75mmAlong - Jan - Feb 2024

[uncut magnet]

Paint any 75mm scale model - go nuts!

@woeful tangle @woven narwhal @tulip raft @keen talon @cosmic flame @ruby pelican @dire gull

[cosmic flame]

Heck yea

Prep begins next week

[dire gull]

Yes yes

[woven narwhal]

Now to decide what to paint

[tulip raft]

Aw yeah!

[tulip raft]

What are the options?

I took the time to prep this lady so I'll likely go with her

[woven narwhal]

Not at home so I can’t go through them all. But several from the Echoes of Camelot (I’ve got percival primed already, so maybe him), several random figures for MaK stuff, 1 or 2 from the Aradia/kimera KS…I’m sure there’s more but that’s all that comes to mind currently

[tulip raft]

The Echoes of Camelot stuff looks fun

[woven narwhal]

Oh, I have some Romans from BCC, and Wukong too

[tulip raft]

Lots of options!

I have about a half dozen haha, but I was about to start this one soon anyway I think

[woven narwhal]

She looks pretty cool

[ashen barn]

I have 75 mm scale now... though not 75mm tall... as he is a dwarf (so he falls short for the BigBoysOnlyClub PAL). King Thorian (and Poseidon) arrived. Really tempted to paint Thorian for this.

Poseidon is taller, but he and the serpent dragon come in so many pieces I first need quite the nerve to even attempt to put that one together... let alone paint. So guess this will be my bigger scale model PAL for the time being.

[woeful tangle]

I’m either going with Red or Hecate by Mindwork as they are the only 75mm i have. Both very tempting. Red is beautiful but it’s also a bit ‘this has been done amazingly by more talented artists’ whereas Hecate I haven’t seen anyone do the original artwork justice yet.

[ashen barn]

Both are great figures so cant really go wrong there.

[woeful tangle]

Anyone gonna do a backdrop with theirs?

[woven narwhal]

🙋‍♂️ or a display base

Probably not a full diorama

[cosmic flame]

plinth, probably not a backdrop

[woven narwhal]

Hmm…1/24 is 54mm isn’t it? It’s 1/20 for 75?

[uncut magnet]

Yeah I think so

[woven narwhal]

Damn. My industria mechanika stuff won’t work then

[soft yacht]

Hmmmm considering this one.

[soft yacht]

Think I'll paint this one

[woeful tangle]

Is she dancing?

[soft yacht]

Exuberantly experiencing the wonders of VR

I have so many conflicting ideas for this piece lol

[keen talon]

vibe

😉

[woeful tangle]

Yeah so many potential narratives I keep thinking abiut backdrop like is she squatting in some horrible place and the vr is escapism? Or do a backdrop of like a melange of fantasy worlds she is visiting?

[dire badge]

I guess size matters

[dire gull]

Is she playing blade and sorcery?

[soft yacht]

I actually lay her down and realized Gaut's been sculpting some cheeky porn

There's a not small part of me that wants to resculpt her hair and put her on a bed

[woeful tangle]

Where is the sculpt from?

[soft yacht]

Graphigaut

[cosmic flame]

Not sure how I'm gonna do a temp affix but I'll figure it out

[woeful tangle]

Some kind of vice on the foot tab?

[cosmic flame]

i've spot glued it to a base

all will be well(i hope)

[ornate sparrow]

will be doing this lovely lady

[woven narwhal]

Oh nice. You got their artist version? Looks good

[light coral]

If anyone needs a model for this and has a 3D printer, this guy is free https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-free-orc-behemoth-75mm-scale-341190

[red quartz]

Gonna give this one a shot! 75mm is supposed to be the height from the ground to the eyes right? This feels so big but I've mostly painted 28mm scale before

[soft yacht]

Scale is generally meaningless. I've got 75mm minis that run from 75mm ground to eyes, ground to top of head and ground to shoulder

[lapis atlas]

Can I join with this ?

[woven narwhal]

I’ve got this one. We can be pumpkin bros

[uncut magnet]

awesome

[keen talon]

lol little late for Halloween but I’ll allow it 😉

[uncut magnet]

just getting ahead of the ball for next year!

