Hello everyone,

It's Andy, again. Today, I want to show to you my finished project “Tokyo rain”.

First ideas - Street fashion

The miniature is from NutsPlanet called Agent Aida (1/35). As soon as I saw her, I had a scene of street fashion walking on the pavement in mind. Of course, the pistol in her right hand was too much, so I decided to cut it away and did a slight repositioning of the fingers of the right hand.

I started the project with priming black and white and some Grisaille underpainting. To get the first impression of my idea, I tinted the different parts with GW Contrast paints. 

Refining the idea – Tokyo by night

The plan was to finish the lady at the MV-Family-Meeting from this point on in a cool comic style with bold black shadows.

At some point during the Meeting, Roman came up with the idea of a strong atmospheric light to create an additional punch and I really appreciated the input. The idea of rainy Tokyo with all the neon lights arose. Just google „Tokyo rain“ and you’ll see it :)

To paint such strong athmospheric OSL effect, I usually start with a darker tone and continuously define the effect with increasingly brighter tones the closer I get to my imagined light source.

The easiest way to do that is with an airbrush. Grab your color of choice, dilute it to have more control about the opacity and shoot it from your preferred angle, just as simple as that. 

With a brush it’s a bit more challenging but also doable – paint a small mark at your base in the preferred angle to save the perspective and touch every surface visible from this angle with the color of your choice.

   

Tokyo Nights – in the rain

Working on the OSL and neon atmosphere I had another idea to make the project a bit more interesting. How about adding rain to the scene? The effect of raindrops was on my bucket list of things to try for years and this was the perfect project for it. I painted some circles on the ground and used the icicles tutorial to create the water-drops. 

Final results

And here are the pictures of the final results.

Thanks for reading and your interest. Feel invited to comment in the section below.

Andy

 Hey Jungle,

a quick step by step on how I will build my gaming bases for a small Mordheim Dwarf Adventurer gang.

Mordheim?
Well, there will be much more coming about this topic - not only from my end, but also from MV-Team Members Johannes and Josua. Wait for it! Soon!


Nothing too fency, but therefor, easy to follow and a home for this Slayer Dwarf:




More gaming bases:

Never fear your gaming bases
Fear is not needed when you do quick gaming bases.

Creating a Fantasy Gaming Base
Roman explains his progress on a small but complex gaming base.

Allright,
very important for me when it comes to the creation of a base is my vision for the miniature(s). In this case I see my dwarf adventures going into a muddy, overgrown, swamplike, abandoned dead city.

I choose to work with stone plates on the ground by the
company Juweela that you can find via PK-Pro.

A traditionaal Mordheim sized plastic base was used and superglue was added. I did not follow the lines of the base and set my plates up in a diagonal layout to keep the base more interesting. I am up to glue some stairs with the plates and decided for the front part to become mud later on when painting. A skull was plaaced there.


Right now the plates are overlapping. In the end I do not want to keep that, but I let the glue dry out properly before going havoc. I started to add the first start of micro details with smaller stone pieces.



A third row was added and you can already see how I play with damaage on the stones. Right now it is important for me to check back with the miniature I want to add and place on the base. Make sure it has a good standing ground.


When the glue is dry I flip it over and take my callipers to break of the overlapping edges.


I also created more damage to the stairs with using my callipers.



I was able to create some really interesting and realistic looking damage.


Placing the dwarf slayer.

Happy.

Ready for some color.





Enjoy!

Keep on happy painting!
Roman

 

Sebastian here,

I haven't posted anything for a long time and so I thought, what would be better,
as a kind of project book for the preparations for everything that is pending.
All divided into different files. The basic idea is that
I want to show you my ideas. From the beginning of the idea, through the preparations,
until completion.

In the next act I want to show you my preparations for the WME. Since there is only
almost 3.5 months, there isn't much time left. But about that in another post
more

 
Here is a short explanation for the post title. I like something like ballads, poems
or songs. That has a very calming effect on me. So it was clear to me that something like that
must be in the title. I'm always willing to try new things

And I'm not afraid to try them either. On the other hand, such a project is a book
quite new for me, actually already strange. But I still want you to be a part of it.
So far I've always "only" painted and what was finished was just finished. I've never
I really thought about what I should have finished by when. I want that now
to change.

You may be curious.

Yours
Sebastian

Good Morning Jungle,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March's update on my tutorials via etsy brings you three new items:
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First one is a big article about Motivation.
A topic that everyone can relate too. Being professional in the miniature industry since almost two decades I have been to places of motivation and the lack of it that not all of you can imagine. I believe you can benefit from these words and find your happiness in your unique approach to your passion:


Second one is a step by step
on the beautiful project called "Cats".
It covers a lot of background on the basing work and painting many cats.

Last one is premium Artprint
of my recently finished diorama "The Last Bite":

I hope you enjoy this update!
Thank you for your support on the etsy platform and your great feedback.

While you read this I am working on translations into german for all so far published articles. Four are already included and updated. You can find information on the updated translated articles via the banners in the shop. For example here on the right lower corner:

Plans for adding spanish translations are in the making.
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Keep on happy painting!
Best Wishes,

Roman