Daniel Clift... wow

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Just looking through some old stuff cause I'm trying to get a decent idea to just finish off this one model.. it's annoying cause I really feel it just needs a little something but... oh well..

And I came across some work of Daniel Clift, who I think enters the Golden Demon 89 (this is from WD 117.. they appear to credit Mick Beard and Richard Kernick in the contents, but then show some of Daniel Clift in on the pages.

anyway.. And I was kinda taken back by.. He has clear easy to read (well, a bit tricky with photo size but what you can see and some closes up show easy to read) lettering on his figure rims.. but these are Epic Marines..

some of this work looks impressive for full scale but at epic scale.. yeah.. it's pretty damn amazing really.

Just wondering if anyone knew if he went into the field or anything.. some of the painters were kinda head-hunted by GW, some it was just a hobby.
 
That's some seriously detailed painting. I've been interested in trying to paint some smaller minis lately and this thread made me remember a thing called 'rice writing' and now I'm thinking if buying a technical pen for some tiny details would be worth it. Hmmm.
 
don't know the term. I do have some paint pens (pens which are loaded with acrylic paint) and some fine liners (but I can't remember where I put the black, though have all the others in the pack). but yeah. sometimes you can see something really good and its to aspire to, sometimes it's to know you could never be that good.. but as long as you don't get all down about it, it's all fine ^_^;
 
Sorry for highjacking the thread, ManicMan!

Rice writing is literally art/skill of writing on grains of rice. To this day I'm not sure if it's an elaborate scam or a real thing, despite photos google search shows....

So, inspired by excellent work of mr. Clift, I tried out texting on 20mm base rim. After somewhat strong start it sort of fell apart, but since this was done simply out of curiosity and as challenge for myself (and I'll be painting over the text anyway) I didn't bother tidying it up. Done in one swoop using just white paint, text is about 1 or 2mm in size.

Snotlin' 02.jpg

Snotling I painted a while ago is the smallest thing I've tackled so far, though quite a bit larger than 6mm.
Zooming in is pretty brutal - no way human eye sees all the mistakes camera reveals. Colours are not quite as vibrant as IRL and whether it's skill issue, lack of decent light or my camera to blame, I have no clue.

Snotlin' 01.jpg

ManicMan said:
sometimes you can see something really good and its to aspire to, sometimes it's to know you could never be that good.. but as long as you don't get all down about it, it's all fine ^_^;
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Couldn't agree more. Inspiration is fine, comparing to others is usually pointless.
 
Thelonious Monk or the Miles Davies renamed version?

I know what you mean about close inspection with zooming ^_^ the number of times I've got something I think looks really good, then zooming in and stuff you see all the little faults.

Not really hijacking if this work is inspiring to do your own work and stuff
 
Wow. I was expecting that to be some jazz musician (and was fully ready to embrace this thread turning into forum's unofficial jazz thread), but that was really something else. Man's art and attitude are equally inspiring. Cheers for sharing the vid.
 
of course.. and this is gonna fly over alot of heads, I'm trying to see If I can find a Porsche 935 in 28mm scale... really start up a jazz thread..
 
Yep, flew over my head alright. What's it about? :?:

On a different note, this little piggy...

Porco 01.jpg
...is a pain to photograph. Sorry for garbage quality pics, this is the best I could do.

While nice break from 28mm and offered interesting challenge, just as I was hoping for, I had a breakfast at epiphany's -moment here; In short, I'm going in the opposite direction than I should. If I want to paint details it's bigger scale rather than smaller where it's at.
Pretty obvious when you think about really. :roll: Anyway, some food for thought for me looking forward, I suppose.

The good, the bad & the ugly.jpg
28mm, 10mm and 3,5mm to eyes respectively.
Since I can't find anything smaller to paint in my collection this ends my challenge/experiment/whatcamacallit.
 
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I know you can get some great painters are different scales, you do good 15mm stuff.. but.. some of this for 6mm.. kinda amazes me.. I don't think my eyes were EVER good enough for that..
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Wow indeed! This is a real flash from my past... thanks for this!

The invitation to have these published in White Dwarf came off the back of my entry to the Golden Demon awards in 1989. GW had just started producing various Titan miniatures to go with their new Adeptus Titanicus game which came with a sprinkling of smaller figures that I'm guessing were intended primarily as additional decoration for the bases and to give a sense of scale. I immediately took to these figures and having got through the heats at FC Parker in Cardiff, I'd made an Epic scale diorama of a marine medic on a motorbike that fitted on a standard 25mm 'slotta' base which I then entered into the Warhammer 40K vehicle category, against a field of much larger competition, where it had placed third :mrgreen:.

In terms of technique, all the figures above started out as epic scale lead miniatures, and they were brush painted with a mix of Citadel paints and coloured inks. At this scale it wasn't always possible to achieve the desired result for the conversions using the various modelling putties, etc, that were available and so some of the finer details on the figures are actually built up from multiple layers of paint.
 
clift_d said:
Wow indeed! This is a real flash from my past... thanks for this!

The invitation to have these published in White Dwarf came off the back of my entry to the Golden Demon awards in 1989. GW had just started producing various Titan miniatures to go with their new Adeptus Titanicus game which came with a sprinkling of smaller figures that I'm guessing were intended primarily as additional decoration for the bases and to give a sense of scale. I immediately took to these figures and having got through the heats at FC Parker in Cardiff, I'd made an Epic scale diorama of a marine medic on a motorbike that fitted on a standard 25mm 'slotta' base which I then entered into the Warhammer 40K vehicle category, against a field of much larger competition, where it had placed third :mrgreen:.

In terms of technique, all the figures above started out as epic scale lead miniatures, and they were brush painted with a mix of Citadel paints and coloured inks. At this scale it wasn't always possible to achieve the desired result for the conversions using the various modelling putties, etc, that were available and so some of the finer details on the figures are actually built up from multiple layers of paint.
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Hey! Great to see you found this place and thread ^_^ It still is some pretty impressive work
 
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