on Flickr I was pretty happy at this point so for now I moved away from it and got the base coat for the helmet and his suit done with some night lords blue IMG_20240421_102725574 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Then once that was done I decided to move on to his visor as I thought that would help me get a better impression of how his face is looking, so I gave it a black coat, and then for the edge (which in the comics I believe is clear) I used a dark grey as a start point and using a few mixes with more and more white I highlighted it out from the middle working in smaller areas to leave the middle as the bright spot. IMG_20240421_194124560 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240421_194311775 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240421_195447378 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Oh I forgot to mention, also in the above photos, I highlighted his lip with some kislev flesh, and used a small dab of bone white to make his nose highlight brighter. Next I moved back to his suit and started adding the first highlight step by mixing some caledor sky blue in with the night lords blue and brushing it over the highpoints IMG_20240421_201125983 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240421_201647711 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240421_202249265 by Nick Frost, on Flickr I also started the same process with the helmet with the same colour as a start point. IMG_20240421_202630111 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240421_202827414 by Nick Frost, on Flickr So thats where he is for now, next up I'll highlight his suit more, although the next highlight will only be for his front upper body, the back and lower body are more in shadow and I want to keep his top half as the main focus. Thanks for looking, more soon

Oh man they are awesome! Really fun looking project, following with interest

Yeah love a bit of Ma.k! The racoon is one of my favourites, and thats a lovely weathered finish you've achieved, great work!

Oh sweet! I'm a big fan of Castle in the Sky but not seen this model before, you've done a great job with it

Nice one Jim! Great use of bits and it's a cool design

Thanks guys appreciate the kind words

Amazing paint job! Nice one

Cheers Mike! Appreciate the compliment Right so I have finished this guy, the last couple of steps I had to do was to do the final small highlights on his leather flap, and give his tail fin the same treatment as the other fins IMG_20240403_222256074 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240403_222314317 by Nick Frost, on Flickr And with that I got him stuck on to the base IMG_20240414_125843932 by Nick Frost, on Flickr I've taken a load of final pics and made the rfi topic, heres a link to it: - Thanks for all the reactions and comments, I've really enjoyed this one! And I've already got my next one waiting to be primed so I'll be back with another very soon. Thanks for looking!

This is a 3D printed figure from the Flesh of Gods series of printable miniatures, and as soon as I saw this guy I couldn't wait to get him! I painted it with acrylic paints, mostly with citadel but with some vallejo game color too. As always I tried to paint with the light in mind, and I wanted him to have very vibrant colours so I preserved as much as the dark shadow colours as I could to push the contrast which makes colours look brighter. I did enjoy painting this guy, especially the base, and thanks for all the interest and comments, its always very much appreciated. Heres a link to the wip and here are the final pics, I took quite a few so apologies in advance! IMG_20240414_150019618 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240414_135000781~2 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240414_135113564~2 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240414_135208314~2 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240414_150044716 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240414_150025428 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240414_150004989 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240414_145923175 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240414_145856960 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240414_133928630~2 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240414_134938695 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240414_134929180 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240414_134828263 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240414_134818200 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240414_134753582 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240414_134026048 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240414_133951380 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Thanks for looking, all comments and questions welcome

She turned out great Hopsing! Really like your work with the face