Witchhunter, Radical, Rogue Trader, Spy - Keravin goes 54mm

[Keravin]

Thanks Heroka.  Bulk was largely done to try and get the hunched look as well as being a necessity due to the base model and building from there.

Thanks Dwi.   The adept/book carrier/dogsbody was trying to replicate the feel of the 28mm figures as I like the notion of her slightly mad retinue feel and wanted to continue it in 54mm.   Both the 28mm versions are stooped carrying tomes etc and the 54mm was done in that vein.

[Keravin]

That's where he's up to so far.  Probably going for a chequered pattern on the non red bits of his robes.



Working on the Tracker as well.  Finding it quite different painting the 54mm figures.

[seaglen]

Loving the big hunched beast of an admech. very true to artwork!

[Keravin]

Thanks Seaglen.   Keeper of Names is possibly more religious than people might currently see him as.   Got to try and paint a lot more on him and the others tonight and tomorrow as this is pretty much the only time I have to paint before the event.

[Dwi]

Out of professinal intrest as a painter whats so diffrent about painting 54mm?

[Koval]

Larger models tend to incorporate more fine details that you have to take into consideration, though that's not a universal thing. Take a look at Eisenhorn or Gruss, for example. (However, compare with 28mm things from the past two years, as time has obviously marched on.)

[MarcoSkoll]

I think that's probably somewhat fallacious, seeing as either scale has to conform to the same limits of detail that the sculptor and casting methods can achieve.

My own experience is that the difference often comes down to areas with lack of detail. The fineness of the smallest details at either scale is going to be roughly equivalent (if not necessarily their quantity, as there is four times the area to put those details on), but a plain area on a 54mm model is those same four times larger and won't take higher contrast painting as well as an scale-equivalent area at 28mm.

A flowing cloak that might have been fine to take a certain number of layers at 28mm will probably need at least a couple more at 54mm to make the shades flow into each other as well. And a neat edge highlight on 54mm will have less of an apparent effect on than on a comparatively smaller area.

[Koval]

I think that's probably somewhat fallacious, seeing as either scale has to conform to the same limits of detail that the sculptor and casting methods can achieve.

Then that might just be the ones I've seen, though it's certainly easier to see things like folds in clothing etc. on a 54mm model.

[Keravin]

For me it's the areas to cover, looking at how I do transitions, having more space to do gradiated highlights, expanding how I look at doing metal work, skin etc.  Plus I'm probably hampering myself by trying to replicate some models at both scales.

[Keravin]

Done some work revising Kyia's stats and been working on Crooked Ear (the Ratskin Tracker)'s background.


That's how his 54mm version currently looks.   Slowly building up the browns and trying to ensure picking up the relevant detail.

Then working on Keeper of Names at both sizes.




Gone for a lighting effect off the candles and grubbying things up.   Not done any scroll work on either version yet.   His 28mm version is over on the other topic.


The 54mm retinue as it stands.