The first one I did I did drybrushing on but I barely noticed any effect and the other five look fine without it so i'll probably just pass on that. If I didn't know which was the first practice one i'd probably not be able to tell the difference between them.
It's the front middle one.
Since they are board game pieces I should probably get some kind of varnish or sealer just to make them handleable. It went pretty well, didn't take very long once I had the system down and did them all in batches. It helped it was only two colors I was working with but I had fun doing it.
Like, soap and water wash or watered down dark paint wash? I already did the latter, it's just directly under a lamp on the table so everything dark is brightened up.
Like, soap and water wash or watered down dark paint wash? I already did the latter, it's just directly under a lamp on the table so everything dark is brightened up.
The dark paint one - the lighting, I guess, makes it look like it hadn't been done yet.
It's weird - the shields and the maille, at least, should have looked really good with some drybrushing. Maybe the main color is just too bright?
All the lighting in my house is incredibly shitty so without that desk lamp and just the overheads it instead looks a lot darker, but here's another picture.
I might give drybrushing a try. I'm just worried about fiddling with them too much when i'm already happy with the current result.
Any suggestions on how to achieve an alien planet style of bases for Tyranids?
I've got some Vallejo white pumice (and a darker lava one as well)... do they take washes well or will it just look like orange/green/blue snow?
I plan on grabbing some of that alien looking gamer grass, and maybe some little transparent colored stones to look like crystals, but I'm not sure what to do about the rest of the basing material.
Nevermind... I think I figured it out.
Going to use the volcanic/lava Vallejo basing material I have along with some ground amethyst chunks I just found on ebay to go for a volcanic waste type of base.
You can get a jar of Vallejo water texture and glop the stuff on bases when they’re finished. Dries hard in any shape, and you can wash them after for slime, ichor, whatevs.
Washes work better with the clear nature of the water effects, stuff like Tamiya Clear paints are great with it. The Nurgle slime isn’t really translucent, it dries pretty solid. So if you wanted to use the water effects as a base texture you’d apply it after assembly and just prime the whole thing and paint as normal.
Either water texture or water effects. I think they’re actually the same thing, but water effects just to be safe. Probably not the foam one, they make another that’s transparent.
All the lighting in my house is incredibly shitty so without that desk lamp and just the overheads it instead looks a lot darker, but here's another picture.
I might give drybrushing a try. I'm just worried about fiddling with them too much when i'm already happy with the current result.
Here's a thing I've learned in my painting over the last couple years:
If you're happy with it, stop. It's all too easy to fall down a rabbit hole of doing too much to your models, and then getting unhappy with the result, and then getting discouraged and quitting altogether.
You're painting for you, and presumably not a Golden Demon award or something. So when you like the look of a thing, just be done with it.
I'll also say, having gone back and looked at some pics of Silver Knights, they're pretty monochromatic to begin with. I think you did a good job with them!
Yeah i'm trying to replicate the look from the game. I could have made their capes blue or done a different shade of silver for their weapon and shield from the armor, but that would have made it more complicated and I picked them because they would be easy.
It only gets more complicated from here, since the hollow soldiers have actual leather/chain/zombie skin and then there's the player models and then all the bosses.
Guess i'll spray on the varnish then think about the colors for the next set.
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I have very little experience working around white as a main colour rather than "that thing you put in eyes" or "that sweet decal line colour", so anyone with more experience please chime in here.
I want to actually paint things again, and I've amassed a sizable chunk of Dropfleet Commander stuff that I want to enjoy working through. Reference ...
I'm going to do some tests with approximately this blue/white combination, but I've never really "worked up" white before and don't know if I want to be starting with a particular sort of grey (assume I'm airbrushing layers) or mostly working around the main white I want to use or some other surprise base. I also planned to do some small red detailing like is visible on that source image, which makes me feel like my process is going to be: prime white, paint red, mask off red, base black, zenith white, paint white (??), mask white, paint blue, hand-paint greys. Path to success or disappointment?
I dunno if you meant just white or the weathering too, but it would probably require a differing type of weathering for dropfleet, considering that’s a much smaller scale than those gundams or even 40k. You’re not gonna have big visible dings and scratches so much as a general dinginess to the paintjob.
Oil washes are still good for that though.
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No, the reference really was to just show that it wasn't a perfect white and leaned cooler. Looking for good colors for a nice gradient that's a bit more dynamic than "flat colour plus wash"
So I got a bunch of heresy era marines over the summer
But looking at the painting guides on Warhammer Tv I noticed there was nothing about the imperial fists so the news they are pushing forward with the Horus Heresy story into the actual siege and the Imperial Fists were a large part of the defenders I do hope they show it then.
So yeah cutting up the head to get the tyrant look I am kind of copying I feel I should dig out the head again and see what it looks like with the jaw since I feel I messed up with this one
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No, the reference really was to just show that it wasn't a perfect white and leaned cooler. Looking for good colors for a nice gradient that's a bit more dynamic than "flat colour plus wash"
Right, painting white 101: don’t use white. In the citadel range the recommended steps are Celestra Grey, Ulthuan Grey, White Scar. Of course you can blend between those for smoother transitions as you please. You can also add watered down¹ blue shade to cool it a bit but that will take some experimentation to get right.
¹ Actually this is one of those times where medium is definitely better than water so use that if you have it.
No, the reference really was to just show that it wasn't a perfect white and leaned cooler. Looking for good colors for a nice gradient that's a bit more dynamic than "flat colour plus wash"
Right, painting white 101: don’t use white. In the citadel range the recommended steps are Celestra Grey, Ulthuan Grey, White Scar. Of course you can blend between those for smoother transitions as you please. You can also add watered down¹ blue shade to cool it a bit but that will take some experimentation to get right.
