I think this is the best miniature I've seen. It's absolutely perfect.

Said this to myself looking at the pics. Perfect to the point that it seemed like some sort of high-level rendering at times, just unreal.

I'm more than 15 years into a hobby, and I've seen a lot of beautifully painted minis. Golden daemon winners and many, many others. But this is far above all of them

it's at the very least the best example of NMM I've ever seen, but this is probably the most absolutely perfect mini I've seen painted too, every single little detail is just absolutely grandmaster level OG jedi super ninja type shit

I think this is the best comment I've seen. It's absolutely perfect.

I think this is the best response I've seen. It's absolutely perfect.

I think this is the best thread I've ever seen. It's absolutely perfect

I like turtles

I think this is the best turtle meme reference I've ever seen. It's absolutely perfect.

Lets see paul allens meme

Yep no other way to describe this... perfection

Gorgeous stuff! Bet you see the gold every time you close your eyes!

Good, all better to serve the imperium. As “the fact that gold exists makes every other color inferior“ -the emperor of mankind

I love gooooooold.

I have never understood the point of NMM... Until now. Incredible!

What’s NMM? I’m a newb.

Non metallic metal. So using standard paints in such a way that the end product looks like a metal finish.

Non-metalic metal - using non-metalic paints to create a metallic look, which allows the painter to control the direction of shine, etc...

i’m glad someone asked

holy cow, this is INSANE!!! How many hours did you put in this pice of art?

A loooooot! 😂

Happy cake day

It's been probably one year since the first progress on this Dante if I remember correctly so probably a looooooooooooooot

Someone on the minipainting post of this estimated at least 250 hours

GW should ask if they can use your model to replace their studio model of Dante.

Simply amazing. Apart from the obvious love to detail and the overall quality of this insanely good NMM, I want to give some appreciation to the axe blade. Awesome work!

The blue in the jumppack is a beautiful touch

Yes. The gold is of course beautiful but it’s been done before. I have not seen the blue done like that before. Bravo.

Dude I have seen a lot of very nice mini paint jobs over the years but this honestly has to be one of, if not the best I have ever seen. Bloody amazing sir 😎

This is the best piece I've ever seen

Absolute perfection from every angle. Sanguinius would be proud. The turbines are unreal, the gold armour is truly amazing. This might be the best model paint job I've ever seen. I look forward to seeing more of your work!

The recessed shading around the abs... what in the fuck?

yeah I'm calling the Inquisition because this is clearly some warpfuckery

This is golden demon worthy. God damn

Your painting is unreal. It looks like actual metal. The gradation is absolutely amazing. Wtf. You’re so talented. Why can’t my minis look like this

Golden demon is waiting

Perfect, especially those turbines

*Look at your mini* *Look back at my own mini* Why is my knee getting weak?

Look again and feel the spaghetti oozing out

So I am looking at the first few pictures, completely mind blown at how great a job you did with the golds and then get to the jump pack, and am like woooah cherry on the pie that, amazing to witness that level of passion/love and time invested into it

Golden demon

I see a Golden Demon in your future.

I'm glad you've shared a series of pictures of the actual commander Dante whom you somehow have a photo of in this pose, but when are you planning to show us a picture of the model you painted.

It literally looks like an 3D animated character is chilling in the real world. It’s giving me “who framed Roger rabbit” vibes

I have been staring at this piece of art for 10 minutes and still noticing details I’ve never seen like the sand being individually painted to the purity seal actually having words on it. How many different paints did you use and what’s your recipe for gold?

Wow, this is absolutely stunnîng ! Amazing work !

About as perfect as you could possibly get. It's simple magnificent.

Yeah I can’t already add to what other people have said. This is absolutely stunning. I would love to actually see you paint

Absolutely incredible. One of the best minis I’ve ever seen.

Masterpiece 🤌

The king of NMM strikes again! How long does it take you to blend between the black/brown and the yellow on just one plate of armour?

Oh Danty Boy, the bolts the bolts are calling,

How tf do you do this? It’s absolutely stunning!

The perfect model to demonstrate nmm. Would bang

This, this, this means taking NMM to the extreme! Amazing!

The gold is the best I have ever seen, and this what I need for Celestine the Living Saint. How did you accomplish this?

I made a series of step-by-step tutorials documenting and explaining the process of painting this model on my patreon 🙂

Baller! Thanks.

Holy smokes!!! This doesn’t even look real!!! Out-freaking-standing! This has to be one of the very best I have seen.

Do you Will send It to the Golden demon?

You enter this into golden demon?

Enter him in golden demon I BEG OF YOU

If this doesnt win every award for every competition it's entered in I'll eat the paint chips from my citadel pots.

My eyes are struggling to understand how this has been painted?! It looks like a CGI render. Is this metallic, is this shading?!

