Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)

[Clint_L]

I meant to post priming pictures a couple of weeks ago before I painted the pieces to get some feedback. As I mentioned a few posts up, I primed all of these black, then a grey drybrush followed with a white highlight drybrush. I'm still trying to get the technique down and wanted to ask, do these look "right" in terms of the final product? I'm wondering if I'm going too light with the grey and white as my paint jobs come out fairly dark (understandably to some degree since I'm using speed paints). Should I be doing heavier drybrush applications of the grey and white or does look like what you'd expect them to look like? All feedback welcome!!

This is how I prime for speed paints: Black, then a heavy white drybrush. Speed paints are so thin that if you have such dark grey underneath, it'll show through, so I just want the black to remain to give clarity to edges, as speed paints on their own just kind of merge into a bit of muddiness.

 

[Simon The Hunter]

I really like the color transition on the scaly bits. 10/10. Would flee from that abomination any time.

I have a hard time getting gradients and blending to work, mainly cos I get impatient, so I take this as a great compliment, I really tried to take my time

 

[MGibster]

Keep on truck’n.

 

[payn]

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[SkidAce]

Ok, so I finished "Glenice"...

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I've been having a hard time taking good pictures, outside rally looks like it worked well.

And they look so good I might have to copy the style for my Carnifex (evil saurians).

 

[MGibster]

I’m trying something a little new here. I’m going for a 70s style vam that’s been sitting in the equivalent of some hillbilly’s lawn until the Rebels repurpose it for war.

This rust colored base coat will be given the Elmer’s Glue treatment. I’ll dab on some glue in random patterns, paint the body in can colors, and once dry use a toothbrush to remove the glue revealing the rust below. It’s a fairly common technique people use for model cars.