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Two Reaper Miniatures Dragons I painted

Started by Benoist, May 21, 2010, 01:19:19 PM

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Benoist

May 21, 2010, 01:19:19 PM
Two Reaper Miniatures dragons I painted.

The White Dragon:









The Red Dragon:







Insufficient Metal

#1
May 21, 2010, 01:26:58 PM
Pretty terrible...

:hatsoff: :worship:

Benoist

#2
May 21, 2010, 01:38:16 PM
Heh. Thanks! I thought you guys would get a kick out of it.

Maybe stat the guys and come up with backgrounds, adventure seeds or whatnot. :D

Insufficient Metal

#3
May 21, 2010, 01:55:14 PM
Are you playing D&D? Aren't there already stats for dragons?

I'd love to send in my paladin to do battle...



Tragically, I can't seem to take good pictures of tiny minis.

If I had two giant dragons, the first thing I'd do is get the player characters caught in the middle, of course. Perhaps they have something both dragons want.

winkingbishop

#4
May 21, 2010, 03:05:52 PM
Great job.
"I presume, my boy, you are the keeper of this oracular pig." -The Horned King

Friar Othos - [Ptolus/AD&D pbp]

Cylonophile

#5
May 21, 2010, 06:42:23 PM
Looking pretty good. First time I ever saw one miniature on 3 bases.

Did you drybrush? Looks like it.

Are these clearcoated yet? I don't see any clearcoating, and if you have clearcoated them I want to know what you used.
Go an\' tell me I\'m ignored.
Kick my sad ass off the board,
I don\'t care, I\'m still free.
You can\'t take the net from me.

-The ballad of browncoatone, after his banning by the communist dictators of rpg.net for refusing to obey their arbitrary decrees.

Cylonophile

#6
May 21, 2010, 06:43:35 PM
Quote from: Insufficient Metal;382587Are you playing D&D? Aren't there already stats for dragons?

I'd love to send in my paladin to do battle...



Tragically, I can't seem to take good pictures of tiny minis.

If I had two giant dragons, the first thing I'd do is get the player characters caught in the middle, of course. Perhaps they have something both dragons want.

You generally need to mount the camera on a fixed tripod or something similar, and have diffused lighting. Also does your digicam have a range option? Some have a special mode for targeting objects at close range, like 2' or less.

If your digicam has instructions read them carefully., If you got it sans instructions look it up on the net. or ask beno for tips, he obviously has his miniature picture taking shit together.
Go an\' tell me I\'m ignored.
Kick my sad ass off the board,
I don\'t care, I\'m still free.
You can\'t take the net from me.

-The ballad of browncoatone, after his banning by the communist dictators of rpg.net for refusing to obey their arbitrary decrees.

Benoist

#7
May 21, 2010, 06:51:34 PM
Quote from: Cylonophile;382667Looking pretty good. First time I ever saw one miniature on 3 bases.
Thanks. The idea of the 3 bases just came naturally. I didn't want to put the mini on some diorama, and wanted to be able to move it around in actual games using Dwarven Forge terrain and the like.

Quote from: Cylonophile;382667Did you drybrush? Looks like it.
I did, yes. :)

Quote from: Cylonophile;382667Are these clearcoated yet? I don't see any clearcoating, and if you have clearcoated them I want to know what you used.
They are clearcoated yes. I used a matte varnish from Michael's. The trick to make the varnish seem almost invisible is to just keep brushing the varnish relatively quickly with the brush you used to put it on, for a few seconds, as it starts to dry off. But if you do it for too long your coating goes away, and/or your mini looks like shit. It's kind of a "tour de main" to get. You apply several coats like this, and it's just as protective as if you'd used huge lumps on the mini.

Insufficient Metal

#8
May 22, 2010, 12:11:58 AM
Quote from: Cylonophile;382668You generally need to mount the camera on a fixed tripod or something similar, and have diffused lighting. Also does your digicam have a range option? Some have a special mode for targeting objects at close range, like 2' or less.

If your digicam has instructions read them carefully., If you got it sans instructions look it up on the net. or ask beno for tips, he obviously has his miniature picture taking shit together.

Thanks for this, Cylonophile. The manual for my camera is long gone, but I'll see if I can kludge something together or find it online.

Cylonophile

#9
May 22, 2010, 02:58:31 AM
Quote from: Insufficient Metal;382737Thanks for this, Cylonophile. The manual for my camera is long gone, but I'll see if I can kludge something together or find it online.

Well, you can achieve a diffused lighting effect more or less by reflecting a directional light off a white surface, like a bedsheet on a wall. Diffuse lighting is used in a lot of pro photography, like that kind of umbreaal thing they have in most professional photography stupios if you've ever had a pic taken at one.

If your camera is anything like mine, it has a mode for close up pix that uses an icon like a stylized flower for images at about 2 ' or less.

Again, I'd say ask benny what he's doing since he's doing something right.
Go an\' tell me I\'m ignored.
Kick my sad ass off the board,
I don\'t care, I\'m still free.
You can\'t take the net from me.

-The ballad of browncoatone, after his banning by the communist dictators of rpg.net for refusing to obey their arbitrary decrees.

thedungeondelver

#10
May 22, 2010, 01:45:53 PM
Excellent, Benoist.  What's your address so I can send mine in?

:D
THE DELVERS DUNGEON


Mcbobbo sums it up nicely.

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Benoist

#11
May 22, 2010, 03:31:14 PM
Quote from: thedungeondelver;382825Excellent, Benoist.  What's your address so I can send mine in?

:D
LOL Send me your EGG signed DMG first, and then we'll talk about it. ;)

Thanlis

#12
May 22, 2010, 05:51:08 PM
Totally dig the three bases on one of them. Nice paint job, too!

Benoist

#13
May 22, 2010, 06:08:19 PM
Quote from: Thanlis;382902Totally dig the three bases on one of them. Nice paint job, too!
Thanks! The three bases came up spontaneously as I started working with the miniature. I didn't want to put a huge base on it or pin it to a diorama, and wanted to be able to use it in actual play, in Dwarven Forge setups and the like. That's how the idea of just using single minis bases came to me, and it worked out great. It's very stable, actually. :)

thedungeondelver

#14
May 22, 2010, 09:33:50 PM
Quote from: Benoist;382857LOL Send me your EGG signed DMG first, and then we'll talk about it. ;)

I see then that we are at an impasse, sir! :)
THE DELVERS DUNGEON


Mcbobbo sums it up nicely.

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