WingAlong - May-June

[upper plaza]

Paint anything that has at least one pair of wings, no matter what they looks like

[muted mauve]

Wing a ding dong here we go

[lean magnet]

W I N G S

[boreal stone]

OK, these will be my wings bearers!

strange edgehog wasps...

[steady geyser]

This would be fun. I’ve got a few epic pieces that I could do for this one when the time comes

[shell fiber]

I'm sure i got something for this!

[reef mica]

Inb4 someone paints some buffalo wings.

https://tenor.com/view/chicken-wings-wings-food-yummy-wing-night-gif-16407913

[torpid wren]

I'm in

No clue what to paint yet, but that never mattered, right?

[upper plaza]

As long as it got wings, you're fine

[muted mauve]

Ba-gawk

@dire pier will you be joining us in the wing along in May?

[dire pier]

yes definitely

i almost always have something with wings hehehe

[muted mauve]

Yay

[torpid wren]

I'm gonna bully print guy to give me his dragon

[dire pier]

oh v v cool

[lean magnet]

Possibilities I acquired today

[muted mauve]

Ooo some very good options

[lean magnet]

I wasn’t planning on getting any minis today, but my friends shoved them in my hands and I had to buy them haha

Cleaning up those mold lines will be a pain in the butt though

[muted mauve]

You touch em, you buy em

[upper plaza]

Does that apply to gloved hands too?

[muted mauve]

Yes

[reef mica]

its the principle of the matter

[marsh moat]

Count me in

[kindred sigil]

Just double-checking as a matter of principle: you didn't say "natural" thing, so a plane would fly by this paint along? 😂

[brisk snow]

Ok this mama griffon and her chicks for the Wing Along

[glossy pulsar]

I personally would say, yeah sure... They are wings, it flies.

[glossy pulsar]

Thinking about doing this one. A 1999 ral partha dragon.

Hurdle one, can I actually get it assembled without rage quiting 😉.
Metal, doesn't fit that wel together. Have to pin everything. Probably a nightmare to put together (and why I never started it even if i have it for almost 20 years already.) So definitively a full assemble before painting. Not my fav part of the process.

I only found one assembled and painted example on the web, ral parthas own. And I want to paint it quite different. That makes it more fun for me though.

[muted mauve]

Even it parts it looks so cool.

[rotund finch]

I'm really interested in how you work through this. I have a model that is similar and has some sentimental value. I've been putting off doing anything with it as I've not seen anyone do anything like it and I'm worried about screwing it up

[glossy pulsar]

I am not really scared about screwing it up. Doing anything with it is better then never doing anything with it . Besides you can always strip metal. I go slow with assembly. One part at a time. Let the glue dry, the filling putty and all that too overnight before doing the next bit. Better slow and steady with strong connections then have the whole thing come apart. And hey, if the mini is one of the only ones of its kind, easier to make it one of the bests ones out there 😉

[rotund finch]

Heh I'm scared for screwing up my project. I'm sure you'll be fine. I would love if you would share anything you learn on it

I can't strip mine its part of the sentimental value, was painted by my grandfather but never assembled

[glossy pulsar]

Assembling a painted hard to put together metal miniature you definitely don't want to damage the painting off is a whole different level. Doubt i would dare to do that. There is a reason i assemble fully first when there is no risk of ruining paint. The methods and how i work on this now absolutely would wreck any paintjob.

[rotund finch]

I completely agree. Its why I have been putting it off. Though I am pulling the thread away from its purpose. I'll post up for reccomendations in #1019648110085034046 when I am ready for it

[glossy pulsar]

Gapfilling to do still. Extra stability by already glueing the legs on the base. And the worst bits still to do. The wings with little actual surface, let alone flush fitting still to attach.

Metal might be harder to put together but I do like the gentle bending possibility of this figure as I didnt like the original more upright stance and bend of the neck from the front. Easy fixes making it look less humanoid and more dragonlike

[glossy pulsar]

Hopefully it will hold. Lot of weight on two small hip joints. But so far so good

[rapid elm]

Such a cool sculpt

[upper plaza]

Following my inventory, I'm hesitating between my angel and this one:
https://giveusyourmoneypleasethankyou-wyrd.com/products/yasunori

[fallow geyser]

Oh I'm in! I just need to pick something now....

