Tuesday 12 November 2013

Jack the Ripper and some Gratuitous Breasts

I feel like, in painting the Requiem miniatures, I have developed my painting skills somewhat.  In particular, I have improved on painting white, which has always been a problem for me (see perambulator boots guy).  Black has been the other difficulty.  Getting the highlights right using the right shade of grey has always been a pain.  For that reason Jack the Ripper caused me some consternation and I stared at him for some time thinking about how to deal with all the black.  In the end I think I have made some real progress on the black front, in particular by darkening up the grey mid tone highlight and block painting more than I usually would.  Here he is:








In here comes Sherlock to take him down:


And I nearly forgot about the gratuitous breast shot - which is included solely as a pastiche / homage to all those blogs which use such titles to gain hits:


Phoar...

13 comments:

  1. Great job he looks excellent its certainly paid off. Great Breasts as well Phwooar indeed!

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  2. Very good work on the black !!
    (and the other colours, obviously !)

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  3. LOL, great stuff , got my attention,... stuffed with a garlic & blue cheese sauce and wrapped in parma ham, yum!... Nice job the the Ripper too, great work!

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  4. Thanks guys - it is a little experiment to see if we get lots more hits when we put the word "breasts" in the title.

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  5. Nice work Dan. It takes real skill to make something with a limited colour palette "pop" like that, and I think you've pulled it off. More of a drumstick man myself though :-)

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  6. Very cool figures, Dan. I love Sherlock!

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    1. Thanks Dean - Sherlock is cool. I have a Watson figure that goes with him as well.

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  7. Awesome work Dan. Your work on the black gives me hope! After seeing this guy in real life (the model not jack the ripper) I can vouch for the great job dan has made on this guy.

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  8. Great work Dan and great breasts too!

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  9. Haha, you got me looking! I am such an idiot ;) The model's are looking great BTW. I wonder how I can use this tactic myself, something with "hot models" or something, the next time I post an update about the dwarves... something with lava bases, or perhaps Gandalf smoking his pipe: "Smoking hot models... " hm...

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