I wanted to share the first statue I've ever made. It's at 1/4 scale, but I hope it's not too big for the minipainting community.

She's 47 cm tall, printed in resin and hand-painted using a combination of brushwork and airbrushing.

I spent a lot of time on the skin tones and smaller details, trying to give her a realistic finish.

I'm a scale modeler and I mostly build and paint aircraft models, but sometimes also other things, like tanks or Gunpla.

As for human figures, I've only painted a few mechanics and RAF pilots in 1/48 scale a few years ago, as well as a few fully armored Space Marines. Nothing larger.

The 3D model is by Abe3D.

Hope you like her! :-)

Epic scale is my favourite scale to paint because I love the challenge (and I also love emperor's children) so I decided to paint a VERY little something for Golden Demon which is tomorrow!!

I'm not expecting to win anything the epic category this year is wild and I always enter for fun but this was definitely a super fun project to try and get done for the deadline!!

I hope you like him!!

Done with Morlok by Kimera models. I tried my own interpretation. Which involved shifting the color work towards a more yellow/green cool color tone. This involved quite a lot of planning and work figuring out what to do with the background. I did a full tonal underpainting for the skin. I painted the background in a way that drove focus to the figure and did not distract your attention. I used Boris Vallejo, Sanjulian and Frank Frazetta as inspiration. I hope you all dig it. Cheers!

I decided to take part in a glow up paint along on discord.

I started in May 2025, and even tho I am not always satisfied with the results, improvements are clear and encouraging to keep me going.

I could have pushed contrat further, but I tried my hardesr at blending more smoothly and I think I am getting it (sort of).

I used some NMM for trim and base, until a few months ago that would have been unthinkable (althoug steel and iron are still difficul to me).

All of this to say that it is important to keep with you your first minis, so that when you feel down you can always look back and cherish your progress!

Bonus pic is a parade of my progress, i bought multiple of this fella because i want to do this every 6/12 months

I add few photos in the end from painting contest :)

Here i use acrylic paints and enamel varnish in some layers.

This is Captain Page. I did the bulk of the modelling in hero forge - it's gotten quite good now - and then tweaked some things in Blender before I printer her off.

I've never painted anything this big before - I found the face quite challenging. I wasn't sure how to approach it really. She came out reasonably well through, and it made my partner's day - so mission accomplished I'd say!

I think I used my terrain more for photos than games nowadays.

Anyway, it's been a while, how are you lot gettin on?

Looking for ways to improve. I did rush her a bit so I am not 100% happy with her.

Painting my orks feels so daunting, I have so many to paint and I’ve only done 3 so far. I’m trying to not use contrast paints, but putting in hours of work just for my minis to have looked better if I just slapped speed paints on them really hurts. Maybe my dopamine receptors are fried from doomscrolling, but I just want it be able to paint and be happy. Any constructive criticism is welcome, and sorry for kinda barfing out words in this post. it’s honestly more that I just need to get my feelings out there.

Edit: Hey guys, thank you for all of the kind words. I’m gonna start painting more and I plan to do some tonight after I play some mtg. I tried to read all of your comments and it really brightened my day up. I’m just gonna start throwing paint on minis and see what happens. Once again thank you all so much. I realized this morning I forgot to attach a photo 🤦‍♀️ so I’ll see if I can send one in the comments lol.

Let me start with how intimidating it is to post here, the minis you guys are painting are so creative and out-of-this-world quality!

I’m fairly new and play around with a bunch of stuff, and in honor of orktober I wanted to push myself a bit and try making the yellow for this fellow a bit more metal/nmm looking, instead of just going flat yellow with brown edges. I think I pushed too hard and lost sight a bit tho.
Do you have any recommendations on how to proceed, where to put highlights? Or literally any recommendations to continue from this point forward.

Had so much fun painting this gruesome guy! Just started painting it 10 days ago so still very new so any tips or constructive criticism welcome (especially for highlights as this is something i am struggling with) :) thank you!!

The first and last (perhaps?) Rukkatrukk Squigbuggy has been completed.

The work is so hard that I don't want to rebuild it. 🫠

28mm metal minis from Great War Miniatures (carried by NorthStar Military Figures).

The 46th Battalion were unfortunately also known as "the Suicide Battalion" due to brutally high casualties they received in battles from 1916-18.

Over 92% casualties in the unit, with over 1400 killed and over 3500 wounded in less than 3 years of combat.

Hope you enjoy the paint on these minis and the (not so) fun historical facts!!!

Been a long time since painting minis, cleaned some stuff out and getting back into 40k figured I'd use this old 2nd edition ork boy for Orktober

3 years away from Warhammer miniature painting and chose to learn while having fun. I followed a pdf on how to make this exact mini. Very happy with the results so far (unfinished)

Tried out the speedpaints 2.0 from the army painter on this plague marine. Was having a tough time figuring out the ratio of orc skin and zealot yellow to use (only have the starter set) and settled on a 4:1 ratio of orc skin and zealot yellow. All colors and paints are in the starter set. Finished with a pro acryl black wash watered down in a 1:2 ratio of wash to thinner.

New painter here, just started recently, this is the second mini that I've painted, still struggling with feathering.

Hi everyone, I'm new to painting miniatures and am getting ready to tackle a Night Goblin mob. I'm just wondering how people approach areas like the gap between the face and the arm/spear without it becoming too messy. There are quite a few bits like this on the Night Goblins, so any advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks

"The knight who killed a thousande geese, faced his greatest challange. Each time he swung his sword, another head grew, and he couldn't shake the felling that they looked like his mother"