"Contact in Secto-"

[Lost Boy]

Is Teddy on the viewscreen just ahead of Libby?

No, that's supposed to be static (all the TVs in Silent Hill show static...). I think I'd need a single-haired brush and the steadiest hand in the world to paint it on there.

teddy is a bit different this time...

[Reaperman]

Is Teddy on the viewscreen just ahead of Libby?

No, that's supposed to be static (all the TVs in Silent Hill show static...). I think I'd need a single-haired brush and the steadiest hand in the world to paint it on there.

teddy is a bit different this time...

Thats to easy, found him when I first saw the pix. He's in your signature on the end on the DoS.

[Lost Boy]

Nope

[Avicenna]

You've written 'T-E-D-D-Y' vertically on the base in those red dots in the squares on the right hand side

[Lost Boy]

You've written 'T-E-D-D-Y' vertically on the base in those red dots in the squares on the right hand side

In...?

[Muaddib]

Braille 

[Lost Boy]

Braille

Yayyy Give that man a teddy!!! Avicenna, you get a sweetie for being almost there, but not quite

My original plan was to have a teddy figure in a small case with "In case of emergency, break glass" but it was going to be either too big, or hidden behind the figures and therefore kind of pointless. So I thought about having it as numbers along a pipe (teddy=20/5/4/4/24) but this was supposed to be "Otherworld" and numbers wouldn't look right either. In the end, I decided on something that's so obvious in our everyday lives, but still "alien" to most of us...braille, written in lower case, vertically down the strip. In plain sight, but not often noticed or recognised.

I said in my WiP that this whole thing was going to be a "head-up-my-own-bum" moment and I was right...

[grekwood]

Braille

Yayyy Give that man a teddy!!! Avicenna, you get a sweetie for being almost there, but not quite

My original plan was to have a teddy figure in a small case with "In case of emergency, break glass" but it was going to be either too big, or hidden behind the figures and therefore kind of pointless. So I thought about having it as numbers along a pipe (teddy=20/5/4/4/24) but this was supposed to be "Otherworld" and numbers wouldn't look right either. In the end, I decided on something that's so obvious in our everyday lives, but still "alien" to most of us...braille, written in lower case, vertically down the strip. In plain sight, but not often noticed or recognised.

I said in my WiP that this whole thing was going to be a "head-up-my-own-bum" moment and I was right...

oh yeah  never even noticed the Braille when i looked.... i got to sucked in on Libby's lovely red armour

i should have spotted that one really 

[DRAGON]

Braille 

I would never have noticed unless someone had told me !
That's really rather clever 

[Mr Teufel]

Lost Boy, never change! Your personal quirks make this an object of art, as well as craft. Your distinctive painting style (I don't think I've seen anyone else paint like you) and your teddy obsession make this uniquely yours.

[weirdwolf]

Lost Boy, never change! Your personal quirks make this an object of art, as well as craft. Your distinctive painting style (I don't think I've seen anyone else paint like you) and your teddy obsession make this uniquely yours.

I'll second Mr Teufel, your painting style is unique, as I mentioned in a post before, CLASSIC LOST BOY 

[Lurching Dead]

Braille

Yayyy Give that man a teddy!!! Avicenna, you get a sweetie for being almost there, but not quite

My original plan was to have a teddy figure in a small case with "In case of emergency, break glass" but it was going to be either too big, or hidden behind the figures and therefore kind of pointless. So I thought about having it as numbers along a pipe (teddy=20/5/4/4/24) but this was supposed to be "Otherworld" and numbers wouldn't look right either. In the end, I decided on something that's so obvious in our everyday lives, but still "alien" to most of us...braille, written in lower case, vertically down the strip. In plain sight, but not often noticed or recognised.

I said in my WiP that this whole thing was going to be a "head-up-my-own-bum" moment and I was right...

Just makes me love it even more.

Once I read that ther ewas braille, it leapt out immediately.

Dude you rock.

  

[Muaddib]

 

maybe i'm just too empathic for my own good.. it came to me in a moment of clarity 

good job on the diorama  you will have to tell my how you painted the outside of the tube it really works well with the piece

[Lost Boy]

you will have to tell my how you painted the outside of the tube...

...erm...

...erm...

...damn, I wish I kept notes...

Basically, you pick your colours for the type of skin you're wanting, thin it 50/50 with clean water, then dunk the brush into the mix, pinch most of it off with thumb and forefinger and dab, rather than brush, it onto the area you're painting. Start quite dark, and add two or three higher colours to the mix once each layer is dry, then go for a sudden, extreme highlight to suddenly change and defuse the whole thing. When you're happy with that, add "bruising" using very, very thin black and brown ink in splotches. Then add extreme highlights long the edges using two or more levels of the highest colour.

Does that make sense? Probably not, but I was aiming for "dead skin" and it's really something that you have to draw on from experience to be able to picture in your mind. Maybe if you Google something like "Embalming" or "Dead bodies" to get pictures as reference?

Dead skin has lots of layers-blue, green, red, brown. It's not quite CSI, with the good-looking chick who has a few dark circles under her eyes!!! People decompose really quickly, so you have to think about a timescale for what you're painting as to how they look, and use that as a reference.

As I say, Google will help...

[Nosferatu]

  LB, You are very creepy! 

Brilliant work. I love your tube bases, they are superb. Excellent, compact diorama. 

[Lost Boy]

LB, You are very creepy! 

Thanks, Nosferatu...

...

...I think!!!

[alien]

My entry for the "Diorama of Sycophancy" category...



Definitely the best fun I've had painting models for a long time-except when I dropped the first resin Mawe, broke it's leg and had to send out for another one! The base is mostly scratch-built from bits and pieces with some Leman Russ and WW2 tank parts as dressing. The deck is from GW, but seperated and re-orientated.

Hope you like...

 
One question how did you do the skin of the mawe?

[Lost Boy]

The skin on the Mawe was done pretty much the same as the pipe to start with, using a really dark base coat of brown, highlighting up to a sort of mid-tone brown. Then I swapped colours to a sort of human-flesh tone (elf flesh, if I remember correctly ), gave it a really thin wash and then highlighted up from that colour as you normally would with a figure-working from the lowest points up, with the highest points receiving the lightest colours. Once I was happy with the blending of highlights, I picked the spine's knobbly-bits out with watered-down red ink, and added a few bruisers with a few red/brown/green ink splotches to the underside to bring the colours back down again.

I've got a bit of a daffy way of painting stuff and I'm not too great at explaining how I do what I do (which isn't much help-sorry! ) but, as I said before, if you get an image of what you want in your head, or off the net, and keep trying you should be able to get it the way you want it. Trial and error will get you there  .

I think I'm going to start painting stuff for cash...!!!