NMM-Along . July - Aug 2024

[wispy talon]

Paint a miniature where a significant portion of the model is rendered as non-metallic metal.

STANDARD HOUSEKEEPING RULES :

You may prep your mini, this includes, gap fill, assemble, purchase and prime ahead of time. Paint should only be applied during the time-frame of the PAL.

Anyone can join in on the fun. Just share your mini first and paint within the time frame. Request your points in the point request channel by following the pinned post on how to ask for points.

You can't submit the same mini for multiple PALs or other multiple events. And units minis can't be split among the different PALS if they are identical .

Have fun and be nice to each other. Share some wips and some laughs.

@sick verge @willow sluice @soft bridge

[sick verge]

👌🏽

[wispy talon]

also @sick verge

https://tenor.com/view/perry-funny-ill-punch-you-in-the-face-gif-13234878

[sick verge]

https://tenor.com/view/old-man-punch-fight-boxing-air-punch-gif-17265793

[willow sluice]

Why yall fighting? @wispy talon @sick verge ?

But, I guess since the quest is mostly NMM, I’ll come out swingin’ too

[sick verge]

Yikes fuck me. You’re not messing around.

Good stuff, gl gl!

[willow sluice]

Been wanting an excuse to paint her, plus I do need to practice my NMM. Wanna try to add environmental effects to the steel, I think

[sick verge]

I’m trying to do that right now but to another model. I’m always trying to work in environment lights to my minis, even when it makes no sense just to get some practice. This one is turning out okay, the last one did not

🤣

[willow sluice]

I hear that. I’m practicing that with skin tones currently, so next with metals. Can’t be any worse than all those scales 😉😂🥴

[sick verge]

Can I give you some advice nan gave me though. Paint the color straight up. As in, don’t paint metal and then osl

Just go straight to color

[willow sluice]

Good advice

[sick verge]

I’ll do this model, just the two weapons and goggles that are metal but they are pretty prominent

[willow sluice]

Dem boyz!

[sick verge]

🤣

[wispy talon]

I'm gonna paint something really dumb hahaha

[willow sluice]

This will be fun to watch

[soft bridge]

This is my first choice for this NMM along but I'm not sold yet

[wispy talon]

okay but what if

I paint this but like the entire thing is a metal statue...

except for the bird

yep, I'm gonna try that, that sounds fun

[soft bridge]

that sounds so fun

Also I've never painted NMM metal before so if anyone has tips, tricks, tutorials, literature, etc. that would be a huge benefit as I've found myself watching the same 3 or 4 youtube videos on repeat as prep

[wispy talon]

I made an introductory video here, if you haven't seen it

https://youtu.be/Id0-r4Ojkk8

I'm more than happy to give feedback as well so don't feel shy about asking!

[willow sluice]

Nan’s tutorial above is very good. The video that helped me and got me started was this one https://youtu.be/Zux0HAS8pAw?si=0DMzzkCeg5lmohSM

[soft bridge]

Thank you both very much 😄

[wispy talon]

Kujo rocks!

[sick verge]

Old metal with that green oxidation!

Or full on mega shiny chrome

Pls pls

[wispy talon]

yeah that could be cool

[willow sluice]

Tarnished silver?

[wispy talon]

Honestly I'll end up sitting down and grabbing a random paint and going with it haha

[willow sluice]

I like it! Let fate decide

[hard seal]

Man, Im tempted to tag along with my big ass display model, but Im almost certain I wont finish in two months. Is it still fine to enter?

[sick verge]

Of course dude. Give it a crack

[hard seal]

Nice! Ill tag along with this big boy. Want to try environmental refelctions for the first time in the armor, which is gonna be the biggest challenge. Paintjob in the pic is by Keigo Murakami btw

[hard seal]

Another cool thing to do could be to paint the bird as fire or a blue glowing spirit and have it reflect in the metal

[lavish rose]

This will be fun / good practice!

[ripe rune]

I am in

[willow sluice]

Let’s do this! 💪🍻

[keen pewter]

I’ll have a go at this

[keen pewter]

Paint her like she is a liquid metal terminator gone back to assassinate Shakespeare

I’ll do this

Lots of nmm on the car and arms

[willow sluice]

At some point I want to pick your brain on how you did that bronze for the barbarian helmet. I know it was oils, but still

[keen pewter]

Yeah sure. As in what colours?

[willow sluice]

Yes, mainly. It’s so good

[keen pewter]

Thanks! I guess I followed a similar process to Gold but tried to avoid yellows. Raw Umber (as the cold greenish brown) transparent brown oxide (as a warm reddish brown) and white were the main components, and I added some light turquoise in bits for some oxidation.

