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I left my wet palette in drawer for some time, as I am to lazy to use it but those blendings reminded me that it might be time to take it back out... Very nice and clean, technically but I think it looks more like a statue or a comic character not a real fighter. But then it's just me liking my minis dirty and ragtag.

Wow, stunning is all that I can manage to blurt out now!

thank you guys.

@mahon thx for the link!

Very smooth work. Really pops!

awsome I agree it really pops

First of all I'd like to say this figure looks flawless, smooth and it's really an eye catcher.

Two points of attention (which have already been said by others):

- the helmet could benefit from some more blacklining between the different parts
- the base lacks some creativity. Try to get out of the "brown earth, green grass" type of thing. I think even a base with grey painted sand would look better on this figure.

One last minor thing is the base on another base on a plinth thing it's mounted on right now. Why not sculpt the basing material on the plinth directly?

Thanks for showing this on our forums, you are really a very talented addition to the crowd here!

thx all - especially for the suggestions what/where to improve really appreciate!

@Corvus the base/plinth consists of three parts. I actually wanted to make a plinth as base but then I switched to the regular round base which comes with the Terminator's box. Reason was that in case I ever submit the mini to a competition that would require the figure to stand on it's original base I won't be disqualified... well to be honest that was at least the excuse to myself why I didn't go for a complete plinth I guess my main problem was as usual motivation for the base at the end.

ok anyway I slightly drifted off... the top part is the original Terminator base which is glued to a Warmachine base I had lying around here. And these two parts were glued on a spray can cap as some sort of plinth replacement to make it look better.

Finished Seamus today. I really enjoyed painting him 'cause he doesn't have too much details so everything went quite fast. I also tried to improve a bit on my basing... I guess it's a first small step.

Click to see full-sized image

..and the colors I used summarized from my WIP thread:

Skin:

Shadow IV: GW Scroched Brown
Shadow III: GW Tallarn Flesh : GW Scroched Brown (1:1)
Shadow II: GW Tallarn Flesh : GW Scroched Brown (3:1)
Shadow I: GW Tallarn Flesh : GW Scroched Brown (6:1)

Basecoat: GW Tallarn Flesh

Highlight I: GW Tallarn Flesh : VMC Dark Flesh #019 (3:1)
Highlight II: GW Tallarn Flesh : VMC Dark Flesh #019 (1:1)
Highlight III: GW Tallarn Flesh : VMC Dark Flesh #019 : GW Skull White (1:1:2)
Highlight IV: GW Tallarn Flesh : VMC Dark Flesh #019 : GW Skull White (1:1:4)

Hair:

Basecoat: GW Shadow Grey : VMC Black #169 (2:1)

Highlight I: GW Codex Grey
Highlight II: GW Codex Grey : GW Skull White (2:1)

Coat/Tuxedo:

Highlight IV: GW Enchanted Blue : GW Hawk Turquoise : GW Space Wolves Grey + some GW Skull White (2:1:9)
Highlight III: GW Enchanted Blue : GW Hawk Turquoise : GW Space Wolves Grey (2:1:9)
Highlight II: GW Enchanted Blue : GW Hawk Turquoise : GW Space Wolves Grey (2:1:6)
Highlight I: GW Enchanted Blue : GW Hawk Turquoise : GW Space Wolves Grey (2:1:3)

Basecoat: GW Enchanted Blue : GW Hawk Turquoise (2:1)

Shadow I: GW Enchanted Blue : GW Hawk Turquoise : VMC Black #169 (2:1:1)
Shadow II: GW Enchanted Blue : GW Hawk Turquoise : VMC Black #169 (2:1:2)
Shadow III: GW Enchanted Blue : GW Hawk Turquoise : VMC Black #169 (2:1:3)

Pants:

Highlight III: GW Bestial Brown : GW Graveyard Earth : VMC Yellow Ochre #121 (2:1:3)
Highlight II: GW Bestial Brown : GW Graveyard Earth : VMC Yellow Ochre #121 (2:1:2)
Highlight I: GW Bestial Brown : GW Graveyard Earth : VMC Yellow Ochre #121 (2:1:1)

Basecoat: GW Bestial Brown : GW Graveyard Earth (2:1)

Shadow I: GW Bestial Brown : GW Graveyard Earth : GW Scorched Brown (2:1:1)
Shadow II: GW Bestial Brown : GW Graveyard Earth : GW Scorched Brown (2:1:2)
Shadow III: GW Bestial Brown : GW Graveyard Earth : GW Scorched Brown (2:1:3)

Belt thing on his hat:

Highlight III: GW Bestial Brown : GW Bleached Bone (2:3)
Highlight II: GW Bestial Brown : GW Bleached Bone (2:2)
Highlight I: GW Bestial Brown : GW Bleached Bone (2:1)

Basecoat: GW Bestial Brown

Shadow I: GW Bestial Brown : VMC Black #169 (3:1)
Shadow II: GW Bestial Brown : VMC Black #169 (3:2)

Gold NMM:

Highlight III: GW Skull White (pure)
Highlight II: GW Snakebite Leather : GW Bubonic Brown : GW Skull White (1:1:3)
Highlight I: GW Snakebite Leather : GW Bubonic Brown : GW Skull White (1:1:1)

Basecoat: GW Snakebite Leather : GW Bubonic Brown (1:1)

Shadow I: GW Snakebite Leather : GW Bubonic Brown : GW Scorched Brown (1:1:1)
Shadow II: GW Snakebite Leather : GW Bubonic Brown : GW Scorched Brown (1:1:2)
Shadow III: GW Scorched Brown (pure)

NMM:

Highlight IV: GW Skull White (pure)
Highlight III: GW Codex Grey : GW Skull White (1:3)
Highlight II: GW Codex Grey : GW Skull White (1:2)
Highlight I: GW Codex Grey : GW Skull White (1:1)

Basecoat: GW Codex Grey

Shadow I: GW Codex Grey + VMC Black #169 (3:1)
Shadow II: GW Codex Grey + VMC Black #169 (2:1)
Shadow III: GW Codex Grey + VMC Black #169 (2:2)
Shadow IV: GW Codex Grey + VMC Black #169 (2:3)

Bag:

Glaze: VMC Yellow Ochre #121 (1:5)
(only glazed over the highlights to get a bit of a yellow in there)

Highlight III: GW Bestial Brown : GW Bleached Bone (2:3)
Highlight II: GW Bestial Brown : GW Bleached Bone (2:2)
Highlight I: GW Bestial Brown : GW Bleached Bone (2:1)

Basecoat: GW Bestial Brown

Shadow I: GW Bestial Brown : GW Scorched Brown (2:1)
Shadow II: GW Bestial Brown : GW Scorched Brown (2:2)
Shadow III: GW Bestial Brown : GW Scorched Brown (2:3)

Comments welcome and if someone wants to vote: https://www.coolminiornot.com/302024

p1per

Love it.
Would have pushed the highlights on the hat a little more to the white but that just me and cause I want to be annoying
Other than that, great ambiance with the base, just fits nicely with the character.
Impressive job

so clean and smooth not my style, but you've mastered it
base - I like the construction. it's simple, so it showcases the mini. but, you could spend some more time on painting it. seamus has so many layers, deep shadows, highlights, while lamp seems to be painted with black.