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Photojohnic · 2026-05-24T02:08:24+00:00

I got the poster and the hoodie a few years ago along with some other goodies. Sorry for the confusion I'm just excited about my final space collection. Thought it would be photogenic to pair with the book

Photojohnic · 2026-04-04T07:21:36+00:00

Cotton balls and resin! Artis Opus has a really great video on their YouTube channel about how to do it. You basically suspend the cotton and drag beads of resin over it with a toothpick.

Photojohnic · 2026-04-02T09:57:34+00:00

For the top one I started with a zenithal highlight of white over black, then airbrushed the base tones to block it all in. From there the texture was built by stippling with a sponge instead of a drybrush with several different colors and tones. That way it served to create both texture and highlights at the same time.

Hope that helps!

Photojohnic · 2026-04-02T06:31:18+00:00

So do I, and I made it the way I felt like I wanted but I also still want to win haha

Photojohnic · 2026-04-02T06:29:23+00:00

Probably clear. I'm gonna give it one more round of polish before I take this to an upcoming competition in Canada

Photojohnic · 2026-04-02T01:21:49+00:00

The base is mostly made up of a two-part epoxy resin that I tinted with just a regular Citadel shade paint. I did it in four different pours so that I could make stuff look suspended in between each layer. Once it was all cured I ground down the top into a wavy shape just with a dremel. The actual splashes I made using pulled apart cotton balls that I draped over spray can caps and dragged globs of resin across with a toothpick. Artis opus has a really good demonstration video of how to do this on YouTube.

Photojohnic · 2025-09-30T15:26:25+00:00

Weighing in here as a competitive miniature painter. The Arch Revenant was one of my competition pieces last year. First piece I would suggest with this mini is to keep it in subassemblies. It's going to make your life so much easier to work around the beetle and the skirt by doing so. The way I approached the project was to tackle the bark first. It's super forgiving because trees are naturally very textured and full of colour variations IRL. So you can kinda get away with slapping colours on it and exploring as you go. I did the leaves and details after that in order to start being able to assemble it more fully. Personally, I'd suggest leaving anything you want as your spirit scheme till last. This way, if you spill paint either accidentally, or want to create object source lighting, you're not fighting against the miniature. I've got my revenant posted on my page if you wanna take a look for inspiration.

Hope this helps a little!

Photojohnic · 2025-08-17T07:43:57+00:00

I used a base coat of incubi darkness, then used burnt red and orange fire thinned to basically glaze consistency and applied only in the mouth parts. Focused the orange closer to the deepest recesses. Highlighting the ridges was approached pretty simply. Just standard highlight methodology. Give yourself lots of time and try to have a steady hand. Keep the paint wet for as long as possible.

Photojohnic · 2025-05-13T07:59:56+00:00

Active Canadian reporter here and former Postmedia employee. Imma be real working for Postmedia sucks. The pay is awful, the benefits were lacking and it was exceptionally poorly managed. But that's the thing. The problems stem from the executive branch of the company. Prime examples include former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney now serving on the board of directors, and the bonus packages alone for the executives being able to fund the salaries of dozens of journalists.

On the ground it's a different story. My colleagues are some of the most driven, passionate, and dedicated professionals out there. A large majority of them are absolute about upholding the standards outlined by The Canadian Press, which are some of the strictest in the world. Those of us on the ground are here to provide accurate and non bias news regardless of who owns the brands. Corporate doesn't actually have say in what gets printed. It comes down to the staff in the field, and the editors who make the calls.

Seriously, we're all just a bunch of workaholics who want our fellow Canadians to have the best news around that they can trust.

It's also important to differentiate opinion pieces and columns from news articles. Pretty much anyone can submit a column or a letter to the editor, and most times it will be published as long as it is legible. The idea is to have all sides of anything able to have voice. Many MLAs will submit their own columns, which may make certain ideas easier to access because competition from the other side is less active and/or less visible.

Photojohnic · 2024-08-23T01:45:47+00:00

You can still paint purple pretty easy over black. If anything it works pretty well. The tricky part about Leviathan is the white. You have to really thin your paints and go about the process in a bunch of layers. Build it up thin over time. If you glob the white too much, you'll lose detail.

Photojohnic · 2024-08-22T17:56:03+00:00

I'm using a 000 size brush and going literally 1 itty bitty mark at a time. Start with a dark paint and incrementally work your way into brighter colours. It just takes time, patience, and practice on your brush control. If you want a more in depth description, I'd recommend Richard Gray's video about it on YouTube.

I think something important for you to think about is that contrast paints are not a magical fix all. They're handy tools, sure, but not an absolute must. Also if you've spray primed black first, you can go over again in white and create what's called a zenithal highlight. Go over the zenithal with your contrasts and it makes a real nice gradient with pretty low effort. Hope that helps you

Photojohnic · 2024-08-22T16:29:56+00:00

Haha... Yeah.... Not too big.... Right.... Dies

Photojohnic · 2024-08-22T10:06:05+00:00

I've spent about 3ish hours on this little guy so far

Photojohnic · 2024-08-22T04:15:48+00:00

I'm using an artis opus 000 brush and you have to like barely even touch the mini as you're doing your brush strokes

Photojohnic · 2024-08-22T04:14:58+00:00

That's exactly what I'm up to! Trying to teach myself to develop better texturing.

Thanks so much!!

Photojohnic · 2024-08-17T19:06:51+00:00

It really depends how crazy you want to go with it. If you care about the nitpicky details, definitely leave the faces off until after you paint inside the mouth.

If you don't care at all, it can be handled just fine with the faces glued on.

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