¹ Actually this is one of those times where medium is definitely better than water so use that if you have it.
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So I picked up my light box today! It's not quite right yet, but for $11 I can make some modifications. The current LEDs are top mounted without any diffusing, so I can fix that without too much issue, and I'm going to get a small diffused LED light aim upwards to help get rid of shadow. Also a non-reflective backing. Still though, pretty happy with it besides the fact it shows me all my mistakes that I can't see just holding it.
I have very little experience working around white as a main colour rather than "that thing you put in eyes" or "that sweet decal line colour", so anyone with more experience please chime in here.
I want to actually paint things again, and I've amassed a sizable chunk of Dropfleet Commander stuff that I want to enjoy working through. Reference ...
I'm going to do some tests with approximately this blue/white combination, but I've never really "worked up" white before and don't know if I want to be starting with a particular sort of grey (assume I'm airbrushing layers) or mostly working around the main white I want to use or some other surprise base. I also planned to do some small red detailing like is visible on that source image, which makes me feel like my process is going to be: prime white, paint red, mask off red, base black, zenith white, paint white (??), mask white, paint blue, hand-paint greys. Path to success or disappointment?
I dunno if you meant just white or the weathering too, but it would probably require a differing type of weathering for dropfleet, considering that’s a much smaller scale than those gundams or even 40k. You’re not gonna have big visible dings and scratches so much as a general dinginess to the paintjob.
Oil washes are still good for that though.
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A different, worse colour
I hate painting in batches and am also an idiot
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My D&D group is going to be starting up Storm King's Thunder in a few weeks so I'm going to paint up some Giants for my DM. Should be a fun exercise. I have an awesome hill giant to start off with, from Reaper.
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The first one I did I did drybrushing on but I barely noticed any effect and the other five look fine without it so i'll probably just pass on that. If I didn't know which was the first practice one i'd probably not be able to tell the difference between them.
Since they are board game pieces I should probably get some kind of varnish or sealer just to make them handleable. It went pretty well, didn't take very long once I had the system down and did them all in batches. It helped it was only two colors I was working with but I had fun doing it.
Might benefit from a bit of a wash first?
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The dark paint one - the lighting, I guess, makes it look like it hadn't been done yet.
It's weird - the shields and the maille, at least, should have looked really good with some drybrushing. Maybe the main color is just too bright?
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I’m tempted to get this Dark Souls game just to get at those miniatures
My mother being an art teacher did not encourage this and made sure we did not do this showing other tricks do to get a brush look
I might give drybrushing a try. I'm just worried about fiddling with them too much when i'm already happy with the current result.
I've got some Vallejo white pumice (and a darker lava one as well)... do they take washes well or will it just look like orange/green/blue snow?
I plan on grabbing some of that alien looking gamer grass, and maybe some little transparent colored stones to look like crystals, but I'm not sure what to do about the rest of the basing material.
Nevermind... I think I figured it out.
Going to use the volcanic/lava Vallejo basing material I have along with some ground amethyst chunks I just found on ebay to go for a volcanic waste type of base.
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PSN - Razide6
Now that I've got an idea I'm pretty excited and I'll definitely be ordering some of that water effect to play with.
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PSN - Razide6
Gamertag - Khraul
PSN - Razide6
Gamertag - Khraul
PSN - Razide6
Same, been waiting for today to buy color shifting paints from green stuff world.
Checking out was kind of a pain, had to go through some verification system called arcot to finalize the payment.
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Here's a thing I've learned in my painting over the last couple years:
If you're happy with it, stop. It's all too easy to fall down a rabbit hole of doing too much to your models, and then getting unhappy with the result, and then getting discouraged and quitting altogether.
You're painting for you, and presumably not a Golden Demon award or something. So when you like the look of a thing, just be done with it.
I'll also say, having gone back and looked at some pics of Silver Knights, they're pretty monochromatic to begin with. I think you did a good job with them!
It only gets more complicated from here, since the hollow soldiers have actual leather/chain/zombie skin and then there's the player models and then all the bosses.
Guess i'll spray on the varnish then think about the colors for the next set.
I want to actually paint things again, and I've amassed a sizable chunk of Dropfleet Commander stuff that I want to enjoy working through. Reference ...
I'm going to do some tests with approximately this blue/white combination, but I've never really "worked up" white before and don't know if I want to be starting with a particular sort of grey (assume I'm airbrushing layers) or mostly working around the main white I want to use or some other surprise base. I also planned to do some small red detailing like is visible on that source image, which makes me feel like my process is going to be: prime white, paint red, mask off red, base black, zenith white, paint white (??), mask white, paint blue, hand-paint greys. Path to success or disappointment?
Perhaps I can interest you in my meager selection of pins?
Oil washes are still good for that though.
Perhaps I can interest you in my meager selection of pins?
But looking at the painting guides on Warhammer Tv I noticed there was nothing about the imperial fists so the news they are pushing forward with the Horus Heresy story into the actual siege and the Imperial Fists were a large part of the defenders I do hope they show it then.
So yeah cutting up the head to get the tyrant look I am kind of copying I feel I should dig out the head again and see what it looks like with the jaw since I feel I messed up with this one
¹ Actually this is one of those times where medium is definitely better than water so use that if you have it.
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With a explanation by the robot of why not just white
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Sir! That's a Super Valkyrie from Macross/Robotech and I'll thank you to remember it. It's like calling the Millennium Falcon the Enterprise. :P
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