Week 1 progress - Looking for tips and feedback

[sleek hollow]

Started painting last Saturday for the first time ever. I'm now up to 10 painted models total, these being 7 to 10.

Looking for any tips, feedback, etc. I just wanna get better.

[quiet river]

I give the same advice to all newish painters. Everyone’s gonna give you their view. But here’s one view.

For your next model, focus really hard on keeping areas tidy. No paint bleed over where it shouldn’t be and each ‘part/detail’ painted with one color in a tidy way. Don’t highlight or wash or anything just get your mini real tidy where every part has the correct paint. Even if it’s just a basecoat.

It’s great practice. Try it out.

[sleek hollow]

Hey thanks for this idea! I might give it a try on my Sepulchral Guards, but my brush control is obviously very basic still, do you have tips on how to be more careful with areas?

[quiet river]

In the start I’d just do two things. 1, make sure your brush isn’t too full of paint and 2 just slow right down. Take your time.

When you make a mistake and some paint goes where paint shouldn’t go, just fix it:). Just do me a fav and try that one just one mini

[quiet river]

Update requested. Show!:)

[sleek hollow]

Skeleton I worked on yesterday. I was as careful as I could be, but the boot in the right and the shield are very frustrating

[quiet river]

Looks good dude. The cloak has some coverage issues. Is that one coat of paint ?

[sleek hollow]

One coat of AP Slaughter Red speed paint. I'm working more on him tonight, I have minor fixes I want to do, some highlights and the base to finish

I try not to take too much speedpaints tho, maybe 30/70 in terms of speed vs regular layers

[quiet river]

Ah speed paint. It looks like it’s on top of black though

[sleek hollow]

The base coat was a very light AP leather brown, regular paint for that

[quiet river]

Alright. You’d know best. Speed paint really only works great if it’s on top of a light color. Grey to white etc

[sleek hollow]

I'll keep that in mind. I kinda like the effect it has myself, but I'll be highlighting the coat later 🙂

[quiet river]

Yeah sweet 🤘🏾

[sleek hollow]

End result. I slowed myself down a lot on this model, total paint time was 4 hours, maybe closer to 5. I lost track of time. Idk if I was too light in the highlighting. I do not like speedpaints on large surfaces like the cape so that is lesson learned for a future model, I will stick to base coat, layers and highlights.

The shield was particularly difficult. Round stuff eludes me.

[quiet river]

Looks great dude. I think your metals would do well with a wash though. If you have some nuln oil or another dark/brown wash, splat some on and let it dry

After that you’ve got yourself a solid mini I reckon. Good stuff!