[lapis atlas]

Sick, alright.

[woven narwhal]

BLASPHEMER! HERETIC!

[tulip raft]

Idk what I should do for my figure, as far as doing like, a scenic base, or a backdrop

[keen talon]

I think I’ll take this one on

[lapis atlas]

Hm I don’t think I can paint the pumpkin boy for this, it arrived today and it’s massive

Easily 120mm with the base pumpkin. Fail reading skills

[lilac dock]

I already started a 75mm back in August. Can't enter this here because of that...

I don't feel like starting a new one maybe I will just tag along ☺️

[woven narwhal]

Can always just repaint it

[woeful tangle]

I mean she is almost unpainted so maybe you can?

[light coral]

I'm working on printing something for this tonight

[lapis atlas]

I’ll try to tackle this for the paintalong, pumpkin boy too big

[soft yacht]

75mm is usually the scale not the literal size pumpkin should be fine but I doubt a bust counts

[lapis atlas]

Oh ok. Don’t think I have anything else, might have to give this a miss then. thanks !

[woeful tangle]

Just go with the pumpkin guy? Doesn’t look too big at all

[viscid condor]

https://tenor.com/view/turn-up-aye-hype-excited-goofy-gif-15111254

[thorn rose]

I’ll try my best to have it done ✌️

[light coral]

Gonna get this glued and assembled for this tomorrow

[soft yacht]

Mockup

[tulip raft]

Got the gap filling done

[urban geyser]

I'd like to join in on this PAL with this one, Sylt Bloodheat from MCDM. Not entirely sure about the actual scale though, it is ~75mm high and needs a 75mm base, but it's for D&D and that's usually 32mm scale... Any opinions if this is a valid entry?

[thorn rose]

Usually it’s 75mm from bottom to where the eyes are

If it was standing on regular ground

[uncut magnet]

this is where size and scale are being a bit conflated

[uncut magnet]

I would say if it is designed for DnD, it is not in 75mm scale and is not suitable

[urban geyser]

Yeah, I figured as much. MCDM's site doesn't say what scale it's designed at either :\ Oh well, might as well enter it for the holiday loot along then 🙂

[woeful tangle]

Looks a good one for fabric along too

[urban geyser]

That's a good one as well, missed that one. Thanks!

[soft yacht]

MCDM are making minis for Tabletop so they're either doing 28mm or 34mm scale

[reef star]

Hi everyone. This is my first paint along here. I’ll be painting this young lady and her fishy friends.

[soft yacht]

That's awesome, but I don't think they're friends

[reef star]

Naw, that’s just a little bit of rough housing.

[old idol]

Going to jump in with this guy

[woeful tangle]

Wow who is that?

[old idol]

Ludwig the Astronomer from Claymore miniatures

[woeful tangle]

Awesome. Did the rapier need straightening much?

[old idol]

Its a resin print. So it came out pretty straight. I'm more worried about breaking it off. I have issues with sticky outty bits

[woeful tangle]

Ahh a print, gotcha. Looks to have come out nicely.

[old idol]

Thanks. The new printer is a dream

[tulip raft]

Almost ready to start

[lapis atlas]

What a gorgeous sculpt. Mind letting me know where it’s from?

[uncut magnet]

Hera

[lapis atlas]

Ty!

[old idol]

Cloak worked on tonight. It looks sketchy close up but I'm not sure I want to do super smooth blends. Hopefully it readss as a reddish leather

[lapis atlas]

It reads a bit more brown than reddish to me but it looks fucking amazing so I wouldn’t change anything 🙂

Gonna shamelessly use that as a template next time I have to paint leather

[old idol]

Rock on. Thank you

[soft yacht]

Made a start. Trying some stylized colours

[uncut magnet]

Style em baby

[uncut magnet]

Very nice

[woeful tangle]

Love the shiny trousers

[native thicket]

I think that is supposed to be grass but I envisioned it as a pink plush carpet so we'll see how that turns out.

[woeful tangle]

Shag pile

[lost haven]

Oh...! In' t that casual Night'?

