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What am I doing wrong? (mass painting)

Discussion in 'Painting and Converting' started by gapton, Sep 6, 2013.

  1. gapton
    Saurus

    gapton Member

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    Few days ago I started a topic about how to paint a unit quickly.

    Basically, spending the least amount of time and getting the best results out of it. While that thread became a bit focused on the use of wet palette I found an article online:
    http://www.coolminiornot.com/articles/1619-speed-painting-lesson-2-step-by-step-mini

    So I basecoated 28 Skinks after reading it and I tried to accomplish a good result with the least steps:


    1 = step 1 , 2 = step 2 and so on

    1) basecoat
    2) drybrush a deep base colour
    3) highlight 1
    4) highlight 2
    5) highlight 3

    While the top one looks good enough to me, it takes quite long. With 28 Skinks this isn't going to be completed soon considering I only have a handful of hours per week.

    The Skinks in step (3) looks very patchy. Light tones and dark tones are extremely jaggy and "unclean". The "pure-black" parts in the creases are especially ugly it seems.

    What did I do wrong? I can use some tips/advice.
     
    gapton, Sep 6, 2013
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  2. n810
    Slann

    n810 First Spawning

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    You might just want to cover all of the black with a dark blue in the first basecoat,
    this should help the shadows not be as harsh, also you could add in a blue wash for step 4.
     
    n810, Sep 6, 2013
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  3. Sitzkrieg
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    Sitzkrieg New Member

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    Try this:

    - base coat (grey is the best for the color scheme you are using).
    - deep base (one base color of your choice, for ex.blue/green) no drybrush!!!
    - drybrush medium base (for ex. 3/1 base color/white)
    - drybrush highlights (just one time) just add more white color
    - wash with gw inks (on the whole model...like a dipping, but a little less ^^)
     
    Sitzkrieg, Sep 7, 2013
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  4. forlustria
    Ripperdactil

    forlustria Well-Known Member

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    I got a pretty good result buy base coating light sea blue (via air brush) over the whole model and then giving it a wash of druchii violet followed by a second wash(once the first one was dry) of asurman blue.
    Then all I need to do is paint weapons/scales ect.

    Reason I do this is im not great at highlighting and the double washes kinda work as a reverse highlight.
    will try and get a picture up soon.
     
    forlustria, Sep 7, 2013
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  5. Soteks Prophet
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    Generally I go- basecoat, highlights, wash or basecoat wash layer.

    I think if you can incoprate a wash into it after highlighting then you'd be ok.
     
    Soteks Prophet, Sep 8, 2013
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