[slow ocean]

Found a mini for our Druid. I asked him how he wants me to paint it. He said a gradient of light and dark brown with white head

It is the first time I’m trying gradient.

[slow ocean]

Should I do a wash or try to create highlights without it?

[glossy pulsar]

You started to early to count for the PAL seeing you start painting in May at the earliest. Looks good as a start though.

[slow ocean]

No problem. This is actually a test mini. I have another one that I want to paint that looks similar (and if not, it is ok, I keep forgetting submitting my minis anyway).
I still would love the help.
I did used wash and it destroyed the mini. I raged quit :(

[steady geyser]

Nah, don’t rage quit. 😉 go back over the mini with your base coat, except in the recesses where the wash has added darker volumes. This will bring the colors back up, while still maintaining the darker areas created by the wash

Then you can start your layering for the highlight gradient

[slow ocean]

I worked so hard on that gradient and was happy about it! Now it is just a back bulb.
I’ll do what you said later. I need some time to overcome this mistake xD

[steady geyser]

You can also create the same gradient going to shadow the same way you did the light, layer down without the need for a wash. Or, perhaps start at the darkest and just layer up. Not sure of your workflow or process, but I like starting with dark and going to light, as opposed to starting at mid tones.

[kindred sigil]

I was gonna say the colours are dark enough as it is. But loan mowing got in the way. 😅
Listen to Chromium's advice. It is common in miniature painting to go up and down and up and down and up. And... You got it. 😉 It's actually good to accumulate layers.

[slow ocean]

Thank you all guys! I'll try to fix it

[glossy pulsar]

I'd say never wash a miniature all over, and if you use a wash only on high detailed areas like fur and such. It will almost always muddy up colors, ruin smooth blends. For me it never dries even and just where I want it. It pools and stains. I glaze areas specifically and dont ever use runny paint anymore. For me washes seem like a fast method at first and looks ok while still wet (and thus smooth), but in the end always end up more work correcting it then if I used another method. I find the results always to random and umpredicatble. Save the highly textured areas as mentioned before. But even those need plenty of corrective work after or whiping away and guiding the wash before it dries on unwanted areas

[marsh moat]

@glossy pulsar I completely agree, I find with a few exceptions

[true ore]

Ooo, I can do my Autumn Queen for this one!

[upper plaza]

My Fallen angel from Darksword is a pain to assemble and prepare so I will switch to this:

[muted mauve]

I don't recall if I ever printed anything with wings 😱 ( recently I mean)

[slow ocean]

I fixed it in the end. If you have tips for improving it for when the paint along will start (this was a practice run) I’ll be happy to hear!

[blazing pelican]

Ooo, I got one. A Beeholder!
It's got wings! So many wings..

[muted mauve]

Omg this is great

[blazing pelican]

I picked up a pack of resin dye for the 'bees' set. Wish me luck on getting a honey color to come out right 🐝

[marsh moat]

I have several dragons I could choose from

[blazing pelican]

Beeholder fresh off the press!

[slow ocean]

That’s great. I love it

[upper plaza]

All primed and zenithal

[muted mauve]

Trying to use my already printed stuff.. so... you're up Mothman 🤣

[potent mantle]

marking this PAL for later

[muted mauve]

Wings

[gentle thorn]

I'm sure I'll have something with a pair of wings.

[kindred sigil]

I'd like to enter Sauron here. No, not that Sauron, the other Sauron. 😂

[slow ocean]

#1063146022014046358 xD

[muted mauve]

Hey... 🤣🤣🤣

The wings are totally going to be the center of attention

[slow ocean]

Of course they are! ||What wings? 🤣||

[brisk snow]

Doing this Griffon family for Wing Along. Gonna do a resin pool at the bottom and have the mother and babies be removable.

[dire pier]

i forgot about this paintalong but i have something i can use for it 😭😭

[true ore]

What material is that base?

[brisk snow]

Just white packing foam

I did resin pour

I added a fish

[brisk snow]

Ok time to work on the Wing part of the Wing Along

[exotic barn]

Ok I guess this is the motivation I needed to tackle my dragon. Not daunting at all.

