Completed Critique Vercingetorix 52 B.C.

[No Remorse]

This guy was a great way to get back at it after several years!

So many firsts for me. First foray into historicals, painting 54mm, sculpting a scenic base, painting texture and crossing NMM with metallics.

I know there are aspects to improve, but I am very proud just to have this model as my comeback piece.

Please feel free to offer any suggestions for improvement on future pieces, especially concerning the hair and fur, those are the two things I just couldn't seem to get looking realistic enough.

Thanks for the input in advance!

 

[Joe55]

Yup, lovely brushwork, just lovely !

Joe

 

[Brimmer]

nice figure paint and ground work too..

 

[ChaosCossack]

Well done NR, you should be proud of this piece. Great presentation from the groundwork to the top of the helmet. Pelts and furs are never easy but IMO you've done a better than fine job.

I look forward to your next piece (any idea what it will be?)... welcome back to the hobby

Colin

 

[Kisifer]

That's a real beauty. Great painting and groundwork.

Xenofon

 

[megroot]

Nice work.
My only comment would be on the chesttattoo. In my opinion to large, but that's just mine.

Marc

 

[Viking Bob]

Superb, excellent painting. liking the woad effect.
Bob

 

[tonydawe]

A great comeback piece.

 

[swralph]

Great work all round.
Ralph.

 

[No Remorse]

Thanks for the feedback

I have no idea what I will paint next. I only have a couple of 54mm minis, but I do have hundreds of 28mm though. I think next though I will paint up some pirate girls with my daughters who have been asking to learn to paint.

I do have an idea I want to experiment with on fur, using pigments to paint them.

I also want to try actually weathering a model with pigments, I have always been a "clean" painter and am a little trepidatious to try it.

I bought some resin for this project which I was going to use for the river bank, but decided against that, again something I have not attempted before.

Lots of things to try out and experiment with. Hopefully within a week or so I will begin a new project.

 

[kenshin393]

Excellent comeback! Great stuff all round. Dropping the clean war games style and getting dirty and natural has been great fun for me, I'm switching happily between the two styles. Also, get those girls painting! I'm really enjoying teaching my two, they'll surprise you I'm sure (get them their own brushes though, I got mine some awful cheap revel ones but they seem to get on well with them).

 

[No Remorse]

The girls are very excited to start, they have been asking me everyday for about a week now when we are going to start. I have about fifty brushes I have collected over the years, W&N, Raphael Kolinksys, micro-brushes, all the down way to some cheap synthetics. They can have their pick but they won't be touching my favourite brushes, yet. I have begun teaching them brush control already and how much paint to load etc. I am really interested in seeing what comes from their hands, they both definitely have an artist flair so it should be unique.

 

[kenshin393]

My boy has some more roman cavalry to paint, he wants to do the next one blue so it looks like he's wearing diamond armour. Who am I to argue?

 

[No Remorse]

Hijacking my own thread

I found this little beauty in my stash, I can't even remember buying her lol

She will be my next project.

Edit *Argh, just open her package to see that she is missing her right arm*

 

[John Bowery]

Welcome back and well done great little scene and interesting.
Cheers
John

 

[Wayneb]

Great piece.......what the hands create.....the mind never forgets......If only I could believe that.......best regards for continued good work.....No Remorse......sorry,..I mean Wayne

 

[lancelot]

Great work.
Excellent painting and a fantastic groundwork.

 

[No Remorse]

Thanks everyone for the wonderful reception of this guy. It is fueling my excitement for my next piece! I will be going back down to a 28mm for my next work, the last miniature I left off when I stopped painting back when. WIP post will be coming soon.