Great miniatures painting resource by ex-GW star hobbyist Duncan Rhodes.

Alan

Now only 41 more to go lol

Great video, thanks!

I’m sure he’s got more Legion tutorials planned. Subscribe to Duncan’s channel so you don’t miss a single video!

Just FYI, there is a painting section here in the forums.

When did he leave GW?

1 hour ago, Kardek said:

When did he leave GW?

Just in the last couple months.

I've been out of the loop regarding GW, Legion won that battle lol

2 hours ago, Kardek said:

When did he leave GW?

At the end of December. It really pissed me off that GW didn't give him a send-off (at least an implicit one, if not an explicit one) in their "Look what we've all released in 2019!" video.

Saint Rhodes blesses Legion! PRAISE BE!

With only $60 worth of different white paints...

As much a love painting I lack the patience to put this much work in on mass units.

People out there putting this much effort into stormies and I'm just sitting here with my contrast white and black like

9 minutes ago, TauntaunScout said:

With only $60 worth of different white paints...

You can have it any color you want, as long as it's white

10 minutes ago, Darth Sanguis said:

As much a love painting I lack the patience to put this much work in on mass units.

Ha! yeah, It was hard to ride the line between satisfying my painting OCD and getting all my clones done quickish.

I didn't fall to the dark (contrast) side though (I kid, its fine, but it's not for me)

23 minutes ago, 54NCH32 said:

Ha! yeah, It was hard to ride the line between satisfying my painting OCD and getting all my clones done quickish.

I didn't fall to the dark (contrast) side though (I kid, its fine, but it's not for me)

lol I never had success with the traditional methods.

Legion is where I got into painting, so my stormtroopers, being the first units I painted, were... rough... to say the least.



They looked outright crummy.

After a year of painting things I was doing better but whites still caused problems.

I had some extra stormies when the contrasts dropped. What a difference.





I'm no pro (and I actually just saw your thread in the painting sub forum, holy crap your stuff is AMAZING.) but they let me field a much cleaner looking mini.

More below

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11 minutes ago, Darth Sanguis said:

After a year of painting things I was doing better but whites still caused problems.

Yeah, after layer painting white (up from a pure nuln oil shade) on my Imperial Assault core set troopers, I started to experiment in finding a better way to do white (they were fine, but too rough for my liking, and god! they took forever!).

These days its prime white, add weapons details etc and then wash with the magic ingredient that I eventually landed on of 50% Nuln Oil - 50% Lahmian Medium. Much nicer and smoother (and quicker!)

I've used contrast on a couple of things (mostly to colour metal on my droidekas), but even as an experienced painter I found controlling the pooling on contrast quite frustrating. However, I know its a great tool to get armies ready.

Just now, 54NCH32 said:

Yeah, after layer painting white (up from a pure nuln oil shade) on my Imperial Assault core set troopers, I started to experiment in finding a better way to do white (they were fine, but too rough for my liking, and god! they took forever!).

These days its prime white, add weapons details etc and then wash with the magic ingredient that I eventually landed on of 50% Nuln Oil - 50% Lahmian Medium. Much nicer and smoother (and quicker!)

I've used contrast on a couple of things (mostly to colour metal on my droidekas), but even as an experienced painter I found controlling the pooling on contrast quite frustrating. However, I know its a great tool to get armies ready.

Ironically, metallics are about the only thing I wont use contrasts for. My droidekas and B2s were both done using traditional methods, and they turned out great (I'm quite happy at least lol).

pardon the drying base lol



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Ha! Nice, starting my B2s this eve (man, they look like they will be so easy to get nice!)

2 minutes ago, 54NCH32 said:

Ha! Nice, starting my B2s this eve (man, they look like they will be so easy to get nice!)

SO easy.

All I did was:

1.) contrast primer (I love how smooth they go on, basically just use that and vallejo white to prime anymore) Grey Seer.
2.) Lead Belcher in a can
3.) Gloss nuln
4.) details/highlights (red dots and heavy weapon gun alternates in bronze)
5.) basing in martian Ironcrust
6.) Gloss varnish spray, 2 coats, then painted on matte varnish over the base materials.

4 units done in just over 24 hours.

Mine have been leadbelched, gonna do the “mid-drift” in Vallejo Air Metal Colour Gunmetal, then nuln / drakenhof shade mix em (I have a test model ready to get the blue tone of the mix right) then I’ll add the lights (maybe some slight OSL from the light)

I'm excited to be able to field them next week. I have a grand army match set up on the 21st, it's going to be the first time I have an entire Army 100% painted and based. I have a whole week left, I may even finish out the geonosis terrain I started in october (there's a whole stack of poly board insulation chilling in my apartment that I've done almost nothing with lol)

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2 hours ago, Darth Sanguis said:

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Contrast paints are my jam!

2 hours ago, 54NCH32 said:

These days its prime white, add weapons details etc and then wash with the magic ingredient that I eventually landed on of 50% Nuln Oil - 50% Lahmian Medium .

I have an 8.4 oz, $15 container of Windsor & Newton matte acrylic medium that I use for pretty much everything nowadays. It's amazing.

11 minutes ago, TauntaunScout said:

I have an 8.4 oz, $15 container of Windsor & Newton matte acrylic medium that I use for pretty much everything nowadays. It's amazing.

Nice, I've been meaning to check out alternatives before my supply runs out

1 minute ago, 54NCH32 said:

Nice, I've been meaning to check out alternatives before my supply runs out

Between that and Liquitex inks you can do a lot of fun stuff without leaving the Fine Arts aisle of your local bigbox craft store. Though Windsor & Newton also make inks that might be worth checking out if I ever see them on sale or something.

I'm also gonna try Foundry paints someday. I bought their starter set of 40 or so paints but haven't opened it yet. It's neat, they sell all their paints in bundles of 3, a base a shade and a highlight of the same type of the color. Cause y'know, sometimes you lighten with white when you should've used very light tan or something. And this eliminates that problem when you're in a hurry to paint lots of figures.

You can pretty much make contrast paint with acrylic medium too.