I tried to make it aged so, raised bits had shine where they would rub on stuff, but recesses would be more dirty and less reflective

[willow sluice]

Thank you for sharing. I’ve been marveling at it since you first posted. Three colors, including white. Proof you don’t need a full suite of colors to get great results

[keen pewter]

Thanks! Yeah a limited gamut stops me going rainbow mode

[wispy talon]

get out of my DREAMS!'

[keen pewter]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C8fX90tNkFs/?igsh=eGQ1N292eHpyMGQy

jowminis

Sketching the shield.

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What is this witchcraft

[willow sluice]

Interesting light sources. Certainly fire from below, I’d imagine. Pink sky of realm of Tzeentch as top reflection?

Wait, it would be slaanish, not Tzeentch

[shell notch]

🐸 ❗

[gusty wyvern]

Joining

[gusty wyvern]

I have to bring back the shadows

[wispy talon]

It's not July yet bud!

[gusty wyvern]

Oh well I’ll enter with another one then

My bad

[shell notch]

a bit eager huh? kek

[hard seal]

Anybody in here bought the Michal Pisarski NMM Course? Is it good? Would you recommend it? His NMM is stunning and Id like to nearly get on that level one day

[wispy talon]

I wouldn't recommend it myself

He doesn't explain a whole heck of a lot and NMM is mostly theory

[hard seal]

That was my concern. Read some reviews, that he doesnt really talk about theory

[wispy talon]

Watch my video, watch Kujo's video, watch some of Erik Swinson's streams on YT

[shell notch]

richard gray's NMM is also quite gr8

[hard seal]

Thanks for the great recommendations!

[keen pewter]

The theory i try and keep in mind is- have one brightest point per element. Break stuff down into spheres cylinders and flat surfaces. Put bright areas next to dark. Shorter gradient between dark to light = shinier.

[hard seal]

These are the points I try to keep in mind too! Great short summary

[willow sluice]

What do y’all think, mace head left or right?

[wispy talon]

Hehehe I know what this is

I used the left myself

[willow sluice]

That’s the one I like too

[shell notch]

i'd use the right because it reminds me of ice crown/mordekaiser

the left is very straightforward and nice to paint

[willow sluice]

Had to google this. League of legends reference? I’ve not played and know nothing

[shell notch]

ye

[willow sluice]

Cool 😎

[shell notch]

i adore the colors 🥰

[gray idol]

Which of Kujo’s videos would you recommend? He seems to have a number of them on NMM

[gusty wyvern]

All of his videos are great

[wispy talon]

The more the merrier

[keen pewter]

Prepping the base

[hard seal]

Cool! That car seems lika alot of fun to paint in NMM

[wispy talon]

ooh yeah this is on, I forgot

gonna build up my princess

[willow sluice]

Valeria is ready, and I’m ready to tackle some green steel

[wispy talon]

ah the 75mm

very cool

haven't seen many of these painted

[willow sluice]

I haven’t either. Mostly it’s the bust that seems the most popular

[lavish rose]

I have some BCC models that could work here 🤔

[gusty wyvern]

Can I participate if my nmm skills are not the best?

This one is scary

[lavish rose]

only one way to get better!

[hard seal]

Seems like BCC is pretty popular for this PAL 😄

[lavish rose]

Changed my mind gonna paint my first Inu kingdoms that’s been sitting in my to-paint pile since Adepticon…of 2023

[hard seal]

Damn, thats a cool model

[gusty wyvern]

Base coating so far

When I put sepia ink to bring shadows, do I just to the parts not in the light or how do I do that step

[wispy talon]

So, metal doesn't actually have shadows

It reflects light and dark things around it

Planning your dark reflections is as important as planning your light ones

[gusty wyvern]

I’m going for the sphere top spot cylinder mid column

And planes bottom

But I don’t know how to plan the shadow part

Just next to it to add contrast?

The problem I tend to face is I loose the shadows in the process

[wispy talon]

You can put them wherever is sort of the thing

Having them closer to your brighter reflections will increase the contrast

There's no rhyme or reason why these are where they are, I just liked the balance so I kept working it

NMM is as much about feel as it is theory

[gusty wyvern]

Awesome

That looks so good

[keen pewter]

That does look great Nan

[keen pewter]

@gusty wyvern I wouldn’t necessarily do a recess wash on nmm

Metals often reflect brightly from recessed areas

[gusty wyvern]

I don’t know where to put them haha

I’ll do one session of light one of shadow one light one shadow

And see where it goes

[keen pewter]

Id sketch the reflections ignorint the ‘texture’ of the piece just following the curves

[gusty wyvern]

Yea

Next light will cover some following that

The sphere spot the cylinder columns and bottom plane reflections

I normally kill midtones
And shadows when I’ve done it

[hard seal]

On the note of very reflective NMM: Im trying to (kind of) replicate Keigo Murakamis Version of the figure im painting.

