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Elastirion
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Hi Jelly!
Your guys are getting very nice. Your painting is very clean which is a good thing, I always have to clean up my mess with every layer of paint. But you are right, for a guy working on a plane he really looks like he's just fallen out of the dry cleaner's ... I really only started dirtying my figures down so mine may not be the best advice, but I will give it anyhow... many techniques working in scale modelling work in figure modelling as well. It is a shame really that so few people ever look over the edge of their own plate ( to translate a german phrase quite crudely). So you already know how to make something oily and greasy, I don't by the way... need to learn that for my planes, may be try it on the figure as well but tone it down some, since the fabric will have absorbed much it will be lighter and not shiny, maybe add some dullcoat... just my two cents.
To your questions concerning washes. Well, you can just thin down your paint very heavily and apply it very generously over the area you want to wash or just to the recesses very carefully. There are also ready made washes, like from Games Workshop or Vallejo (their Game Colour line). Those work fine. They work better than just acrylic paint thinned with water, because they have other paint additves in them like flow improver and acrylic medium. You can use washes to tone down colours, to add depth to recesses and contrast to the colour. You can also use them as filters and to bring different tones together when blending... so washes are your friends
But always keep in mind the bigger the figure gets, the more carefull you need to be, not to add too much contrast, because it will easily look to "comic" then. Small figures like 28mm need a lot of contrast 54 mm (1/32, 1/35 ???) a lot less.
One of my fav videos is from AwesomePaintjob showing how he makes his washes:
How to make Washes Les' Recipe
Happy painting, Sarah.
Your guys are getting very nice. Your painting is very clean which is a good thing, I always have to clean up my mess with every layer of paint. But you are right, for a guy working on a plane he really looks like he's just fallen out of the dry cleaner's ... I really only started dirtying my figures down so mine may not be the best advice, but I will give it anyhow... many techniques working in scale modelling work in figure modelling as well. It is a shame really that so few people ever look over the edge of their own plate ( to translate a german phrase quite crudely). So you already know how to make something oily and greasy, I don't by the way... need to learn that for my planes, may be try it on the figure as well but tone it down some, since the fabric will have absorbed much it will be lighter and not shiny, maybe add some dullcoat... just my two cents.
To your questions concerning washes. Well, you can just thin down your paint very heavily and apply it very generously over the area you want to wash or just to the recesses very carefully. There are also ready made washes, like from Games Workshop or Vallejo (their Game Colour line). Those work fine. They work better than just acrylic paint thinned with water, because they have other paint additves in them like flow improver and acrylic medium. You can use washes to tone down colours, to add depth to recesses and contrast to the colour. You can also use them as filters and to bring different tones together when blending... so washes are your friends
But always keep in mind the bigger the figure gets, the more carefull you need to be, not to add too much contrast, because it will easily look to "comic" then. Small figures like 28mm need a lot of contrast 54 mm (1/32, 1/35 ???) a lot less. One of my fav videos is from AwesomePaintjob showing how he makes his washes:
How to make Washes Les' Recipe
Happy painting, Sarah.
