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[El Gus]

Some photos of my last work.
Friends i need, advices for do better photos, i´m new with the camera.
Thanks in advance.

 

[Blind Pew]

Looks quite competently painted Gus, a bit glossy here and there, but that could be the photography.

 

[vergilius]

Looks fine to me

 

[megroot]

Looks great to me.

marc

 

[El Gus]

Hi friends thanks for your comments.
Blind, you are rigth, the finish is a bit glossy in some areas.
Here in my country(Argentina), the miniatures painters, had severals troubles for find work materials, here only can find artistic, or bricolage acrilycs, and those paints had the follows troubles, 1) are very thick 2) dependig of brand or colour, some are gloss, demi gloss, true mate Never!!! 3)the quality of the pigments is not constant inside the same brand.
The only partial solution is apply mate varnish (and the varnish are not good too) as final step.
The other trouble here is find good brushes.
The miniature painting is my work, and i can´t sell my works materials, to 10000km, of my workbench, because never you can to preveer what you´ll neede, with enough time. (on other hand, the paint works here, are a little bit low in reference a the international rates).
All this is not for to give hurt, i´m really happy with my way of life and my work but the things they are as they are.
More, the miniature look better in live as the picture, i´m sure, if you know a good digital photo tutorial for miniatures will be a great help, to me.
Thanks.

 

[Blind Pew]

Dear Gus, to matt down the paint try something called Testor's Dullcote. Some great painters use it all the time. Have a look at Sambaman's work on here. He is a great example of what the stuff can do. I got mine cheap on ebay as it's been hard to get in England.
Best of luck mate.

 

[El Gus]

thanks, for the advice Blind, i´ll try to find that stuff.

 

[Automata]

Nice work Gustavo. If you are not happy with how much gloss there is with those paints (I don't think its bad looking, myself) try adding a little bit of Tamiya Flat Base to your acrylics. A tiny amount is all you need, so a bottle will last for a long time. They should be easily mail ordered.

Barry

 

[Roc]

Very nice, keep up the good work.

Cheers
Roc

 

[El Gus]

Thanks for the comments folks.
Barry, thanks, the trouble are, the different gloss/flat level, between, each color, some are absolute falt and others brillants, and in the middel all kind of variatios.
We had Tamiya distribuitors on my country i´ll look for that stuff.
A question, is that product water soluble?
To all, somebody know were i can find a good digital photo tutorial from miniatures captures?

 

[Automata]

Gustavo,

Yes, it is water soluble. I have a small dropper bottle with a solution of about 20% flat base and 80% water. When I mix up a color that I know will be a bit glossy, like Prussian Blue, I put in a bit of that mixture. It doesn't take much. You will quickly be able to see how much you need after some experimentation. One thing to watch for is a frostyness that will appear if you use thin "glazes" with too much of the flat base mixture. You usually have to have far too much of it in the paint to cause this, though.

Good luck,
Barry

 

[Roc]

Gustavo, here is a link to photographiong figure.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/411


Cheers
Roc

 

[El Gus]

Thanks, to all, i´ll check