[soft yacht]

Blocking out the colours a bit more

[woven narwhal]

Well, without a pumpkin bro I think I’ll do this one. Just need to play around with designing a backdrop

[soft yacht]

Some progress

Better pic

[tulip raft]

I uhh, I have yet to start on mine... The longer I wait the less likely I am to do it

For this PAL anyway

Hopefully I can find time this week

[thorn rose]

Trying something different

[woeful tangle]

Aghh can’t decide between Red and Hecate

[old idol]

Just a little time for the gloves today. Hopefully I can get the boots tomorrow night. Looking at the dark blue or black for them too

[tulip raft]

Those leather pants are spot on

[woeful tangle]

Btw anyone looking into bases for 75mm- I’ve just found newel caps are cheap and perfect for this job

Like this

https://www.stairbox.com/products/48/pine-square-flat-newel-cap.html

[woeful tangle]

Working on a display base (at least the structure) for my first 75mm

Cannibalising an old painted plasicard

[soft yacht]

Oh yeah, he is just feelin' SEXY in the moonlight

[woeful tangle]

Yeah he’s really feeling it isnt he

[dire badge]

Does it count if it is 75mm with the wings? Or does it have to be 75mm only the body?

[cosmic flame]

It's scale not size

[dire badge]

How do I measure it?

[cosmic flame]

A 75mm mini is usually scaled so that a human is 75mm from feet to eyeline/top of the head. Obviously there's a bit of wiggle room but that looks more like a 32mm mini with a large amount of height added by wings

[woeful tangle]

Yeah that doesn’t look like 75mm scale. With wings like that, 75mm scale would likely be around 150mm of actual height

Pretty big

For example this is 75mm scale

[dire badge]

Thank you guys! I rarely paint large minis so I’m new to this.
I have these two, both are 80 mm feet to eye.
Both were printed (not by me) and could have been rescaled. Will they fit for a 75mm model? Or are they too big?

[woeful tangle]

They look perfect

Especially the left obe

One

[dire badge]

Great! I’ll use one here and one for #1180514056793247795 :)

[woeful tangle]

More work on the base. Ignore the old painting. It’s going to be a yellowish dawn sky, those will be rocks in a sort of stream with water in between.

[old idol]

Tried to squeeze out some time tonight. Got the boots started. The highlights need more work but I'm liking the color of them more than the gloves. What do yall think?

[tulip raft]

Alright, finally starting in earnest!

[woeful tangle]

Anyone else doing a backdrop? I feel like I need to do the backdrop first to see how the rest of the model fits within it.

Colour and light wise

[uncut magnet]

I might

[thorn rose]

I wanted to but I don’t think I’ll

I just need a red background

[tulip raft]

Tbh I just kinda started painting without much plan after staring at this model too long

I don't even know what I'm mounting it on

[tulip raft]

This camera picks up on so much texture that can't be seen IRL, it's annoying

[tulip raft]

Taking a break from the skin for now, gotta come back to it with fresh eyes, gonna lay down some basecoats on the cloth now

[native thicket]

All done.

[soft yacht]

Doing some work on this. Getting a sense of where it's going now I think. Can't use the airbrush at the moment though so I can't do a lot of what I want

[woeful tangle]

Ok time to get some colour on this lad

[woeful tangle]

Based out his dress

[woeful tangle]

Simple sketch for the backdrop too

Hopefully you get the idea of where the horizon, water is etc

[woeful tangle]

After a lil blending

[woeful tangle]

So i think his skin will need a yellowish reflection right, even though he’s quite pale?

[thorn rose]

I would agree

[dusk mica]

Well, I didn’t know it was metal when I bought it. I might have gone with the other similar crusader model out there but going to give it a try

More worried about wrist pain than the paint job

[steep leaf]

Lead solider is classic !

[keen talon]

Ok let’s do it lol

(Need to gap fill still)

[uncut magnet]

fuck yeah, Nancy rocks!

damn maybe I will do Usagi and Razor now

[soft yacht]

Gradually moving forwards with some glazing to clean up some transitions. Still a lot of NMM work to do though.

