Looks fantastic. Is that armour airbrush plus a single highlight? really good effect.
Close!
The armour is:
AIRBRUSH
All over Castellan Green
Rhinox Hide into lower areas and recesses for shading
Staken green highight
Ogryn Camo hilight (but just the very raised areas)
Then with brush
Black (Brown?) line with watered down Rhinox Hide to just make the shadows clearer.
Edge highlight with Ogryn Camo
I'm going to have to remember this, since it's pretty much the scheme I've been going with Primaris (someday I might game in person again and actually have to explain why 30K marines are green, post heresey marines are brown, and primaris are back to green again. :razz: )
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
edited January 2021
So thanks to a generous gift as part of the Secret Santa, going to get a color mini from Hero Forge. Here's what the render shows. I'm interested to see how it turns out in reality and what kind of touch up I'll have to do, beyond a wash.
NipsHe/HimLuxuriating in existential crisis.Registered Userregular
I'll be curious to see how some of that baked-in edge highlighting comes through. There's just...so much of it!
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
I need to buck up and see if I can do anything with the airbrush kit I got for Christmas. My bro said it doesn't really hold pressure very well, which makes sense for canned air, but I would like to at least use it, you know?
Though maybe it's not worth the effort... I am having the devil's time getting it screwed on properly, and I can hear it hissing whenever I have it attached. Worse still, when I press on the button it's a straight on/off with no control. Which, at that point, I might as well be using rattle cans?
The main thing I want to have an airbrush for, as I've said before, is A) topcoating my gunpla, and priming my minis. I do have all these rattle cans of army painter primer, but they just apply so heavily and I can't use them most of the year it seems. So I'd like to get a hood... and most hoods aren't rated for rattle cans.
INeedNoSaltwith blood on my teethRegistered Userregular
Hey, what's the appropriate way to paint something that is mostly black? In this case a black dragon-born. I didn't have a lot of luck finding guidance on how to paint like black dragons. My instinct suggests I need to use varying shades of dark gray but I'm concerned my result will be a gray dragon.
Advice appreciated! In exchange some progress photos. I know I'm still pretty noob but working on it!
One of my favorite painters right now online is Gravehammer His Tzeenth daemons are a lot of fun with a monochrome base, subtle metals, and brightly colored highlights.
I'm trying to push outside my comfort zone and get better at more artistic mini painting rather than, what often seems to me, to be GW's very paint by numbers style of painting tutorials.
I knocked out this fiend last week using my airbrush for everything but the metals, and oil washes rather than acrylics. I'm pretty happy with it. There's a bit of speckling in the pic... some of the gold flake ran off that wax gold I've been trying when I applied the oil wash. It's actually kind of a neat effect in person.
Made some minor progress on my painting backlog this weekend.
Buying a wet palette has really been a game changer, with making setup so much easier than fumbling with my homemade wet palette (I swear it was like one of those informercials where the actor cant figure out how to open a milk carton, use saran wrap, or close a ziplock bag).
MWO: Adamski
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
My portable airbrush spray booth came in. I don't think it can handle rattlecans, and frankly I'm not ready to start using it, so I'm gonna loan it to my brother who is doing airbrush work.
I will say, this has the most Engrish instruction manual I've ever read. Absolutely horrible translations.
In both RL for different reasons and online for models I see people talking about harbor freight's airbrush
They mostly talk about the price {10 to 100 dollars} I am curious but the store is closed when I am usually look
That explains it, my father knows tangentially about my painting hobby and keeps asking me about getting me an airbrush as a gift. It's a nice thought, but I dont want to mess with it and the space I'm in will be a hassle to use it.
Him seeing them at harbor freight put the final domino into place on why it keeps coming up.
Gonna do another cheeky insta repost because I feel liek Imgur deep fries the pictures and not in a good way:
I am super SUPER happy with how these fellas are turning out. I think I'm back to where I was a few years ago, where whatever I painted last is the best thing I've painted, except I think that I'm at an even better point. Mega happy with these dudes and my Infinity JSA (Who I can't remember if I posted here?)