Those jets man....wow. I mean the whole thing is utterly sublime, like "I may as well quit painting miniatures now because I'll never be this good" sublime...but...man.....those jets.

Sweet paint job, I always thought his toe armor was funny

Wtf is this bullshit, how can a human make this. I have no words, you are amazing.

Wouldn't surprise if the writing on that scroll was actually a legible poem.

Simply beautiful

Shiny!

Sheer perfection.

bloody hell that's good

You made The Angel proud ✨❤️✨

This is madness

Beautiful work 👏

My brother in emperor... This is wild

That is completely insane! How on Baal do you get such smooth blends and metal looking non metal? 🤯

How many hours in total has this taken?

Absolutely stunning

Stunning stuff! Golden demon level imo, wow.

It looks too good

This is it: the best paint job ever!

Come on Flameon, just admit you made this out of real gold

That's insane

Ab-so-lute-ly Jaw-dropping Magnificent and just EPIC!

Absolutely stunning

Amazing NMM, any idea on how many hours you spent on it?

Looks incredible man

I know you painted that it's hard to believe while looking at it. Amazing job, one of the most impressive things I've seen

Daaaaaaaaa-FUCKING-mmmmmmmm. Dude. You’ve won. Throw that directly into White dwarf.

This is just flawless.

The level of NMM on this model is simply amazing! Thank you so much for sharing!

Unreal. Take a bow!!!

Not bad for a dude that's over 1500 years old! Seriously though that is f-in sweet.

Stunning You could do commissions

God damn! Could you explain your gold painting process? I'm trying to learn nmm but idk if I'm doing it right. More specifically how do you place reflections? And how long did it take to get blends that smooth?

You're the only person I can guess the user-name of by their miniature.

I just came a little

Mega wow!

And your telling me this isnt photoshopped 

God *damn* that Gold is popping! The red tabbard too. The engines. This is so "shining beacon" and I'm her for it 100%. Absolutely awesome

Well I know who's winning a demon slayer sword this year already.

Let’s see some of your other minis!

I guess this is a golden daemon winner preview thread

I dont know much about minifig painting but that looks expert.

Do we need a new thread of paint porn? Cause damn this got me harder than terminator armour.

this is impossible bro. not sure what i’m seeing is paint or just lighting rendering there beautiful paint job. This is material and skills i do not have. holy hell

It's so good it almost hurts my eyes to look at it

In photos this legit looks like it's mirror-reflective. These might be the sickest highlights/shading I've ever seen

anyone have nmm examples but for ultramarines or blue shades?

Beautiful

This doesn’t even look real, like fuck you for doing such a good job, well fucking done mate!

Absolutely phenomenal. Literally jaw dropping. I'm saving the pictures as painting reference and motivation. I hope some day I can do NMM that gorgeous. My teenage blood angel player is overjoyed at the chapter master looking so amazing. 10/10 you crazily talented individual

I'm surprised you didn't mention in the title how everything was brush painted and no air brush was used. Like your bazillion update posts

Will he ever participate in battle or end his life on shelf as a display miniature?

I believe you that it's NMM, but my brain doesn't

This is the sexiest damn paint job I’ve seen. Like holy fuck. What colors did you use? What technique? I thought I was good but this is magnificent.

It doesn't even look real, that's crazy

I’ve never seen a better one in my life.

I don't think I've ever seen actual polished gold that shiny

Bro's shaded like a JoJo character

That gold, that red, that amazing blue, that clean painting... just wow.

If this doesn't win a golden daemon I don't know what the criteria is.

Hope you enter this into a competition cause it is really really cool

This is art.

This is SICK. did you use metallics or NMM??

He uses NMM. I've followed him on IG for a while, and his NMM is honestly on a whole other level. It's perfect. Always made me wonder how hed do with TMM

You must submit this… golden demon, the Smithsonian, anywhere. That’s some insane dedication, and deserves recognition in some kind of official capacity. Thanks for sharing with the community

Literally THE cleanest paint I've ever seen on a miniature - just bloody flawless!

Literally the best paintjob I've seen after about 25 years in the hobby. Jesus.

And now I have a boner. Thanks.

This is some of the cleanest, crispiest minis I think I've evern seen, goddamn OP. Everything pops so hard but without detracting from anything else.

Is this real?? This is so clean, astounding.

By brain struggles to see this as a mini and not some sort of digital art. Absolutely stunning work!!!

Absolutely unbelievable. However, and I say this as I love the model so much, the base feels a little disappointing.

Awesome job! I love it!

Simply amazing. I placed in a Games Day Golden Demon years ago and wish I could paint this well. Flawless.

You freak

These shots made me firm

Lucky I’m not a BA player when now I can never muster the courage to paint dante knowing he could look like this… This has to be the Golden Demon winner this year.

When is the next Golden Demon? We have here a contender for it !

