Inspired by the podcast Trapped Under Plastic, let’s see my TRUE WIPs, warts and all.
Let’s start with good news. I painted up this wraith’s sword and gauntlets and I think its coming along in the right direction. I got a little crafty with the recipe.
All credit due to youtuber Ninjon for inspiring me to mix colors into my metallic paints.
In his video he mixes gray paint and some other colors into a bright aluminum colored metallic paint to get darker shades. Me, not having dark shades of metallics on hand (despite me trying to buy a dark shade of metal… turns out scale 75 ‘heavy metal’ is pretty dang bright), decided to give this mixing method a try.
But I used black ink to mix instead of grey paint.
At first I got a dark grey that I used as a base coat for the metal on the ringwraith. But as the ink and paint solution sat on my palette the ink overtook the paint’s natural silver hue and I ended up with glittery black. Could be good for something else but not what I wanted here.
To highlight the metal on the ringwraith I used straight up heavy metal. Edge highlighting is still new to me so I laid down the heavy metal with caution on the sword edges. And then I went for the ridge in the center and laid down a big ugly streak of paint by accident.
To compensate for my mistake and for the fact that heavy metal looked way too bright next to the black metal, I kinda swiped heavy metal messily along the blade to imitate scratch lines and ended up with a visually textured surface that pleased my eye. Overall still too bright but when I hit it with some washes I think it will end up looking just right.
For my next wip I played with drybrushing red onto a couple of my starry night guardians to see what happens and.. well I’m less than thrilled with the results.
I tried to mitigate the red by glazing navy over it but it didn’t do much to it.
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