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Hi guy's thought I would post this on here aswell I have just started painting my Adriana and decided to start with my Highlander Grey hes still very much a work in progress I need to highlight his webbing and accessories and need to paint his skin and gray armour plates and weapons then the bit im dreading painting the tartan please let me know what you think so far as this is my first infinity mini
Also I have no internet conection at the moment so please forgive the phone pictures and I will update with camera pics when I can

Cheers Kevin

WWII-Era Scottish Regiments occasionally wore a grey mix of mud all over their skin to stave off heat and cold as well as provide some basic camo. Some even added in brown and black to create more complex camo.

If you can find a copy, the Privateer Press Trollbloods Army book has a great way to paint good-looking "tartan" without actually painting TARTAN.

Best explanation of the idea I've ever seen.

Overall, that's a great, clean start. The red already has some nice highlighting on it, and reds take some practice to get right.

Great now I really need to find that...

Would this tartan method be enough? Is it like the trollbloods one or completly different?

Probably... Though that example miniature is odd...

Not odd, just Celtos. They fight with cricket bats.

The sculpting is odd is what I meant...

Then again my group sculpted a mecha that has been lovingly deemed "Fat Man".

Yeah, and that is Celtos style. Except if they are inconsisent with themselves, I don't call miniatures odd as most are "odd", due scale problems or design choices. I think the Celtos line comes from the 90s. Big arms (meat and metal), tiny abdomens and even torsos is Celtos design/oddness. The cricket bat thing is just what always remember first about them. They also remind me of certain comics, but hard to say which ones.

Mob of Blondes wrote:Would this tartan method be enough? Is it like the trollbloods one or completly different?

It's pretty similar.

The Brushthralls have a pretty decent online explanation, too. http://blog.brushthralls.com/?page_id=3212

The biggest thing to remember is that you aren't painting a full tartan. You're just painting what looks like a tartan. Thinned paints and nice long-bristled liner brushes are your friends for this, like my 10/0 Loew-Cornell 7050 script brush. Bristles on that little bitty thing are about as long as my W&N S7 #3 (or a GW Large Brush), but it's tight enough that I can paint shoulderboards or rank patches on 15mm figures.

Section9 wrote:

Mob of Blondes wrote:Would this tartan method be enough? Is it like the trollbloods one or completly different?

It's pretty similar.

The Brushthralls have a pretty decent online explanation, too. http://blog.brushthralls.com/?page_id=3212

The biggest thing to remember is that you aren't painting a full tartan. You're just painting what looks like a tartan. Thinned paints and nice long-bristled liner brushes are your friends for this, like my 10/0 Loew-Cornell 7050 script brush. Bristles on that little bitty thing are about as long as my W&N S7 #3 (or a GW Large Brush), but it's tight enough that I can paint shoulderboards or rank patches on 15mm figures.

Thats the tutorial that I'm going to follow I've had it book marked for a long time just building up to having a go will be at that point soon though and thanks to eveyone for all the comments

Mob of Blondes wrote:Would this tartan method be enough? Is it like the trollbloods one or completly different?

That's the tutorial I used when I painted my first Tartan as well.

And Devon_boy you have a very nice start on that guy! Looks great so far.

Thanks for all the feed back and advice I have had some spare time today so got abit more done. I'm not happy with how grainy some of the paint looks especially the metallics but it has come from the primer. I will strip it one day and start again but for now it's needed for an upcoming tournament I just need to paint the gloves and add some more shadows to the face and then I'm onto the Tartan, Let me know what you guy's think

Cheers Kevin

So here is my finnished Highlander Grey Im not sure about the Tartan think I might have rushed it but not too bad for a first attempt let me know what you think

Cheers Kevin

Plus I will replace the pic with ones from my camera when Im finally up and running with my internet again

well you get ther
flannel shirt
Tartan is rarly equal squares same pattern - it is usualy smaler patern within larger one
like double thin line od one color inside biger square made of other color

http://www.paintyourimagination.com/t70 ... miniatures

this is what you loking at
(unless i made "tartan in 5 minutes" tutorial )

Maru wrote:well you get ther
flannel shirt
Tartan is rarly equal squares same pattern - it is usualy smaler patern within larger one
like double thin line od one color inside biger square made of other color

http://www.paintyourimagination.com/t70 ... miniatures

this is what you loking at
(unless i made "tartan in 5 minutes" tutorial )

Point taken I see what you mean will try and improve this on my ny volunteers cheers Kevin

Plus thanks for the link

Hi so a quick update this is a very early wip of my Tank Hunter had some rare free time today

Kevin,

Bro those are looking GREAT! I love that Tartan, I have done a couple now, and I hate them. I think you are nailing it!

More more more!

not to dark this cammo pattern ?? it melds with itself instade surrondings

No it's lighter than it looks in the picture will try and take a better picture

Hi guy's so I've more or less finished the Tankhunter but disappointed that the primer has ruined the paint job as it has grained and started to look worse as the paint went on but dont have time to paint it again as it for an upcoming tournament this month let me know what you guy's think



Cheers Kevin

One more thing I want to put a Tank hunter logo on him but not sure where any ideas?

On the back of his helmet? So his buddies can identify him on the field of battle.

I like that idea alot

Cheers

Devon-boy wrote:I like that idea alot

Cheers

Glad to be of help.

Well it's been a very long time since my last update. Life got a little mad as I had 2 more children in that time but I will be posting regularly again, but will be US Adriana I hope to make my first update this weekend just waiting for my new paints to arrive. The last thing I painted was my tankhunter so may be a learning curve again[ASTONISHED FACE]

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