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Archosaurs repaints

Started by JohannesB, June 03, 2018, 01:51:36 PM

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Kapitaenosavrvs

Nice Work! Making a Suggestion is hard, since you know what you are doing :) This might me an absolute personal prefecence, but i like Washes and Drybrushing. I know, that this Topic is the neverending Fight in the Miniature painting World, but when it comes to Animal repaints/colouration, i like it better with Washes and Drybrushing. Mostly. Sometimes it is too "dirty" and i often do too much washes overall. Less is better. But i feel, that this would bring all the detail even more to the eye.

But: You already are good at this :D A Mix of Airbrush and Brush is just perfect to me.

Looking forward to new Repaints and the finished T. rex. I just would suggest the same thing, Boki did. With these slender rexes from another Time, i often like to see them as young Adults or Semiadults now. So the Colouration fits the Animal, i would say :)


JohannesB

Thank you, Kapitaenosavrvs, for your take on things, and I think you are right about the washes and drybrushing. I painted my Tamiya Brachiosaurus with brushes, giving it washes (many, actually) and drybrush treatment, which worked out very well. I have never tried a combination of both brushing and airbrushing, but I want to try and experiment with that sometime too, I think. Airbrushing alone is not completely giving me the result that I want, because it makes it all look so "smooth", whereas a little wash or drybrushing can maybe give a more lifelike and "lived" appearance, for lack of a better word for it. (Birds are maybe an exception, because they often need to groom their feathers to perfection, so they almost always look perfectly clean and smooth, right?)

JohannesB

#62
I wanted to learn how to add an image to a different background layer in Photoshop, so I tried this with a photo of my repainted Carnegie Diplodocus. As background I used a painting by John Conway. This took a few hours to complete :P


SidB

Beautiful and inspiring outcome, avatar_JohannesB @JohannesB . I wish that I had an extra Carnegie Diplodocus just  floating around somewhere that I could have painted up in homage to your subcreation. Well done!

JohannesB


JohannesB

#65
Not really a repaint, but more like a remaster/re-edit of the PNSO Corythosaurus. I resized the head to make it a bit smaller and I changed its 'behind' a bit.


JohannesB

#66
A repaint of the Carnegie Brachiosaurus in greens, blues, dark grey-greens and purple





The pic below shows the paint app before, which I "borrowed" from a drawing I saw of another kind of animal, but that felt like a mistake in many ways, so I changed it to something more "my own".


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SidB


Bread

These are very nicely done repaints.
I also like the PNSO Corythosaurus proportions fixed. Helps the model so much.

Jose S.M.

The Corythosaurus looks great with its resized head. And the colors on the Brachiosaurus are beautiful. That sculpt I like a lot but wish its head was not looking down so much, still a great figure.

ceratopsian

I like the new paint scheme on the Brachiosaurus much better than the old version.

JohannesB

#71
I am trying to make some kind of base/support for the PNSO T.rex. It's not very fancy, because I had little time and I am impatient :-) Still need to paint and add some more details, maybe. I will use a metal rod to support the figure. I used DAS air drying clay and wood glue to later stick it on the wooden base.








Bread

That is a very nice base! Can't wait to see it painted too!