Hobby exploits 2020 and onward

Apparently it is good a good idea to keep record of painting recipes, thus I put together bellow step by step, to have it on hand whenever I paint Defiance minis. I had to break this in two parts due to projects system limitations.

I wanted to find out the fastest way to paint Defiance enemies – and in the end generally Combined Army/Shasvasti models from Defiance. I started with two Nox and primed them with white and black (by airbrush).

BTW, sorry for unpleasant backdrop, I was just working fast.

To have reference, I worked with stopwatch. I turned it on for each instance of application of paint (not for preparation, mixing, drying, cleaning airbrush etc.).

Priming by airbrush took:

White: 0’20”

Black: 0’45” (I have no idea where the difference comes from)

Next, on my black model I applied white on each part that was planned to be red in the end. I used big (size 8) brush

White: 0”

Black: 1’35”

Then the same places (on both models) were painted with sunny skin tone – this isn’t opaque colour and need a couple of layers. To make my exercise even more scientific (???), I switched from brush to airbrush between models.

White: 6’40” – brush

Black: 1’45” – airbrush

Following that I repainted (on black Nox) or painted (on the white one) all the armour with black (both with traditional brush).

White: 10’40” + 8’45” (the second value describes time spent on fixing errors made with black),

Black: 18’0” + 8’15”(with this one, I thinned black paint too much and had to apply two or three layers, thus the difference),

Next was a simple step of establishing “light points” as Giraldez calls them. Since it was sepoused to bequick job I didn’t spend time gradually building them up – I just sprayed some white ink here and there (paying some attention to keep it generally top to bottom direction).

Both: 2’20” + 1’ for retouching some skin tone areas which were over-spayed. From this point on, both were taking similar amounts of time, I used same techniques on each of them.