Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)

[Simon The Hunter]

I own one owlbear and you've got an army!

hehehe, well three of them are for friends

Edit: The worst three... hahaha

 

[Zardnaar]

Printed some owlbears... the plan is quick and dirty drybrush and quick and dirty contrast/speed paints...

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Drybrush Grey then speedpaint over it?

 

[Simon The Hunter]

Drybrush Grey then speedpaint over it?

Yup, though the drybrush was a bright white

 

[Zardnaar]

Yup, though the drybrush was a bright white

Im still learning. Ive been using Grey, sand, pale Grey dry rush. Only have a few speed paints and washes.

Painting old crap from 15--20 years ago trying to fix them.

 

[Simon The Hunter]

Im still learning. Ive been using Grey, sand, pale Grey dry rush. Only have a few speed paints and washes.

Painting old crap from 15--20 years ago trying to fix them.

Ahh very nice!

I've got some speedpaints, version 1 with the reactivation issue, and some contrast paints and the AP washes which are really good. I sometimes find that the zenithal highlighting isn't bright enough and the speedpaints look kinda dull, so that's why i use a bright white.

 

[SkidAce]

As an old old painter...

What are "speed paints"? I understand painting lots of minis fast, but recently it seems like the term means a certain kind of paint.

 

[Sacrosanct]

As an old old painter...

What are "speed paints"? I understand painting lots of minis fast, but recently it seems like the term means a certain kind of paint.

They are very thin almost like an ink or wash. They allow the shading and highlights to show though the paint, so you don’t need to do layers of different paint shades. They work best with the slapchop method of priming black, then drybrushing the model with white to create highlights.

 

[Zardnaar]

They are very thin almost like an ink or wash. They allow the shading and highlights to show though the paint, so you don’t need to do layers of different paint shades. They work best with the slapchop method of priming black, then drybrushing the model with white to create highlights.

Guy who showed me was black then dry brush it Grey to white. He used 3 paints on dry brush.

I didn't know a month or so ago a month before that started using washes.

Only own 2 soeedpains (orc green, aztec gold) and 3 washes. One might be a contrast paint.

I mix a darker yellow with light brown for orc/goblin tunics, dry brush sometimes then wash/contrast over the top.

Washes paints being a black, purple, and flesh colour.

 

[MGibster]

They are very thin almost like an ink or wash. They allow the shading and highlights to show though the paint, so you don’t need to do layers of different paint shades. They work best with the slapchop method of priming black, then drybrushing the model with white to create highlights.

This Cthulhu bust is the best I've ever done with the slapchop method. I primed it white and then used by contrast/speed paints. Once they fully dried, I then dry brushed white all over the whole model. Once done, I reapplied the contrast/speed paints to the same areas.

 

[Sacrosanct]

I own one owlbear and you've got an army!

Owlbear you say!