Coming from you, high praise, Vykes


Today, I spent almost 6 hours on Public transit jetting across town and back... It was a worthwhile effort.

For I picked up a Compression and Airbrush for Free... All I need to do is source a hose for it (which I'll do once I inspect the Compressor for obvious damage) and I can start doing things proper-like...

This will be SO MUCH EASIER when that Airbrush Needle arrives....

...

By Hand:

So, those Firesprays I posted earlier?

They just have a couple of Friends....


I HAVE SO MUCH WASHING TO DO BEFORE DETAILS! URGH!

and as someone asked for a Closeup of the YV-666 "Goblin Shark"

My apologies if you answered this elsewhere but are you brushing or spraying on your primer?

Matt

Both!

Primarily, I work with a Spray primer. After models are trimmed and cleaned up, I'm dusting them with a Grey Polymer Primer (if Rebels) or a Black Primer (if Imperials).

At which point, because I'm fairly light with the Black Primer, I touch up any sections I need to with a pot-paintable primer (GW Imperial Primer, most of the time).

Then they're Basecoated in Vallejo Ivory (if Rebel) or Mechanicus Standard Grey (if Imperials), all by brush...

I may change some procedures in a few weeks when I get an Airbrush working (at the moment, the second hand one I picked up was missing the needle chucking nut, so I'm waiting for that part)...

But beyond a few seconds with a Rattlecan, everything I do is brush painted at the moment

Thanks. Always concerned about spray primers filling in the detail. Anyway, after years of not painting anything I'm starting to get the itch again. Tried Sharpies on some fighters last night but the ink leaked under the masking tape so I'm contemplating going back to paint.

Remember with priming, all you need to be doing is preparing the surface, not neccessarily colouring the surface. A Dusting is really all you need, before you go and hit the primary colour.

I mean, my Grey is actually a Filling Primer from Home Depot... The Black is a Sandable Primer... Both generally "build", but you go gentle with them, and they don't obliterate detail...

I know what you mean and maybe I'm just remembering the sloppiness of my youth painting metal miniatures. I think I've some old Armory primers sitting around that maybe I'll give a try.

By the way, you do really nice work.

A few minutes of "Me" time...

So far, over the grey primer, that's Vallejo Ivory for the White Side... And GW Naggaroth Night for the Purple Side... Which was just at that point hit with Old school GW Leviathan Purple to even the colour out...


As you can see from teh Sister-Ship below, there wil be a brown wash for the Ivory (and then an offwhite highlight), and a Purple Highlight...
(However, that bottom ship is very poorly done, and once the Upper MonCal is Done, that one will be re-stripped to start again to correct some paint thickness issues.)

... never use all of the TIE Advanced or TIE Fighters you get

Ran a list last week with 14 TIE Fighter squadrons. It was beautiful! (I lost, but it was still a beautiful sight.)

I do applaud you in setting up what must have been a glorious sight on the battlefield.

... never use all of the TIE Advanced or TIE Fighters you get

Ran a list last week with 14 TIE Fighter squadrons. It was beautiful! (I lost, but it was still a beautiful sight.)

Nice! I intend to run an insane TIE swarm against my weekly battle bud soon.

E-AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

*Reader note: TIE noise*

....

Said it before, and I'll reiterate it again...

I'll paint TIE fighters all day ... Some days, I do ...

But X-Wings.... 8 Squads of X-Wings... That makes me Groan.

So, the threat of the Canadian Postal strike may have slowed business on the painting front... But, I am a Hobby Works by title, so.......

Hobby!



Individually hand cast in semi-flexible resin. With any luck, I should be ready to build up a working stock shortly... Again, in typical Imperial Phoenix style, they're bound to be very cheap

The more and more I view in this forum, the more and more amazed I am by the painting talent of all I've seen.

Well done! I like the red stripe on the Gladiator.... makes me think it seems kinda Republic era, like the Venator class star destroyers.

Hooray Rush Jobs!



Lots of work to do on both Luke + Wedge Squadrons... SO ANNOYED that Biggs is going to throw off my Mojo there, have to work something else out...

And believe it or not, that Aggressor is half painted - its just that a thin coating of Mechanicus Standard Grey ends up being very similar to its non-painted colour

I might have to steal that corvette paint scheme for my next one. Nice work!

I would highly recommend nuln oiling that corvette. With all the tiny grooves and details the model IMO looks 100% better. Also since it is white it will not darken it too much.

No, no, no . Nuln Oil is not for Ivory. Not if you want to keep the colour rich and warm.

It gets Agrax.

Which of course, has only happened there in the lightest of means. Two more coats and a bunch of highlighting were still to go... This was just a horrid Flash-camera WIP shot

As of that shot, I still had to:

- Wash the Purple down to its deeper receses, and add 2 highlight layers
- Add another thinned down Agrax, then re-highlight ivory back to base

- Add Offwhite edge highlighting of points

- Add Yellow Running Lights and Grey Details....

Which is fine, because it puts it on the same edge as these two Corvettes, which, at the time, were about the same level of WIP:

Dras, how are you doing those straight colour divides on the corvettes? I want to do something similar on a MC30 and dont see how you get it so straight!

The Corvettes were by hand. Just some layering and correction.... There wasn't really enough there to mask.

Both MC80s were Hand Painted... The One on the stand half-done was Masked and then done that way... The one on the ground was completely eyeballed (and had plenty of correction)

When I do it for someone else, though, its Masked... As the Clonisher was:






And these Ships:

Aye just done it freehand, wasnt as hard as I thought it would be. Can I get away with just one ink wash?

Colours are Cyan and Orange. I only own a Nuln Oil and Sepia washes anyway as well as blue ink. So it would make most sense to do sepia across the whole model to me.

Well, you definately want to Sepia the Orange.

Cyan though... You might want to try to make a Wash out of the Ink (Little bit of Water, maybe a drop of dish soap) and then apply it to just the recesses (rather than slapping over the top)...

because Sepia over Cyan... . That could be a recipie for disaster...

I think without access to the Blue... Then I'd consider Sepia on Orange and Nuln on Cyan.... But be prepared to "colour correct" the highlights when you're done...

(With a 50/50 mix of Wash and Water, and applying to each in turn after completely drying, you should get shade without colour-change)

Cheers Dras. Its the Orange that needs the wash most of all, Lando's new ride is a bit too fabulous with just the base colours, so I'll start with just that half first and go from there.

Also.

I forsee painting so many Ghosts in my Future...

... especially since they're likely to be priced just as the rest of the Rogues and Villains....