I have an old batch of orks from when I first got into warhammer 40k back in early high school; several of them are unsalvageable because of my early attempts at conversions, so I use them to test color schemes. Really if you have any old toy lying around that should have been thrown away anyway, they're good for figuring out techniques, I've found.
In other news, photos of my completed Norse Blood Bowl Team, the Norscan Wild Princes! Even though I live in MN and these are the Norse, I didn't want to do the obvious thing and literally just make them the Vikings, because I've seen too much of that... but I also still wanted to do it, so I settled on mashing up the color scheme of the Minnesota Wild hockey team with the Vikings. I thought that maybe it would be a bit busy, but that I could pull it off. As it turned out trying to find a balance between the four colors of purple, green, red, and gold was kind of a pain in the ass, and the Blood Reavers that I used as base models alternate a lot between small patches of skin, cloth, fur, and metal, and it was just tedious and awful. Ultimately, though, I got into a groove near the end and I think they turned out nicely, and I'm still pretty happy with the sculpting work I did to customize the Yeti (although I still have a long way to go there before I'll get where I want to be).
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I have an old batch of orks from when I first got into warhammer 40k back in early high school; several of them are unsalvageable because of my early attempts at conversions, so I use them to test color schemes. Really if you have any old toy lying around that should have been thrown away anyway, they're good for figuring out techniques, I've found.
In other news, photos of my completed Norse Blood Bowl Team, the Norscan Wild Princes! Even though I live in MN and these are the Norse, I didn't want to do the obvious thing and literally just make them the Vikings, because I've seen too much of that... but I also still wanted to do it, so I settled on mashing up the color scheme of the Minnesota Wild hockey team with the Vikings. I thought that maybe it would be a bit busy, but that I could pull it off. As it turned out trying to find a balance between the four colors of purple, green, red, and gold was kind of a pain in the ass, and the Blood Reavers that I used as base models alternate a lot between small patches of skin, cloth, fur, and metal, and it was just tedious and awful. Ultimately, though, I got into a groove near the end and I think they turned out nicely, and I'm still pretty happy with the sculpting work I did to customize the Yeti (although I still have a long way to go there before I'll get where I want to be).
I have a bunch of broken necron warriors I can try it on, see how it comes out.
Thank you!
PSN: Reaper_Stragint, Steam: DoublePitstoChesty
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
So that video by Marco Frisoni that Hermano linked a couple of pages back led to me watching a bit more of his stuff and I really like it a lot. He's got a 5 hour speed paint video that kinda hit home today (video spoilered below) where he comments about using references and says "Never never use another miniature as a reference. The result will always be a lesser version of a toy, aim for something better and the result will be better".
He's speaking directly about speed painting, but it kinda hit home with how I've painted since getting back into the hobby. I'm always agonizing over getting as close to GW's reference stuff as possible and getting frustrated when I can't match a color or blend or whatever.
SO... after messing around with oils on that test FEC ghoul I figured I'd just bust out the airbrush and my new oil paints and go ham on some minis tonight.
I ended up painting a trio of FEC Crypt Flayers in about two and a half hours. They probably need a highlight or two still, as well as basing, but I'm super happy with the result and it was a lot more fun to paint than my usual routine. With my normal routine I wouldn't have gotten one done in that amount of time... I might not have even settled on a paint scheme Being limited to 8 colors of oil paint plus my whole arsenal of other stuff to highlight with made it super easy to knock these out.
Basically just smear with oil washes (red, black, mauve and sienna), drag off the excess on the body/head with a qtip dipped in spirits, airbrush highlight from above with some screaming skull, airbrush a bit of Vallejo gore red on the wings to smooth them out a bit, then add some blood technical to their faces. That's about it.
There's a bit of overspray in spots that I could tidy up, but I'll probably just base them and leave them as is.
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Primed the wooden parts of my warcry starter terrain. Forgot to grab my face mask so I put my shirt over my nose. Really gotta stop forgetting my face mask and being too lazy to grab it. Figured the priming would be fast.
Either way, gonna hit some of the wooden parts with a brush to clean stuff up and then I'm masking the wood off and going to town with the base color.
PSN: Reaper_Stragint, Steam: DoublePitstoChesty
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
Does anyone test paint schemes on things that aren't models? I want to test a paint scheme for this terrain but I don't want to paint a piece of the terrain already because they are big and clunky and there is no fucking way I'm gonna be able to clean it off.
I'm not really sure what I can test it on. Mostly I want to see if the army painter goblin green base with a mechanicus standard grey zenithal will look good.
This might help if you don't want to actually use paint on something. (GIMP/image manipulation tutorial for testing color schemes)
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What would be a good color to dry brush onto the terrain? I kind of want to enhance the green so I was thinking of dry brushing warpstone green or moot green but I feel like that might mess up the grey.
