I want to enter golden demon again but first I gotta get better add a lot of things Chief among
them painting faces and perhaps this 3D scanner perfect for scanning faces can help with that
hey guys Jay here welcome to eons of battle I want to know if face scans 3D printed look
good on Miniatures you would think so but I'm not convinced Hasbro has been doing something similar
with their black series action figures they've been a little hush-hush on the exact technology
that goes into making their accurate replicas of actors faces but it's probably something along
the lines of this and it does make for perfect copies of actors heads but once it's been scaled
down turn into plastic and painted eh don't get me wrong it looks great a lot better than any of the
toys I had growing up but there's still something not right it's two steps forward and one step back
in my opinion it takes Artistry to make something look right and if it doesn't quite work for action
figures perhaps it'll be a little awkward for miniature painting as well everything looks right
in the movie in cartoons because the movie had a director cinematographer lighting and makeup
to make things look just right and the comic artists use color shape and form to get things
to feel correct the toy is perfectly factually correct but sitting there on the shelves at
Target it's a little uncanny I have my doubts on the other hand maybe the same 3D scanning process
but rendering the color through mini painting will be the Best of Both Worlds a perfect head
replica combined with hours of delicate painting will create something magical I think it's worth
a try and if nothing else it'll help me along on my golden demon Journey first things first
though is this scanner even up to the challenge this is the Regal Point pop 2 scanner its claim
of Fame is its higher Precision projector and IR camera which allows for a 10 frames per second
scanning speed to capture quick details this means that you're creating 3 million points a second all
those points allow for a higher quality mesh this scanner is great for scanning larger objects to
create replicas rebuild broken pieces of an object or modify existing designs the pop2 can also scan
in color so you can take an object get the 3D model and the material data which can be helpful
for Quality replicas many scanners have difficult software but Revo scan makes it simple to scan our
heads all we had to do was set the accuracy to high put the scan mode on head and we decided to
try the color scan on Nick you can slowly walk around the object or use the included turntable
to capture 360 degrees of smaller objects after your scan complete you can choose to export to
ply obj or STL so you can work in your favorite 3D modeling software if you're looking for even
more Precision they have the revo Point mini which uses the blue light scanner that can scan smaller
objects but it isn't recommended for faces we had a previous video taking a look at that scanner a
special thanks to Revo point for sending the pop 2 and if you're looking to pick one up there's a
link in the description wow that's that's not bad it's it's all there it's pretty cool yeah I think
it looks pretty good yeah I think the obvious thing to do is to put our faces on Warhammer
models yeah I want to be a Space Marine I want to be in a work that ah that's gonna be really funny
so I assume the next step is you take this file export it as STL and it's ready to rock my head
came out fine except for the overlapping mesh I don't think this was the scanner's fault as much
as it was my fault for not being able to hold my orc face but it's easy enough to fix and blender
by deleting unwanted points and using the make manifold to fill in the missing data although
I did have to add to the mesh and smooth it out to make my face look correct next was working on
the scale of my head I measured the knob head and created an object about the same size to roughly
check the size of my head orc knobs have quite the weird neck I measured that part and created
an object to act as my new neck with it in place it's time to remove my shoulders and real neck to
be a hunched over orc as I've always wanted to be I made a manifold one more time to fill in my neck
holes and it was time to cut out my orc neck with the Boolean modifier set to difference I was ready
to be printed my head got to join Jays and I got to try out the LA Goose Saturn AK printer Ellie
goo was nice enough to send us to see how high of quality we could get these prints now what is
interesting is that these heads are perfect but is that the move Games Workshop when they make
faces they go hard in the details making cheeks super shrunk and eyes bulging and foreheads look
tumorous to make those details pop and easy to paint so will the relatively smooth Perfection of
these scans heads create a challenge I don't know I want to enter golden demon again I don't know
if I can win I don't know if I have it in me to spend hundreds and hundreds of hours on a single
piece but I want to try and one of the category for Golden demon is duel where the judges are
looking for a dynamic pairing of two well-matched adversaries in some kind of a combat or other
exciting situation and I have a little me and a little Nick that should be the perfect combination
for a good duel Nick scaled down my head perfectly to fit a primary Space Marine of course I have to
be a black Templar Space Marine but to spice it up a little I made a Templar who is currently
serving in the Death Watch I took an intercessor and an infiltrator and kit bashed them together to
make this diorama a little more interesting Nick wanted to be a knob which is perfect I was tempted
to stick him onto the horrible boy knob but I suppose for Golden demon a more fitting adversary
would be a proper knob with a big old Power claw to give him a Fighting Chance this is the weirdest
thing I've ever done this is really weird to have a staring back at me from the miniatures
ah to get this to fit into the Dual category I think I've already broken some of the rules but
they need to be Games Workshop Miniatures they need to fit into the world of Warhammer 40 000
which I am not quite sure if these models do but also kind of the unspoken rule of golden demon is
your entry also must have a wow factor and these models definitely have a wow factor to me but I
don't know if they fit in perfectly with golden demon and that's fine because I'm not actually
entering these pieces I'm going to use this as a learning opportunity so that I can kind of get the
juices flowing the golden demon juices flowing if you will to properly shower myself in Golden
juices I need a Cool Base so I broke out the wood chips I usually am looking for tiny pieces that I
can glue onto a base but here I need the biggest pieces possible to fit both of us on I made me
standing taller than Nick as obviously I am the hero of this piece I cut up my wood and stuck
it together with some thick white hot glue the natural wood chips will create better more random
looking rocks and clips than I could ever sculpt and when I really want to compete I would make
her find a proper plant them out this piece on but for practice the 60 millimeter base will work fine
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using natural materials but they do make a mess I use milliputt to hide any of the exposed hot
