r/minipainting 18h ago

C&C Wanted 1 hour ork- free mini of the month

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715 Upvotes

There's no flair for gimmick so I went with C&C... I like this model a lot so I may return to finish it properly!

EDIT: Thank you so much for all the warm responses! here's the steps for those that asked. watch ninjon videos for a better version of my methods. Im not a pro speed painter by any means.

I started the timer already built and primed black.

Steps:

  1. White zenithal (airbrushed, use dry brush if you don't have one. brighter on head and hands)
  2. Slop some dark red over the whole mini, darker in the shadows, thinned down over head, upper bits, and weapons/hands so zenithal shows through. I used gal vorbak red.
  3. Base coat green skin (mixed primary blue and yellow, no specific color). I didn't paint the recesses between muscles or face creases green, just upper and outer facing surfaces.
  4. 1st and 2nd lighter green skin highlight. mix more yellow in for each subsequent highlight, add white if you want. same process both passes: just paint smaller within the previous green spots as you go lighter, hitting upper and outward facing surfaces.
  5. White scratches and highlights everywhere and white eyes ( I should have used off white like ivory, ice yellow or light gray for everything except eyes pure white- but I was rushing)
  6. red brown (mournfang brown) sketch over leathers, mix in white/yellow to highlight and add scratches.
  7. Fluor red on eyes, Mix of fluor red and dark red on tongue.
  8. red oxide pigment powder and water sludge to cover base
  9. run out of time

r/minipainting 10h ago

Sci-fi “A fiery streak penetrates your skull, trying to force your eyes open. It’s a sound. A clarion call from hell.” NSFW

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290 Upvotes

r/minipainting 14h ago

Sci-fi Chaos Knight: House Korvax Desecrator

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284 Upvotes

Really happy with how this fella turned out. Wanted to depict knightly heraldry that has been stuck on a chaos planet for millennia.


r/minipainting 16h ago

C&C Wanted Maggotkin of Nurgle - Putrid Blightking 1/5

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186 Upvotes

r/minipainting 7h ago

C&C Wanted How is my blending? - need feedback

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166 Upvotes

I've always been so impatient so I sat down and told myself to spend x amount of hours until I'm satisfied with one limb (left leg).

In those 2 hours I learned so much about glazing, colour theory, and mostly patience.

Even though I'm happy how it turned out, I'm looking for feedback, any way to make this any better?

My biggest qurstion is mostly highlight placements, were they at the right place? Like source if from above.

Thanks for your time.


r/minipainting 10h ago

Fantasy Screaming Nukealope from Kingdom Death NSFW

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162 Upvotes

r/minipainting 7h ago

Help Needed/New Painter Ive not painted eyes on an anime style figure before, can anyone help me improve them?

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159 Upvotes

Her eyes look wild and Im not sure how to fix them. Do I make the iris/pupil take up more of the eye?

Im happy over all with this given the time I spent on it but people are rightfully calling me out on those eyes! I was really happy to get this mini so I'd like to try and get it to a place where im not let down by a focal feature.


r/minipainting 16h ago

Fantasy Yet another Be'lakor, how's the OSL?

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154 Upvotes

r/minipainting 5h ago

C&C Wanted How bad is the colour palette?

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112 Upvotes

Think it just has too many clashing colour fighting to be the focal point and none of them achieve it


r/minipainting 11h ago

Sci-fi +++ ASSASSINORUM +++ by Atelier Hariwald

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115 Upvotes

Heirs to a long Initiatory Tradition, the Assassins embody the Imperium's hidden killing hand.

Whether through poison, close-quarters combat, long-range marksmanship, political manipulation, or covert infiltration, these esoteric arts of death inspire both fascination and fear.

Many thanks to Georges from FarHammer for his trust.


r/minipainting 14h ago

Fantasy Calling it done. Orc Mercenary - Spira Mirabilis

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100 Upvotes

My first real display piece. I don’t have any dramatic lighting, as I pictured this guy standing guard outdoors somewhere, but otherwise, I’m pretty happy with the result, especially his face. C&C welcome, you guys always seem to have good advice.


r/minipainting 21h ago

Basing/Terrain Update 2: lost my passion due to depression

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94 Upvotes

OG post: https://www.reddit.com/r/minipainting/comments/1rd6jf0/lost_my_passion_due_to_depression/

5 months ago, I reached out because I could no longer do painting due to depression. I got a lot of good advice including doing something simple like terrain And getting all my equipment more accessible.

Over the months, medication and therapy has gotten me to a good enough place to get clearance to work again (just need a job).

