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Comment on Troll Sky Raider by Ivan

Ivan — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:19:22 +0000

Nice Paintjob mate. Like your troll.

Comment on Absylonia, the Terror of Everblight by moondog548

moondog548 — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:37:31 +0000

Yeah… more like the terror of WHATEVERblight!

…

sorry… bored.

Comment on Visgoth Rhoven & Honor Guard by Dankelzahn

Dankelzahn — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 06:51:01 +0000

Thanks, Chron, I appreciate it.

Being able to sculpt my own figures would be pretty nice but sadly that skill’s beyond me.

Comment on Visgoth Rhoven & Honor Guard by EDC

EDC — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 20:11:34 +0000

I am almost always impressed by your miniature work. Part of me wishes that you were in the business of creating them too. But either way, I wanted to say, I love looking at your miniatures.

Comment on Carnivean by Dankelzahn

Dankelzahn — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:02:25 +0000

Not back when the post was written in 2006.

Comment on Carnivean by Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:41:25 +0000

You must not have seen the MkII rules- they have opposable thumbs now (e.g.”claws.”) : )

Comment on Gorman di Wulf, Rogue Alchemist by Moondog

Moondog — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:40:01 +0000

A shady character…

Comment on Reclaimer by Dankelzahn

Dankelzahn — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:23:43 +0000

Sure!

For the black cloth basically I web blend black and a medium gray color. Color name will depend on miniature line or you can just mix black and white 50/50 and use that. I base coat the miniature black and then wet blend the gray, and that’s really pretty much it.

I don’t use the P3 two brush blending though. I was taught wet blending differently. More like this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFhThI6kZHY. It looks very similar to what PP does but the big difference for me is that I don’t just blend the highlight color down, I work back and forth from both sides (the black and gray) to get the transition I want.

Skin’s always pretty rough for me. I get a lot of mileage out of the fact that I don’t have to paint much of it on my Protectorate figures. I use a layering technique that Dr. Faust demos extremely well in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-rsH9wdaVg

Sorry for the links, but these guys explain it way better than I could, and with handy visual references!

Comment on Reclaimer by Gareth

Gareth — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:27:21 +0000

Very nice work! I have been ogling your Mini gallery for a while, nice stuff. Can you tell me how you did your black cloth and your flesh? I have been trying to do some on my own Protectorate but it just doesn’t come out nice. Thanks!

Comment on Raek by Dankelzahn

Dankelzahn — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 08:31:04 +0000

Sure, no problem. I actually already have posts up that list my color selections here:

Legion: http://www.dankelzahn.com/blog/2009/08/24/hordes-frostfang-brood/
Protectorate: http://www.dankelzahn.com/blog/2006/11/21/warmachine-the-vermillion-menofix/

I change up my techniques slightly depending on what I’m painting but for the most part I’ll start by laying down my base coat. Then I shade starting with a wash followed by some more targeted shading in the deeper recesses. Once that’s done I highlight back up from the base color to wherever I want the highlights to be.

Comment on Raek by Remy

Remy — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:57:33 +0000

Can you speak a bit about your technique and color selections for the blue skin, as well as the purple you used on your Menoth models? I just stumbled across this site and so far I am very impressed with your work.

Comment on Miniature Gallery Migration by Dankelzahn

Dankelzahn — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:46:26 +0000

Usually I subscribe to the comments feed but I can do that. I grabbed one of the wordpress site that looked good but if you have any plugin suggestions or issues with this one just let me know.

Comment on Miniature Gallery Migration by Owen

Owen — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:37:11 +0000

That explains the deja vus I’ve been having when reading your recent posts!

Owen

PS If you add an email comment subscribe plugin it’d help with following comments

Comment on Everyone’s Favorite WM/H Mini-game by Dankelzahn

Dankelzahn — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:49:01 +0000

I never actually looked for it but that sure does seem to be the case!

Comment on Everyone’s Favorite WM/H Mini-game by Owen

Owen — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:44:41 +0000

You can also play spot the photoshopping? The studio painters generally only paint one of each unique sculpt. You can tell by looking at the bases!

Owen

Comment on Sleeving & Storing WM/H Stat Cards by Dankelzahn

Dankelzahn — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:42:38 +0000

I had decided against the 9-pocket page just due to the size on the tabletop, but that’s an excellent point regarding the flatter profile.

Comment on Sleeving & Storing WM/H Stat Cards by Bas Hamer

Bas Hamer — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:58:31 +0000

9 card sleeves and cheap fodlers (check a back to school sale). one for each faction.
leave room between sections(warcaster/locks, beasts, troops, solos) so that it is easy to add new things in.

they are flatter and store easier in army transport cases as they have no bulk.

Comment on Word of Everblight vs. Spirit of Everblight by Dankelzahn

Dankelzahn — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:11:51 +0000

Yeah, it’s definitely a shortcoming of the whole process, but it’s been one that’s been around for a few releases now. Like you pointed out, this isn’t the first time it’s happened. That makes me wonder if PP should just take a more conservative approach to model design and not stretch the envelope as much with models like Bethayne and Belphagor. Or would that make the game to stale?

Comment on Word of Everblight vs. Spirit of Everblight by Z

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:07:11 +0000

Having a beta period for every model would be too much. While I can understand that certain models are problematic and have issues that need to be corrected [coughbloodhagcoughcough], we should expect the PT crew to actually catch these things.

If they don’t, here’s what we learn:

a. Not enough Playtesters
b. Not enough Playtesters who play in the National level tourneys and expect games to be played to that margin of tightness with the rules.

This isn’t a huge shortcoming, but is something that should get rectified. Someone should catch these errors before they make it into play.

Comment on Manaburst: Session 1, Part 2 (Broken) by moondog548

moondog548 — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:25:07 +0000

EDIT:

Fun wtf session btw. ;-}

Comment on Manaburst: Session 1, Part 2 (Broken) by moondog548

moondog548 — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:24:10 +0000

There’s nothing to roleplay about folks missing from the party when they have no idea where they are or how they got there. ;-}

Comment on Everyone’s Favorite WM/H Mini-game by Dankelzahn

Dankelzahn — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 21:06:35 +0000

You know, I think you’re right. For some reason middle-top looked like it was different then lower-left and it’s mate on the bottom row. Not sure why I didn’t see it before; the angle’s not that different at all.

Comment on Everyone’s Favorite WM/H Mini-game by Lazlo

Lazlo — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:58:43 +0000

I’m not seeing two unique sculpts. Going from left to right, I see the following:
Top 1, Top 4
Top 2, Top 5
Top 3, Bottom 1, Bottom 4
Bottom 2, Bottom 5

And that leaves Bottom 3 to be the only unique.

Comment on Here there be Planeswalkers by moondog548

moondog548 — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:13:34 +0000

wee!

Comment on Here there be Planeswalkers by Dankelzahn

Dankelzahn — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:35:40 +0000

Actually six; I made a character too, both to explain how the FATE/Dresden Files system works as well as to allow for someone else to take a stab at GMing if they want. When I write up the first real session (taking place this coming weekend) I’ll explain the mechanic behind how we’re working missing players and rotating GMs.

One player is moving away in a month or so and another is iffy on attendance, so for practical purposes it’s a little smaller and easier to handle. I’ve run for 9 before, but I’m not doing that ever again!