I put models on Instagram now: asher_paints
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NipsHe/HimLuxuriating in existential crisis.Registered Userregular
Gonna do another cheeky insta repost because I feel liek Imgur deep fries the pictures and not in a good way:
Do you mind explaining your suspicion? I've been using Imgur now for a while out of convenience, but I'm always looking to improve my Picture Sharing game and now you've got me curious.
TBH I don't really have anything to back it up, except a feeling that whenever I upload things to Imgur they come out a bit ...rough? I'm no computer file format guy, but they just seems a bit worse. I'll experiment and try uploading the same pics I put on instagram and see if its all in my mind :P
The simplified scheme I use for blacks, stolen from Angel Giraldez, is:
Base coat dark grey mixed with dark blue
Wash black
Highlight lighter grey mixed with pink
Sound like it shouldn't work on paper but provides a really nice contrast that gets the darkness of the black across appropriately.
The reason it works is color theory
You don’t ever want to paint black, basically because it just lacks definition
But doing a really dark blue (usually for cold blacks) or dark purple (usually for warm blacks) actually looks darker because you can more easily create contrast
I knocked out my Sisters Repentia this week. Painted in an evening and based/bloodied the next day.
I'm really happy with how they turned out... I wanted them to come out more like the book art (spoilered) than the box art. Super grimdark, gritty and like they've been through what you'd expect Repentia to have been through on the battlefield. I also did a lot of work with airbrushed inks and oil washes for their skin and only used a brush for the black outfits and metal.
Anyway... tadaaaaa
Of the models I've painted across all the minis I own, the Repentia with the three chains swinging from her back might be my favorite ever.
Dr_KeenbeanDumb as a buttPlanet Express ShipRegistered Userregular
Yeah I used to put painted GW minis up on instagram with the relevant hashtags and a couple times they asked if they could use the photos. I think a few showed up on the webstore at some point.
Never showed up on a stream that I'm aware of so we are in elite company it would seem.
Instagram as an app is trash but it's just pictures with limited ability to chat so it's easier to keep it focused on hobby stuff than, say, Twitter.
Hobby Twitter is always full of people falling out with each other, secretly turning out to be massive bellends, complaining about everything GW does, etc
I lurk a few FB groups but that place is basically a cesspit for the hobby
I forgot my twitter log info so no loss there. I don't use instagram as it's F the poor ideals. and my facebook account is devoid of info for various reasons and I just use it to talk to GW anymore
But yay my glue finally arrived!
I can continue to build upon my massive painting backlog {I really added to this last year to keep myself sane working a job going to hell and the pandemic} I have not built anything since before halloween and it seems like more than 3 months ago
Instagram as an app is trash but it's just pictures with limited ability to chat so it's easier to keep it focused on hobby stuff than, say, Twitter.
Hobby Twitter is always full of people falling out with each other, secretly turning out to be massive bellends, complaining about everything GW does, etc
I lurk a few FB groups but that place is basically a cesspit for the hobby
Yeah I used to put painted GW minis up on instagram with the relevant hashtags and a couple times they asked if they could use the photos. I think a few showed up on the webstore at some point.
Never showed up on a stream that I'm aware of so we are in elite company it would seem.
Look, I don't want to brag, but Duncan liked one of my Facebook posts once 8-)
And yes facebook is a cesspit. I've curated mine to being 90% hobby posts with the other 10% being non awful relatives and friends. I've been mega ruthless about cutting anyone who shows chuds like tendencies and it's paid dividends in mental health.
I put models on Instagram now: asher_paints
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StragintDo Not GiftAlways DeclinesRegistered Userregular
So I'm doing the wizkids paint competition thing at my LGS. It is a big snake this time. I want to do the back scales in a red/green colorshift with red forest from green stuff world but I'm not sure what to paint the underside.
Also need to figure out how I'm going to base it. Feeling pretty excited about doing this.
