Blog Nathans WIP

[Nathan Weeres]

Ended up buying a 3d printer and printed this guy from lost kingdom. Tried a few things I'm not very experienced with and I think it turned out pretty good, never done water before and I'm pretty happy with how the base turned out. I've also never utilized drybrushing to the extent I did on the dog and it's not exactly how I wanted it but not to bad.

 

[Nathan Weeres]

Here's a foot hero with a little pet from the same line, nothing to crazy but the little guy is pretty neat

 

[Nathan Weeres]

Last group from this line for now, got some ogres coming up in the middle of the month which will give me a chance to try alternative techniques for skin.

 

[Imrahil]

Very nice!

Lovely looking foxes

Grrr, !mrahil

 

[Nathan Weeres]

Thanks! I'm a big fan of these models and I'm pretty happy with how all the foxes turned out

 

[- Q -]

Last group from this line for now, got some ogres coming up in the middle of the month which will give me a chance to try alternative techniques for skin.View attachment 162338 View attachment 162339

Very cool. They look awesome!

 

[Nathan Weeres]

Finished the first model for my ogre army, a sabertooth cat. I got a squad of 3 and I'm gonna do tiger lion and snow leopard style. I've done a tiger and snow leopard before so I'm just trying to refine my original techniques for those(the tiger was one of the first things I painted when I got back into painting as an adult) this one's the tiger and a pic of the original model I used this technique on.

 

[Nathan Weeres]

Lions done if I had to do a bunch of these I'd probably.do it this way since it was relatively quick and doesn't look too bad

 

[- Q -]

Lions done if I had to do a bunch of these I'd probably.do it this way since it was relatively quick and doesn't look too badView attachment 162698 View attachment 162699

Looks good!

 

[Nathan Weeres]

Last sabertooth done, I like this one the best. Gonna do a couple ogres next to try out different skin techniques

 

[Nathan Weeres]

First ogre done for this and the banner I'm aiming to improve on the techniques I've been using for skin and for the sergeant I'm going to try something completely different.

 

[Nathan Weeres]

This one turned out closer to the skin tone I was aiming for so depending how the sergeant comes out I might do the rest like this. Th banner didn't turn out very well so I might go back and highlight it later to see if I can sort it out.

 

[Nathan Weeres]

I stepped way out of my comfort zone for this one and mixed primary colors and beige to get the skin tones, it ended up being a lot more work i think in large part because I didn't have a good blue so I used craft paints which seem to have significant different properties then I'm used to and it ended up more matte. I'm reasonably happy with the end result but I'll probably do the rest like I did the banner and maybe pull a few lessons I learned with this one to try and improve.

 

[- Q -]

I stepped way out of my comfort zone for this one and mixed primary colors and beige to get the skin tones, it ended up being a lot more work i think in large part because I didn't have a good blue so I used craft paints which seem to have significant different properties then I'm used to and it ended up more matte. I'm reasonably happy with the end result but I'll probably do the rest like I did the banner and maybe pull a few lessons I learned with this one to try and improve. View attachment 162988 View attachment 162989

Excellent job on the skin tones. It looks really good. That's one angry boi looking for a fight!

 

[Nathan Weeres]

Thanks! I'm gonna start on one of the characters tonight and try to mix some of the techniques together and see how it turns out.

 

[Nathan Weeres]

Here's the mounted character, both the guy and the mount got messed up a bit in the printing process but painting smoothed it out enough that it's hard to notice.

 

[Nathan Weeres]

Here's a wizard with familiar, this was the one I was most excited for when I printed it but everything went wrong while I was painting it lol. The familiar was great tho.

 

[Explodingzeb]

Here's a wizard with familiar, this was the one I was most excited for when I printed it but everything went wrong while I was painting it lol. The familiar was great tho.View attachment 163225 View attachment 163226 View attachment 163227 View attachment 163228

Loving the kiwi familiar! If that wizard is what a model of yours looks like when everything has gone wrong, I think you are doing okay lol. I think she looks great.

 

[Nathan Weeres]

Thanks! I had to redo the skin several times since the base layer kept peeling up when I was trying to put on highlights and she popped off the base since there's only one small point of contact. There ended up being a bit of texture on her back. I also used the wrong shade of green for the bamboo bits which isn't a huge deal but it makes the jade stuff blend in a bit more the it otherwise would. Overall she turned out fine but it was a bit of a frustrating experience lol.

 

[- Q -]

It's so cute. Best familiar ever.