MiniNature figures painted by me

I like your work very much!

Great job Miguel! I didn’t even know it were that much impalas sent to you .  There will be a moment you can’t see impalas anymore.  But next to the newest juvenile impalas, there will be also some real young fawns coming. And also another spoil, I worked on an oxpecker, so I think there will be also one or two new adult impalas with oxpeckers. So maybe these aren’t the last impalas for you.

Beautieful

SeanieP wrote:

Great work as always. I should have gotten the impala Juvenal at a small scale as a fawn.

Thank you Shawn, I'm glad you like the painting work of your figures! I think Stijn is preparing, aside from the juveniles, some fawns. The herd is increasing.

Thank you Yvette, Zirkoon, Stijn and Andreas !

Stijn, at the moment I almost only paint figures of impalas of your collection and with these new ones that you say maybe increase even more. Agggg! No problem, I love them, they seem fantastic to me and it is very nice to be able to make a large and very realistic herd !.

How absolutely wonderful

Thank you Susanne !

I present another work commissioned by a friend of one of the last figures of Stijn (miniNature). This is the group of buffalo attacked by two lionesses in 1:20 scale.

A set with a lot of movement and really spectacular. Having it in your hands makes it difficult to understand how a 3D printer can do this

I started by painting the buffalo by adding a special epoxy varnish for this, which softens the texture of 3D printing and filling the interior with resin to make it heavier because being hollow is quite fragile. The work of painting are several layers of color to get the textures and imitate the dusty and sometimes muddy environment in which this animal moves ...

Nice, great Miguel! You did an awesome job so far! Maybe it’s strange for me for saying it, because it’s my own model, but you really lift it to another level. The details that are hidden in the plain color are turning out beautiful with the paint. I really can’t see myself doing this painting quality.
Looking forward to the progress!

Thank you very much for your words Stijn! I really liked painting such a complex sculpture and trying to make it as realistic as possible !

Final photos of the composition of the African buffalo being attacked by two lionesses

Very impressive Stunning model, MiniNature, and wonderful paintjob, Miguel!

Thanks so much Julie !, yes, I think is an awesome scene

Great to see them painted for the first time. I am looking forward to start exploring digital sculpting also!

The result is absolutely breathtaking :) I love it.

Thank you Andreas, Southlands and Silvia ! Very grateful for your words !

Well Southlands I will also try to experiment with digital sculpture someday, although I think the traditional one should never disappear, like your wonderful figures !

WOW MIguel , Figures pinted for you are stunning.

Thank you so much Fernando !

Well, here I introduce you to the little ones of the "impala" family. I hope I do not have many problems when painting them for their small size ...the little one on the right is going to look like a baby (1.25 scale)


And here are the parents with a few birds on top of them (the latest work from miniNature)

The bird section. The pair of ostriches standing and brooding ...


And the marabou, secretary bird and lapped-faced vulture ... very delicate, especially the legs and difficult to stay on foot.

Finally the set of carcass with scavengers. It seems incredible that you can print in 3D something as complicated and delicate as this. I think it's going to be the most complicated painting of all the figures. I hope it goes well !

Great to see also the lions painted. Great work Miguel!  Also looking forward to all the new works. A lot to do. Good luck with the carcass.  I think maybe harder to paint than create the model.
I’m sorry to see the marabou isn’t stable. It looks like one of the legs is bend. Both feet should be flat on the surface. Maybe there is some more stability possible with a slight bend.
Enjoy the painting

Thank you Stijn!, Yes I will be lucky to paint the carcass, I will need it! . I have thought to place these two figures of birds in small resin bases that do not distract from the figure itself but that stabilize it.

The two ostrich figures in scale 1:22 are painted. I have been asked to paint them as two females, although the one that is hatching is failing the eggs. I hope you soon become a mother !!

oh, sorry Stijn! I had forgotten that I made with a mold and drained in polyurethane resin the bases of these three figures to stabilize them, imitating earth.