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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NipsHe/HimLuxuriating in existential crisis.Registered Userregular
So I'm doing the wizkids paint competition thing at my LGS. It is a big snake this time. I want to do the back scales in a red/green colorshift with red forest from green stuff world but I'm not sure what to paint the underside.
Also need to figure out how I'm going to base it. Feeling pretty excited about doing this.
Two ideas come to mind:
1) You don't want to distract from the red/green, so maybe a black to deep grey?
2) This might be a little out there, but is there a blue/orange colorshift? Then you could do a RG/BO tetrad. It might not work completely, but it would be interesting looking!
As for a base, what biome is it coming from? Desert? Swampy bog? Sulfurous hellscape? Or maybe something simple, to (again) not distract from the model?
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StragintDo Not GiftAlways DeclinesRegistered Userregular
So I'm doing the wizkids paint competition thing at my LGS. It is a big snake this time. I want to do the back scales in a red/green colorshift with red forest from green stuff world but I'm not sure what to paint the underside.
Also need to figure out how I'm going to base it. Feeling pretty excited about doing this.
Two ideas come to mind:
1) You don't want to distract from the red/green, so maybe a black to deep grey?
2) This might be a little out there, but is there a blue/orange colorshift? Then you could do a RG/BO tetrad. It might not work completely, but it would be interesting looking!
As for a base, what biome is it coming from? Desert? Swampy bog? Sulfurous hellscape? Or maybe something simple, to (again) not distract from the model?
There aren't any blue/orange colorshift paints which is a bummer, I'd really like that combination. I think I'll do corvus black on the underside though.
For the base I was thinking of a jungle base but I'm not really sure what to add to make a jungle base. There isn't really much space on the base.
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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Mr_Rose83 Blue Ridge Protects the HolyRegistered Userregular
edited January 2021
Vallejo makes an orange/purple one; dunno if that is close enough? Purple might even work better with the green.
Edit: Let Them Eat Cake by Turbodork is a dark blue/orange according to their marketing, might be worth a look too…
What wash would look good? Was thinking of using gloss reikland fleshshade.
I can definitely see the color shift! It's muted, but noticeable. Looks really good, but I'm wondering what you could do to make it pop more. More coats, or a drybrush (does that even work?)?
I'd be afraid a wash might dull the colors even more. Snakes aren't exactly known for subtle colors.
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PSN - Razide6
Perhaps I can interest you in my meager selection of pins?
Oh a tank. Yeah fuck edge highlighting tanks.
3DS: 1650-8480-6786
Switch: SW-0653-8208-4705
I'm going to have to remember this, since it's pretty much the scheme I've been going with Primaris (someday I might game in person again and actually have to explain why 30K marines are green, post heresey marines are brown, and primaris are back to green again. :razz: )
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Perhaps I can interest you in my meager selection of pins?
Though maybe it's not worth the effort... I am having the devil's time getting it screwed on properly, and I can hear it hissing whenever I have it attached. Worse still, when I press on the button it's a straight on/off with no control. Which, at that point, I might as well be using rattle cans?
The main thing I want to have an airbrush for, as I've said before, is A) topcoating my gunpla, and
Nintendo Network ID: AzraelRose
DropBox invite link - get 500MB extra free.
Advice appreciated! In exchange some progress photos. I know I'm still pretty noob but working on it!
http://imgur.com/a/9dlDzGd
Base coat dark grey mixed with dark blue
Wash black
Highlight lighter grey mixed with pink
Sound like it shouldn't work on paper but provides a really nice contrast that gets the darkness of the black across appropriately.
I'm trying to push outside my comfort zone and get better at more artistic mini painting rather than, what often seems to me, to be GW's very paint by numbers style of painting tutorials.
I knocked out this fiend last week using my airbrush for everything but the metals, and oil washes rather than acrylics. I'm pretty happy with it. There's a bit of speckling in the pic... some of the gold flake ran off that wax gold I've been trying when I applied the oil wash. It's actually kind of a neat effect in person.
