Sunday, January 24, 2021

Photography woes and Painting Progress

 Well, I've been slowly making progress with painting. I've painted maybe 5 BEF riflemen now. It was only after the fifth that I actually realised how to do faces at last, but the fifth looks passable enough in my opinion. I have however come to realise I'm severely lacking equipment to actually photograph the miniatures. Well, great, more things to add to the list to buy! It's not a cheap hobby, but it is very satisfying in many ways. I'm finally figuring out how to do highlighting, how to do faces, my skills have come a very long way in a short time. And whilst my miniatures may only just be tabletop standard, I'm proud of them. I've another 25 infantry to paint as well as a bunch of Frostgrave miniatures. I'll have plenty of practice at least! 

In all seriousness though, I may only just be scratching the surface in terms of paint skill, that people have had for a long time. But the fact I'm making decent progress really enthuses me to continue painting. 

Anyway, to end this post off, here's a picture of the rifleman. I apologise for it's awful quality, and plan on buying some daylight lamps as well as a camera box soon. 




As you can see, it's dark and not the best, but for me at least this is a corner stone. Proof to myself that with patience, painting at a decent standard is achievable, and I look forward to being able to do just that.


Hope you're all staying safe and making the best of these difficult times.

Until next time.

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Swift update

 Well once again Coronavirus takes my plans and spins them on their head. I'm beavering away learning to paint with advice from the folks on the Warlord Games Discord server. It's a hard process, I can't seem to get the faces right but I am getting there and will take pictures just as soon as I feel they're table top standard enough to show off. Hopefully this will be soon!