The reflections of the sky is where the parts face upwards and the green hills horizontal/in the middle on the part, right?

[keen pewter]

Yeah looks like it

It’s a cool effect

[gusty wyvern]

Very cool

[wispy talon]

Yep, Lan does a lot of strong environmental reflections like this, Kirill as well

[gusty wyvern]

Did a bit more base layer (introducing purple) and started light on the arm and edges

[hard seal]

Lets go, first session today

[lavish rose]

NMM and a horse? Hard mode activated lol 😆

[hard seal]

I wont finish in time, but thats fine 😄

[keen pewter]

That’s a tricky model!

[hard seal]

Feels good to finally work on a big project again + I love the sketching phase for NMM. Overall a great evening 😄

[gray idol]

I still need to pick a model for this - thinking something relatively simple since I’ve only NMM’d…twice?

That looks like a masterclass model hahaha

[hard seal]

Id say... pick the model your most excited to paint, no matter how complex it is. If your easily overwhelmed, I would factor that in and go for something simpler. But overall just pick what seems most fun and exciting

[forest stump]

not sure will i be able to finish mini until august but will post current WIP.
Exploring environmental lighting in shiny armour

[gray idol]

Ooh I like that mini!

[hard seal]

Playing around with evironmental reflections on NMM for the first time. The shoulder looks good in my opinion, but the arm needs some work, the brightest highlight is way too big

[hard seal]

NMM is always such a humbling experience, but I feel like Im on the right track. Alot of the placements are copied from Keigo Murakami, but this is so much fun. Ill probably desaturate the sky and earth reflections some more though. What do you guys think?

[keen pewter]

Right now the saturation is popping a bit much but that could just be cos the rest of the model is in grayscale. Maybe paint the rest first?

[hard seal]

That could very well be it. The NMM was just a little treat to get me started, next session will include some basecoating of the surroundings for sure. Well see then

[forest stump]

looking good! may be more defined line between sky and earth would be beneficial, also darker sky colours will increase contrast even more.
On class which i experienced with sky&earth nmm we did them rather dark

[hard seal]

Woah, great advise and great model. This definitely reads very clearly as a very shiny metal. Il take your points into account continuing with my NMM study 🙂

Also had some time to put some more work in, Im liking where this is going. Probably gonna start the Horse though, before continuing her

Whats everybody else up to? Got a chance to work on your projects? Im curious 😄

[wispy talon]

Your sky is getting dark at the horizon too, the sky is lighter at the horizon @hard seal

[hard seal]

Huh, I thought when the sky reflection fades into the dark part of the NMM it should get darker. Seems I got that wrong

[wispy talon]

Well if it is reflecting the sky

The sky itself is lighter at the horizon

And then typically you have a darker horizon line

On really reflective surfaces

[hard seal]

Oh now I think I got it. So lightening up the sky at the horizon should be the way to go. At the moment it looks like the sky is one big dark blob

[wispy talon]

Yeah you want to try and capture some of that gradient ideally

[hard seal]

Will try my best 🫡
But sounds doable

[willow sluice]

I’m working on the tiny bit of skin and hair first, since 90% of Valeria is metal. I’m not happy with the hair, so resetting it, and need to tweak the eye lids some

[lavish rose]

Bigger than I thought it would be. Very cool sculpt

[forest stump]

very cool indeed!

[keen pewter]

Wouldn’t the chest here also be reflecting sky?

[forest stump]

not really, his left chest piece could a bit

[lavish rose]

No metal attempted yet lol

[willow sluice]

I’m in the same stage as you

[keen pewter]

I wanna get back to painting metals. I’ve realised I like doing metals and skin, and I’m out of my comfort zone doing most other materials

[lavish rose]

skin and hair are still pretty challenging for me. starting to understand metals a bit more

[wispy talon]

just want to say am happy to give feedback on anything, just pingeth me

[lavish rose]

might take you up on that when I get a little further along

[light wing]

Gon try

[lyric reef]

Gonna try so.ething crazy for this one and try to do Crowe in chrome.

