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JSA first attempt at snow leopard pattern.
For JSA as a newer faction I thought it would be good to have a go at a scheme different to the box art colours. This’s for two reasons. The first is that white and red feels like they could look a bit like nomads, which as I have no local players I want all army’s to be distinct from each other. The second is because it’s fun to try something different and work on new techniques.
I still went with a scheme provided in the recent Uprising expansion book. Yukihyō, Snow Leopard, Pattern looked the least like how I am painting any of the current factions and camouflage is not something I have painted before.
Test model For my test model the technique I used was:
- airbrush the model white
- apply masking fluid with a small brush
- wait for fluid to dry
- airbrush with goblin green
- apply more masking fluid to different areas than the first layer
- wait for fluid to dry
- airbrush blend of black and goblin green.
- wait for paint to dry
- peel off masking fluid
The effect of this worked much better than expected, as I have never worked with masking fluid before.
I had some issues where getting the set mask off was also taking primer off the miniature also. I moved to use a large dry brush (wet) to lift the masking which much reduced this.
Next time I will try to seal the model with a varnish first and see if that removes the issue of taking to much paint off.
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