"Painting minis to look like a black and white movie..." Topic

Do you guys think this is cool or a waste of time.
To paint some "PULP FIGURES" or others in shades of white, grey and black and also the terrain.
To make it look like a black and white movie.
Has anyone ever done this....Any pics if so.
cool or waste of time, what do you think

I don't know... Maybe for dioramas. I think for regular play it would get old. And it would be hard to use the terrain for your _next_ gaming obsession.

What B/W movie period are you thinking of? Early motion picture filming had the actors using heavy makeup because the film could not capture images that well. Murneau's Nosferatu is an example of this, as well as the Edison movies.

I was thinking the same thing earlier, doing up a set and using Pulp Figures set of moviemakers on site capturing the action. The only painted example of this I ever remember seeing was in someone's online gallery who had painted the Foundry Bride of Frankenstein in BW.

The trick is to paint them light. I've got some poor examples of some Deathseekers at link -- the colors are red-shifted, but you can see what happens if you make them too dark.

Now that you've looked at the bad results, here is the good one by an utter stud at this stuff ( not me ) :

link

WOW Barry Gazso is a black an white god!

That is a stunning Dio

I don't know if I could even come close to somthing like that. I wonder if he went color blind painting that for hours at a time. LOL

Thanks MEICZYSLAW that is amazing!!!

basically you'd just be painting in tone. Rather than B&W I'd go 'sepia'

Back in the mid-90s one of the guys in our group painted up a bunch of 20mm plastics and cake-deco palm trees in blacks and grays and ran a "Back to Bataan" game. The only full color figs on the table were the film crew.

All the players had a special "star" card they could use once in the game to do something super heroic -- their moment in the spotlight as it were. He ran it at Gencon and the players had a gas of a time. Come to think of it, he should run it again as it really was a fun game!

OK, I'm impressed.

Very cool! Thanks for the diorama pics.

Someone ran a WWII game in B&W I think at Origins 6-8 years ago. It looked really great.

Ah yes,

I stumbled upon that one a couple years ago. Unfreakin-real!

BTW, that site archertransfers.com
They make the best dry transfers I have ever used.

Wow - great job on the B/W painting.

The game idea sounds like fun - kind of Minis Noir. I can just see it now:

"Paint it Sam, you painted it for her - paint it for me"

Absolutely stunning! That is serious talent.

Too cool for words.

[considers giving up this whole painting thing]

Droool... Gahhh!!!... Ahem, yes that is, in a word IMPRESSIVE! One day, when I grow up I hope to paint just like that! That is superb. Baryy Garzso, YOU DA MAN!

Did (still think of myself as "doing", but it's been a couple years now) something like this for Vampire Wars. I used shades of blue-gray to try to make things look like a black-and-white movie on an old television.

Couldn't figure out how to convincingly do the flames on torches, however, so I did them in color. The inconsistency looked so neat that I started giving my vampires red eyes, and so on.

I hope someday to return to the project. I wanted to do some cardboard cut-out buildings for props, to make it look like an Ed Wood Hollywood set.

My Goth and Ghoulie! Sweet Bela!

I'm... (excuse me)... picking up... (just a moment)... my lower jaw!

I have a new hero to look up to!

I think I will use some cheap and corny pieces from GW's leftovers (otherwise known as bitz) and will try real hard to make a Mordheim Orc in the Murnau tradition.

Boy, it's been 5 minutes looking at the piccies and I'm still shocked!

Amazing, simply amazing.

Staines wargames club ran a Stagecoach game once with all the figures and scenery done in shades of black and white. It looked pretty good.

Clever. Skillful. Dumb.

I`ve painted the upper half of a Space Marine as SENMM ! I spent a lot a of time (about 10 hours) but I`ve improved (and learned) from that.
It`s a good excersice.

Ramiro
postmaster@paintingpro.8k.com

Now why didn't that occur to me when I was painting the "three-dimensionalized cartoon character" team for SuperSystem? Oh well, maybe I can use this trick for the "universal studios monsters" team I've been working up to instead.

Nifty idea, but kind of limited applications.

Rich

This is an excellent idea but truth is, you're probably going to have to use different shades of blue e.g. cyan as well as grey black and white. You'll need shiny black and white, and dull, and charcoal colors.

I painted some of Bob Murch's Pulp Figures in black and white a few months back and posted a picture on the GASLIGHT Yahoo group. It was something fun that I had wanted to do for a while, and I had somehow purchased a second set of the sidekicks pack. I lined up all my gray paints in order of darkness with white on one end and black on the other. I prime my figures in black, so I worked from darkest shades to lights, using a middling shade for the skin tones. I found it neither harder nor easier than painting figures in color. I can post a picture somewhere if anyone is interested.

Buck Surdu

Only obliquely related but brilliant!

Calvin and Hobbes:
Calvin: Dad, why are old pictures in black and white and new ones in color?
Dad: The whole world used to be black and white. It didn't turn to color until the '50's. Kinda grainy at first, too.
Calvin: Then why are old paintings in color?
Dad: They turned to color when the rest of the world did.
Calvin: But why didn't old pictures turn to color when the rest of the world did?
Dad: They are color pictures of a black and white world…

Heh! Is that the C&H strip where the father also explained that the reason old time black-and-white-world painters painted in color was "because they were crazy"?

I sure miss that strip!