Here’s another one of the videos I recorded at my monthly painting demo. I cover washes quickly in this short tutorial.
Archive for the 'Basic Techniques' Category
I’m sure there’s a rule that you shouldn’t try to post a painting article on a site that the likes of Ghool and Althai write for.
If not, there should be. I mean it’s just common sense. Still, I figure that sometimes people may want to see the way mere mortals get stuff done, so Here Goes Nothing …
I’ll begin with my usual disclaimer – why are you asking someone still learning the craft rather than an expert like Arkentyre. His Brushthralls tutorial is where I went to, and what I’m aspiring to here. It occurs to me that my pyretroll from Beginner’s guide to sculpting viii is probably the worst model to base this tutorial on as when the paint job inevitably looks plain average, you won’t know if it’s the technique, my mediocre painting skills, or my novice sculpting skills. Anyway, here goes …
You need to begin with a plan.
Choose your tartan and work out what paints you intend to use to achieve those colours.
Things you should consider:
- How will the pattern look when contrasted with your troll’s skin colour / leather colours / metals. Tartans are often bright. Troll skins are often bright. The browns you use for leathers can often be very saturated. If you’re crazy enough to be painting a sash for a pyre troll, the fire and the trolls back are going to be very bright. That has potential to be a lot of clashing colours. This is why all of the studio tartans from the trollblood clans are variations on browns not vivid colours.
- Can I bear this tartan? If you’re painting trolls, you could be painting an awful lot of this tartan. Be sure you do like it.
- Do I have the colours I need? I’m going to give you the first of my tips – make sure your base colour comes straight out of a pot. Don’t make it a mix of two colours. You’ll be patching a lot of small botches with this colour, and you want easy access to it.
I’ve chosen Clan Gordon Tartan as it’s my old high school’s tartan and I like it.
In these two videos, I go over the basics of painting silver metallics, and briefly discuss some techniques for golds at the end of part 2.
Part 1
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Painting Flesh – Part 2
The second highlighting stage, and highlighting the face. Hopefully this will help shed some light on the techniques for painting flesh.
I have included pictures of the completed model as well.
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Painting Flesh
Since it’s usually a difficult subject, I demonstrate how to paint flesh quickly and easily without very much colour mixing. Most of this model was painted with paint right out of the pot.
So stick around and hopefully you will pick up a trick or two. And if you have any questions feel free to ask.
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Two brush Blending – On the Miniature
This first video will go over the shading, and the second video continues with the highlighting.
This video covers the basic principles and techniques when using two brush blending. Practice these methods over the weekend. On Monday, the two part video will demonstrate how to apply these techniques on a miniature.
Pinning Basics
Since so many of our readers have asked me for them, here is the first of many more to come. A video tutorial!
They say a picture says a thousand words… So here is 7,685,000 words worth of help packed into a 4 minute and 25 second video that runs at 29fps. We hope you enjoy this first of many more videos to come!
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Two-Player Battle Box – Painting Menoth
For those of you following along at home this is the next stage in my series on the Two Player Battle Box for Warmachine. first we had looked at Assembling the miniatures. then we looked at Painting the Khador half of the box set. This time we will be looking at painting the Khador half of the box. This article is aimed at players new to the hobby or those who want a simple quick and effective way to get nice tabletop minis painted and ready to play!
A few things we definitely learned along the way with this article. The first of which will be something that will help newer painters out. The first tip is don’t try to paint everything at once. Group your models into small manageable chunks. My suggestion would be to start with the Warjacks, then move on to the Infantry, then finish with your Warcaster. Not only will it be easier to manage but you will have greatly improved by the time you reach your small detailed Warcaster.
All paints used in this article are Formula P3, unless stated otherwise. Vallejo Model Color (VMC) was also used, and will be specifically pointed out when needed.
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Two-Player Battle Box – Painting Khador
For those of you following along at home this is the next stage in my series on the Two Player Battle Box for Warmachine. Last time we looked at Assembling the miniatures. This time we will be looking at painting the Khador half of the box.This article is aimed at players new to the hobby or those who want a simple quick and effective way to get nice tabletop minis painted and ready to play!
A few things we definitely learned along the way with this article. The first of which will be something that will help newer painters out. The first tip is don’t try and paint everything at once. Group your models into small manageable chunks. My suggestion would be to start with the Warjacks, then move on to the Infantry, then finish with your Warcaster. Not only will it be easier to manage but you will have greatly improved by the time you reach your small detailed Warcaster.
All paints used in this article are Formula P3, unless stated otherwise. Vallejo Model Color (VMC), and Vallejo Game Color (VGC) were also used, and will be specifically pointed out when needed.
