Painting A Cygnar Trencher Part 2
November 12, 2013 by elromanozo
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I think your painting for the Cygnar Trencher.Very good
Nice to see that you can’t stop at good tabletop standard, really looking forward to seeing what standard you will take it to.
Relatively speaking you haven’t spent an awful lot of time on this one mini, nice to see the effects you achieve so effortlessly and in such a short space of time.
Count me in for part three, can’t come soon enough.
Not a very high standard, really… But thanks for the kind words ! A proper tinting wash on a good pre-shading makes anything look good enough for tabletop, and it only takes a few seconds. I stop every now and then to tell you guys where I’m at (this is above tabletop average already), but this one will never go above “tabletop high”… quite doable for chain painting a unit of twelve trenchers, but not really up to display standard ! I’m showing you what I’m doing, and correcing mistakes, and painting in front of the camera instead of close… Read more »
Good to see the shading into the shadows – might have to try that next time im painting.
Interested about not doing black before metallics – I got taught that by several guys as I was learning. Any reason?
I’m sorry, I have no idea what you’re talking about… “shading in the shadows”… Was it something I said ? Where else would it be ? What’s the context here ? I feel I’m missing something. “doing black before metallics”… if you mean painting the black parts of a miniature before doing TMP parts, I fail to see the point, as no part of this miniature is “black”. His coat is blue, the leathers and the wood of the gun are brown, the fleshtone is pinkish, and the metals are steel and brass. If you mean basecoating metals in black,… Read more »
Im sorry let me reword the post: I was more on about how you pushed the shading into the recesses rather than starting in them and working out – you did that starting halfway down the back of the coat and worked into the space under the bag. I found it interesting to work the paint that way, I would have usually gone from the bag out. So going to give that a try As for the metaillics I have always been taught any part that I am going to paint metaillic give it a base coat of black (or… Read more »
Ah, much clearer ! Thanks for the kind words, I’m glad you’re enjoying yourself, and even more glad that you’re learning and experimenting… Questioning is good ! Even my own teachings ! Basecoating is only as dull as you make it : if it’s washes, like I did, it can be interesting inasmuch as it makes everything legible and builds the first shades. Plus, you don’t have to do it all at once like I do : you can basecoat and paint one part of the miniature, and then the next one, that way basecoating is interspersed with the rest… Read more »
Just a quick question, what do use for your wet pallet, I’ve heard some people use ‘baking paper’ on top of a damp sponge, but I’m not exactly sure about what the ‘baking paper’ is.
Is it something I could easily get hold of with relatively small expenditure ?
“baking paper”, or “oven paper”, or “parchment paper” (same thing), is easily bought for a pittance in supermarkets. It’s like grease-proof paper, except it’s not glazed, it’s entirely porous on both sides. It is mostly used to bake stuff on, in ovens (such as cookies, for example). In order to make a proper wet palette, one needs the paper to be porous on both sides, and preferably white (even though brown works equally well, you’ll see the colours less clearly). No need to buy the expensive artist’s stuff, or the pads that some painting brands try to peddle : it’s… Read more »
thanks a lot for that, much appreciated.