Advanced miniature painting tutorials on OSL and creating base contrast.
A miniature painter looking for ways to improve asks, "How can I add more contrast to the base of my model?" This highlights a common desire within the large wargaming and painting community for advanced skill development. High-quality resources like specialized video tutorials, digital workshops, or detailed PDF guides focusing on techniques such as Object Source Lighting (OSL) and enhancing contrast in basing could be valuable and monetizable.
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C&C on my emperors champion please.
Posted by u/lilpain1997_•05/30/2025
The full model is not finished, I need to do the left pauldron and smooth the back of the right pauldron. I also need to finish the nmm on the lantern. That said I was wanting feedback on are
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u/crash7800
Your work is entirely enviable to me. I wish I had more to the end of critique - but most of what you're deploying well are things I'm personally working on.
The base is great. It feels like
u/PaintingDadly
The osl on the top part of the leg needs to be much brighter, especially at the top where the lantern is almost touching. Looks great though! God this model is fantastic.
u/lilpain1997_
Thanks, yeah, I see what you mean, I'll try making it as bright as the knee, or would I need brighter than that? First time doing osl lol, jumped straight to nmm, and got addicted to that. Pi
u/Kamalau
He’s gorgeous, I recently finished mine very similar to yours and can relate to just how much work must of gone into him.
https://preview.redd.it/ijkg08vh9u3f1.jpeg?width=1883&format=pjp
u/lilpain1997_
Thanks for taking the time to type all this up.
The base is something I struggle on overall as I only recently got into basing. How would I go about adding more contrast to it? A wash would
u/lilpain1997_
Oh, I forgot to say. Want the eyes to be glowing so I won't be doing lens reflections on them. I think I can make them better pretty easily, though. I'll have to mess around with a spare base
u/crash7800
Good point!
u/crash7800
Awesome :D Your relationship to feedback is great.
For the base, I honestly have no idea. I wish I did, but agree that you don't want to mess with the texture.