[woeful tangle]

I love the colours

Very dreamy

Still wrestling with the nmm too

[soft yacht]

Thanks, I'm trying to capture an impression I got from a piece of art I saw back in my Deviantart days. And also to push myself using colours in a way I don't normally do.

[soft yacht]

It's looking pretty good, the wrestling is going well.

[keen talon]

Got started on it. Still early goings

[woeful tangle]

Skin is looking good

[tulip raft]

Yeah that looks great so far.

I should try to get some more work done on mine, I just feel very rusty on larger scale stuff and I'm getting a bit frustrated

I haven't felt very motivated to continue

[dusk mica]

Getting some initial tones down

[woeful tangle]

Did the hair and worked on the leather more

[uncut magnet]

I'm dipping out on this

🤠

[woeful tangle]

We can duel instead soon 🙂

[tulip raft]

This late into the month having only base coated the model, I may be too

[dusk mica]

More workin on

[soft yacht]

Oh nice, coming along well!

[keen talon]

Little bit more. Organic stuff mostly coming along… now for the metals

[tulip raft]

You guys are killing it

[dusk mica]

Almost ready to glue on the shield…. Maybe

[ashen barn]

Started basecoating

And finished most of the paint step for the base. Unless I decide to alter stuff. Gonna add some tuffts, plants and the like at the end

[soft yacht]

Got a couple of commissions out of the way and back to work on the NMM on the arms and legs

[viscid condor]

Such a cool model! Really coming to life

[red quartz]

Oh is she tripping? Without the base I thought she was just really into vr

It looks amazing!

[soft yacht]

Oh if you take the hair off and lie her down you can see just how into VR she is.

[lapis atlas]

I’m so confused now but I always thought that model was supposed to be depicting some sort of VR sex scene. Is it meant to be drugs?

[soft yacht]

So, here's the thing, because she's officially standing upright, and the peripherals (gerbil, disc cases) are flying upwards, it suggests she's being pulled upwards by the power of VR or falling. However, if you take the hair off and lie her down it becomes immediately apparent that she was modelled off a very sexually charged pose. I think the sculptor just put her upright for the plausible deniability.

[lapis atlas]

Why does the hair affect it? Just curious now

[soft yacht]

She can't lie down with the hair part of the sculpt. And the hair is sculpted like an upright person

[lapis atlas]

Aah

[dusk mica]

Had longer so started on the cloak

[waxen bay]

Mmm must i join this? Maybe paint one of my kdm painter scales

[lost haven]

For me, she's just jumping out of the joy of winning at a vr game / tournament. Graphigaut depicts all women in a very sexualised way, totally agree, but I don't think he meant a sexual scene out there.

[soft yacht]

Oh, whatever reference he was using, she was definitely lying down

[lost haven]

The box art has her standing up, though?

[soft yacht]

Yes

[lost haven]

You think he sculpted from a live model? (It would be hard to have someone keep jumping for a few hours)

[soft yacht]

No, I think he sculpted from a still from a porno TBH

[keen talon]

ah the "Greg Land" method

[woeful tangle]

Also the Boris Vallejo method

[odd thicket]

shakes off the PAL dust mind if I join you wonderful people with this?

[keen talon]

Looks sick! Get it painted up!!

[ashen barn]

Owwww love that one. My fav of the scale 75 zodiac. So tempted to buy it

[odd thicket]

Definitely one of the better ones. I bought all 12 for giveaways to friends. This is zodiac three

Pieces look good out of the box. Head choice

[steep leaf]

I like this Zodiac series. 🔥

[odd thicket]

Me too, overall 🍻 there supposedly was the 13th sign during the kickstarter or whatever buts it’s not available at retail that I can find

[steep leaf]

oh that's too bad, kickstarter sucks lol

[odd thicket]

Too bad I missed it 😂

[lost haven]

Beard! ...Oh wait, we weren't supposed to vote? 😂

[odd thicket]

Recipient chose the beard too. The bone mask is cool, though. Might add it to the base

[steep leaf]

I like the old man's face

[odd thicket]

Me too. The beard and hair will be fun. Now, if I can capture the scowl 🤔

[lost haven]

you could use that bone mask on another base or a conversion later too

[odd thicket]

That’s true, good ideas

[winged veldt]

hope to paint all of them till February

will start with smoke knight, he is precisely 75mm

[odd thicket]

Good progress for a few hours

[tulip raft]

But height ≠ scale, I don't think he qualifies

I thought KDM was smaller than 75mm no?

