Cult Of Games XLBS: How Warren Flushed His Hidden Painter’s Block!
January 28, 2024 by brennon
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Happy Sunday CoGs and OTTers! Down in the hot and humid land of Oz we have just finished CanCon, our biggest wargaming event. Every year it’s bigger and better. The real battle isn’t on the table but for table space between the different gamning systems. It’s got me so fired up for gaming that I’m heading to my painting table to smash the backlog and listen to Warren tell us about how he cleared his blockage…..
Happy Sunday and great hobby everyone.
@warzan A paint blockage? Sounds a bit intimate for public consumption. Anywhat, it’s good to see a creative solution to ease the apprehension of what colors will look like later.
As always, a good show to catch up on before a new week.
I’m getting a lot done by using a red-brown primer, a heavy beige drybrush, then block colours, speed paints as a wash on the skin, then a wash mixing black, brown wash with magenta ink.
Also the papyrus and skeleton brown dips from green stuff world are fantastic for getting thru skeletons quickly.
I have spent the weekend experimenting a bit with the GSW dips and I’m struggling a bit to understand how and where to use them.
The consistency and coverage is very different o the Contrast and Speed paints. Is there a specific use case for these paints?
They’re more like glazes and washes than ‘one and done’ speed paints. I’ve liked using them for skeletons. So just beige spray can, the dipping ink all over then drybrush.
Zombies are great. Two ugly colour sprays to prime. Then red and green dipping ink randomly painted on them. Then details ie wood and metal and drybrush.
I’ve then done quite a few monsters with red veins/blotchy skin,really easily.
So not speed paints but better surface coverage than using washes.
Great ideas guys really enjoyed as I’ve been having a painting block myself. One thing I’ve found really helpful are audio books. I can plug in – start listening and I can still get things done while being entertained. I know the process of painting itself is entertaining but I feel I’m more relaxed and the process goes at a manageable pace. I took the time to decent my GW paints to dropped models and added a ball. Works well, is easy, the sticker does restock with no issue plus I’ve found they last far longer. One thing I also… Read more »
Astronaut on the space station; close the shutters that fecking Warren has got his torch on again. I’m damn near blinded by it.
A hundred years ago one of the kids would been sent up the tree with a hand saw to cut that branch off. Children are so Molly coddled these days lol
lol
Lol?.? ? No more like 35 years that’s the thing’s I did as a kid.
Happy Sunday, glad to see @warzan getting his blocked released ? although I don’t get bottle toppers, I have seen them about for a while, but why not just prime the actual lids themselves and then paint them with the appropriate colour it saves time and materials?
Simples… Texture, the topper has a variety of texture and gives a really good indication of how that colour works.
You also don’t need to leave the lids off your paints while you prime them, and you wont get the lids mixed up either 🙂
Fair points, years ago before the advent of speed and contrast I did start painting lids, I primed them by masking off the bottles rather than taking the lids off. I stopped it as found no benefit in the end. That said I can see how it would help with speed or contrast however most of the lids I have on my dropper bottles have ridged textures, so will probably should the combination of smooth and textured surfaces ?
Happy Sunday XLBSers.
Just got them to watch Twisted @warzan
Just a wee warning for people’s take a few of the ss,balls an stick them in salty water for a day or two because cheap ss,metal does rust and can affect the paints.
Good call on the figures @brennon
Gotta hunt for those bargains in the wargaming hobby!
Yes Defo true that one.
Love the bottle tops @warzan
The cubes on the armypainter speedpaint are a similar thing, but seeing actual paint does make it better.
It definitely is one of those things that those with less experience in painting will find useful.
He’s zombie apocalypse training the kid’s through the game table’s?!??
Happy Sunday…Warren you have just created your own home business, Paint bottle toppers online order. you are a Genius, but i do find this very interesting i have have always struggled with how will that colour look on the mini when painted you have just solved this problem.
Happy Sunday.
Warren’s new found enthusiasm for painting is very contagious, and yes, big cheers to all of those who put paint to miniature, that’s one giant leap for…erm…hobby kind (I guess).
For me if I feel I’m in a hobby slump I try to switch it up by either painting something different (or try painting something in a different way or a new technique), doing some terrain, or trying something new like my diorama from last year. It really gets the juices flowing again.
Yeah I try and turn my attention to something different. Shift my attention to different paints and it usually gets me through a slump so I can come back to a larger army.
The guard do the dieing marine’s do the flying.
Subcontract to the kid’s for more spending money @warzan
Fab show guy’s.?%??
Happy Sunday.
Nice show.
No comments this week as my mojo is at rock bottom. I need something to light up that fire again.
Will have chocolate cake now.
I hope your mojo returns with vigour soon dude
@warzan those Hero Quest minis are lovely! Great job!
To get me painting, I play solo miniature games, including boardgames which use miniatures. I’m currently playing Gloomhaven: Crimson Scales, and painting up the Wildspire: Monsters set as proxies. This focuses myself on what mini’s to paint (ie. the miniatures for the current scenario), and give me motivation — if I don’t paint, I don’t play! 😀
Pics on the “What are you painting now” thread. Should have more pics in a few days! : https://www.beastsofwar.com/forums/topic/what-are-you-painting-now/page/286/
keep the loincloth on!!!!!
The shop stewards away, management dumps the paint and introduces speed painting. A typical time motion plot.
Good old Shay said one thing in the show and it was the funniest thing in the show! I laughed my arse off!
@Warzan Boom! what an amazing idea with the bottle toppers. Such a simple thing to do, but so helpful. Consider that idea well and truly stolen and Once dungeonalia is done and dusted I think I will most probably do the same.
Great show everyone and congrats to the button winners,