glue and to smooth out anything that looked a little too wood chippy then I pinned the
unpainted mini to the wood I don't usually pin but for competition you have to work in sub-assemblies
to be able to reach all those tricky spots yes this is starting to feel like a golden demon entry
the presence of the models the organization of the elements it is all coming together
somewhat accidentally I have some power lines going on with this sculpture not electrical
ones but thematic ones I've got the angle of this base and then it's reinforced Again by the
angle of this Bolter going into this ugly orc head and I even have it going on a little bit
with the antenna these are the sort of things that your brain notices but the viewer doesn't
necessarily notice but it all works together to reinforce the storytelling of the display
now it was time to paint I primed the models black I always Prime in Black I just find it much easier
to work dark to light instead of light to dark and I did a xenothal prime usually the xenathol
is step one of contrast paint or washes and glazes but here I am doing it just for the information
that it gives me on lighting as I intend to paint these models with only a brush however on the base
it's airbrushed City I sprayed some tan everywhere to brighten up the base a lot so that when I apply
my inks it darkens to exactly where I want it I put some burnt Umber and some Indian yellow
to make a nice natural looking Stone texture I put the models back on the Basin it looks pretty
good for me in my black armor I decided I would try and use purple to highlight black I put on
dozens and dozens of layers of purple my logic was that to make interesting black I can't just use
black and gray as our brains tend to ignore those colors but purple and blue and black that might be
something that catches the eye I Edge highlighted everything I never do this on my gaming minis but
for a competition piece you gotta then I use black to darken every piece of armor I want at
least 80 of this model to be pure black so that my purple and blue look like the light glimming
off the black armor instead of purple armor and Shadow then I freehanded the Templar symbol onto
my shoulders and knee and this taught me that when I do this for real I'll paint five shoulders off
the model and pick the best instead of yoloing the one already glued on to paint Nick it was
much simpler Orcs are more colorful so I glazed the watery color over each part of the model I
think works were actually a really good pick for competition pieces because they have so much stuff
Orcs have a Simplicity to their ramshackle nature details are just bolted on instead of integrated
which makes them easier to pick out and paint especially on their weapons I spent a long time
perfectly blending on some highlights to his power claw and Orcs are covered in details like this I
am having a great time pouring tons and tons and tons of hours into this piece I can totally see
why golden demons take 100 plus hours because when you are making a concerted effort to paint every
single detail on a Games Workshop miniature you realize just how many details there actually are
and no washes no dry brushing no contrast paint just good old-fashioned work it takes some time
with that said I'm almost done though I took the colors I used on Nick and I and splashed
these onto the base to help integrate the models better this way it's like a photo all
the colors are present all over everything and finally no base is complete without a
couple of tops I stuck them down here and there to make this base feel more natural
I can't put it off any longer it is finally time to tackle those faces I can't wait to see
how this goes they kind of look okay now we'll see and I actually do have all the reference
material I will ever need I started painting Me by glazing the rough approximation my skin tone
not much xenathol landed on me so I don't want to push the highlights too far one thing I did
find especially on areas that needed like 50 coats of paint was the paint would start to build up and
become shiny and make it hard to put on more layers so perhaps pausing and Matt varnishing
would be the thing to do when I'm trying to achieve Perfection I glued me down to myself
and boy did it look weird next turn I started with a close approximation of Nyx skin color green and
because his face was blasted with the xenophoe I knew he could really push the highlights on his
face so I mixed lime green and yellow together and began doing highlights I had to be careful
and try to follow my reference and not just do classic Games Workshop face painting shallow
cheeks brick forehead I had to actually try on his hair I actually color matched it to his real hair
this made his face look a little more recognizable and made the model a million times funnier looking
I permanently attached the models to the base and it was done this is easily the weirdest thing I
have ever painted but it was a lot of fun and it totally got the juices flowing for Golden demon
before when I was just looking at the projects and looking at them behind the beautiful glass shelf
I felt like I got it like yeah they just painted really really good but when you're painting for
displaying for competition it feels really really different and I definitely started to
understand that picking up this piece this right here is probably only about 14 hours of work and I
think it's not bad I think if I put this in Golden demon I'd have a fair shot at one of those little
finalist pins but to take this and actually have a shot at winning a golden demon I totally see
the steps involved every single thing on this has some flaw or little problem that I could fix and I
could fix if I went and spent hours and hours and hours the first thing I painted was his little arm
and I painted that little arm for an hour and I still think there's tons of things that I could go
back and fix and change but it's also so kind of fun usually for me the biggest satisfaction with
painting miniatures is seeing my squad finished and getting to think oh I'm gonna get to play
with that and we're crying I'm gonna get to play with that and kill team we're gonna get to play
with that in age of Sigmar but for a piece like this a lot of the satisfaction actually comes
from just painting and achieving the thing that's in your head and so I am really really pumped to
actually paint something for Golden demon and to really try and to see exactly what I've got
this piece is weird there's me and there's Nick I wonder what Nick would think about it
hat that looks like the Hulk now as amazing as all this is keep in mind that this scanner is aimed
at hardcore techies it can do the job but it can do it well but it has some idiosyncrasies you're
gonna have to fuss with it Nick scan pretty good but to get me and my black hair to scan we had
to do this this isn't the scanner being racist but rather just the realities of a system that
measures the amount of light reflecting off the surfaces you can find more information
on the pop2 Linked In the description below I am very happy with how this piece turned out
and our weird little faces just stuck there in the plastic I think maybe I will spend a
few more hours and perfect this piece or maybe I really should get to move on with my golden
demon entries and trees I'm not doing just one I want a whole bundle so thanks for watching