Brightening white

Added a little layer of this to the whites

The blue tinged everything looked cool with these white bits but i was dying to see how they looked with a true white highlight.

Maybe too washed out now but can always do more shade work. I also think the head will help the look since it will be largely white as well.

For a while ive decided i like the white helmets on my eldar but havent taken steps to change them from various blues and blacks. Using buff as an undershade this time as opposed to the more orange skin tone id used before lets see how it goes.

If only i had the brush accuracy to not spill buff into the face mask i want to stay dark

Pink mohawk kabalite

Just like with the yellow/red/orange mohawk i did before, i basecoated some light flesh tone over the black primer before proceeding.

Unsure with what pink to use since i dont own a premixed pink, i mixed up two for starters.

On the right is model color vermillion plus model color ice yellow from vallejo. On the left i mixed vermillion with game color glacier blue. Inexact ratios, roughly a drop of each paint.

I tried both over the flesh basecoat and preferred the glacier blue mix that reads more pink than red.

All credit to vince venturella for giving me the idea to use a bluish white for pink in his exploring pink video.

I painted the reddish pink as a base with blue pink over it to give depth.

Neither pinks have great coverage so it took a few layers

After a few layers trying to be neat i felt like there was no depth, however, so i turned to my washes. I tried red on one side and purple on the other.

Purple gave the desired effect.

As i went to wipe off the red wash i got more than i bargained for on the napkin.

I tried to put new pink to cover but i accidentally wiped off all the paint down to the black primer on the raised edges. Since washes take awhile to dry i will let it sit overnight before i fix it up.

At last i touched it up, gave it purple shading, then hit it with some generous drybrushing of pink. The shading got washed out a bit more than i might like so maybe i hit it with some more purple.

Ive also since done up the bases on this squad of five. The recipe is black primer, dark brown, dry brushed ice yellow, then painted a thin layer of reaper rich leather brown. I may hit it with more ice yellow drybrush tho to add contrast.

My last little touch on these warriors for now was an ice blue drybrush on the black of the guns. And a drybrush of buff on the bases and the mohawks. Almost imperceptible that drybrush but i swear i did it.

More progress on hobbit ranger lady

Subtle things. Added shading and metallics.

One step closer to feeling good calling her ‘done.’

Trying advanced moves: edge highlighting and face painting

Now with highlights of a slightly less dark blue!

Naturally I started highlighting on the head so that my rookie mistakes could be the first thing you notice and not the brush strokes where I nailed my control.

But really it was a test to see what highlights on the top of the hood would look like and as I predicted they didn’t come out so good.

I think I did well on other parts though. Since I’m so new I need time to process whether I’ve gotten a look I like or not.

Subtle on the back here… too subtle or just right?

And now a showcase of me painting a face! To a state of somewhat doneness:

Eyeballs and all! Let’s not talk about her lack of eyebrows 🤐

Things I might update if I feel confident: her mouth region looks almost like 5 oclock shadow from how the wash pooled. Though maybe shes a dwarf woman who actually can grow a 5:00 shadow…

Progress pics:

Another layer of skin tone and wash I didnt photograph progress pics of later: eye whites added

#hobbystreak day 45

Two little experiments

I dabbed on some white with a bit of spongy foam on this guardian in an attempt to make dense star looking patterns and got mixed results. I accidentally put on too much paint in some places so it globbed together into a solid streak instead of looking like a clump of individual stars. But in other places I got the desired effect. I couldnt get the very deep into any recesses without smearing the white so I’d recommend this technique for wide spaces rather than textured ones.

It’s also possible I had too much paint on the foam in the first place, I only did one test so I can’t claim to have a deep understanding of how this method might be tweaked for better results.

The eagle eyed among you will spot the greenstuff on the end of this arm

I glued a piece of steel pin in this arm rather than a full magnet. All good on the dry fit but when I glued it in some of the pin stuck out. I tried a variety of solutions to cut the pin flush with the arm: using my file (too slow progress), my sprue snippers (PLEASE don’t try this, it did nothing useful AND damaged my snippers), and finally a big ol box cutter knife on the recommendation of a hardware store employee and still couldn’t cut the pin to size. So I turned to my greenstuff.

“If you can’t beat em, join em” became my motto and I built up greenstuff around the protruding pin while doing my best to blend it into the existing arm with my patience as a limiting factor. Priming and painting it will be the real test but I think I did ok.

#Hobbystreak day 35

Updates on squidbro

Staff is still in WIP status because I ended up filing down a mold line and redoing the primer. I understand primer is best left to set for 24 hours to I choose to wait before adding more layers over it.

More angles:

#hobbystreak day 35

Playing with the army painter wash set

I found that “soft tone” worked pretty well as a shade for yellow

This WIP is WhIPping along hahahahaha ok couldnt resist

Today was a lot of playing around with blending and shading on this octopus head plus some other odds and ends Like his shoe and staff and eyes.

A lot of today revolved in part around seeing what I could do to reset new changes. I had shaded the underside of the head but remembered that animals have lighter colored bellies than tops most of the time. So I blended some ice yellow and normal yellow into the underside of the head to imitate the belly of an octopus. And then lined the meeting of the head and the cloak with soft tone.

I tried putting some “purple tone” on since Vinny V said that purple can look good in yellow shadows. But I think I overdid it and now my octopus is looking kinda sickly. Soft tone wash is the answer to warm it up again? Idk.

Here he is as of now with the purple wash added

I like how I got the look around the eye sockets with a payer of yellow over pure ice yellow. And a bit of off white under the eyes glazed with yellow.

I’m scared to try it on the head ridges because the sculpture detail there is kinda ambiguous which puts the onus on me to pretty it up.

That lightening of the belly i mentioned… didnt come out as clean as I want on try 1

Another thing I did yesterday was the black robe. Painted dark grey and then hit with targeted black wash to darken it down and alas I think I added too much so another highlight step with dark grey could be in order.

#hobbystreak day 33