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Recently my wife was wrangled into the warhammer fantasy hobby. After her first practice game she got really into it. One of our friends (who also plays) got her a DE starter army and an extra box of warriors. I then got her a sorcerer and hydra.
She's got everything put together and is currently working on her sorceress (who is almost complete) and her hydra, doing her warriors in between.
She is nervous about posting them, though I don't know why as you'll see below. But if she gets enough positive feedback she said she may post a PLOG
Anyways, here are some of her Sorceress and Hydra WIP:
It's hard to tell from the photos, but I think they might benefit from a bit more layering with washes and drybrushing. It also looks like the paint may be a little thick - is she using a painting palette or painting straight from the pot?
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Excellent start. Are these the first models she's painted?
I particularly like the eyes on the sorceress. As for areas to improve (might be the pic of course) but a little wash over the gold areas of the sorceress to allow for a cleaner diferentiation between the flesh and metal. Then go over the metal again lightly so the wash shows a gradient.
Also take a drybrush or highlight to the hair. She already knows how to highlight (I see it on the sorceresses cloak) and that would give a nice texture to the overall model as her hair is so monolithic.
That would really make an already well done model pop!
She did a few of my WoC models, my Disc Sorc and my Knight BSB, which she did great on, but other than that, these are pretty much her first models (for her army).
@Red: She uses straight from the pot for most of the stuff.
@Underway: I love what she did with the eyes, she spent a decent amount of time getting it perfect, but it's well worth it. She's still doing the touch ups on the models, definitely still works in progress. But she's always up for pointers. Especially since I'm not all that much help...the whole reason I went with WoC was the cool armor and the minimal skin/faces to paint
jerm20201 wrote:She did a few of my WoC models, my Disc Sorc and my Knight BSB, which she did great on, but other than that, these are pretty much her first models (for her army).
@Red: She uses straight from the pot for most of the stuff.
@Underway: I love what she did with the eyes, she spent a decent amount of time getting it perfect, but it's well worth it. She's still doing the touch ups on the models, definitely still works in progress. But she's always up for pointers. Especially since I'm not all that much help...the whole reason I went with WoC was the cool armor and the minimal skin/faces to paint
Tell her to use a palette, to get the extra bits of paint off. The paint will go on with a thinner coat and the details of the model will stand out more easily. Its also better for brush control. I started by using a white piece of paper inside a plastic sleeve for my palatte and it works great, though the paint does tend to dry out quickly. I now use a wet palette and its much improved the quality of what goes on my models.
Quite amazing work considering shes not painted much before.
Details on the sorc's face are amazing.
The model is very feminine and gentle as much as a screaming, demon binding witch can get.
Kudos!
And start the plog!
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Other constructive comment is to try not to worry too much about painting every detail to have it's own colour and don't worry about colours needing to be too far apart. The blue on the back of the knife, for example, probably doesn't need to be there - it looks a bit glaring.
Anyway, as already mentioned - really good stuff and look forward to seeing more of it as it continues. Last tidbit is just to keep going - a lot of painting technique is evolutionary and just by the very act of painting she'll hone up a talent that is already pretty awesome into utter brilliance
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