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Slightly dumb question about airbrush:
Do I need to use a retarder? When and why?

 

It has been a while since my last post here.
Here is a WIP picture.

 

Thanks!
Can't wait to finally finish them.

 

Thanks!

I even risked something and painted the eyes. Using a 0.1mm sharpie it worked surprisingly well.

Now I only have the riders' weapons, the bronze stuff on the Rippers, and the bases to do.

 

A retarder slows the paint down giving you a longer working time, airbrush paint is thinner than normal paint and drys almost immediately so you would not use a retarder, you can use a retarder to thin the paint if needed.

Remember that with an airbrush your blends are from layering paint not from blending wet paint as with a brush.

 

That looks really good so far and good job with the eyes

 

Yeah I remember it from my last flyers. It sucked.
This time it will be even more fun since I will do something special with those guys.
Updates soon.

 

What bothers me about the Ripperdactyls:
How the hell do they eat???
They have no teeth in their upper jaw and they are obviously unable to even close their mouth!
At least drinking is easy, since rain will just fall into their mouths....

 

Two months later:
I started the Sunblood because I like the sculpt and needed something to motivate me after my break.

....unfortunately it didn't work.

Here is how the skin looks right now:

My idea was as follows:
White with a slight purple tint on the low parts, and a slight blue tint on the higher ones, white highlights. And the bigger scales dark with white highlights.

So I primed it white and applied purple shade. Unfortunately too much of that, so it became too purple.
I drybrushed/layered it up to white again, and applied thinned down blue glaze. Too much of that too so it became too blue.
Drybrushed it white again, and applied a bit of dark shade to the mouth and the big scales.
I applied some more white to the spikes on the back.

.....IMO it doesn't look too bad, but not at all like I wanted it to look.

Any ideas what to do with it next to make it look better?
For example: which colors to use for the spikes? Right now they are white which has a somewhat nice contrast but I am not sure. Maybe I should make them bone color?
The small spikes on the head and the claws are planned to get bone colored, the metal parts gold and the shield and weapon Jade.
Brown leather straps.