Gamertag - Khraul
PSN - Razide6
Buying a wet palette has really been a game changer, with making setup so much easier than fumbling with my homemade wet palette (I swear it was like one of those informercials where the actor cant figure out how to open a milk carton, use saran wrap, or close a ziplock bag).
MWO: Adamski
I will say, this has the most Engrish instruction manual I've ever read. Absolutely horrible translations.
They mostly talk about the price {10 to 100 dollars} I am curious but the store is closed when I am usually look
Him seeing them at harbor freight put the final domino into place on why it keeps coming up.
I am super SUPER happy with how these fellas are turning out. I think I'm back to where I was a few years ago, where whatever I painted last is the best thing I've painted, except I think that I'm at an even better point. Mega happy with these dudes and my Infinity JSA (Who I can't remember if I posted here?)
Do you mind explaining your suspicion? I've been using Imgur now for a while out of convenience, but I'm always looking to improve my Picture Sharing game and now you've got me curious.
I got on TeeVee
The reason it works is color theory
You don’t ever want to paint black, basically because it just lacks definition
But doing a really dark blue (usually for cold blacks) or dark purple (usually for warm blacks) actually looks darker because you can more easily create contrast
How?
It's easy being green.
I'm really happy with how they turned out... I wanted them to come out more like the book art (spoilered) than the box art. Super grimdark, gritty and like they've been through what you'd expect Repentia to have been through on the battlefield. I also did a lot of work with airbrushed inks and oil washes for their skin and only used a brush for the black outfits and metal.
Anyway... tadaaaaa
Of the models I've painted across all the minis I own, the Repentia with the three chains swinging from her back might be my favorite ever.
Gamertag - Khraul
PSN - Razide6
By engaging in the social medias. I always use the warhammer community hashtag and they just slid into my dms and asked if they could use it.
Gamertag - Khraul
PSN - Razide6
Never showed up on a stream that I'm aware of so we are in elite company it would seem.
3DS: 1650-8480-6786
Switch: SW-0653-8208-4705
Hobby Twitter is always full of people falling out with each other, secretly turning out to be massive bellends, complaining about everything GW does, etc
I lurk a few FB groups but that place is basically a cesspit for the hobby
But yay my glue finally arrived!
I can continue to build upon my massive painting backlog {I really added to this last year to keep myself sane working a job going to hell and the pandemic} I have not built anything since before halloween and it seems like more than 3 months ago
FB is just a cesspit, period.
Look, I don't want to brag, but Duncan liked one of my Facebook posts once 8-)
And yes facebook is a cesspit. I've curated mine to being 90% hobby posts with the other 10% being non awful relatives and friends. I've been mega ruthless about cutting anyone who shows chuds like tendencies and it's paid dividends in mental health.
Also need to figure out how I'm going to base it. Feeling pretty excited about doing this.
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.
Two ideas come to mind:
1) You don't want to distract from the red/green, so maybe a black to deep grey?
2) This might be a little out there, but is there a blue/orange colorshift? Then you could do a RG/BO tetrad. It might not work completely, but it would be interesting looking!
As for a base, what biome is it coming from? Desert? Swampy bog? Sulfurous hellscape? Or maybe something simple, to (again) not distract from the model?
There aren't any blue/orange colorshift paints which is a bummer, I'd really like that combination. I think I'll do corvus black on the underside though.
For the base I was thinking of a jungle base but I'm not really sure what to add to make a jungle base. There isn't really much space on the base.
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.
Edit: Let Them Eat Cake by Turbodork is a dark blue/orange according to their marketing, might be worth a look too…
Nintendo Network ID: AzraelRose
DropBox invite link - get 500MB extra free.
What wash would look good? Was thinking of using gloss reikland fleshshade.
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 can definitely see the color shift! It's muted, but noticeable. Looks really good, but I'm wondering what you could do to make it pop more. More coats, or a drybrush (does that even work?)?
I'd be afraid a wash might dull the colors even more. Snakes aren't exactly known for subtle colors.