I’ve finished another pair of the Death May Die Investigators now – so I’ve caught up on last month’s missed models and have now completed a pair for July. The first is the Mad Monk himself, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, who – let’s face it – fits in pretty well with a Cthulhu game. In the character bio it talks about how he was captured and experimented on/tortured, with the result being his legendarily hard-to-kill constutution. Despite my misgivings about the technique generally, I did apply some subtle OSL to the model and it’s turned out okay without discolouring the rest of the effort painting him too badly.
The other model in this post is Margarethe Richter, a “paleoanthropologist and celebrity chef” from Munich, Germany. Because, well, why not, I guess? Margarethe is one of those minis that really didn’t excite me at all when it came ot the prospect of painting her based on either the artwork or the model, but I’m actually really happy with the completed model. Grigori’s not too bad, either. With both models I pretty much followed the overall artwork for the colours and “feel” and I’m pretty happy with the results on both. Just six more of these now. Will I manage to finish any more in June? I hope so, but no promises…
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Excellent work on both mate, your OSL is subtle and not overstated, so works beautifully on the model. The other model is as you say uninspiring but you’ve done an excellent job on her, she actually looks more like a psycho waitress than a celebrity Chef.
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Thanks Dave – I feel like I’m getting better at OSL, but I’m still not enjoying it! 😀
As for Margarethe, I also thought that she was a waitress until I read the bio as I was writing up the text of the post… 🙂
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Lovely pair mate, I reckon you got the OSL just right 🤌
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Thanks Alex! The fewer models with it still the better! 😉
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Very nice! 🙂 I really like the colour of Margarethe’s dress!
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Cheers John – just doing my best to match the artwork!
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Wow, some fabulous looking minis there! Margarethe’s face is really nice and the clothes are quite superb! 😀
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Thanks mate. I’m pretty pleased with how both of these two turned out so it’s quite gratifying to hear that. 😊
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Great work, the face on Margarethe is really nice and well executed. I think the OSL has worked really well as well!
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Thanks mate, I think she may well be my best turned out female face to date…
I do think it’s probably my best OSL so far…
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Grigori came out really well and the OSL is subtle and well done. I always try to take it slow when I do OSL because if you overdo it, its tough to walk it back. Margarethe came out nicely too even if she wasn’t that inspiring for you. Her knives almost look like you painted them with NMM in those pictures which I know can’t be true, can it?! 🙂
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Thanks mate! The knives are painted in a way to mimic the artwork, so it’s almost a NMM style using actual (coloured) metallics. 😀
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Like the others love the OSL paint work. The model of Margarethe Richter, doesn’t really look like either a “paleoanthropologist or a celebrity chef” but is still a great model well executed!
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Yeah, she feels like a piece of artwork that had a name and backstory added later on.
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