Painting The PHR Colour Scheme On A Triton
August 28, 2013 by elromanozo
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Awesome little tutorial, loved how you changed techniques on the fly and the final mini looked great.
bhaha… I was wondering about the fingernails…mind reader. Romain reminds me (in a good way) of an English Bob Ross. He just needs to toss in a random ‘Happy little miniatures..’ and the effect will be complete. 😀
I dig the studio.
I really, really like this. You’ve struck a fine balance between the clean PHR look and it being dirty enough to be recognisable as military hardware.
Love the tutorial, as I want to start PHR.
I was wondering why you don’t use panel liner from Tamya. It’s awesome to use it on all the fine line and create depth.
Thanks for the compliment ! 🙂 Panel liner from tamiya is a great product, but I dislike anything alcohol based as it’s unsuitable for my wet palette and the way I work in glazes… (At least I THINK it’s alcohol based, like most Tamiya products, but I may be mistaken). If using this kind of product, one would do well to do it at the end of the paint-job, after all coats are pretty much done. If memory serves, it dries quickly. Also, it’s not readily available at the studio. I could also have used MiG pigments and rain/weathering effects,… Read more »
I use it after a gloss varnish. And it works fine.
I understand that you don’t use it with your wet palette but maybe this way you can give it a try.
Would you make a tutorial about weathering with mig…etc?
I think it would be a challenge doing it with such a small scale and not over do it.
But again, thanks for the great tutorial!!
After varnishing is also how I would use Tamiya panel liner. And “smoke”, and most weathering products, for that matter. Don’t know if I would use gloss varnish, though.
Weathering on a small scale isn’t a challenge. It’s just quicker ! 😉
I prefer doing tutorials about techniques to achieve certain effects rather than products (that way people know they don’t HAVE to buy more stuff, even if it’s nice) but we’ll see. Viewers have been requesting this sort of thing.
In any case, thanks for watching !
An awesome tutorial and a beautiful paint scheme, Romain. Really enjoyed this.
Romain’s voice always makes me feel really chilled out!
I should make an MP3 of romain talking about painting.
Ah, thanks everyone for the kind words !
My needy artist’s brain feels all validated and pretty, now. 🙂
How long do you usually leave a coat to dry before painting on the next one?
the time it takes for each coat to dry is different for each one depending on the dilution of the paint among other factors, watching and editing the tutorials by @elromanozo has taught me that you need to give it the full time to dry unless your doing wet blending like he did on the D&D Purple Worm.
BoW Justin
I tend to be a little impatient when I’m building up coats of paint and the final result sometimes has a wet looking sheen to it. I was wondering if the two things were related. Should I be leaving it longer the more diluted the paint?
As a rule, when the paint stops being shiny, it has dried. The more you dilute a paint with water, the quicker it dries up. The more you use medium or other solvents, the longer it takes to dry. Small surface glazes of thin and watery paint usually dry in a matter of seconds, large surface slap-dash washes (like I used) take minutes, more if you add glaze medium. Alcohol-based paints (many Tamiya products, for example, or the “liquid metal” range from Vallejo) dry a lot quicker, as you might expect, making them difficult to use properly for the layman.… Read more »
Thank you 🙂
A couple of follow up questions. You’ve mentioned before that you speed up the process for the videos and don’t paint in as many layers as you normally would. Do you water down the paint more to paint in thinner and if so, do you so that by having more water on the pallette?
Is it greaseproof paper that you use on your pallette?
@redben, I tend to dilute less when doing tutorials, to be able to do a smaller amount of layers and still achieve good cover. It also tends to be less well blended as a result : I have to make everything fit in one morning or afternoon, or even less. I do one or two full tutorials a day, more if they’re just tips. The purpose is to give you the gist of the technique and show you what can be done… it’s not an exercise in vistuosity on my part. More dilution means you need more patience and more… Read more »
Yes it does, thank you 🙂