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I love the vignette, especially the details of the room.

Nice Master Maenas!!thanks to show us your miniatures!!!

Milo wrote:

I'm not sure about "manga" eyes for mithrils.

Yes you are right, indeed, they are the first miniatures that I paint the eyes in this way.
I have always painted the eyeball white, then paint the pupil black. On these instead, I painted the eyeball brown/black, then painted the sides of the pupil white, and tried also at the same time to leave "blank" space around. I know that I must improve the final result, but I prefer it over my previous technique!

Have someone else tried a different thing, or maybe in a different manner for the eyes issue? (I do not like to leave them blank, at all)

Milo wrote:

About your painting, it is very neat, with good contrasts.

Trying to improve these too... in fact I bought a colour wheel to work on colour mixing in a different way to produce different tones and colours.
Before these ones, I had never used an opposite colour to "tone down" the original colour. Let's say to explain that sentence that, before, if I wanted a less shiny orange I used, dark red, brown or black, to do so, but now I will try to do it with blue. And the same with yellow/purple, etc.

Milo wrote:

Maybe mate varnish would provide better rendering.

There is a little story behind xD...
The brand I had been using all these years, has the name of the paint on the cap, with normal colours like bright green, dark green, etc. there is no confusion at all because I know those colours, but with varnish... without the cap they look exactly the same!!! And I have the habit to leave the pots opened and take the picture from the cap to put on my palette. Normally I perfectly allocate the caps, but that time I mixed those two caps, and now I do not know witch bottle is witch kind of varnish! xDD

On the other hand, the brand I am used to (some pots I own have more than 10-15 years) it is not available any more in Spain ("Miniature Paints" was distributed by Juegos sin Fronteras) I am now on the process to try new brands, to replace my old pots and colours, in fact I am also trying new techniques such as wet blending (that I used without knowing the name), wet palette, new brushes, new colours like I mentioned before, etc. so I am revitalising and actualising my painting hobby in general.

And on a side note, I do not like glossy miniatures, if there is no reason for them to shine (metal parts, wet areas, etc..) so I prefer matte or rather satin ones ^^
I would probably revarnish those shiny ones, maybe with a spray can instead of brushing them.

Milo wrote:

I like the eagle grey color. This is not usual and well executed.

Thank you master! I tried to make an effort to imitate another breed(?<-- not know if this is the correct word) of eagle. Great that you appreciate it.

Thanks for the comments .

The first things I paint on a figure, are the eyeballs ; then with a very fine point I put the the pupil on it, and then I paint the skin, covering all the white around the eyes that is too much, untill the 'staring effect' is gone. I'm very satisfied with the results of this technique.

Dear mates, I am happy to share my little "vignette" I finished it almost a couple of weeks ago...
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Hope you like it!
Also feel free to cast a vote on the CoolminiorNot gallery here

PS:I think I need to post here some more pics of my previous works.. quite a few (ashamed of that), since I am mostly painting other brands stuff now.

Last edited by Maenas (Mon, May7 2018 3:05pm)

Very good painting work nad very nice little diorama.. all compliments Master Meanas !

Thank you all, glad you liked it! It's the first mithril miniature that I "detach" from it's base... still feeling guilty xD

10 from my side..... :-)

Thanks all!
Gracias imisiel