

Here are (just about!) 4000 gallery thumbnails for all the miniature painting commissions we've done since 2009. Who would have thought, even a year ago, that we might soon be writing text prompts that produce 3D files for complete miniatures? As Nvidia’s text-to-3d asset tech gets closer to market we’ll see even more of this. They are an easy way to make any army distinctive. It’s nice to see the rise of 3D-printed conversion kits and aftermarket parts. We weathered the metal bits, and hit up the legs and lower portions with some Vallejo weathering pigment. We used the energy and weapon glow as an excuse to shoehorn it in, and that was that. We went over it with the client and he agreed. However, we felt it needed a bit more green to balance out the red. We were extrapolating the scheme from a reference image. However, the client just sent us the files, and we printed them out on this end.

There was a minor issue with a couple of missing parts. The assembly was straightforward all the 3D parts fitted and showed no warping. What I like most about these figures were the 3D printed, aftermarket parts the client sent along with the standard kits. This Warmaster was painted to Exhibition quality. From what I’m seeing of Titanicus kits, like this Warmaster, leads to me think he might be right. Guy from Midwinter Minis has already talked about this on Youtube. And, at the least, they have the designs done which they can always use, later. If they can’t make it work, no harm done.
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GW can take its time working out how to make its biggest plastic kits ever. They get to work on it without raising expectations, but also get the design work paid for, and much sooner.

If we would ask the question, surely a GW accountant has too?Īnother possibility is that Adeptus Titanicus is also an incubator for 40k scale, plastic Titan kits. Work they could spend on making other minis, and for less niche games than Adeptus Titanicus. However, it is a lot of extra work their designers. So, why is this happening? The simplest answer is that it’s a different game, a different scale, and so GW is applying different design rules. It was as much work as I’d expected it to be. After the painting was done, I realized that wasn’t the case. Once it was built, it was much smaller than I had expected. When I priced this Warmaster, the first we’ve done, I based its rate on the images online. Also, there is more detail for relatively minor details, like pipes, than you’ll see on other GW minis. Their detailing feels beyond GW benchmarks for comparable-sized minis. Nothing is more detailed than it needs to be.Įxcept for Adeptus Titanicus. Basic infantry are always accessible to paint. You also start noticing changes in the "house style." For example, multipart kits becoming less flexible, but yielding more dramatic poses.Įven so, there seem to be design directives that don’t fundamentally change. How an element on one figure turns up again in a completely different army. After a while, you start to notice the changes a different designer brings in. I look at Games Workshop figures every day. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.Īnd we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked). You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. They are often seen as a force of nature, almost impossible to stop or defeat due to their vast numbers and their ability to evolve and adapt.

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