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Project Entry by pafetikbazerka

Minions, Monsters and Heros

April 18, 2020

So I have determined my method but I still have to make it work with a large number of minis to be painted. I scratch myself, wonder, and realize I have little specific experience to weigh any decision on. I decide to start at the start and make it up as I go along. The first decision I make is to use the frogmen with each step as experimental rats so to speak to gauge the effectiveness of each part of process.

I give everything a black undercoat and start with a cool grey before the warm white, get through the frogmen and larger Monsters but wonder if I haven’t gone to heavy, and too light early on given I still have a lighter layer to go. I drop my cool grey back a shade or two and feel more comfortable moving forward.

Black, the light gery, Opps I'll make that darker

If your wondering why all the little steel plates, I had a moment in my re-enacting career about a decade ago where I started making a coat of steel lamellar. This is where magnetizing the bases comes into its own as I can easily move the miniatures onto tighter bases to maintain the angle of spray for each coat of successive layers.

All models with Black primer, cool mid grey@ 45-30 degrees to vertical and warm white @0-30 vertical

I admit much of the airbrushed transitions worked really really well but a few details were lost. I probably could pick it up later but I also want to see just how far I can push the sketch paint plus glaze technique. I’m also aware that Imight reduce the chalky dry brushing if I highlight then pin wash but I have a lot of minis here so I decide I’ll black wash then dry brush ‘minions’ ready for painting,, but dry brush then pin wash the hero’s and Monsters and be prepared to do a bit of back and forth to get them nice and crisp.