[GROUP/OPEN]WIP L2PK3

[CashWiley]

Kit 3 time, finally getting into some NMM! I'm going to start with Anduriel.

 

 

Primed above, and then lined with Walnut Brown:

 

[CashWiley]

I see you likin', Bugbutt. You better like that, look how you have brainwashed me into lining! At his rate, I'm considering priming black and underpainting light areas white...

[Dadcubed]

Or spry under coat black, then use a white spry to spray down onto model and slightly to the sides to leave the recesses black. I saw this done to great effect recently.

 

I had not seen this lining technique before. I think I like it......

[CashWiley]

Base coating the steel:

 

 

Base coating the leather and skin:

 

 

Edit: one thing I hope this helps is the back of the mini. Dearth of shots back there, lots of stuff. I could probably see that cylinder between his bedroll and scabbards as a vial, but I'm going with scroll case. Kind of stumped on the case-looking thing between the bedroll and his hair, so it's leather!

Edited January 26, 2013 by CashWiley

[CashWiley]

Base coating completed!

 

 

I was originally thinking green scabbards, but changed my mind for leather. Now the fun part starts!

[chaosscorpion]

Wow it's looking amazing.

[pocketcthulhu]

Makes me a little itchy to get through the rest of the kits to try this

[CashWiley]

Forgot to note: Blonde hair triad and partial Fair Skin triad. I'm missing the mid-tone of the triad because it's in the KS set and I planned my paint purchase around the contents of the L2PKs and the KS sets. So far everything else is from the included paint.

[CashWiley]

 

Eyes done, linen white and the shadow color from the sea blue triad (name escapes me). First pass of highlight on the steel nmm.

[buglips*the*goblin]

I see you likin', Bugbutt. You better like that, look how you have brainwashed me into lining! At his rate, I'm considering priming black and underpainting light areas white...

 

I am insidious.

[CashWiley]

I'll start off with this statement: NMM is HARD.

 

 

Apologies for the blurry pics as always, autofocus doesn't like these WIP pics. I usually take a few so one might come out in focus...

 

So there's the steel and gold NMM. Easily the most difficult technique I've tried, purely from a theoretical standpoint. I'm happy with a few spots (the gold bracers). For something of this level of complexity, I wish the instructions had three WIP pics of each area to be painted as well as a couple larger front/back shots of the completed minis. I was winging it for most of the mini with very little idea of what I was supposed to be doing.

[buglips*the*goblin]

That's looking good, CW. Real good.

[Slendertroll]

Wow, that's really great NMM! It actually looks reflective.

[ObsidianCrane]

The steel is good but the gold is awesome.

[CashWiley]

I know I'm a bit tough on my own work, but you should reserve judgement until you see the show off pics. It really is quite an unfocused (no pun intended) mess. Small blurry pics favor NMM :p

 

But thanks for the kind words, everyone.