Completed Barbarian Hordes by Red Box Games (KS #6)

[Bathory]

The armor cuts the leg off at the wrong spot. Kinda like if I wear a skirt that is mid calf, it makes my legs look shorter and chubbier. It is probably a normal lenght and fine, but the armor creates the illusion of a shortness. Tim Gunn would tell you to "make it work".

[ub3r_n3rd]

(The length looks OK, based on the middle picture, but it seems like his upper arms are as big around as his thighs.)

 

Well, he IS riding a horse so he's skipped a few or 20 legs days 

[SIGIL]

Yep the legs are still a WIP. So there si still a bit of evolution yet to take place. Also yes the rider is exactly the same size as the other Chosen. I just made teh horse a little bit too small.

 

 I have the next horse armatured already though and will be working earnestly on it tomorrow.

[ub3r_n3rd]

Yep the legs are still a WIP. So there si still a bit of evolution yet to take place. Also yes the rider is exactly the same size as the other Chosen. I just made teh horse a little bit too small.

 

 I have the next horse armatured already though and will be working earnestly on it tomorrow.

 

How much bigger is the next horse?

[CashWiley]

No hair on the Jotunn. I WAS going to add flames to his head but I worried they would not come off properly. This is supposed to be a Fire Giant. Jotunn in my world are endowed with affinity toward one element or another and these affinities manifest in different ways. Usually in the ability to completely ignore that particular element's otherwise destructive effects or the ability to influence manifestations of that element's powers. SO a Fire Giant woudl nto be harmed by fire in anyway, and would be totally immune to natural cold but might suffer massive penalties if in contact with water or if attacked with magical Ice or water spells, while also being able to summon flames on their skin or cause small flames to roar into infernos etc.

 

  And there may yet be naked Helsvakt. I like the idea of berserkers being naked..... I am just not sure if KS will let me do that.

 

  In fact there WILL be naked berserkers.....why not?

Love fire giants,right up there with djinn/efreet as favorites. Some nekkid zerkers would be awesome!

[Adrift]

I'm not trying to be a hater, but I don't think I'll be buying any more RBG figures that don't have helmets or some way for me to justify strong contrast that makes the 'eye' areas darker. I can't figure out a way to paint the sclera of these eyes. The sclera are basically pits and I can't get the 'pits' to be near white with a darker pupil so the eyes sort of appear backwards; black sclera and white pupils. Any clever ideas appreciated.

[ub3r_n3rd]

I'm not trying to be a hater, but I don't think I'll be buying any more RBG figures that don't have helmets or some way for me to justify strong contrast that makes the 'eye' areas darker. I can't figure out a way to paint the sclera of these eyes. The sclera are basically pits and I can't get the 'pits' to be near white with a darker pupil so the eyes sort of appear backwards; black sclera and white pupils. Any clever ideas appreciated.

 

I'm honestly not a big fan of figures I can't paint faces for either, so that's why I've been asking for open faced helmets (or no helmets). So I wouldn't say you are a "hater," I would say, it's a matter of preference and style. 

Edited February 27, 2015 by ub3r_n3rd

[Marvin]

I don't paint eyes. The technique clearly prevails in this situation.

[Marvin]

But people were talking recently about filling the eyes with a tiny amount of something, leveling the surface out so they could work better. Was it Mad Jack? Honestly don't remember.

[ub3r_n3rd]

I don't mind a few, but want some variety to do is all. Not all of them need to be uniformly without faces to paint. This is why I'm really loving the Jotunn as well, it'll give me a chance to do different things with it. I'll buy multiples, do some weapon swaps, use greenstuff to add different hair (and even facial hair), paint in different color schemes, etc.

 

But people were talking recently about filling the eyes with a tiny amount of something, leveling the surface out so they could work better. Was it Mad Jack? Honestly don't remember.

 

 

Probably brush-on sealer. You can cut eye-lids from figures (very carefully) and fill in eyes a bit with the sealer to smooth and bring more level to the rest of the face so that they are easier to paint.

Edited February 27, 2015 by ub3r_n3rd

[SIGIL]

hmmm....this issue is a new one to me.......You are sayign that the sclera are pits? 

 

And since we are talking about it what would make a face more easily paintable RATHER than enlarging the face itself. That woudl radically change the proportions too much or force to sculpt in a whole new scale.

 

Not being a painter myself I though that my sculpting method woudl make it easier to paint an eye, thoguh obviously painting them in the standard Manga fashion usually seen in miniature would not be possible just because of the size of the eye. I thought it would be a matter of white dot, color dot edge up the cheek color to the eyelid and done.

 

If there is a misatke I am making ( and this goes for ANY mistake I am making ) I prefer to know about it so I can fix it rather than continuing to repeat it. I have no ego when it comes to doing it right or wrong so dont think you have to spare my feelings.

[ub3r_n3rd]

hmmm....this issue is a new one to me.......You are sayign that the sclera are pits? 

 

And since we are talking about it what would make a face more easily paintable RATHER than enlarging the face itself. That woudl radically change the proportions too much or force to sculpt in a whole new scale.

 

Not being a painter myself I though that my sculpting method woudl make it easier to paint an eye, thoguh obviously painting them in the standard Manga fashion usually seen in miniature would not be possible just because of the size of the eye. I thought it would be a matter of white dot, color dot edge up the cheek color to the eyelid and done.

 

If there is a misatke I am making ( and this goes for ANY mistake I am making ) I prefer to know about it so I can fix it rather than continuing to repeat it. I have no ego when it comes to doing it right or wrong so dont think you have to spare my feelings.

 

Make sure they aren't so "deep" and don't include any eyelids as they are something that most of us try to work around or cut off so that we can even get to the eyes. 

 

Eyes are hard to do on figures with bigger proportions, but with figures as small as yours (since you are true scale), they are even harder to do, especially when they are recessed so deeply into the face. 

 

Painting eyes usually involves filling them in with a darker brown paint, then going over that darker brown with an off-white, but leaving the brown around to give it an outline for the eye. Next we will paint the eyeball towards the top of the eye and even go over the darker outline a bit (to be fixed later) to simulate the eyelid. That's a basic eye. Others are able to add a dash of color at the bottom of the eye and a white "catch-light" to it. 

 

This Painting eyes tutorial by Marike Reimer shows the more advanced way that people try to paint eyes.

[MonkeySloth]

I've yet to have an issue with Tre's eyes.  Though I don't do the crazy anime eyes at all.

[Doramos]

yeah, I tend to do my eyes like Tre describes. I do white, dot the pupil in, then carefully paint up to the edge of the eye with whatever I'm using for flesh for the character. Then a quick, light wash to give it a little shadow in the recesses.

[ungoreatstefan]

I haven't had the problem some are describing. You can see ( well my photos suck ) how I do RBG eyes on my models. I do a brown outline, fill in most of that with white, then do a dot of brown to be the pupil. I haven't tried doing colored eyes with RBG because I don't know that my brush control is good enough, but I think that it's doable.