Does anyone test paint schemes on things that aren't models? I want to test a paint scheme for this terrain but I don't want to paint a piece of the terrain already because they are big and clunky and there is no fucking way I'm gonna be able to clean it off.
I'm not really sure what I can test it on. Mostly I want to see if the army painter goblin green base with a mechanicus standard grey zenithal will look good.
This might help if you don't want to actually use paint on something. (GIMP/image manipulation tutorial for testing color schemes)
The link isn't work.
PSN: Reaper_Stragint, Steam: DoublePitstoChesty
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
What would be a good color to dry brush onto the terrain? I kind of want to enhance the green so I was thinking of dry brushing warpstone green or moot green but I feel like that might mess up the grey.
Does anyone test paint schemes on things that aren't models? I want to test a paint scheme for this terrain but I don't want to paint a piece of the terrain already because they are big and clunky and there is no fucking way I'm gonna be able to clean it off.
I'm not really sure what I can test it on. Mostly I want to see if the army painter goblin green base with a mechanicus standard grey zenithal will look good.
This might help if you don't want to actually use paint on something. (GIMP/image manipulation tutorial for testing color schemes)
What would be a good color to dry brush onto the terrain? I kind of want to enhance the green so I was thinking of dry brushing warpstone green or moot green but I feel like that might mess up the grey.
Does anyone test paint schemes on things that aren't models? I want to test a paint scheme for this terrain but I don't want to paint a piece of the terrain already because they are big and clunky and there is no fucking way I'm gonna be able to clean it off.
I'm not really sure what I can test it on. Mostly I want to see if the army painter goblin green base with a mechanicus standard grey zenithal will look good.
This might help if you don't want to actually use paint on something. (GIMP/image manipulation tutorial for testing color schemes)
PSN: Reaper_Stragint, Steam: DoublePitstoChesty
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
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I think I've seen someone else do that color combination before, but that's a good instructional video, thanks Koreg. It makes a great yellow, certainly.
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I am now working on like 3 paint projects all at once. Painting up 3 of my HQs for Skaven, trying to figure out what dry brush color to use on the warcry starter terrain, and finally starting on the skulls for the graveyard terrain.
PSN: Reaper_Stragint, Steam: DoublePitstoChesty
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
Someone did a epic scale (I think?) Eternity Gate based on the Blanche illustration from 2E.
Also:
Has anyone tried ImpCat? It is a program for android devices that takes pictures of miniatures, and allows you to change the colors on them. It allows you to look at the paint scheme -- using real citadel / vallejo / etc paint colors -- on "live" models.
Went on a bit of a manic painting spree the last few days and emerged the other side with a squad of very chonky lads:
A bonus WIP of their slightly less chonky leader:
And sprayed and drybrushed a squad of Havocs and a Sorcerer:
Their last Havoc buddy is built but I'm waiting on some conversion bits to turn his Heavy Bolter into a Chaincannon.
Spring has apparently sprung and I have responded by PAINTIN'
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I'm about 70 pieces through a 120 piece Dwarven forge set. It's super easy painting, but damned monotonous. Probably have it finished up by this weekend, but I just ran out of matte clear coat, so I'll have to pick some more up tomorrow.
Would apothecary white work for the albino part of the fur for my Skaven?
I don't have ant painted Skaven to test it on.
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Did a zenithal prime on the HQs. Doing a little sub assembly. I feel weird about some of the spots where the wraithbone hits the black. Like it didn't fully cover.
Did a zenithal prime on the HQs. Doing a little sub assembly. I feel weird about some of the spots where the wraithbone hits the black. Like it didn't fully cover.
Did a zenithal prime on the HQs. Doing a little sub assembly. I feel weird about some of the spots where the wraithbone hits the black. Like it didn't fully cover.
Did a zenithal prime on the HQs. Doing a little sub assembly. I feel weird about some of the spots where the wraithbone hits the black. Like it didn't fully cover.
I may be misunderstanding, but isn't that kind of the point of zenithal?
Did a zenithal prime on the HQs. Doing a little sub assembly. I feel weird about some of the spots where the wraithbone hits the black. Like it didn't fully cover.
I may be misunderstanding, but isn't that kind of the point of zenithal?
It is. I think what is bothering me a bit is how it looks fuzzy I guess. Like parts where it looks really spotty where the black and white meet. I don't know if that is part of how it should look.
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@BloodySloth That yeti looks excellet. You mentioned some custom work, what was the original mini?
@BloodySloth That yeti looks excellet. You mentioned some custom work, what was the original mini?
Thanks! He was originally a Reaper Minis Yeti Warrior:
I think I posted WIP shots of him upthread ages ago. I basically added a bunch of fur to bulk him up and get him to the right stature, and added the claws, spikes, and accessories made out of junk from my bits box. The claws/spikes are actually the filed-down halves of goblin bows I had left over from when I made my goblin Blood Bowl team years ago.