[light wing]

I don’t know what to do with this mess though

[keen pewter]

Looks good to me

[light wing]

Not nmm. At least not yet

More refinement here. Am probably going to leave it alone till more is filled out then revisit

[sick verge]

Got myself a skaventide box and gonna do the stormcasts in chrome. Itll be a disaster but I’ll learn something

[forest stump]

will wait for your progress! it is going to be challenging

[keen pewter]

Started on her- using acrylics for the first time in like 7 months

Doing some shiny clothing, the orange was a bit of artistic effect rather than realism, do you think it works?

[keen pewter]

Might chicken out of acrylic skin, it’s so hard

[wispy talon]

You got this

Also, airbrush is your friend

[keen pewter]

Yeah might try airbrushing after the brush work maybe with the 0.15mm

@wispy talon does the orange in the shadow of the blue work?

[wispy talon]

What is the intent?

[keen pewter]

Just to look cool

[wispy talon]

Then yeah why not hahah

[keen pewter]

It might read as a bounce light though.

I just never really know what to do with shadows on things that aren’t metals do prevent them being dull

[wispy talon]

Add bounce lights hahaha

Use saturated shadows

[gray idol]

I have a very beginner question - how do you all manage smooth gradients when using White?

I’m still struggling to find the right consistency with white to glaze or even stipple glaze where it doesn’t leave little random pigments and chaulky streaks behind.

[wispy talon]

what are you doing with it?

[gray idol]

Well I’d like to take a crack at this Paint Along but my command over White is not great and that makes me nervous haha

Figured I’d try to ask ahead of diving in to a fully NMM piece

[wispy talon]

There's not much blending of white tbh

[gray idol]

Hmm more blending of Greys then?

[wispy talon]

Or any tones

But even then, NMM is not about the blending really

Placement is king

[gray idol]

Right

Ok I’ll get amongst it and then maybe ask for a second set of eyes

[keen pewter]

Look at this for shiny nmm style with what looks like minimal blending

Apologies in advance if this image awakens anything in you

[gray idol]

Huh, who knew. Ok that makes me feel more confident going into this. I was looking at some folks’ blending and was a bit overwhelmed ahahha

That’s really cool how well the placement of the red & white reflections sell that as metal

[gray idol]

Now the other question - 28mm or bust?

[keen pewter]

Bust!

[gray idol]

Hahah ok sounds good gotta dig through the pile!

[gray idol]

@keen pewter Nuts Planet Shield Maiden or Mind Works Academic Red?

I think Red offers more metal

[keen pewter]

I’d do mindworks red. Nice sword to practice and some more challenging shapes on the arm

[gray idol]

Sweet that’s where I was leaning too. Will get it cleaned up today ✌️

You and Nan can prepare yourselves for lots of questions from me hahah

[keen pewter]

Rough sketch of the car chrome

[wispy talon]

Super cool!!!

[hard seal]

Dang, thats rad

[willow sluice]

Wow

[gray idol]

Daaanng that is dope dope

[keen pewter]

Gonna be tricky to get a realistic reflection from her leaning on it

Did a bit of digital retouching to plan improvements but it’ll all change once she’s on

I just love painting chrome haha, this feels like the large scale spiritual successor to my necromunda

[hard seal]

You use an app for your digital sketching on minis right? Would you mind sharing the name of the app? Sounds like something that would aid my creative process

[keen pewter]

Yeah it’s just sketchbook i use on my phone

[hard seal]

Thanks! And as you said, painting her reflection on the car is probably gonna be the biggest challenge

[lyric reef]

Holy cow. This is incredible. I give up lol

Mine doesn't look like metal yet lol

Don't people say that nmm looks like crap until like the 6th step ir is that something I made up to feel better?

[wispy talon]

I really like, early on, to give it the "squint test"

hold it at arm's length and squint, does it read as metal?

[lavish rose]

Squint test is one of the biggest helps for me no lie lol

[light wing]

Annnnd dine. Maybe. I might do some refinement tomorrow. I have a competition on Saturday so this guy has a shelf life

[lavish rose]

Looks awesome!

[light wing]

thank you thank you

[gray idol]

Assembled and gap filled this moody boi

[sick verge]

Dope dude. Real nice. 🤘🏾🤘🏾

[keen pewter]

This is amazing, I especially love the fabric

[delicate sand]

that's sick! I want to go to palm springs now

[sick verge]

The storm casting has begun. With a face. Ish.

