Skarsnik and Gnobbla for the birthday

Since we are already in the "blast from the past" mood, here is another one.

My Cousin and friend went 40 in 2001 and we share a big Warhammer history. He was into orcs and goblins back in 1998 and his prestige model was Skarsnik and Gnobbla. Fortunately he still has that old piece:

Skarsnik miniature painted by my cousin around the millenium

And since I was totally into the whole re-painting hype, I bought an old metal copy from ebay and painted it as a personal present.

Build a base

I bought a 3D printer at that time, with the intention to print basing material. And well… here we go! Thingiverse and Maminifactory was a great source of inspiration while the professional STL creators weren’t know to me or not existing.

A user called Pellinor created a great set of mushrooms for free. I use them till today - Huge credits and thanks! https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-mushroom-collection-122517

Combined with a piece of Cork (from a huge stump bought in the pet store for reptiles ) and some basing paste, it looked fine - from a 1999 perspective already diorama like (-:

Built base with kork and printed mushrooms

Lesson about mobile phone photography

Started with base, some drybrush, wash and mushrooms.

The most interesting point is about the photos. My usual approach for variety on Cork is some basing paste + sand and dirt. But if you see the photos ( Created with my android phone ) it looks more like tin foil ( see the green areas on the base ). I tested the same with the way more expensive phone of my wife - same effect.

It took tons of googling and time to find the cause: Android provides two filtering options for sharpening edges and reduce noise. Probably these are implemented by the phone vendors and their effect varies from phone to phone. Unfortunately only very few camera apps have a menu to modify or turn of those filters in the settings.

Settings for the phones filtering algorithm

The apps I found are OpenCamera (free) and ProCamX. The caveat of disabling these is more blur on the images.

Checker

Most of the painting wet quite fluent. Started with the Gnobbla, then the Skarsnik. No special colour choices. There are some great inspirational paintings from In_the_Middle https://www.puttyandpaint.com/projects/10665 . Those were my main reference and I think it got somehow close.

The checkerboard has been started in a brave mood and gave me a lesson that it’s just the famous back and forth. Paint - mistake - correct - paint ….