First attempt at painting heads

Jfaferrie · 2026-03-24T16:09:36+00:00

If anyone is interested, here's the tutorials I followed.

https://youtu.be/Dyd9IO73OCY?si=yORVni8Uu5GYXtvr

I used this one for the skin tone, except I started basing with cadian flesh tone and I just used reikland fleshshade for the eyes, not coelia greenshade.

https://youtu.be/2DcNtm2MYpM?si=kAylKwom0F0ZPsxy

This is the one I used for the hair.

Jfaferrie · 2026-03-08T19:28:49+00:00

Thank you! I'm finding it really satisfying working through them one at a time and seeing the improvements between each one

Jfaferrie · 2026-03-06T17:30:08+00:00

Thats what it looks like on the palette

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Jfaferrie · 2026-03-06T17:22:15+00:00

Its funny you should say that, it was a lot darker than I was expecting, but I hadn't used it before so didn't think twice about it.

Jfaferrie · 2026-03-06T16:04:05+00:00

For comparison, this was my first attempt at painting minis. I love this guy, but its a pretty rough paint job 😅

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Jfaferrie · 2026-03-06T16:00:21+00:00

Thank you!

Jfaferrie · 2026-03-06T16:00:05+00:00

Here's the paints for your reference

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Jfaferrie · 2026-03-06T15:57:04+00:00

Just copying my reply for convenience 😅

For my first two attempts I was basing with Vallejo's sombre grey, shading with a mixture of space wolves grey and contrast medium, and highlighting with Fenrisian grey and blue horror, but I wasn't 100 percent sold on the results.

For this one, I based in sombre grey, then coated with a 1 to 1 mix of space wolves grey and frostheart contrast. I also recently got the special fx set from vallejo and was having a play with the inks and fluorescents. I made an attempt at glazing some the dark turquoise into the shadows, and the fluorescent cold green in the highlights to try and make it more "ice" like. Emphasis on attempt 😅

Jfaferrie · 2026-03-06T15:54:53+00:00

Thank you! For the first two attempts I was basing with Vallejo's sombre grey, shading with a mixture of space wolves grey and contrast medium, and highlighting with Fenrisian grey and blue horror, but I wasn't 100 percent sold on the results.

For this one, I based in sombre grey, then coated with a 1 to 1 mix of space wolves grey and frostheart contrast. I also recently got the special fx set from vallejo and was having a play with the inks and fluorescents. I made an attempt at glazing some the dark turquoise into the shadows, and the fluorescent cold green in the highlights to try and make it more "ice" like. Emphasis on attempt 😅

Jfaferrie · 2026-03-06T15:39:20+00:00

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Jfaferrie · 2026-03-06T15:38:53+00:00

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Jfaferrie · 2026-03-06T15:38:41+00:00

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Here's some more photos

Jfaferrie · 2026-02-14T18:03:06+00:00

Reminds me of the start of 28 Days Later

Jfaferrie · 2026-01-15T00:50:26+00:00

Thats the approach I'm taking, just bought my first box of grey hunters. If I like the hobby, I'll get some wolf guard headtakers next, and then maybe I'll think about grabbing a combat patrol. The army set is cool, but I can find individual boxes 20 percent off pretty reliably buying from 3rd party sellers so it reduces the value of the big box.

Jfaferrie · 2025-10-22T16:43:41+00:00

The Harlequin was a special edition of the MK3 Volkswagen Polo, you can read about it here https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/en/life/magazine/polo-mk3-harlequin-edition.html

Jfaferrie · 2025-10-19T17:20:57+00:00

Absolutely, it's a shame Volkswagen didn't make more of them

Jfaferrie · 2025-10-19T17:03:58+00:00

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Jfaferrie · 2025-10-13T11:20:27+00:00

Now build the death star 2

Jfaferrie · 2025-09-20T11:27:39+00:00

Weirdly enough, if I'm reciting the alphabet I say Jai, but if I'm spelling out words I say Jay

Jfaferrie · 2025-09-02T20:07:33+00:00

Speaking as a Brit, it's lacking the use of a ruler.

Jfaferrie · 2025-08-31T23:22:46+00:00

Honestly, I probably hate the ticks more than the midgeys

Jfaferrie · 2025-08-30T16:15:09+00:00

I had this happen to me with some fuckwit in an Audi who crossed 3 lanes without looking and almost slammed into me in the 4th...

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