[keen pewter]

It’s not an nmm bit but still reflections- fairly happy with how this jacket is turning iut

Light penetrating for the warm leather, with some direct sky reflections in blue for where it just bounces off

Overall supposed to be shiny brown Les the

Leathwr

[sick verge]

Looks dope. I’m a sucker for scuffs in the shadowy areas of leather for that kinda worn look just as a suggestion

[keen pewter]

Like highlighted scratches?

[sick verge]

Yeah scratches, scuffs or just stipling with a lighter color inside the darker areas. It might be totally subjective I just like the aesthetic. Ends up looking worn rather than fresh off the rack. Maybe test in an editor since you’re a wizard Harry

[keen pewter]

Starting the metals on the arms

These shapes are really tricky

[keen pewter]

Leaving her here for the day

[hard seal]

Quick 45 min gold sketch. Im still not getting along with gold NMM, BUT i think Im getting there. Still need loads of refinement

[wispy talon]

Do you want some input?

[hard seal]

Always!

[wispy talon]

Right now there's way too much of that dark purply tone, and it's throwing it off a bit. I woulkd introduce some more softer brown tones if you want to stick with this pale gold tone, and placing some secondary reflections with dark ones in between can help you shrink a bit of the midtones down

[hard seal]

Great advice, thank you! I agree with all of what you said, just didnt think of that. I would need some help with 2 things:

1. Are there any tipps for painting very ornament stuff like this or is it just plowing through it?
2. What would I have to do to get a richer gold? And is it a good idea to mix a rich and pale gold right next to each other? Maybe secondary reflections in a warmer gold? Sounds interesting to me at least

[lavish rose]

ornaments are the hardest part of nmm for me lol

[keen pewter]

This is a lovely rich gold

[lavish rose]

damn that's nice

[keen pewter]

Phoenix miniatures

[keen pewter]

@hard seal here is something with similar shapes to yours

https://www.instagram.com/p/CqkzIXFtT8U/?igsh=MXY0ZmZhMzhwM2p2cA==

inukingdoms

Hi everyone!
We are back from Adepticon 2023! It was amazing. Thanks again to everyone who came to sau hello to us and @nekogalaxyminis

Amazing version of Niobe painted by @davecolwell725 check out his post to learn more

Check BIO for Bigcartel link
#miniaturepainting #figurepainting #scalemodel #resinbust #scalemodelling #paintingminiatures ...

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[hard seal]

Sweet, thanks

Found a great reference by Ladislav Meier too

[lavish rose]

God I love Dave Colwell’s stuff

[willow sluice]

Me too

[delicate sand]

Who painted that?

[sick verge]

The struggle of chrome has begun

😬

[hard seal]

Ladislav Meier!

[hard seal]

Damn, looking good so far!

[delicate sand]

Sorry I can’t read lol

[hard seal]

Pushed some more paint around

Might have to mute the gold later on though, I fear it might draw too much attention. Gonna leave it at that and continue elsewhere on the model

[keen pewter]

Depends if you consider the horse to be the main character or not

[hard seal]

Definitely want her to be the main character. But Ill probably adjust as I progress further

In case I wanted to tone it down.. The Airbrush would be a good choice, right? Tone it down and then rehighlight as necessary would be my guess

[keen pewter]

Airbrush glaze or brush glaze yeah

[lavish rose]

I did this for #1250167946484125777 but I’m posting in here because it has a good amount of NMM lol. Would love any critiques on the NMM. Mixed feeling about different parts of it

[hard seal]

What are you unsure of?

[sick verge]

I think I’m making progress but also I don’t really know if it’s going the right way. If you see anything sus other than unpainted areas please lmk

[lavish rose]

Trim around the shield and the belt buckle stand out to me as the weaker parts.

[sick verge]

Gold seems super subjective what people dig in NMM but for me maybe there’s a bit much of white and not enough brown. Having said that, it looks good so take it with a grain of salt.

[lavish rose]

Thanks!

[hard seal]

Take it with a grain of salt, as Im not doing NMM for that long and struggle with gold myself.
For the shield the highlights may be too symmetric. The brain is good at picking out patterns and for the light to be shining in the exact angle for the highlights to be symetrically split on thr shield seems unlikely. But I could be wrong there.
The belt buckle needs more contrast in my opinion, so maybe try and deepen the shadows the nose of the face on the buckle also seems a bit flat, as its just one continuos highlight colour.
But as I said, take it with a grain of salt 🙂

Did some more sketching, leaving it at this for tonight

[sick verge]

Do the trims on the neck barding need to reflect since they are facing up?