[winged veldt]

oh man

then sorry guys, will start with another mini

[woeful tangle]

Yeah 75mm scale he’d probably be around 10cm or something

[waxen bay]

fucking hell you pumped out that much nmm super fast

[dusk mica]

Still more to go, but getting there

[thorn rose]

It feels like a never ending project

[steep leaf]

Nice, I like historical mini 🛡️

[dusk mica]

I’m starting to enjoy old history historical minis a lot. They’re quite catching to me

[steep leaf]

Velinden figure is what dragged me to this hobby when I was kid.

[ashen barn]

Worked a bit more on my dwarf.

[keen talon]

Some more work done

[waxen bay]

I might actually just do a mini ive already got built amd primed for this. Just to get her done

[woeful tangle]

https://tenor.com/view/larry-the-cable-guy-geter-done-gif-9764034

[waxen bay]

This be my entry for this along.

[keen talon]

Finished the model part - gonna do some fun display basing next

[lapis atlas]

Sick color choices. In particular the gun looks super cool. Love it🤘🏾

[keen talon]

Thanks! It's a rule that 90% of my models should have magenta and blue tones, so just keeping it consistent 😉

[lapis atlas]

So you’re a magenta savant is what I’m hearing. Quick, what’s the best magenta color and brand. Don’t overthink it. Go!

[keen talon]

Warlord Purple, VGC

lol that's my fave at least

[lapis atlas]

Ok. Adding to cart 🤣

[cosmic flame]

kimera magenta

[keen talon]

also very good. It's nice and dark and good for a base for magenta

Pro Acryl Dark Magenta is similar color

[cosmic flame]

that and new VGC deep magenta

[keen talon]

(I have way too many magenta paints)

[cosmic flame]

i'm like 90% convinced its the same pigment as the kimera one

[dire gull]

I just finished cleaning her up

[uncut magnet]

probably

quinacridone magenta is a very popular pigment choice

[woeful tangle]

You might like this guy i painted a year or so ago then

[thorn rose]

Oh I have that model in my kart 🥰

[keen talon]

I swear I don’t have a problem….

[dusk mica]

Alright I think I’m done, unless anyone has any feedback of course

[uncut magnet]

Fantastic work dude!

Really nice choice on the eye direction and the shield looks amazing

[dusk mica]

Thanks buddy - I need to get some actual good photos, they just ain’t cutting it but I appreciate the kind words

[ashen barn]

Looks awesome. I don't think it needs anymore work.

[ashen barn]

Touch ups, some details (like gems), and some final highlights still to do. And some baseing stuff.

[soft yacht]

I think I must call it here. I've grown weary of this mini and just needed it done.

[ashen barn]

Calling Thorian done.

[keen talon]

Probably gonna call this one done too!

[uncut magnet]

Came out really nice @keen talon

[dusk mica]

Very nice!

[dusk mica]

Nicely done

[dire badge]

I think I’m done

[burnt seal]

Will working on this.

[steep leaf]

looks good, where're u get this art piece from?

[burnt seal]

Golem miniature.

https://golem-miniatures.com/en/home/79-l-esclave-blanche.html

[steep leaf]

thx!

[burnt seal]

productive weekend, but not fully satisfied. :/

[burnt seal]

Working on the plinth and base; I realize it's my first time to paint something on 2d surface (except the school activity in 80s).

[woeful tangle]

Looks cool, fun challenge isnt it

[burnt seal]

Right, fun but very challenging.

Wish I have some time to learn canvas painting in future.

[burnt seal]

#1207006187514761226 message

I think it's done.

[lost haven]

She's beautiful. Are you going to display her?

[burnt seal]

Thanks. Probably ill display in my tv stand? 🙂