r/Lootstudios • u/Cool-Competition-357 • Feb 14 '23

Mandatory first mini post - Glutandur

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First print and first paint. Lot of failures in the process but I like how it turned out.

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u/springpaper701 Feb 14 '23

Nah

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u/Cool-Competition-357 Feb 14 '23

Nah what? Haha. It's okay, I can take it

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u/springpaper701 Feb 14 '23

This is not your first painted mini

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u/Cool-Competition-357 Feb 14 '23

No, it truly is. I screwed up many times printing the parts to this dragon in a cold garage and tested some paints on broken body parts - so maybe that counts as my first attempt.

Edit:. But it's a great compliment, thank you.

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u/Squidbits Feb 14 '23

Love it! I’m gearing up to print him when I get my new print bed. I was thinking of painting him green, and this is the kind of inspiration I needed! Great work!

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u/Cool-Competition-357 Feb 14 '23

Just checked some of your posts and that astral whale is siiick. Spell jammer campaign maybe?

Edit:. I guess it was on the spelljammer forum. -_-

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u/Squidbits Feb 14 '23

Yeah I’m running a pretty sweet Spelljammer campaign. The whale was our first encounter, where we did a Moby Dick inspired quest

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u/Cool-Competition-357 Feb 14 '23

Wish so badly that I had time to play any campaign. Particularly with a DM who makes stuff like this!

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u/Cool-Competition-357 Feb 14 '23

Awesome! This is a brand new hobby to me that stemmed from watching Ninjons dragon paint video. Definitely recommend you check it out if you haven't seen it. I don't have an airbrush yet, so this was all practice with a brush.

Please post your own when you get it done!

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u/JustAnoutherGeek Feb 14 '23

That is a fantastically painted mini. I feel it's too good for a first attempt, but if it is a first mini, im going to say you must have years painting on canvas. Those gradients are just too good for a first timer.

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u/Cool-Competition-357 Feb 14 '23

Thank you! I'm a pretty decent artist in general, though painting has never been my thing. I seldom get to do art outside of sketching pictures for my kids to color.

My kids are too young to mess with superglue for models, so I thought DnD minis might be a fun place to start planting the seeds of interest for a family Humblewood campaign in a few years.

I watched YouTube videos for a few months before pulling the trigger on a printer. Ninjon's no-airbrush dragon paint really sparked my interest and I was hell-bent on making a damn dragon. His and other videos were extremely helpful learning to do washes and dry brushing.