[sick verge]

These dudebros

[hard seal]

I think theyre not actually facing up, theyre facing to the side. The inside of the trim is facing up though, but not the side youre seeing right now

[sick verge]

No the top side

Like.. they are in 3d. Not the edges

The inner… side.

[lavish rose]

Yeah originally the highlights were not quite as symmetrical but somehow in the course of futzing they migrated to where they are now 😆- good notes, thanks

[sick verge]

Like light would bounce off that edge

Coming from the top etc. damn I’m bad at English

[hard seal]

Yeah, for sure it would, youre right. Its just a quick sketch atm though, thats why thats not worked out yet 😄

[sick verge]

Oki!

[sick verge]

I think maybe there not enough white in the mix but ¯_(ツ)_/¯ dunno

[keen pewter]

Looking so good. I think the leg plate needs a touch of the earth colour where the nubbins would reflect downwards maybe?

[sick verge]

Yeah the leg(s) are on the todo, just some splotches of blue there, but you’re right and I probably would have missed it. Thanks 🙏🏼

[hard seal]

Painted the shield today. Still WIP, but close to finishing it.
Slowly feels like its coming together

[sick verge]

Really like the vibe of the ochre-like color you got going in the metals

Delicious

[gray idol]

Do folks use any image editor ahead of time to map out the shapes of metal objects on minis? Doing so to understand the overall shape ie (cylinder, sphere, etc) to know where to place reflections.

(I’m very new to NMM so I think this sort of exercise would help me)

[sick verge]

I don’t really have any good methods for it but on particularly difficult shapes I ask for help from people that I know understand light better. No like complete sketches or anything just some outlines of where light might bend too. Other than that I just try to do the spotlight photo method a lot

Also my Chromecast is definitely taking shape now. Some funny business going on here and there still and the face needs to be revisited

[lavish rose]

Getting started on the red NMM

[hard seal]

Thanks! Yeah, learned I like that alot too, so Ill just continued doing it haha

[sick verge]

Prolly my last update here, gonna sit down for a few hours tomorrow and fix mistakes and sort out edges. Was a very fun experiment to spend a few days on

[gray idol]

This is fire!

[hard seal]

Very well done! It clearly reads as chrome to me.
Would you mind sharing a little about your photography? Your backgrounds are BLACK, the photos are sharp and the lighting is very good

[sick verge]

Sure but it’s quite dumb. Shoebox, black tshirt draped over it and the mini in front of the tshirt draped shoe box. Window is facing the mini. That’s it. 🙂

[gray idol]

Started sketching. Light source will be at 11 o’clock or so when looking at the front of the mini.

I have no idea what I’m doing but by golly I’m gonna try haha

Also process wise is it worth blocking in some other colours for reflection colour information or just go for the metals first?

[gray idol]

Added some more greys just on the model’s left arm. Very much just sketching about. Getting a feel for the process and trying to place reflections

[sick verge]

Worth overdoing reflection sketch. Like too much brightness. It’s much easier to glaze down than up so despite the fact that it might look chaotic plonk down strong reflection sketches, protect the shadows. I mean that’s at least how I try to do it I’m sure everyone has a process

[gray idol]

Thanks for the tips! Will add some stronger white tomorrow.

I’ll be leaning pretty heavily on y’all for this haha

[lavish rose]

Makin’ my way through this armor. Couple things left on the red bits and then on to the gold

[lyric reef]

Lookin fantastic. I have issues painting red period, you're killing it.

[gray idol]

Futzing about. Trying to figure out composition and light placement. Ideally the light is coming from above and behind the mini’s right shoulder, casting the face in a pretty dramatic shadow. But I also want to the front of the mini to be interesting to look at so trying to place some light there too, just unsure of how to accomplish both.

[hard seal]

Maybe a subtle secondary enviromental light coming from 3 o'clock could make for some nice contrast. Im not a person to play alot with light (yet) but thats probably how I would approach it, wanting the result you want

[gray idol]

That’s a good idea! Still trying to figure out what sort of light I want too. Initially I was thinking a sort of dusky scene, but maybe I’ll moonlight as main light source then a fire as secondary light source.

[lavish rose]

Gonna go up one more level to some very sparing highlights in white on the red armor

[gray idol]

That looks sweet - love the little nicks/damage.

[gray idol]

More paint. Current mental image is 11 o’clock main lights source slightly behind model, and another more subtle light source at 3-4 o’clock slightly in front of the model.

Any help is super appreciated!

[pine lynx]

I just took a scroll through here to look at the work everyone was doing. Damn this is nuts you are all killing it.

