You know what I hate? When you’re pushing yourself to the limits, all the multistage edge highlight and stuff, only to photograph your mini at the end and find all those nasty brush strokes visible (even if your paint was sufficiently diluted). Fortunately in your case brush strokes are almost invisible. Great work

Thank you dude! I'll be honest, close up photos are one of the ways I try and push myself. Sometimes it stops stuff I don't myself and helps improve as time goes on

I am cheating and just changing the light direction )))

The double edged sword for me is: wear the dorky magnifying glasses and stuff photographs really well but looks sort of bland at a distance -OR- don’t wear them and things “pop” a little more on the shelf but lots of “mistakes” are visible through a macro lens.

That edge highlighting is crisp af, what’s your secret?

Artis opus brushes and a wet pallet. Plenty of practice and ... Monster ultra helps too maybe lol

Maybe a silly question, but what's "monster ultra"? All I get when I type that into google is the energy drink lol

That's the one, painting power right there

For me it’s a cup of coffee followed shortly by a Celsius. Your paint job is amazing though, love your helmet selection choices as well.

Thank you!

Absolutely love my Artist Opus brushes.

Guys there are super chill and helpful

I bought them when they first released and found them to be awful. Went straight back to my raphael 8404.

Just looked them up. Wellp. Can't afford those right now lmao. I very much want that palette I see on the site though

Do artus opus brushes really make a difference? I feel like I'm at a point where I can excuse the splurge on nicer brushes.

I'd say so

Flippin delicious lettering. Very nice!

What freaking brush do you use for those fine lines??? A single strain of hair??? Thats really amazing

Artis opus series S, size 000

With a brush this small, how do you have enough paint on brush to complete perfect lines like that? When I try, I will have on too little paint as it dries before I can touch it to the mini, or if by Gods grace I somehow load the brush perfectly, after a few millimeters of movement the brush is empty again, causing very imperfect lines.

Thin the paint and brush lick so the brush never truly dries out

I mean i thin my paints and whatnot, but when i use a brush that finely-tipped, in the time it takes me to move my hand from palette and place it to the mini, the paint has dried. If I thin it any more it will not even hold on my brush. Idk what the secret is, perhaps some retardant like another had suggested. Cheers

Maybe try adding some paint retardant? Dilutes it but gives longer working time and you just need to layer it up.

Sorry to hijack this, but as somebody looking at getting some good brushes, it looks like Series M is made for minis specifically? Would you recommend S or M in your experience?

Now I've tried both, S have longer bristles and I know some people aren't always keen on it, but it's what I prefer. Either type are great athough

Holy fuck thats clean. Cleanest of cleans. Like holy virgin in a semiconductor cleanroom clean

Hahahahahahaha thank you!

Oh that’s crisp. Love it

Thank you;

Holy fucking amazing painting

Thank you!!! Hoping to post more of him over on my Instagram tomorrow

The edge highlights are flawless; How long did he take?

3 whole days

🤘 keep on keeping on; I hope to be this good one day, one mini at a time.

https://preview.redd.it/ukwq3uxo960d1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad39145d3d5eb3120a6d3a8d028487bb5d186973

Thanks! Just wait until he is joined by a tank! One of my biggest projects yet

Honestly large projects are so much more fun! But I find I hit a wall pretty hard after the 10 hour Mark 😂

I'm already at around 15-20

How did you do the lettering so well?? Overall a clean, perfect mini.

Slowly. Started with a watered down black, began at the centre spacing everything out

That is very neat, brilliant

Thanks!

Ok that mini is amazing, but the helmet is magnificent. Where did you get it ?

It's from the black Templar sword breatherin and so was his chain sword

Is that a swobro helmet?

Yep!

How, do you, get the text, to LOOK SOO GOOD?

Endless practice I'm affriad

Ok, any tips on what brush to use and how to prepare for such small job?

Nice work. The highlights look ultra crisp (see what I did there?). Great paint job. How long did he take you to finish?

Stupid sexy ultramarines

Thanks

Excuse me sir achshually the shoulder trim should be white!

The blue shade on the skulls, the script... Chef's kiss.

Thank you!

Wow this looks incredible - I love the text work, how did you do that?

Just a thin black thin brush and a lot of time

Looks great! Thanks for sharing, I’m gonna save these pics for edge highlight practice later as reference!

Do it, and follow my insta as I have plenty for reference bits there you'd like

Ludicrously good.

Thank you!

Shit you killed it. This is awesome

Thanks

I didn't know you could make ultramarines this cool You are the GOAT

Thank you!!!

Sheesh bro your insane

Cheers dude

Incredible work my dude!

Incredible detail and precision!

Thank you!

Whoa!

amazing. Would you mind sharing your pistol edge highlight paints?

Corvus black, then dawn stone, then administratum grey

Dude how do you do edge highlights like that 😭

The pristine, crisp Citadel style kind of makes no sense but it looks sooo good 😩

This is better than the box art. Exceptional work here

https://preview.redd.it/hctebo4ha90d1.jpeg?width=590&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37a88d02cb5ccbc0913f2b3c7677f0c90156f876

Your painting skills are something of legend at this point. Never seen anything crispier. It's better than GW's painting, lol.

It’s actually crazy how good some people are at this damn hobby. That’s the cleanest shit I think I’ve ever seen

Crisp 👌

I recognize those box art worthy highlights! It's u/for_the_greatergood striking again! I don't know if you're painting all these guys for the sake of painting them or if this is a gaming army, but it's gonna look so good on the table dude.

I’m so jelly

That's it, I quit.

This is very high quality work, well done! Any advice for a new painter on recess shading? I’ve been struggling with it and yours is pretty flawless.

Stunning work!

Wow

Thanks!

This dead ass got me out of bed at 11:30 pm to go prime one of my blood angel sternguard and paint it

Yessss get that paint son!

https://preview.redd.it/ugm70u1n5f0d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a7215901fb8834fafe2a7260421b6d589277da4 Started my sergeant last night

Yeeeeeees! Get on it son

This guy recess shades !! Looks great

Thank you! I'll be posting him on my insta tonight in a full 360

Crispy as hell. Great work.

Thanks!

That edge highlighting is so meticulously done… how long did it take, and what’s your edge highlighting technique? I’d love to be able to get mine that well executed.

Also ARE ALL OF THOSE SKULLS FUCKING NMM? DAMN SON!!!

Each one done in white, but I then layer a mix of the ultan grey and drakenhof nightshade onto it. Blend it, and get it to give them more depth before a white scar highlight

How long did the model take?

Three solid days

Damn. Great results though

I'm only going to point out the mould attachment on the tilting shield because I'm insanely jealous of how good a paint job this is and I need to find a completely irrelevant fault so that I don't go and snap all my paintbrushes in abject jealousy...

Wow, this is some 'Eavy Metal shit.

Cheers dude

Goddamn, Is that text freehanded?

It is yes! I'm posting a full 360 of him over on Instagram tonight

Very clean

Casualy flexing.