STS Model Painting Month - post your FINISHED models here

STS Model Painting Month - FINISHED works topic

If you finished your project, please post the final photos here!

Some of you have been busy painting! That's wonderful!

At the moment, I'm still in the customizing phase, so I expect to have mine finished closer to the end of the month.

I can't really say that my model is finished, I just decided to leave it as it is now.
Painting a miniature is for me a "masochistic pleasure", it is very stressful.
I'm not saying this to complain, facing trials and adversity is the best university in life, even if sometimes you fail the test.  

I wanted to change an ordinary Indian cobra into a beautiful Samar cobra.
This very "black and yellow" snake has however a body full of nuances between yellow and black.

To represent these nuances I worked in the opposite way to what I had done until now: first a background of the light colour and then a dry brush of the dark colour with a rather rough result.

I tried to correct this by applying a wash of yellow to soften the contrasts and it worked a little with the added bonus of a shiny look that is often given by too much wash. It's usually a flaw but for once it gives a bit of a snake skin shine.

Finally, I painted the black eyes, the pink and grey tongue, and the black scales on the inside of the bonnet. When you've lost your close-up vision it's a real torture to paint every little black spot.

Unfortunately, I have more ambition than talent, so the result is not as good as dreamed, but I have learned a lot, that's something. When I'll be better, I'll repaint a Samar cobra again.
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Fantastic work!

You are always full of wisdom, lots of good tidbits in your post Kiki.

I think your final result is gorgeous and stunning! Really, nicely done.

well done! I googled them, they are strikingly beautiful cobras! and you have done an exceptional job.
It has a kind of old style composition model beauty about it, which makes it valuable and elegant.

It looks beautiful, Christophe! I think you're too critical of your own work. It's really fantastic paintwork and a great improvement over the original. And a superb species choice!

Isn't it the first snake ever painted for our STS Model Painting month?

Thank you for your comments

I don't think I'm too critical, I know what I want to achieve and the gap between my ambitions and the result.
I have learned and I know that the next Samar cobra will be much better... Because yes there will be a next

Congratulations Christophe very interesting model I did not know this species, after research on the web. I fell in love with your very detailed painting and your model. Cheer!

Hurray, the first custom to start off this topic
I googled the cobra too and it is really a cool species! And your work represents it very well, great job!

Thank you Jean-Luc and Anne-Joke

Here is my second "finished "model. It is a Wooly rhino Tams7prairie. It is the first generation printed with a plastic wire printer. You can see it with the traces of passage of the wire very visible on the photos, it is a little less in the real life. Since then the production has changed and the new models are made by a resin printer with a much more satisfactory result. It was not easy to give relief and details without accentuating the manufacturing defects. I'm not doing so bad with such a small model perfect for a 1/40 collection.
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Even with the visible manufacturing trails this is a splendid figure. Thank you for sharing and great job! Aaaaand you work very quickly! I am worried I won't get mine complete as the last week and a half of May I will be traveling.

I love the snake, and beautiful subtle job on the coelodonta! Doing such detail work as on the cobra is hard even when both of your eyes (sort of) work.

I haven't had much time, so haven't gotten much more done on mine. Must get to work! My friend's dog has had her surgery and is recuperating well so far.

Tank you Paige and Kelly I'm glad your friend's dog is recuperating now

Three new victims from Tams7prairie: the Moa, the Pyrotherium and the Short-faced bear.
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For my 1/35 shelves
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For my 1/40 shelves
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Kikimalou, you have been busy!! Love every single repaint you showed here, fabulous!!

I love these moa, whooly rhino and short face bear!

The beak does look better with the grey wash!

Shanti wrote:

Kikimalou, you have been busy!! Love every single repaint you showed here, fabulous!!

Thank you so much Shanti I am well aware that the compliment comes from a very great magician

Caracal wrote:

I love these moa, whooly rhino and short face bear!

Thank you too Alain, I'm glad a good painter as you are like my work. But! What about my Pyrotherium ? is there something wrong about it ?

pipsxlch wrote:

The beak does look better with the grey wash!

Yes, I wanted to make something like a Southern or Northern cassowary beak. I wasn't sure I would make a grey beak first with a yellow brush dry or a yellow beak with a grey wash.

Well, I left a model in this condition again... Well, I don't want to fill this topic by myself, so I'm only posting a picture to avoid disturbing people.
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you are an artist!

It's a delightful paintwork, Christophe! You did it justice with your brushes, the sculpture is also absolutely brilliant! What a joy!

These are all simply gorgeous! Superb work especially on that Andean bear.

I don't think I will be able to do much more paint alteration on my dogs before I leave for a trip for a week. I will probably seal them this weekend and try to do a photoshoot with their pack!

Thank you Alain, Anna and Paige

There is no Andean bear Paige, the Short face bear (Arctodus simus) inhabited North America during the Pleistocene.
I can't wait to watch your pics

Here  my repaint big T.M. wolf in a canadian wolf fashion:



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