[keen pewter]

Blending in oils now

[keen pewter]

Leaving her here today

A lot of metal for one day

[lavish rose]

looking awesome so far

[lyric reef]

Is the car and base all scratch built @keen pewter ?

[keen pewter]

The car comes with her, I just did the sand and cacti. I wanna make the sand waaaaay smoother

maybe pva

[lyric reef]

Ugh I can't figure this out.

[gray idol]

What are you aiming for?

I think(?) I’m making progress(???). I dunno but I’m definitely moving paint around haha.

I might try to tackle the hair next as that kind of informs colours in secondary reflections.

Camera angle is roughly where main light source is coming from
This has definitely been a learning process 🥵

[lavish rose]

Looking pretty great so far

[keen pewter]

Looks very shiny, like stainless steel

If you want any feedback let me know

[lyric reef]

The smartass answer is "nmm". I feel like I know all the technical details on painting nmm but just fail at actually achieving it in the hand. In this particular instance I'm trying to make some bright silvery steel, almost chrome but without the mirror finish.

[gray idol]

Always! I got some help from Ian yesterday and am still working through that but I’ll always say yes to more input!

I still need to decide on skin and hair to add some of that colour to the reflections, and I kind of want to darken the armour to make it moodier. I have some inks I can glaze over for easier colour management too.

So still very WIP but happy to get feedback on light placement and what might make my life easier to achieve those goals.

[keen pewter]

Had a play, maybe something like that? Felt like it was missing some colour

[lavish rose]

Red armor done - moving on to the gold 🙂

[gray idol]

Appreciate that! Next step is definitely to add some colour in 🙂

[lavish rose]

Gold!

[lyric reef]

I think I still need a lot more contrast but blacking out the other elements made a big difference in me starting to "see metal"

[hard seal]

I feel like Im making good progress, but Ill need a change and not do NMM for a while. Maybe Ill start the face or base tomorrow

[lavish rose]

Calling it done! Had no idea what I was doing going into the nmm red but pretty happy with the result.

Would love any C&C now that it's done!

[lyric reef]

Red reflection from his cape.

[lyric reef]

And attempting to sketch in the osl. Will probably have yo work on this a lot after the sword is painted.

[fossil cloud]

First real try to Nmm.

[gray idol]

Would you describe Brass as a greenish yellow?

Google shows me so many different brass colours haha

[gray idol]

Felt like painting today so I made some red leather straps, just slapped yellow ochre on the buckles and earrings, and I didn’t like the direction of the gloves so I put purple on them - these will eventually be brought down to a very dark black-purple leather/cloth. Also made the eyes red

[keen pewter]

I guess it’s a coldish yellow yeah, a bit colder and duller than gold.

[gray idol]

Sweet thanks, might just glaze in some greens and greys onto the buckles and earrings. I love that this elf is wearing hoops haha

[forest stump]

lets go!

want to exercise metals with different lvl of polish

[delicate sand]

That was fast!

[gray idol]

Insane progress hahah

[forest stump]

and finally nmm stage for nmm pal

[lyric reef]

Think I'm done the steel armor.

[forest stump]

experimented with spear being lit from flame and from general lighting, i haven’t enjoyed nmm like this in a months

[forest stump]

it is done!

[lavish rose]

Almost there looks awesome. Well done!

[delicate sand]

Gorgeous!

[long hornet]

Trying to improve my nmm by doing stormcast band for warcry

[wispy talon]

This isn't for this PAL, but here's some NMM anyway!

[gray idol]

Mainly worked on hair and did some skin on left arm.

[hard seal]

Did some more gold on the banner. Gold and me are not friends yet, but we're getting there

[gray idol]

Did some work on the model’s left arm armour. Lots of complicated shapes and interactions on this one.

Is there ever an instance in NMM to give the whole section/piece an unifying glaze? I’m puttering around a lot and wondering if that would help reduce the overall value, desaturate some of the colour, and just tie things together a bit more.

If so, probably comes after refining reflection placement and other intermediate glazing steps?

I’m definitely more confident in the forearm and elbow section than I am in the wackadoodle shoulder pauldron. So many concave angles!

As always any feedback is greatly appreciated!

[lyric reef]

It's looking fantastic.

[gray idol]

Ha thanks! I think it looks rough as!

[gray idol]

Do you want feedback?

[hard seal]

Sure!

[gray idol]

Ok #1 heap of salt because I’m incredibly new at this haha. Visually it looks like all your values are in place you’re just lacking a bit of saturation/intensity.

Maybe an ink glaze would help bring back some yellow into the metal?

