MiniNature figures painted by me

Wow! These are some really amazing models and great repaints!

I think I need to add some of these to my collections soon
Thank you for showing these, and inspiring me !

Thank you so much Andreas and Roger !11.03.2017

Anna an Aleks , I am very grateful for these words coming from you, who are experts in painting figures ! Thank you !

I still think these little models are incredible. Both the sculpt painting. I think it really shows what we are capable of today. With techniques like 3D modeling and printing. But also the fact that it is international. Models made in one country are finished in the other. That's very cool cooperation. But it is still a craftsmanship because it is finished by hand despite that the world seems to revolve around mass production.
I regularly come back here to look at it again.

Outstanding! It's wonderful to see MiniNature's digital sculpts brought to life! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for your kind words Anna-Joke and bjarki !

Now I present photos of the lappet-faced vulture that I painted at this moment for our friend Attis but on a larger scale 1:12 and the difference in the details that were lost on a 1:22 scale, the legs with their nails, the head is clearly noticeable and in general the whole body ...

Great :)

oh, it's wonderful! Beautiful work, congratulations!

Congrats Miguel! And Attila too

I was forotten always here writin how much i loved all those animals and how lucky i am that our fiend Miguel has done those fantastic paintwork for me.
I could say all the animals are come to living after his work.

Thank you my friend again for the fabaleous work and thanks that i could be a very happy owner many of those wonderful modells.

And thanks the gratulations too, but all must goes to Miguel, he really deserves that because he does excellent paintwork always.

I can wait as the last ones - wich are by him - would arrive and thaking his rightfull places in my collections as his newes jewels !

Thank you Andreas, Anna, Joan and Attis ! .I am very grateful for your kind words and of course Attila for having given me the opportunity to paint her figures, with which I have learned and enjoyed a lot.

Your painting is wonderful, Miguel. Would you be happy to share any of your artistic secrets? I bought some MiniNature models that I’d like to paint, but I have no painting experience and am afraid that I will ruin them.

How do you prepare the models before you paint them? Do you wash them or use primer paint? The colours of your models transition very beautifully into each other. How do you do this? Do you use just normal model brushes or other tools too? One of the models I need to paint is a 1:32 cheetah; do you have any advice on how I should paint the spots? I am afraid that when I use a brush with my unstable hand, they will be large, strangely shaped blobs. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I have bought some of Mininatures models and they are really fine. But I collect the 1:32 scale and my paintings skills are not so good as Signatus.
I will try t posts pics sometime.
I have had problems with the printing especially the birds, like in the dead zebra group. But Shapeways is really professionell to deal with.

A question to Signatus - what colors are U using? I use Vallejo which has work fine.

/Lennart

Thank you Roger and Lennart

Roger, Well, it does not have too many secrets. First I give a preparation to the figure so that it can be painted later. In the case of some figures with a very rough surface in which the layers of 3D printing are distinguished, I give a surface resin that softens it, but not in all cases.
When it comes to painting I use acrylics applied with the dry brush system or directly in small details. Also pastel colors applied and fixed with a varnish. They give airbrush feeling.

With respect to the details of the points of your cheetah figure, I have a horrible pulse and all my life I have fought against it. It consists of being very careful and infinite patience, enjoying what you do

Lennart, I use exactly Vallejo acrylics, at the moment I am finishing painting this group carcass with scavengers for a friend and it is really the most difficult to paint! Cheer up !   .

Thank you very much, Miguel. What is a dry brush system? How well does the Vallejo paint stay on the animals? I've read that acrylic paint easily comes off when you touch it. Due to lack of space, I have a rotating display for my animals, which means that they are wrapped and unwrapped fairly regularly. I wonder whether acrylic paint can cope with this or whether it would be better to use oil-based paint.

rogerpgvg wrote:

Thank you very much, Miguel. What is a dry brush system? How well does the Vallejo paint stay on the animals? I've read that acrylic paint easily comes off when you touch it. Due to lack of space, I have a rotating display for my animals, which means that they are wrapped and unwrapped fairly regularly. I wonder whether acrylic paint can cope with this or whether it would be better to use oil-based paint.

I use Vallejo acrylics and never had problems peeling off the surface layer. The acrylic has to be of quality so that it does not happen. In an extreme case you can give a varnish to the final water spray but with this brand I do not think it is necessary. The "dry brush" paint system is very common. It consists of staining the brush or paintbrush with the paint and to eliminate in a rag or paper the majority, rubbing later in the figure with the brush almost dry. Gives a look similar to the airbrush.

Here is my new commission. Paint the new figure of miniNature (the common eland) with the characteristics of the patterson subspecies, with very black forehead, black spots on the front legs and residual white lines on the back.







Finally, a family portrait with different figures of eland, CollectA, Lineol and Anna Dobrowolska-Oczko

Very beautifully painted eland! And thank you for the information about the dry-brush technique. I am going to try.

Beautieful eland :)

Great work, as usual! Love the contrasts of tones. Thanks for the pics with the other Elands (two Common and one Giant), proportions are very good.

Amazing painting ! :)

it looks imposing, with you work this figure has many elegance.

Congratulations.

What scale is the eland you are painting, I love the size compared to the other figures!

Your subspecies choice increased the interest of the figure and surely your work is irrepprochable. Love the eland group with some masterpieces. Even the mass produced are really good, Lineol still the vintage master while the CollectA is surely one of the modern wonders.

Thank you Rogerpgvg, Andreas, Javito (I hope you enjoy your figure, the idea of this subspecies was yours, thank you), Florian, Fernando, Phil and Roger ! I am very grateful for your pleasant words

Great to see this model painted! You did again an awesome job Miguel!