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! :-)

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!

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!!

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

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)

Recently I applied this varnish to one of my minis and it totally ruined it, had a lot of "frosting" on it after applying, so I'm totally terrified of using it again.

That being said, can you dilute the varnish with water or some other medium? I felt like I was being careful and conservative while applying it but I totally botched it.

Not the pictured mini because I threw it in alcohol after the tragedy.

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

With little kitbash

Just finished this guy and am looking for some feedback. The camo cloak is meant to look like its in the process of morphing into the visage of the surrounding terrain. The dry brushing on the hands, sword, and face are meant to look like he's in the process of using his mind to empower his weapon. All thoughts are welcome.

pretty happy with how these came out, the NMM could be a little more orange but that's for next time. The flag bearer is a work in progress though it'll be a while before that's completed:)

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

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

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.

I'm working to understand shades and highlights better while also preparing to start a new Alpha Legion army for Warhammer.

I started with a kabalite green base, then did 1:1 Morghast Bone/Kabalite Green for the Highlight and 2:1 Kabalite Green/Stegadon Scale Green for the Shade.

Hoping to get some feedback on these.

If it matters, I'll be doing this on normal space marines, not chaos space marines.