Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)

[Zardnaar]

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.

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Scribbles notes.

I used orc green on-site and it car out very bright.

 

[Simon The Hunter]

Owlbears done (have I said that I hate eyes? )

 

[Clint_L]

Those look great!

An easy tip for eyes that makes them look good at table level: paint them all black, and then just add a dot of white on either side.

 

[Simon The Hunter]

Those look great!

An easy tip for eyes that makes them look good at table level: paint them all black, and then just add a dot of white on either side.

I've heard that before and keep forgetting... have noted it down now! Good tip!

 

[MGibster]

Owlbears done (have I said that I hate eyes? )

Here's a timely video for you.

 

[Simon The Hunter]

On a roll... Same friend who wants one of the owlbears also wanted a large skele, so printed the regular mini and a double sized version. I used the dirty down rust on the helmet and spear. Printing these in resin would give smoother mini's but the hassle of resin is meh.

 

[MGibster]

On a roll... Same friend who wants one of the owlbears also wanted a large skele, so printed the regular mini and a double sized version. I used the dirty down rust on the helmet and spear. Printing these in resin would give smoother mini's but the hassle of resin is meh.

I do like those helmets!

 

[Mannahnin]

Owlbears done (have I said that I hate eyes? )

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They look good!

Personally the best success I had with quickly doing "organic" figs (models where they are primarily flesh, fur, scales, horn, rather than metal or clothing) was to prime black, paint colors in brighter shades than I'd normally use, then do a head to toe dark wash. Then touch up any brighter spots with a little highlight. I did dozens of GW Beastmen like this in a single evening's sitting and they came out really well.

I've also had a lot of daemons come out really well painting white, doing a head to toe wash, then, painting weapons/horns/eyes after the fact to pick out detail. And washing the weapons and horns as well.

 

[Aellic Mornbringer]

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.

Can attest to this. As I return to painting, I'm using speedpaints and I've been experimenting with different priming methods in terms of color. They work much better IMO with the black prime and white drybrush vs. a white prime. Nolzur's pre-primed grey haven't been too bad either now that I think about it.

 

[Zardnaar]

So im getting lessons 2 in dry brush prep and speed paints at the flgs. They have a painting station set up for members to use.