Maru's Den Avicenna V2 & Tooha

[Magno]

You`re pretty prolific. How many painted minis do you have.

[Maru]

i have or i painted ??
thats huge difference

[Magno]

painted minis
I`m betting you have the most world wide. Non-studio.

[Maru]

atm im not part of any studio that i must admit
but i c my minis (painted by me ) in one of turney on other side of earth - o boy i was surprised - you know minis second life somebody bued from me then exchange / drop hobby and e bey them - blam minis go over the ocean and now staging somewer

about my personal collection - i don't posses any army for WH or WH 40 k (that would be playable only remanats of Necrons / Dork eldars ) - just could not force my self to play such actualy bad game .. rule whise
a Star Ship troopers - this game got good rules but is long ago dead, Necromunda whas funn (Eshers gang at my disposal) but after i trayed it after Infinity - o boy it whas sooooo boring so slow - only fun in army list and character evolution , Mordheim other hand i get a Undead warband and permanet Wip state Beastmen warband - again i enjoy character evlolution part but gaming ech ...
Warmahine / Hords - Yay Mehs , Yay huge Beasts .... W8 why we play only infantry in 90% of army ? - rly ??
beside thing that forced me to drop Warhord was power greedy relices - "you need to buy this or became underdog"
- My first Ed Nomads - could easy kick ass in Paradiso and after adding 2 new minis be realy effective (2 new minis after 5 years !! ) - imagine tat in GW or Warmahine - rofl

so about infinity amount - to some times i got all relices for Haqq up to date (i don't have them eny more - but i miss only feve minis ) Morats - painted evrything missing personaly only Soragat + new Gakis (Yogats - on desk atm )
ther should be somber on offical photo a bit outdatet photos of my colection

[Maru]

So sup im i again in B/W chellange but
well im stuck with my Yoagays
so as you may c i decide them to look like "dark forces" so dark armors + red elements and ociasionaly somthing Turquse


so if this will help somebody with "idea" how to get to B/w chellenge - well thats the one of the way (tis s actualy blue / green hued
beside Moze whas caind of intrested what on my desk .. so there is also GoGo Malene

[kidterminal]

So you are showing a pre-shading step here?

[Maru]

not exacly - look at rightmoust one - he is just "black"
when other two are alrdy painted - with different materlals in mind
- scale like armor is "shini"
when square parts looks like just dark with glazed edges that reflect lights
cloths on legs - get muted contrast
when Mask on middle one is actualy NMM
- different contrast - different material

[Athanadros]

Lookin good Maru!! Me likey!

[Maru]

ok time (at last )
to set the world on fire ....... e um .. no it is time for Yoagats
so as you mey c i just add Red to B/W minis and finish this up with bases in ble grenish color + same on guns





hope you like them in quite happy that i finis this after so long time

dark forces Morats ready for action .. strangly officil painting is white .... when they look so much more bad ass in black

[Crushar]

Yep. Yours do look "bad ass" buddy! Well done.

[Harlekin]

Very cool.
The red is a great addition to the B/W style.

[Maru]

V kazak in Urban theme
so mostly black white - a stong inspiracion from Jin Roth
and a photo on black and on blu to show how such painting looks different on other bg



hope you like him
it is long batteled veteran a lot of games after him - but now at last got paint on his uniform

[kidterminal]

Where's little red riding hood and the wolf? I like Jin Roth too.

[Maru]

this 1 ??
or this 1 ?

[Crushar]

Dude I think that these are probably some of your best work. I especially like the Controller, her face is really expressive and the camouflage is top notch!

[kidterminal]

Dude I think that these are probably some of your best work. I especially like the Controller, her face is really expressive and the camouflage is top notch!

I'm going to have to second this. The faces on both girls are very well done, its like I'm looking at a face painted by Jan. I love the forest base on the controller its outstanding.

[Maru]

the point in getting good wood like base is to actualy use things that you get from the wood - like leaves and bark - jest scale them by picking correct 1
and moss is well sponge - just correct color + pigments to "meld" all together

and no thous are not my competition lvl minis

[McNamara]

and no thous are not my competition lvl minis

And now you have to post a picture of that level!

[Maru]

not so hard to find .


and a n infinity 1


i got immpesion that a lot ppl see thous alrdy
i would ad White Asawira . but dont have a good photo of him

[McNamara]

Wow!

I saw the Blonde one before. Maybe I just was to lazy to search. The Mech-Engineer is really nice! And the White Asawira sounds pretty interesting.

I am not sure if I imagine it, but I belief your minis or your painting has a certain style to it, that is recognizable, I guess at a certain level, thats the natural thing to happen. And maybe at an even higher level, painters can switch between styles.

[Maru]

And the White Asawira sounds pretty interesting.

just mini in white armor just shaded

I am not sure if I imagine it, but I belief your minis or your painting has a certain style to it, that is recognizable

well yes

I guess at a certain level, thats the natural thing to happen.

Only if you are the 1 that invent tech if you are under influence of X or Y master and just follow them you became copy of X or Y - not recognizable from other copys of Jane Hally or other master.

And maybe at an even higher level, painters can switch between styles.

i can so other higher can to
but we don't - we alrdy do that in learning process and get to it back to learn new things when some one got new idea
best example is Bohun
http://bohunarts.yum.pl/index.php/recent-minis
you may recognize his works around the world - and work of his "students"
Check out Tutorials on his page
and there are 2 tutorials with him on Videa - a Drednaught of nurgle and Monique de Noir
he is in "his style" and he work over it loooooong

[Maru]

ok a commisioned Diomedes
a grey one ..


and i should uplode a Ariadna spec ops dud .. but have no idea wher i put his photo ... -___-
(will serch )

[Maru]

and an infamous Bunny ops
it is my Nomad Spec ops as original i is not to my liking i made a Bunny girl in to one - paint Bakunin as Caredigor finest and tadam Dead pool themed Bunny girl

[kidterminal]

Show us the bunny.

[Maru]

hear you got :

[kidterminal]

The one you painted.

[Maru]

not displaying ??

[Mob of Blondes]

The show fine above the shoulders, below the hair.

[Maru]

Red Riding Custodier

a long time to paint mini
my orginal idea whas to convert this chick to Darth Raven add Light sabre and cool scenic base - but now i need her for games - so no time for Jedi tricks (maybe in the future)

hop you like it

[kidterminal]

I love the red ridding hood idea.