Blog Aginor's Painting Blog

Messed up the damn palisade during the last steps. Managed to almost save it using another thin coat of yellow glaze, but...meh.
Not happy with it but I'll keep it that way. It doesn't look too dire if you don't look too closely

 

Spell Portal and Cogs, WIP but mostly done.

 

Thanks!
The Cogs look a bit more corroded than I intended them to be, but still OK.
I didn't want to shade them black so I tried a flesh shade. It made them look a bit rusty but IMO it isn't a bad option for iron.

 

I'm on with mine but I really can't be bothered, I've done all the bases first as a lot of the models have wisps that need to be white for a glaze.

Yours look really good so far.

 

Thanks!
I know I have to be quick with them, before the really good painters here paint them and mine look really bad in comparison.

Edit: can't wait to see yours, or @Xlanax_lot or @neveroddoreven trying them. I expect them to be mind blowing.

 

Nah mine are really basic

 

While building my second Carnosaur I was thinking about the paint scheme.
I want to do the standard box paint scheme, like with my other Carno, but this time I want to paint the base coat using my airbrush, and I want to give him the black stripes on the back and the small red ones, too.
I assume I will paint the smaller ones with a brush, but the big ones I'd like to do using the airbrush.
Any hints on how to do that? I want to make them look relatively natural.

I have done Tiger stripes before, but those were different (and much smaller, on a Gryph-Hound).

 

you can do both with the airbrush, go close and slowly pull back the trigger until paint shows then draw back the air brush until you get the desired thickness.

 

Thanks. Btw, talking about airbrushing: Is there a way to tell where the point is just _before_ the airbrush starts splattering paint around?
I occasionally paint something that looks pretty and smooth and all of a sudden *SPLAT* and I have tiny dots everywhere.

 

The splat is usually down too 2 things

Air pressure or thick paint/dry tip

I know you have a decent DA airbrush so what pressure do you spray at?

Which paint?

Tip clean?

Airbrush clean not clogged?

From your description I would say dried paint on the tip.

 

I use my Army Painter paints, thinned down with Vallejo thinner, always trying for a milk-like consistency.

Usual pressure is... 20-25 psi I think, except for primer which I spray with the bigger nozzle and a bit more pressure.

Tip clean and clogging.... yeah, that might in fact be the problem. But how can I notice that before it gets bad? I cannot see the tip of the needle with that cap over the nozzle.
...or should I maybe dip the airbrush in cleaner now and then? I think I have seen people suggesting that.

 

20psi is about right depending on your compressor.

The tip drys as the paint comes out, best thing to do is after a minute or two just take the cap off and clean it with your fingers.

Keeping the airbrush clean won't stop the tip getting clogged up when in use.

Do you strip it down and clean it after use?

Leaving the airbrush in cleaner won't have a detrimental effect on it.

 

OK.

You mean by sticking the needle into my finger? I've done that a few times already. It hurts.

Yes. I am very thankful that it is very easy to clean.

 

Here is my Necromancer again, finally finished his base.

 

And here is my second set of kitbashed Skellies.
Like the first five those were built out of spare parts from the Black Knights kit. Basically Hexwraiths on foot.
Their hilarious running pose is due to the fact that they are rider bodies with one leg rotated 90 degrees.
Their weapons are also converted from the Hexwraiths, the shields are spare Skeleton Warrior shields I think.
The banner and Horn are from a Grave Guard kit.



And then my buddy built some Hexwraiths so I said: Gimme those spare bits!
The Black Knights parts are more difficult to convert to infantry, but it worked.
These are even more goofy, I had a lot of fun making them.



Here they are together as one big, very crazy group of insane running skellies:



My total number of converted (read: free) Skeleton Warriors is 15 now.
That means I have 50 GW Skeletons now, which was my goal as I want to play my Deathrattle army in the GW store and all my other Skellies are non-GW models, which of course makes them persona non grata there.