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Post by tesoe on Sept 12, 2017 18:51:55 GMT
Vallejo makes a paint additive that has metallic silver flakes in a binder. It really works well for lightning a color and giving a nice metallic sheen depending on how much you use in relation to the host paint. Vallejo also makes a black metal in their model air line. Both of these work well and are some of my favorite paints. Thanks! I'll look into that.
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Post by tapecrawler on Sept 12, 2017 20:08:12 GMT
Tesoe - I ought to be mad at you right now. I've never really cared for the convergence stuff, and now I want to pick up a model or two and play around with this idea!
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Post by tesoe on Sept 13, 2017 0:07:48 GMT
Tesoe - I ought to be mad at you right now. I've never really cared for the convergence stuff, and now I want to pick up a model or two and play around with this idea! You think you got it bad? I talked about this idea with my roommate and he found any army on eBay he convinced me to go halfway on. I haven't even finished painting my main faction and now I have this project I feel obligated to because it's half someone else's. This is what I her for having good ideas. ;P
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Post by tapecrawler on Sept 13, 2017 0:26:09 GMT
This is where an airbrush would be your friend. Painting a lot of models with a simple scheme like this would be (relatively) easy and fast. Base coat black and then highlight up using the zenithal airbrush shading and then paint in the white areas. Hit them with green and done! This would actually work much better for multiple models because you could work one and sit it aside to dry and keep on plugging away at the next in line until you reach the end and then start over with the next layer. It sounds longer and more laborious in text, in practice it would go really fast! Damnitt, now you've got me thinking about painting a whole army while my poor Khador, Circle and (gasp) Cygnar armies sit unpainted and mostly unassembled! 😳
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Post by tesoe on Sept 13, 2017 2:51:35 GMT
This is where an airbrush would be your friend. Painting a lot of models with a simple scheme like this would be (relatively) easy and fast. Base coat black and then highlight up using the zenithal airbrush shading and then paint in the white areas. Hit them with green and done! This would actually work much better for multiple models because you could work one and sit it aside to dry and keep on plugging away at the next in line until you reach the end and then start over with the next layer. It sounds longer and more laborious in text, in practice it would go really fast! Damnitt, now you've got me thinking about painting a whole army while my poor Khador, Circle and (gasp) Cygnar armies sit unpainted and mostly unassembled! 😳 I usually zeninthal everything. I chose not to on this because it wouldn't work right with where the light is coming from. I do have a Winter Guard leader I zeninthaled as a color test for this project though. He looks pretty cool. Also, you can zeninthaled with rattle can. No airbrush needed.
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Post by tapecrawler on Sept 13, 2017 2:57:26 GMT
I agree with being able to do it with a rattle can but you sacrifice a lot that way. You lose the fine control possible with an airbrush, being able to mix colors, and you are limited to whatever colors come in the spray can.
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Post by tesoe on Sept 13, 2017 4:57:20 GMT
I agree with being able to do it with a rattle can but you sacrifice a lot that way. You lose the fine control possible with an airbrush, being able to mix colors, and you are limited to whatever colors come in the spray can. That's true. Work fine though if you're just going for some preshading or to give you a better visual when you pick up the brush. Here's that Winter Guardsman I mentioned. I swear he's green instead of blue in real life. imgur.com/ANR2izi
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Post by tapecrawler on Sept 13, 2017 18:17:05 GMT
There was only one picture with three empty boxes there. But the photo I could see was intriguing. It looked like you had done a reverse zenithal shading on him and the black paint had a similar texture to lava rocks. Am I seeing it correctly? If so I'd love to know how you got the texture of the black. The under lighting effect is very cool as well. I need to ponder this a bit you've gotten my creative juices flowing. Thanks Tesoe!
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Post by tesoe on Sept 13, 2017 19:15:55 GMT
There was only one picture with three empty boxes there. But the photo I could see was intriguing. It looked like you had done a reverse zenithal shading on him and the black paint had a similar texture to lava rocks. Am I seeing it correctly? If so I'd love to know how you got the texture of the black. The under lighting effect is very cool as well. I need to ponder this a bit you've gotten my creative juices flowing. Thanks Tesoe! I was having trouble getting it to post right, sorry. But that's correct. Reverse zeninthaled and then hit with PP green ink. Gave a really neat under lighting effect. I didn't do anything special for the texture. Just sprayed the black from directly above. I have used this poor guy quite a few times for paint test though. He might be building up some lumps.
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Post by tesoe on Sept 13, 2017 19:19:54 GMT
I might use the same technique in the future, with a grey instead of black, to do my Bane Riders. I have spare horse I'm prepping to test it out already. Should make for a unique ghostly look, or so I hope.
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Post by tapecrawler on Sept 13, 2017 20:25:06 GMT
Bane Riders, what about your Uhlans?
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Post by tesoe on Sept 13, 2017 21:09:09 GMT
Bane Riders, what about your Uhlans? I don't own any currently. But I use a Storm Trooper inspired paint job on my Khador. I'd always hoped to convert the horses into speeder bikes.
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Post by tesoe on Sept 13, 2017 21:15:47 GMT
Ah hah! Got it to post.
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Post by tapecrawler on Sept 14, 2017 5:04:14 GMT
That's very cool! That would be awesome with lava under the mini . . .
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Post by Soul Samurai on Sept 14, 2017 6:31:00 GMT
I really like that, very spectral/unearthly. Next time I paint some sort of ghost, I am stealing that method.
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