In fairness, I airbrushed it already red, decided it looked suboptimal, stripped it and reprimed it (and am now a bit terrified to go again tbh). Not sure if this still qualifies for the PAL?

[muted mauve]

Yup you are all good@

Since you are starting from scratch again 🙂

It wouldn't if you had saved some of the paint job etc.

[exotic barn]

Yeah, that makes sense. I mean it was fun to airbrush, but it turned out super flat and covered all the first zenithal lol

I think I'll try to actively follow the zenithal with the red tones this time.

[muted mauve]

If you do the airbrush you could make sure to really thin down the color. It wold require additional layers but you'd benefit the zenithal

[upper plaza]

Or to use transparent/semi-transparent colours. Which is the case of most reds

[exotic barn]

Also a good point/reminder, thanks! Still new to airbrushing (and painting anything larger than Space Marines, besides two dreadnoughts which I could paint in subassembly)

[kindred sigil]

Gap filing, filing and scratching hopefully done 🤞

[glossy pulsar]

Changing my entry. Still going to paint up the dragon one day. But he bend through the pinning/glueing of the hip joint a few times now. Need to disassemble and assemble anew but more securely or he will keep faceplanting.

New ones: the bottom one is the base miniature provided by Hasslefree long ago for a sculpt competition, the entries were cast. I turned my copy into an angel (clothes and wings sculpted by me), and my friend turned his into a demon as companion piece. These are the two I want to place in a little diorsma for this PAL instead of the dragon.

[serene crystal]

A bit intimidating since I’ve never painted a model this big and detailed, but I’ll enter with this winged daemon prince

[potent mantle]

I bought this guy on Sunday figure I'll paint them up with some Tamia transparent paints

[exotic barn]

Progress. Didn't turn out much better than last time, but (I think) it's still somewhat of an improvement.
Now on to painting a billion bone pieces

[glossy pulsar]

Wings just fitted with a pin and not attached yet for ease of painting.

[shell rune]

Painting this up for a local comp. Figured I’d enter it here too 😉

[lean magnet]

My victim - likely gonna be a quick speedpaint job, because I need that in my life right now

[lean magnet]

Aaaaand done

[potent mantle]

So fast

I've made some progress on mine

[lean magnet]

I cheated a bit and used speedpaints, not gonna lie haha. Hadnt painted in a month and needed to get back into the swing of things. Yours looks freaking sick!!

[potent mantle]

clear things just look cool

[shell rune]

Got some WIP pics. The little markings have 2 more layers left to go

[shell rune]

Aaaand done!

[potent mantle]

Calling mine done here

[exotic barn]

Base coating & first shading done

[dreamy sonnet]

Would this count?

He’s literally called winged knight sooo

[muted mauve]

Yup

[dreamy sonnet]

If not thats ight, they arent real wings just part of his armor

Less go

[gentle thorn]

Just got an old lilith box for malifaux. I'll paint up the cherub for this.

[upper plaza]

Ah the Cherub. The one I did is pinned on a transparent rod. It seems the pin goes into his backside. 😅

[reef mica]

[slow canyon]

I will try to paint this three mechanical doves for this PAL

[rapid elm]

Pissed off squig thing

[hushed holly]

Sooo cute

[marsh moat]

@potent mantle that is so cool, what paints did you use?

[potent mantle]

tamia clear for the dragon, and a Turbodork colorshift for the rock

[lavish mulch]

Painted Sam Wilson Captain America. Nice set of wings on him

[exotic barn]

Finished. Also got one of those table thingamajigs.
Maybe gonna paint over the base with a more gritty sand tone/technical paint, but I'm done with the model for the foreseeable future.

Editors Note, just realised you could hear my kids in the background lol

[hidden pasture]

I enjoy the Ninth World, and I've had one of these guys sitting on my to-be-assembled shelf for a very long time. So he's scrubbed up!

[rapid elm]

Used the fancy printer at work to print off references for my squig

He reminds me of a Jackson's chameleon

But I think his wings would look good with veiled chameleon stripes

[hidden pasture]

Got some base coloring done.

