rex_lyver Posted January 3, 2005 Share Posted January 3, 2005 This is the last figure from Reaper's Legend of the Five Rings: Rokugan Miniature line that my brother 'requested'. This guy is all armor. I have no idea how you would wound this character - aim for the knee caps I guess. With all the busy armor pieces I tried to keep the color scheme as simple as possible - VMC's GoldBrown, Pale Greyblue, and Hull Red. Heavily glazed the face with a golden yellow to imply an Asian skin tone - I keep trying. Added a wood-grain effect on the bow to complicate matters. Comments/suggestions welcomed. Rex Note: Thanks to ImageShack for Free Image Hosting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubbdog Posted January 3, 2005 Share Posted January 3, 2005 Detail and blending work are awesome. I think your camera has rosy colored lenses on it tho, cause it looks to red.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushido Posted January 3, 2005 Share Posted January 3, 2005 Very nice...it has an almost historical feel. I suppose it's just the color choices, which are very appropriate. All those glazes seem to have flattened out the skin, but I can sympathize this the difficulty of Asian flesh tones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stern Kestrelmann Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Very well done. Thanks for sharing. SK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
:0) Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 I think your camera has rosy colored lenses on it tho, cause it looks to red.. I took the liberty of clearing it up a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rex_lyver Posted January 4, 2005 Author Share Posted January 4, 2005 Thanks for the comments everyone. I agree with DChihorn about the image quality. My photo-fu is weak! The sum total of my photo skills include a couple different backdrops and clicking on a few PhotoShop presets. The gradient I used here has always caused strange color shifts with my camera. I should just toss that background into the garbage and be done with it. In any case, here is Daidoji Kisu on a different backdrop with the same PhotoShop presets - honestly a monkey could replace me. :0) - thanks for trying to salvage the image but I think the gradient just doesn't work for my camera. Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubbdog Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Man, shouldnt throw away a backdrop on account of me.. I feel bad now.. Play with your camera some. I am going thru kinda hte same thing myself. Play with the white level settings. I thought that backdrop was pretty cgood myself. Simple, yet elegant type.. Enhances the mini... Well, either way, the paintjob and your detail work are top notch and I am sure the benefactor of it will like it much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erion Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 That's a very nicely done piece. It actually spoke the word "wow" when I first saw it. Great work, and even if your photo-fu is weak, your paint-fu is strong! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbuddylee Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 I'm not a big fan of samauri minis, but this is very nice, good work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztidjuggalo78 Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Wow and finally. its great 2 see someone else paint these guys. i was begining 2 think im the only one. now that ive seen someone else's i have some ideas for making mine look better thks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayushi Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 Great work, you have inspired me to get off my ace and paint up some Scorpions. Really excellent work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastman Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 The paintjob looks very good. Something to check on your digital camera - does it allow manual white-balance settings? The reason your backdrop could be giving problems is this - the camera is trying to balance the light to get white and it ends up correcting for the actual blue color of the background, shifting the images towards red or orange. If you can manually set the white balance (by reading off of white paper), then the images will be truer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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