Mad Lemmey's League of Augsberg

Started by Duke Speedy of Leighton, 28 February 2015, 05:02:15 PM

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FierceKitty

I don't drink coffee to wake up. I wake up to drink coffee.

jambo1

Once again, welldone sir, lovely looking units. =D> =D>

Bunny


Leman

Gosh Lemmy, your painting's come on in leaps and bounds. Nice one!
The artist formerly known as Dour Puritan!

getagrip

Quote from: Leman on 02 April 2015, 04:40:22 PM
Gosh Lemmy, your painting's come on in leaps and bounds. Nice one!

Agree completely!

Mind you, he gets enough practise...the man's a machine! :)
Buy plenty of Matron's sculpts now!

If he keeps using the chainsaw, the value of his work will soon go up.

mollinary

Just beautiful - not just the painting but the basing too, so much life and movement on the base.

Mollinary.  :-bd :-bd
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Rob

They look great. I think the basing is what lifts them from very-good to great.  :)

I cannot do it, how do you get the bases like that?


Rob  :)

Duke Speedy of Leighton

First off:
Play with figure placement on bases, what works.
Sand, pva, leave to dry.
Brown wash, leave to dry
Google River Boyne battlefield, look at soil colours (yes I am that sad)
Dry brush beige brown
Lighter, interment dry brush of brown earth
Pick out stones/boulders in stonegrey
Wash in PVA/water mix, leave to dry
Flock in summer green
Clump and scatter
Leave to dry.

Basing can take as long as painting these days!
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fsn

I think you should go the whole hog, and omit the figures.

They only spoil the view of the bases!

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3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
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KTravlos


Duke Speedy of Leighton

Quote from: fsn on 04 April 2015, 10:35:30 AM
I think you should go the whole hog, and omit the figures.

They only spoil the view of the bases!


;D
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Westmarcher

Yeh. Good one, fsn.  But glad you didn't, Lemmey. Coz then we would not have seen these lovely minis.  :-bd
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Rob

Quote from: mad lemmey on 04 April 2015, 10:33:45 AM
First off:
Play with figure placement on bases, what works.
Sand, pva, leave to dry.
Brown wash, leave to dry
Google River Boyne battlefield, look at soil colours (yes I am that sad)
Dry brush beige brown
Lighter, interment dry brush of brown earth
Pick out stones/boulders in stonegrey
Wash in PVA/water mix, leave to dry
Flock in summer green
Clump and scatter
Leave to dry.

Basing can take as long as painting these days!
Thanks for taking the time to do this. Very impressive.  :)

Ithoriel

Great looking figures.

However. What? You don't use flexible filler to level the area around the figure bases? Colour me shocked!

I suspect I'm the only person on the planet who feels like this but I really, really, really don't like dyed flock and scatter on a base with painted figures, it just looks wrong to me. So, once I've glued on the flock and it's dry, I flood it with paint and then give it a dry brush (or two) of highlight.

Otherwise I do much what you do - down to looking at photos to get an idea of what the ground looked like.
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Duke Speedy of Leighton

Sand and PVA levels nicely.
Sometimes it takes two goes. 8)
You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
2016 Pendraken Painting Competion Participation Prize  (Lucky Dip Catagory) Winner