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Is there any aspect of the hobby you really want to try but haven’t done yet because you’re somehow afraid of it?
- I’m with @sundancer on this one – OSL is terrifying. That said, I’ve just printed some cyberpunk guys sat at computer terminals, that would look amazing with osl painted faces, gazing into the screen…
What was the most daunting/scaring/intimidating thing (of our hobby) that you’ve done that then turned out to be easy as pie?
- Painting eyes. I went from sploshing a face with wash and pretending it was ok to painting ten pairs of eyes in an evening. I paint eyes now. Just paint them first, before *everything* else.
What aspect/technique in out hobby caught you off guard? (Thinking it would be easy just to have it bite you in the rear end)?
- Realistic shading. I discovered quickshade and it really does improve a paintjob by about 1000%. That’s my technique – basecoat, wash, highlight. But all my minis look like cel-shaded flat cartoon characters. They don’t look terrible, but it’s a look I’m a bit tired of. I’d like to get some realism with my shading – I’m trying with zenith highlights etc. but then “old me” kicks in and paints right over it and does the 90s style blacklining and solid primary colours again!
Speaking of flat, brightly coloured cartoon characters, here’s this weeks music. I was introduced to it by my eight-year-old nephew and while I hated the characters, I eventually had to admit I quite liked the song. Maybe it’s just because it reminds me of him when I hear it.
(these are the guys I’m going to learn OSL on)
(I paint eyes now)
Hello all, happy weekend(ish). Not just going to lurk this week, my hermit impression is getting all too convincing at the moment.
Pledge, minimum to varnish some 15mm tanks. Hopefully, get some more FoW British painting done.
Questions of the week:
Is there any aspect of the hobby you really want to try but haven’t done yet because you’re somehow afraid of it?
Not really. I try to keep the mindset if I broke it I can fix it as well. I still can’t get decals right 100% of the time.
What was the most daunting/scaring/intimidating thing (of our hobby) that you’ve done that then turned out to be easy as pie?
Proper layer painting. Yes being able to either blend wet paint on the mini itself or know the perfect watered downness for a semi-transparent glaze is very impressive and useful when you nail it. If you have two paints to blend then just have them next to each other to mix on a pallette, you need a mid-tone then just mix it. Most of my painting now is chosing one colour I like then adding either ivory or charcoal paint to make shades/saturations of it.
What aspect/technique in out hobby caught you off guard? (Thinking it would be easy just to have it bite you in the rear end)
Weathering, chipping especially. It’s so disheartening when a painting step near the end of the process takes a mini from great to mistake.
Maybe a little close to the bone, but for some music
• OSL with hard lighting. I’ve got some idea of what I want to do with a bust I got from Shapeways a while ago and have tried to use the cues from comic books in order to visualize underlighting.
• The thing that I’ve thought was daunting but found easy so far has been NMM. Its just finding the right combo of paints. Taking painting classes, for a degree I will not complete, and learning with oils made it interesting to bring the knowledge over.
• Kitbashing!!! Oh, its just take this part and add it over there, right? Wrong! Oh so many times over that isn’t the case. When you sit to resculpt the hands of a Werner Klocke mini and find, through much irritation, that the bastard works about in the arena of 28 ga. wire for his hands. I’ve done three separate rebuilds of the Reaper figure Brigitte (50084) [NSFW] where I’ve resculpted hands carrying different firearms (while packing her feather duster in the other). Choice expletives for making such small details but I do love them. Modification of limbs with different accessories is always a challenge when you first need to develop an appreciation of space, weight and the elements in motion. Trial and error is your only means of learning.
This also has been the same issue with doing small random details for basing. I found sculpted sprues of skeletons from Secret Weapon and have had to do hands (reasonable for scale, won’t complain) and feet bones. Scarabs for Egyptian themed bases weren’t too bad. Building jungle/swamp bases and adding deadfall as well as vines and snakes has been a bit of a chore. Its all getting easier for the 3D sculptors while the at home hobbyist building by hand continue to toil.
Pledge: finish my commission pieces and get back to the OTT figures… there’s a future package in the works.
@sundancer Nothing to worry about for now. I’ll be moving out of the hotel and the light problem will be solved. I already have a portable Ott desk lamp that does a good job.
@blinky465 for your OSL on your cyberpunk computer operators just paint your guys like normal, seal and then do the lightest of white ink blasts with an airbrush from the direction of the terminals and then wash with your monitor color. You could just do a few passes with a light glaze over the faces with the monitor color if you don’t trust your trigger finger for airbrushing.
By the by is that a space flight stewardess figure you’ve gone and painted?
Now this tube thing… I’m thinking Fallout might have some clues to what the future holds…. Uranium Fever!!!!
@m30wm1x Weathering and damage can be quite fun. I recommend looking into Damaged magazine as a good source of regular info on what people do in order to make things look used. A simple gloss varnish before putting on chip medium and a layer of paint sets you up for rust in no time.
Beautiful rust
Done with economical materials
Great info and watching makes me feel dumb
@horati0nosebl0wer I only just feel I’m beggining to get to grips with it. NightShift’s youtube has been a great help, but I’ll need to have a look Damaged magazine as the 502 weathering oils are a god send. I still find it very easy to just block all the work done with a thick mud or oil effect.
About the best I’ll get the tanks to, Giving a couple of days to be sure oils and pigments dry before final varnish. Done earlier this week.
Carriers, artillery and the PBI next.
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