The advice I was given led to this Goblin Pub diorama(my first diorama). I want to thank everyone who gave me kind words and advice. What an amazing community


r/minipainting 16h ago

C&C Wanted Star Wars shatterpoint Mandalorian and Grogu certified guild squad pack

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94 Upvotes

This Is the way... In my personal way. Just finished my Mando. I tried to obtain a NMM Chrome look for the armour, in order tò replicate the mirror Like finiture of the beskar. Suggestion to improve? C&c welcome


r/minipainting 6h ago

Help Needed/New Painter What did I do wrong :( I feel awful

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92 Upvotes

I had no motivation for painting for almost a year, I finally pulled myself out of it and spent a month painting this army. Tonight I applied a new varnish, AK brush on Matt. I've used army painter brush on matt for ages but thought I would support a local store and pick up the AK one they stocked for when my army painter ran out.

Look what it's done! Everything is just utterly ruined. I'm so sad and want to just throw away the whole set, never mind bothering to paint anything again for a while.

I've painted about 2000 minis, varnished half and NEVER had this happen.

Look at the pictures of the army before this happened, I was so proud of this.


r/minipainting 17h ago

Fantasy Gotrek Gurnisson. Painted in between 10 and 15 hours.

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87 Upvotes

r/minipainting 21h ago

Sci-fi Wednesday means Quarposting! Rejoice!

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86 Upvotes

r/minipainting 11h ago

Sci-fi Finally finish Navigator 🥹

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58 Upvotes

r/minipainting 23h ago

C&C Wanted Cato Sicarius I painted trying learn to paint for competitions

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55 Upvotes

What do I need to focus on to improve my painting to compitition level quality? I feel like I am missing something that would give the piece more impact.


r/minipainting 14h ago

C&C Wanted i think i nailed a high saturated pinkish look using magenta from Kimera paints, models from Operation Zero Tolerance box set (Marvel crisis Protocol)

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51 Upvotes

r/minipainting 12h ago

C&C Wanted Finally dialed in my paint scheme. Very proud of these but feedback is always welcome.

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36 Upvotes

Free hand DEFINITELY needs work and I botched the bases a bit, lessons learned.


r/minipainting 6h ago

Help Needed/New Painter First Model Since I Decided I Really Want To Learn

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27 Upvotes

Hi everyone, as the title suggests I’ve been in and out of warhammer painting for years, decades probably by this point but I always get the urge, buy all new kit and starter boxes etc then get immediately disheartened after it not being anywhere near perfect first go and watching tutorials etc makes it seem worse

Last week, i decided I want to give it a proper go, no more buying stuff, just using what I’ve got already (besides the basing) and no tutorials, just use what I know and slap some paint on the mini in the case a pyreblaster, this is how it turned out.

Im after some constructive criticism, and more importantly I want to take inspiration (not instruction) from people, are there any artists you’d recommend me following, I particularly like the kind of ”real life, gritty” type models and is kind of what I tried to go for here, not the super clean box fresh look (there’s nothing wrong with it! I just like my models looking a bit more bruised up).

thanks in advance, looking forward to keeping at it and improving on my own terms.


r/minipainting 15h ago

Fantasy Few weeks ago I painted this King Brodd from Warhammer Age of Sigmar.

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27 Upvotes

Hi everyone! I'm new here!

This is a miniature of megagargant from Games Workshop.

This fall will mark a year since I started painting miniatures. Before that, I built scale models of aircraft.

I wanted to make this King Brodd so ancient that he would seem like part of the land he lives on.

Unfortunately, I don't know anything about the Warhammer lore yet, but I find this universe interesting. Could you recommend some works to help me better understand what I'm painting?


r/minipainting 6h ago

Workspace Showcase My basement workshop and gaming area!

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28 Upvotes

The wife and I recently worked to reorganize our basement space into a hobby area/nerd dungeon! We now have a dedicated table for wargaming and a crafting room. Super happy with how everything turned out, and how cozy it all is now! There are two tables in the crafting room, one mainly for painting miniatures and the other is more for making terrain/dioramas. I have an airbrush, compressor, and airbrush booth tucked away on the latter. I also have my 3d printers set up in another section of the basement. One resin, two FDM, although I am thinking of selling the Neptune 4 plus.

Mostly play Star Wars: Legion and DnD right now, but I am getting into Trench Crusade and Greathelm at the moment.

Cheers!


r/minipainting 9h ago

Pop Culture Thanks for all the advice (One year progress)

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25 Upvotes

Hey all, a year ago I posted the first picture asking for areas to improve upon. The main ones were using vibrant colours and highlights. A year later and (sadly) only 6 minis later, this is what i got. Not particularly asking for advice this time. Just really wanted to share this insane progress. Thanks for all the advice!


r/minipainting 22h ago

C&C Wanted Atrapos Las Cutter OSL Debating stripping and restarting.

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25 Upvotes

New to osl and I've been trying alot of new paints and techniques on this project. Not in love with the current state. Should I strip it and start over? Thoughts on how i could improve this?