Favorite Oldhammer Painter?

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Not sure if this has been discussed before, but who is your favorite Oldhammer painter? AKA the one you emulate or most aspire to (if its a thing for you).

For me it's Fraser Gray, This is from White Dwarf #116s 'Eavy Metal section and there are others of his style that I aspire to. The zombie with the crow is one of my favs. Some of his other stuff in the pages of 'Eavy Metal pop out to me but these ones came to mind.

How about yiu?

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tricky but when I think of all the old painters of miniatures and the ones which I've probably tried to emulate the most, while also working on my own style... the first name that comes to mine is Mike McVey. I'm not sure if he had (probably did) a WD spotlight but... yeah.. SOO much great stuff and used soo much.. one reason for wanting to visit foundry and Warhammer world.
 
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Wasn't he also viewed as a cut above by the other painters? I vaguely recall an article where one was marvelling that Frazer was diluting oils with white spirit whilst everyone else was using spit! I think those figures are done with oils which just makes the painting all the more amazing.
Having said that, his brilliance was lost on young me and I think i was most inspired by Wayne England and his dwarfs.
 
I deeply admire lots of painters from way back: in addition to the already cited Fraser Gray and Mike McVey I could list Colin Dixon (I think he was responsible of the majority of 3rd ed. O&G - my favourite minis - seen on period publications), Kev Adams, Ivan Bartleet and Tim Prow. John Blanche in its prime was ace, too.
I have a soft spot for Steve Blunt and john Toyer of GD fame, as well.
As you can see, I 'm not sure I'd be able to pick THE one.
What strikes me most is that they were excellent all-round modelers, with unsurpassed creativity in a time when techniques, tools and materials where pretty basic and very hard to work with, yet they managed to churn out legendary masterpieces that stood the test of time.
 
Happy to see Colin Dixon mentioned here. He was a talented artist, diorama builder and sculptor as well. While I don't think it's unusual for people to be good at some of these things, the full house seems to be somewhat rarer.
 
That's very cool and interesting. I quite like black-lining on models - Padre's being a good example, but very interesting to see the line painted shading on the panels. Neat.
 
Eric said:
That's very cool and interesting. I quite like black-lining on models - Padre's being a good example, but very interesting to see the line painted shading on the panels. Neat.
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My older painted miniatures have lots of black lining for contrast, because I liked the late 80s/early 90s GW painting style and this was very much in vogue back then. You can do it with a wash or contrast paints but I like to do it by hand as part of the final neatening of the figure before I consider it finished.
 
While it's an interesting style, I always hate when people say that is 'Comic book' style... cause.. I've read alot of comics from various styles and artists, and even countries, and the way people do 'comic book style' is almost never anything like many or any I've read.

It's still, like I said, an interesting style and kinda fun but... ah... people who name things badly like that.... like people that think "Manga Style" or "Anime Style" is a thing ¬_¬ Compare Go Nagai, to Rumiko Takahashi to any member of Studio Clamp (in both Manga form and Anime form) and then tell me that there is a 'style'.

No offense but.. yeah...
 
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