Another painting challenge! Today, the iconic Imperial Stormtrooper, present at every corner of the galaxy.
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| Traditional Kaminoan way of cloning troopers had displeasant side effects |
It is a 72mm. Knightmodels miniature, as the others you have seen other times. I always say the same, they were a lovely range, shamefully they dropped the licence.
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| Now imagine it painted and not this blurry |
Though I was tempted to coat it in white, I finally took my chances with grey priming:
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| What do you mean 'my character is dull grey'? |
Then it was just a matter of thin layers of different whites...
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| You can't see the difference, but there is some white here |
...And whites...
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| Layers and layers |
... And even more whites!
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| Oh! Now some black! What a difference! |
By now the mini you see has eight different layers of different tones of white. Yup, I know, you do not see them nor perceive anything. That's my curse. I promise there are eight different colours there, from a light grey-blueish for the deepest shadows to almost a pure white for the highlights.
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| Close the blast doors! Open the blast doors! |
It truly was a challenge, though it may does not look as one!
So another mini for my 72mm. Star Wars collection. This is escalating quite quickly...
I assure it does look challenging to us! Painting white like this has got to be the most challenging thing for non-pros...
ReplyDeleteI am amazed to see how you always stay out of the comfort zone and work on such different models and project.
Really impressive !
Thank you! I always try to do different things, I find it stimulating. The bad thing about that is that I tend to have a hundred different projects at the same time and never finish any of them!
DeleteImpressive. Most impressive.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much! A pity the pics are no good, but I must say it's quite a challenging enjoyable mini.
DeletePues te lo voy a poner en Español por desentonar XDD
ReplyDeleteQUe limpito te ha quedado tio!!! me gusta mucho :D
Un abrazoooo!!
¡Muchísimas gracias! Viniendo de un crack como tú es un señor halago :)
Delete¡Un abrazo!
You have certainly done justice to the stormtrooper - my all-time favourite Star Wars character - very nice work indeed. =) It is to my eternal regret that I only came to know about Knight Models after their Star Wars license had expired.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much! Though it made me sweat I believe it was worth of the work. Should try to take better pics with natural light.
DeleteThere are a few e-shops that still have some minis in their stock, don't give up, they are totally enjoyable!
De momento es mi entrada favorita de la liga... Y eso que a pesar de ajustar el monitos sólo he conseguido ver 5 tonos de blanco! ;-)
ReplyDelete¡Muchas gracias! La verdad es que ha sido un reto diferente, un desafío el ir pintando blanco sobre blanco. A ver si le hago mejores fotos con luz natural.
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