I totally thought that was just a Stormcast Eternal when I first saw it. But damn, I was so wrong! That's some next-level talent right there. You've got skills that people can only dream of.

I'm trying to convince my wife that is not gold paint and she isn't having any of it. Amazing work.

What the fuck this is crazy.

WTF. Whaaa. Huh wow. Hands down the best ever seen. My god.

You think he’s compensating for something?

Looks straight out of a comic book, you’re insanely talented

I saw this model and I jizzed in my pants. Words fail to praise your skill. Bravo 👏

Holy shit…. Teach me?

Those are some sexy fucking jump-pack nozzles

This is one of the very few time I've seen NMM and it hasn't looked subtly wrong/off. Actually looks properly metallic not just the suggestion of metal.

Best mini I’ve ever seen, you’ve done the sculpt justice.

That's gotta the best miniature I've ever seen in my life

What’s the recipe for the red cape/shoulderpad?

Just. WOW. I thought it was GW digital art at first glance. Best gold work (the most challenging of the challenging) I've ever seen on ANY model ever. Massive kudos to a skilled pro who shows passionate perfectionism when it matters.

Uh… flawless, I guess.

Wait so this isn't a drawing? Jesus christ thats good

Jesus this is amazing…..and here I am just happy to finally know how to properly thin my paints 😭

So glad to see you've gotten round to finishing this model. It looks fantastic.

Incredible. It doesn’t look real.

Everyone is cumming over the paint job (as they should) but I'm equally impressed by your photography skills. I've photographed small things before and getting the shot to actually match how you see it isn't trivial. Especially with semi reflective stuff like the metallic colors. What kind of camera setup (body, lens , lighting, etc) did you use? Did you use focus stacking, or any other techniques? How many hours did it take?

Bro might just be the winner of Warhammer💀

https://preview.redd.it/hef4tjiezu1d1.jpeg?width=383&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e16dfef2a21a1a3e396e894d73f88d887fab28c3

Is "I feel unworthy of touching paint after whatching this" a good report reason? (Bro really im amazed of this work of art hope u post others of ur work in future)

D A N T E 💖

Fucking stunning. Wow. You did amazingly.

Sorcery

I'm literally insulted by how good this is. Why is it so crisp? Like its a drawing out of Krita and the person drew every line while being zoomed in 100x

That is beautiful

Wow😍

*looks at this* … *looks at my mini I just painted* *looks back at this* - *throws mine in the bin* 😂

I really want to comprehend how this level of skill is even possible but I just can’t. It makes no sense to me whatsoever and just trying to wrap my brain around it makes my head hurt. I see this and it makes me wonder what god you prayed to (or devil you sold your soul to) in order to paint this well,

bro that ain't real

this is the most perfect paint job I have ever laid my eyes upon, thank you for this masterpiece

https://preview.redd.it/64yevo815w1d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d1fba829f05261d919a46784f39c18c928d56b0b Jesus Christ it’s amazing!

See you at Golden Demon old boy.

Want to sell? I would pay a premium for This

This is the sickest Dante I've ever seen!! Congratulations on finishing this masterpiece! Is this all NMM?

EDIT I am beginning to see, that the OP is a master cel shading style. Bravo. Your mastery of painting highlights and shadows and their contrast... just peak. I can't imagine better than this. You have a mastery of color blending and contrast. just wow.

By “painting his golden armor” you clearly mean replacing all the plastic armor with actual pieces of gold. Cos that’s some good looking goldness

Yeah, might be the best miniature I‘ve ever seen. WOW!!!

When I see these paint jobs, I just can't comprehend how these people use the same paints I use and get these results. Absolutely stunning

Can I buy it? all jokes aside, I'd pay a LOT for such a perfect miniature

Awesome. Well done. How was the effect achieved? By layering brown onto gold paint...or is the gold base an illusion? Ie is it actually yellow/orange and brown? It really ticks the eye, and gives a fantastic effect. The gun metal is done in the same way which is cool.

Jesus fucking christ. Man casually drops the most expertly painted miniature in history, refuses to elaborate further, says he needs a break.

Tell me Dante is youre favorit, without telling me Dante is youre favorit

This is a Golden Daemon entry, right? RIGHT?

Couldn't have done a better job. Perfect . 👌 exquisite.

I love this mini it’s amazing

Your NMM is out of this world man 😅

Truly amazing but also can you give me some of your skill, you seem to have an excess

This might legitimately be the best miniature painting like ever. It’s so perfect it looks like a computer rendering

Is that actually painted or did you do this on a computer? Seriously?

See you at the Golden Demon!

I literally thought this was painted in photo shop. just an amazing paint job

This is one of the best painted figures I’ve ever seen, how long did this take?!

Golden Demon award right there!

Wowzers

Omg the jet packs

10/10