July 9, 2013 by elromanozo
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Romain has taken up the monster challenge of painting up the D&D Collector Series Purple Worm from Gale Force 9, and for this killer beastie he's breaking out his wet blending techniques!
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Great way to start Wednesday.
Will be trying this on my Forge World Carmine Dragon, it has been sitting undercoated for months and months and now I’ve gopt some inspiration for painting it. Going for an Amerthyst/Bluish colour for the back and grey for the wings and belly.
Can’t wait to see how it turns out. Roll on part two.
Glad I could help ! 🙂
I must warn you, though, most Citadel paints tend to dry too quickly for this sort of thing, especially for the larger models. I don’t know about the latest “Layer” paints, though. Worth a try, but I wouldn’t count on them too much.
Great as always.
But what’s the name of the painter you mention in the beginning?
Thanks a lot !
I mentioned Tommy from Golem Painting, and Jeremy Bonamant Teboul. I disagree on some of Mr Teboul’s school/philosophy of painting, but he is unquestionably good at what he does…
Thanks a lot, it was Jeremy’s work I wanted to look into.
Keep up the excellent videos.
I’ve been looking his page (JBT) and he is really good!
B.
Oh yes, he’s one of the masters.
Painting the purple worm…..
Love your tutorials Romain. I like how you convey the techniques and make it all seem achievable. I subbed just to watch them so hope you keep making more.
I just watched JBT’s dvd on wet blending and Ben Komets’ as well. Really looking forward to seeing your approach to the technique.
My, my, you’re invested in this ! Thanks for the kind words, it means a lot to be compared to Jeremy and Ben Komets… I feel I don’t quite deserve that ! 😀 I have a similar approach to Jeremy’s : I don’t use a lot of colours, and I don’t hesitate to add contrast. However, I don’t think this is the best technique for small 28mm pieces (whereas Jeremy Bonamant Teboul will tell you it’s all he uses, I think he himself doesn’t get as neat a result as with other techniques. Jeremy will tell you many things, and… Read more »
This is one of the best 3 colours up o have seen, a beautiful paint job for a beautiful model, could this be applied to other monsters such as privateer press stuff, I’m thinking of legion of Everblight stuff? and what other kinds on models is it appropriate for?
Thanks for the amazing compliment !
Everblight would be great… I got myself an Archangel to try it out, actually. I’m thinking Trollbloods, satyrs and big beasties from the Circle Ourboros (as long as you touch up the armor plates afterwards, which is no problem), large demons and big chaos beasties, even Tau or Eldar would be appropriate if that’s how you want to apply shadows.
And of course, dragons… 😀
Be afraid of big pieces no longer !
thanks man the fear is gone!
Great stuff Romain, thank you.
Wow that was a great vid and really showed me wet blending
Thanks ! And Thanks @herrigold as well.
That was the idea. 🙂
Nice video! What about using this technique to paint the caskuda?
(BTW: I haven’t seen your videos for a while and you have a tattoo now, impressive!)
Saludos!
B.
Yes, I have even more drawings on me, now. Thanks !
I think it could be fun basecoating the Caskuda (or any similar Combined Army troops) with that technique, being careful to use very flowy paint so as not to hide details… But it would need heavy touching up to bring everything out afterwards, or a very light touch with tthe wet blending.
Nice idea !
Them collector D&D models look rather nice. My wife loves purple so I’ll have to show her this video in the hopes she will want to get into the hobby 🙂
I know, I’m wishful thinking aren’t I…
I have always wondered how to do this technique and thanks for show us. I am wondering if it could be used on vehicles too
Thank you for watching !
I don’t quite see the point of doing it on tanks, but I think it’d be suited for more colorful or alien vehicles…
Try it out, you’ll see ! 🙂
great tutorial definitely going to use this method on my toad dragon. think this method would be good with Vallejo model air range for those painters who might not be confident mixing the consistency of paint as they are high in pigment and very flowy if that’s a word because there designed to go through an air brush strait from the bottle, thanks Romain
Thanks !
Actually, you can use thicker paints. Any vallejo pot will do, but P3 is perfect for that technique, believe it or not ! They use liquid pigments, apparently. I don’t know what it is, but it’s great ! 🙂
@elromanozo Would you combine this with zenithal highlighting, or do the two techniques more less male the other redundant?
Sorry, meant zenithal priming, not highlighting!
No, it indeed makes zenithal priming redundant… unless you want to use washes or transparent paints such as the Model Colours Transparent range from vallejo. But I think it’s overkill, and limits you more than it opens up new vistas.
You’ll see in further parts that I do shade and highlight this worm later on, and indeed I have already started in this one.
Thank you for your interest !