I started miniature painting for the first time 3 weeks ago after I won a Blood Bowl game and decided drab plastic wasn't good enough.
Since then I've painted some Armada squadrons (tiny!!) and 3 squads for Legion. I was surprised just how enjoyable painting miniatures is!!!!
Please pass on any comments or tips so I can improve for next vehicle which will be ATST, though I will stick to a more canon paint scheme!
https://imgur.com/a/SnD2O5b
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The painting looks great for an early effort, camouflage is often hard to get right, and I think you did very well.
But I do have a minor quibble from a design perspective: The point of camouflage is to break up the outline of the vehicle/person. Outlining the vehicle in a distinct color such as yellow defeats that purpose, since the outline is plainly visible.
It’s working for me now. Incidentally you can paste the pictures into the forum woth a direct link of you want more people to see it.
I agree that the camo looks really terrific. Overall it looks very cool - which I think is probably the point. I don’t know if I would worry too much about the cool yellow outline wrecking the camouflage of a plane that could never fly.
The camo looks great. Water down your paints a bit more and you'll be good. They look a bit on thick side from what I can see.
Good job! looks good!
15 minutes ago, Soulfly626 said:The camo looks great. Water down your paints a bit more and you'll be good. They look a bit on thick side from what I can see.
Good job! looks good!
I just started a wet palette which helped a great deal
2 hours ago, Qualitypunk said:I just started a wet palette which helped a great deal
If you are going to paint much which I think you are. I highly recommend you get a real one. Easy to maintain.
I have my own roll of this with a "Do not touch" sign so my wife or daughter don't use it for baking. :)
Also, the wet palette only helps the paint from drying out. You still need to add water to have it the right thickness.
Buy some airbrush ready paints to get a feel for viscosity. It helped me quite a bit. I'm still very new to the hobby.
If you can afford it get an Iwata eclipse with a compressor combo for really cheap.
I got this combo after my first miniature army try. iwata combo
That was the best purchased I made for this hobby, second was the sta-wet palette, my latest was some sable hair brushes.
It's makes a huge difference when you lay down primers with a can vs an airbrush. Zenithal priming is great for these figures.
this has been my experience thus far.
2 hours ago, Qualitypunk said:I just started a wet palette which helped a great deal
LOL I thought you were the OP sorry.
@Soulfly626 to be fair to the OP, most of the model looks silky smooth. It’s the yellow rings on the guns that look like maybe they went on too thick. Based on the look I’m guessing this is a bit exacerbated by the fact that he used masking tape to keep the rings straight but maybe glommed the paint over the edge a little too much. Yellow can be hard to get good coverage with. I have two Vallejo yellows that for some reason are really thin and don’t cover well even before adding water or thinner media. I have a citadel yellow that is mich better so I’m stuck using their lousy paint pot (sorry for the digression).
As far as wet palettes, I find that it extends the life of the paint from twenty minutes to maybe an hour or two. I certainly can’t leave it sealed overnight and come back to paint with it. But it does thin the paint if I spread it out and take from the edges. Generally it never gets too thin, which can be handy. The other issue I have is the sponges get moldy pretty quick.
Edited by BigBadAndyThanks for the input!
The yellow fringe was inspired by WW2 Spitfire, which also had a yellow fringe on the wings. It's the yellow on the guns I messed up, just as BigBadAndy describes. If I were to do it again, I would continue the paint scheme from the engine turbines to the guns.....definitely need to water my paints down more, as the black windows do reflect bumps and streaks in certain light.
I will look into airbrush kits and see what is available, thanks for the suggestion SoulFly626 as I would not have thought about going in that direction......I fear I might become like the old guy in Toy Story who resprayed Woody!!!
3 hours ago, BigBadAndy said:@Soulfly626 to be fair to the OP, most of the model looks silky smooth. It’s the yellow rings on the guns that look like maybe they went on too thick. Based on the look I’m guessing this is a bit exacerbated by the fact that he used masking tape to keep the rings straight but maybe glommed the paint over the edge a little too much. Yellow can be hard to get good coverage with. I have two Vallejo yellows that for some reason are really thin and don’t cover well even before adding water or thinner media. I have a citadel yellow that is mich better so I’m stuck using their lousy paint pot (sorry for the digression).
As far as wet palettes, I find that it extends the life of the paint from twenty minutes to maybe an hour or two. I certainly can’t leave it sealed overnight and come back to paint with it. But it does thin the paint if I spread it out and take from the edges. Generally it never gets too thin, which can be handy. The other issue I have is the sponges get moldy pretty quick.
I never have mold issues with mine. I don't let the paint get into the foam. Mine seals pretty good. I come back and paint one or two days after and I have no problem to continue where I left off. May have to do with the environment.
I'm just sharing with OP what has worked for me. Nothing is set in stone.