[hard seal]

Youre all good, were in this together haha. Yeah I want it to be a desaturated gold, but I think I took it a little too far. Glazing in some orange/yellow may be a good Idea, maybe even with the airbrush

[gray idol]

Oooh gotcha. Ok if that’s what you’re aiming for then you’re definitely on the right track haha

[lyric reef]

I've still got a ton left to do but I think I'm at least done the nmm.

[gray idol]

Very impressive on a 28mm sculpt

[obsidian orchid]

oh hell yeah I am painting the perfect mini for this

[obsidian orchid]

wipperino

[lyric reef]

That's really impressive for a single days work.

The cape is sexy.

[obsidian orchid]

I started it about 2 days ago

edit: checked, its 4 days ago

but yah, first 2 days were just the cape (i was painting at work while there were no incoming calls), yesterday I didn't touch it, and today I was working on the body

[mellow crystal]

I've done nmm twice with only one time looking pretty okay. So naturally I'll take a shot at this paint along with a full suit of armor

[obsidian orchid]

Done 😍

also finished his liche priestess GF

[lyric reef]

They look great. Very clean

[gray idol]

Ok proud of the difference between this gauntlet and the rest. Some skill progress hahah

[mellow crystal]

Local painter shocked that taking a painting class has made them a better painter

...local painter also realizes they still need to do his other arm and shield and 😭

[gray idol]

Started working on the sword too

[lyric reef]

The lighting/reflections on the hair are incredible!

[gray idol]

Thank you! Really appreciate the boost of confidence haha this is a pretty overwhelming project

[lyric reef]

I painted a banner.

[gray idol]

Very nice!

Worked on blending the right arm today and a bit more sword work.

The right pauldron is still a hot mess that continues to confuse me hahah

[gray idol]

Juiced up the leather, switched directions on the sword hilt, and blended the armour NMM some more.

Still thinking about shifting the tone of the skin darker.

[mellow crystal]

I like how the front of the shield came out, but something about the inner shield doesn't feel quite right and it's starting to make me go insane trying to figure out what

[gray idol]

Is the inner shield concave? If so treat the light reflections like you would see on a spoon. That might help?

fair warning I am incredibly new to NMM

[mellow crystal]

I'll give that a shot and see how it looks. The shape of the shield is less smooth curve and more of a > shape than a smooth curve. But it is so slight I wasn't planning on highlighting it as it's really shaped

[lyric reef]

Finished.

[obsidian orchid]

I'll probably finish this guy I started painti g today in time for this hehe

[obsidian orchid]

coming along

[mellow crystal]

Gonna call this done, after taking a couple days off and working on the base I have determined my problem with the shield was that it was nearly midnight and I had been staring at it for 3 hours

All in all for a 3rd proper attempt at NMM I'm pretty proud of it

[keen pewter]

Some more small tweaks- very nearly done

[gray idol]

I know they’re just set pieces but the cacti are really well done haha.

[lyric reef]

This is fantastic. I'm most impressed by the tattoo. I couldn't freehand letters on mine.

[obsidian orchid]

I'll wrap this up today after work, just the golds and blade steels are left

[lavish rose]

oh that's super cool! Where's that model from? And awesome job with it!

[obsidian orchid]

thanks :3 I modeled it myself! 😄

[lavish rose]

Oh sick! Well good job!

[gray idol]

I won’t be able to finish this before the end of August as I received a lot of great feedback so will be refining things for a while. However, this paint along was great encouragement to take the first steps into a large NMM project. Been learning lots along the way.

Here’s where the model is at now.

[obsidian orchid]

finished the sandy boi!

[gray idol]

This is awesome and even more so cause you sculpted it yourself. Absolutely adore the cape

[obsidian orchid]

thank youuuu

still second guessing if going with a red cape was a good idea or nah lol

[wispy talon]

Really fantastic work dude, love it!

[obsidian orchid]

thanks Ian

[wispy talon]

The weapon especially dude, very

🤌

How was it painting something you sculpted yourself?

[obsidian orchid]

when painting the weapon I realized I can just make it metallic in blender and use that as reference 🤣

[obsidian orchid]

its a lot like painting an extensively kitbashed model tbh, it has that extra dash of being proud of it haha

[lucid gate]

I didn't get started in time for the paint along but figured maybe you guys would appreciate this guy

[delicate sand]

gorgeous!

[obsidian orchid]

omg i especially love the sabatons

🤌🤌🤌

so good

[lucid gate]

Thanks! You also taught me a new word 😂

[obsidian orchid]

was it "🤌🤌🤌"? 😛