[muted mauve]

me who just realized I never finished mothman

[upper plaza]

And also started on this one.

[timid gulch]

Think I'll do these little guys if they count! It's a swarm of things with wings, so, hopefully that works.

[glossy pulsar]

That's most definitively wings 😁

[glossy pulsar]

My previous entries were apparently cursed. The first kept breaking down before painting, the second broke down (snapped the angel at the feet) when they flew off the table. So now this lady is my entry. Bit of a rush job, but I wanted to be done with the curse now this one still lives in one piece.

[muted mauve]

This is so cool

[gentle thorn]

I can't justify getting it even though I collect that faction 😦 the dragon will have to do.

[muted mauve]

Oh no 😭. I really love that creature. Reminds me of a kirin and with that pose of the humanoid character it's pretty cool

[timid gulch]

Worked hard on these today, I'll finish them up tomorrow hopefully! It's difficult doing the details with just how tiny they are! 28mm scale plus tiny creatures

[slow canyon]

The three mechanical doves for my Colette Crew and this PAL are finished

[timid gulch]

Completed my bat swarm! My friend lent me their phone as a pseudo backdrop lol

[fallow geyser]

I got a few strokes in and then remembered I needed a before picture!!!

[muted mauve]

I lost mothman so painted this in irs place. Not as cool i know. I will avenge mothman 😭

[urban tusk]

Ape-demon-thing for the win(g)!

[hidden pasture]

And here they are.

[fallow geyser]

Not my best work, kinda lost inspiration 😕

[marsh moat]

My entry, their wings may not be functional, but are still wings

[muted mauve]

We accept all wings

[marsh moat]

Cool, glad there are no judgments on size here 😏

[muted mauve]

Hell naw.

[hushed holly]

Lol now to paint this owlbear as a white spotted one

Let’s see

I kind of always thought owlbear wings were decorative lol until I saw the dnd movie 😂😂

[hushed holly]

Barely can tell@the difference

White speed paints are ass

Lol I hate him but sometimes game schedules dictate need

[brisk snow]

Gryphon family

[brisk snow]

More to do…

[muted mauve]

This is looking cool!!

[kindred sigil]

Here is my Sauron finished at last
Not perfect, I basically had airbrushed him green lights + purple shadows, but my brain couldn't figure how to go from there for 2 weeks. In the end, I just went in with a large brush (size 12), re greening most areas, and using magenta + Prussian blue to build shadows up. I tried a kind of sort of see through effect on the wings but I'm not sure it works. It was still fun to go about him!

[true ore]

Leave it to wyrd to make basing a chore. That crown resists all efforts to paint the inside

[blazing pelican]

Not quite as good a paint as I had hoped, but I'm calling it done.

[muted mauve]

That transparent honey is a great touch. Love this one

[urban tusk]

Out of the Stygian Depths

[quiet badger]

Mine for this one along

[true ore]

I've just used chili flakes and mint leaves as a basing material for the autumn queen. I'll report back soon. O.o

[marsh moat]

@urban tusk flying apes terrify me !

[marsh moat]

Had y do more filling on my little dragon

[quiet badger]

Mine

[muted mauve]

Look at this angry birb 😍😍😍

[true ore]

Titania the Autumn Queen from malifaux is done. I'm happy to report that the leaf litter is convincing and spicy.

[exotic barn]

Calling it done here. By far the biggest model I've painted to date.

[muted mauve]

Love the colors

[brisk snow]

Got trip planned. Hope I can finish in time.

[brisk snow]

Calling her done. I’ll do the base and chicks tomorrow

[timid gulch]

Those colors sure brightened up beautifully! Love the patterns and plumage

[boreal stone]

They call it an owlbunny...absolutely not a chicken-thing

[brisk snow]

Calling Mama Tropical Griffon and chicks done.

The chicks are removable on mini bases for play and I have a base that the mama can slot into currently drying.

[muted mauve]

It looks great

[wispy tapir]

Speed paint time

[marsh moat]

Making progress, gotta finish tonight!

[reef mica]

ooooh I like

Airbrushed the yellow and orange?

[marsh moat]

Yep, ivory on the underside, then yellow then orange