Reply To: Hobby Weekender 16/11/2018 – Back before you can miss it!

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@dawfydd I’ve wondered about the custom toy markets from HK. I’ve been vaguely aware of the Transformer market by extension of custom vinyl but I didn’t know that the industry was that large. Most of what I’ve otherwise come to know was third party resin kits/figures that varied on quality. PKKing blows me away with his work (and pricetags) as they’re on par with Golden Demon/Crystal brush work. This is all separate from the fine art/custom ball joint doll community, Japanese and Slavic sculptors, which makes my head spin as far as detail.

I’m only now more seriously looking at the garage kits after getting an airbrush and seeing some of the busts that are starting to turn up here on the boards. I’d say that the industry of bust production might have a dent put into it with digital sculpting being internationally ubiquitous. I’ve looked at modellers from Asia that have things on Thingiverse, Shapeways, cadnav.com and cgtrader with interest at getting the files printed. As far as I can see Shapweays seems to be the only service that offers that, granted I’m not doing the deep dive intense search to have custom laser cast resin (I might save up for that). I have an idea on the back burner for a custom base but I have a few steps before I can see it materialized.

• Track down a calligrapher of Arabic to write what I want
• hire a cg artist to sculpt my concept/fill out the 3D space of the script while adding visible texture (probably with something like Zbrush/Mudbox)
• Get it all printed and delivered in order to paint

@sundancer I may never see pika the same way again

@rayzryr Your pavers are now complete. The elves can properly hit the road. It pops much  better this way as the elves stand out from the basing.

@querion The blue green wash on you elves works to bring out the subtle marks and musculature. The brown sits really well on the bone color to do the same on the bows giving it the same kind of look as the crenelation seahorses have to their bodies.

A good balance of the overall teal and gold/brown color blocks as well as it pairs from a contrast in cool/warm tones. You might want to look at a red violet for the eel on the base of one of those archers as a triadic compliment.

Paletton.com is a quick way to get an idea of where you might want to take your paint. I know its a hell of a lot different from taking a light producing object (monitor) to work with the reflective surface of an object (our minis) but a quick color wheel that you can fool around with on the go doesn’t hurt. Getting the innate sense of color balance is the tricky part if you’re not using a tool like this.

@limburger As with any full game through Kickstarter expect Carnevale to be “Big” and “Heavy” considering the amount of figures/terrain/chits/tokens/errata/kitchen sink that are included in a completely self contained game.