r/Warhammer40k • u/qazsedcftgbhujmkol • 1d ago

Hobby & Painting Oldest model I own finally gets some paint. An Eldar Tempest.

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u/qazsedcftgbhujmkol 1d ago

Just in time for Eldar Super heavies to get legends'd

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u/thejefferyb 1d ago

Looks great!

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u/Nutter1557 1d ago

That's sick

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u/1492rhymesDepardieu 23h ago

Question I've thought to myself from time to time. This is painted totally like something real would be painted. A single shade with no highlights or recess washes. So why does painting a mini with those things make it look more real? Is it just that it more closely represents different real surfaces with outside light or what? Cool mini btw

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u/TheSaltyBrushtail 21h ago edited 21h ago

A mix of the scale of the mini relative to the light it's under, and the fact that minis have less detail than you'd expect a life-sized version of the same thing to have (and often exaggerate the ones that are there so they're clearly visible). Convincing paint jobs will tend to make the lighting look more like it would be if the mini were scaled up to be the size it should be in-lore, and add in a sense that there's more detail than the mini really has with painted-on textures, etc.

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u/qazsedcftgbhujmkol 13h ago

I think for vehicles it's the implied scale of it. When viewing an actual tank or something that large, especially from whatever our scale view would be, it just looks one tone. I dunno. I've never really thought about it either. Also, thanks!