Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)
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MGibster
Legend
When you're building an army you kind of want a uniform appearance. I'm painting up the Rebel faction of Star Wars Legion, a game I purchased brand new in 2018 (I think), and when all the miniatures are on the table you typically want them to look like they belong together. I've painted a few of my Rebel miniatures years ago, including a T-47 speeder, and I used a woodland greenery base and figured I'd just do the same for the rest. I'm basing it off the attack force from Return of the Jedi and the forest moon of Endor.
This is a commander for your basic unit of Rebel Troopers, a sergeant equivalent. Since these are troopers and there will be a lot of them, I wanted a relatively simple camouflage scheme that would look decent and could be produced fairly quickly. I'm pretty happy with the results. Believe it or not, I was going to paint this as a Black dude, but I have trouble with darker shades of flesh and ended up going with a more Caucasian appearance. Back to the drawing board for me.
This is a commander for your basic unit of Rebel Troopers, a sergeant equivalent. Since these are troopers and there will be a lot of them, I wanted a relatively simple camouflage scheme that would look decent and could be produced fairly quickly. I'm pretty happy with the results. Believe it or not, I was going to paint this as a Black dude, but I have trouble with darker shades of flesh and ended up going with a more Caucasian appearance. Back to the drawing board for me.
MGibster
Legend
Let’s talk about your equipment. Get your mind out of the gutter, I'm talking about painting here. I'm working on Luke Skywalker as he appeared in The Empire Strikes Back and I'm going to try my hand at some fancy object light sourcing to simulate the glow of his saber. You can't see it very well from this photo, but the right side of his face is quite a bit brighter than the left side because I plan on applying several layers of blue glaze to build up the glow effect.
Here's something to remember; You've got to replace your brushes once in a while. No matter how well you care for them, they wear out eventually. Maybe the tip won't stay pointed, the bristles start to fray, or you start shedding bristles, but whatever it is it'll affect how well you can apply the paint and sometimes it happens so slowly you might not even notice it at first. I was a little unhappy with some of the faces I ended up with on my Rebel Troopers, and since Luke is a center piece of my forces, I thought I'd spend a little extra time on him. I switched to a #2 brush from Monument Hobbies that I bought last year but never got around to using and it really made applying details to the face a lot easier.
Pictured Above: A guy who definitely didn't tongue kiss his sister.
Here's something to remember; You've got to replace your brushes once in a while. No matter how well you care for them, they wear out eventually. Maybe the tip won't stay pointed, the bristles start to fray, or you start shedding bristles, but whatever it is it'll affect how well you can apply the paint and sometimes it happens so slowly you might not even notice it at first. I was a little unhappy with some of the faces I ended up with on my Rebel Troopers, and since Luke is a center piece of my forces, I thought I'd spend a little extra time on him. I switched to a #2 brush from Monument Hobbies that I bought last year but never got around to using and it really made applying details to the face a lot easier.
Pictured Above: A guy who definitely didn't tongue kiss his sister.
Simon The Hunter
Villager
Why do I endlessly print hextiles? Anyway, managed to bulk paint a bunch of them recently... no dent on the pile though hehe
MGibster
Legend
Fear is the oath to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
Darth Vader scares the hell out of me. I mean painting Darth Vader scares the hell out of me because black is not an easy color to paint. A friend of mine asked, "What's so hard about it? Just spray with black primer, paint his lightsaber red, and you're done!" That's not quite true through. The leather on Vader's arms and legs have a different texture than his cloak or the armored helmet and greaves. And if everything's the same flat, black color you end up with something that's dull an uninteresting. I pulled Vader out of the box he's been sitting in for the five years with the intention of painting him tonight.
At first I was afraid. I was petrified. What happens when you paint the Dark Lord of the Sith poorly? I wasn't this apprehensive about the first $180 Imperial Knight I painted. This should be a breeze! But it's not. Oh, well. Tomorrow I'm just going to dive in and see how I can make this work.
Darth Vader scares the hell out of me. I mean painting Darth Vader scares the hell out of me because black is not an easy color to paint. A friend of mine asked, "What's so hard about it? Just spray with black primer, paint his lightsaber red, and you're done!" That's not quite true through. The leather on Vader's arms and legs have a different texture than his cloak or the armored helmet and greaves. And if everything's the same flat, black color you end up with something that's dull an uninteresting. I pulled Vader out of the box he's been sitting in for the five years with the intention of painting him tonight.
At first I was afraid. I was petrified. What happens when you paint the Dark Lord of the Sith poorly? I wasn't this apprehensive about the first $180 Imperial Knight I painted. This should be a breeze! But it's not. Oh, well. Tomorrow I'm just going to dive in and see how I can make this work.
payn
Glory to Marik
Ive been told shades of grey on top of the black, but it always turns out grey when I try it.
