How to make a basic starry night effect with splatter paint (on eldar guardians)

The squad post splatter paint
Close up #1
Close up #2

Tools needed: white, black and navy blue paint, flow aid, an old toothbrush, a palette, and some water. Plus somewhere to set up your models for splatter painting where you wont make a mess.

Flow aid can be subbed out for dish soap, allegedly, I haven’t tried that myself.

The plan: base coat the models with black primer and then some navy highlights on raised areas. Then mix up white paint with a drop if flow aid and a drop of water. Get that onto the bristles of your toothbrush. Flick the paint off the brush at your models. Voila, you’ve done it!

I chose to mount my models on a piece of wood and bring them out side for splatter time.

You can go as hard as you want with the splattering to get more or less stars. I went kinda light this time to be cautious.

To take it another step further into experimental territory though, I added some drybrushing after the splatter paint onto one model as a test.

I tried a two tone drybrush scheme: dark blue on the left and purple on the right. The muted tones gave subtle results.

I want to try adding more drybrush layers of lighter colors in here to see if that gives me a more interesting look. And after that another round of splatter stars since the drybrushing covered up some of my original ones.

Bye, hope this inspires you.

#hobbystreak

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