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In other news, photos of my completed Norse Blood Bowl Team, the Norscan Wild Princes! Even though I live in MN and these are the Norse, I didn't want to do the obvious thing and literally just make them the Vikings, because I've seen too much of that... but I also still wanted to do it, so I settled on mashing up the color scheme of the Minnesota Wild hockey team with the Vikings. I thought that maybe it would be a bit busy, but that I could pull it off. As it turned out trying to find a balance between the four colors of purple, green, red, and gold was kind of a pain in the ass, and the Blood Reavers that I used as base models alternate a lot between small patches of skin, cloth, fur, and metal, and it was just tedious and awful. Ultimately, though, I got into a groove near the end and I think they turned out nicely, and I'm still pretty happy with the sculpting work I did to customize the Yeti (although I still have a long way to go there before I'll get where I want to be).
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I have a bunch of broken necron warriors I can try it on, see how it comes out.
Thank you!
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
He's speaking directly about speed painting, but it kinda hit home with how I've painted since getting back into the hobby. I'm always agonizing over getting as close to GW's reference stuff as possible and getting frustrated when I can't match a color or blend or whatever.
SO... after messing around with oils on that test FEC ghoul I figured I'd just bust out the airbrush and my new oil paints and go ham on some minis tonight.
I ended up painting a trio of FEC Crypt Flayers in about two and a half hours. They probably need a highlight or two still, as well as basing, but I'm super happy with the result and it was a lot more fun to paint than my usual routine. With my normal routine I wouldn't have gotten one done in that amount of time... I might not have even settled on a paint scheme
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PSN - Razide6
Basically just smear with oil washes (red, black, mauve and sienna), drag off the excess on the body/head with a qtip dipped in spirits, airbrush highlight from above with some screaming skull, airbrush a bit of Vallejo gore red on the wings to smooth them out a bit, then add some blood technical to their faces. That's about it.
There's a bit of overspray in spots that I could tidy up, but I'll probably just base them and leave them as is.
Gamertag - Khraul
PSN - Razide6
Either way, gonna hit some of the wooden parts with a brush to clean stuff up and then I'm masking the wood off and going to town with the base color.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
God I love this hobby
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
This might help if you don't want to actually use paint on something. (GIMP/image manipulation tutorial for testing color schemes)
The link isn't work.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
It’s missing a colon: https://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Using_GIMP_to_experiment_with_colour_schemes
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Here, fixed the link.
First we New Ad Mech aka blue.
Or Ad Mech Classic aka red
Neither are fast because of the crazy ass detail levels.
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PSN - Razide6
Go!
I just finished these a few days ago, wanted to show them off
This video is what made me want to try out inks.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
Someone did a epic scale (I think?) Eternity Gate based on the Blanche illustration from 2E.
Also:
Has anyone tried ImpCat? It is a program for android devices that takes pictures of miniatures, and allows you to change the colors on them. It allows you to look at the paint scheme -- using real citadel / vallejo / etc paint colors -- on "live" models.
For example, here's a Space Marine: https://www.reddit.com/r/impcat/comments/f2jh54/my_green_lanterns_scheme_why_just_upset_one_ip/
The reddit for it is over here: https://www.reddit.com/r/impcat/
And it is on Google Play here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.DesignBench.impcat
You do have to download the templates, they're available on Reddit. It's super useful.
I like the blue. You don't see it as much as the red, too.
You could say that they take the colour from the ritual clothing of ancient terran industrial cults. Their members were called the Blue Collars.
Gamertag - Khraul
PSN - Razide6
A bonus WIP of their slightly less chonky leader:
And sprayed and drybrushed a squad of Havocs and a Sorcerer:
Their last Havoc buddy is built but I'm waiting on some conversion bits to turn his Heavy Bolter into a Chaincannon.
Spring has apparently sprung and I have responded by PAINTIN'
You talk clean and bomb hospitals, so I speak with the foulest mouth possible
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I don't have ant painted Skaven to test it on.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
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Cool, I'll use that to make it easier.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
Use a grey paint as a base coat or primer to get that albino fur
I'm going to. I'm gonna brush paint over the fur parts with probably celestra grey. Or I could just do grey seer since I still have a pot of that.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
I may be misunderstanding, but isn't that kind of the point of zenithal?
It is. I think what is bothering me a bit is how it looks fuzzy I guess. Like parts where it looks really spotty where the black and white meet. I don't know if that is part of how it should look.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
Thanks! He was originally a Reaper Minis Yeti Warrior:
I think I posted WIP shots of him upthread ages ago. I basically added a bunch of fur to bulk him up and get him to the right stature, and added the claws, spikes, and accessories made out of junk from my bits box. The claws/spikes are actually the filed-down halves of goblin bows I had left over from when I made my goblin Blood Bowl team years ago.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.