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How long does it take for oils to fully dry? I ask because I tried putting a glaze of paint thinned with turpentine on a model that I hadn't touched for a week and in one place the oil paint under the glaze started lifting. Now I daren't go to the glaze stage that I wanted to on the model for...

Wow. How did you do the metals? I can never find real metallics that i like. What brand of paint did you use?

Phenomenal work.

A version of Arkeon sarnath i painted a while ago. i was quite pleased with the NMM on this guy. Arkeon Ant comments much appreciated.

My centurus. This is one of those times when you like a model but by the time you finish it you never want to see it again y'know? I lost count of the number of times I knocked this over and had to re-glue his arm. I was trying to capture the idea that a centurus is a prestigious clone, so...

That's a great face.

Thanks very much guys. I am slightly intimidated by the need for absolute realism in historical models but I see it all as part of the challenge. I will still be painting fasntasy too I think, unless historical models just totally possess me. One thing I'm looking forward to is trying oils...

Being new to this forum I thought I might as well display one of my models by way of an intro. I'm moving onto historical stuff now. Wondering just how much modification my style is going to need. Comments and crit welcome.

Personally for me I find all slow dry mediums make the paint too thick to work with very comfortably at small scales. I also find that for some reason the colours dry duller.

It is a shockingly good piece and a deserved winner. The face in particular breaks the boundaries of what I previously considered possible at 30mm scale.

Astonishing, just astonishing. I'd be very grateful if you would give details as to how you painted that- it looks like wet blending.

Simply astonishing. There's hardly any indication as to the scale of that model- it looks way larger than 30mm and thats the mark of an incredible modeller and painter in my opinion.