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Ok, so work has begun on my Armorcast reaver and the first thing I have noticed is my red is very streaky. I have used a rust coloured automotive primer as my base, and applied blood red over top in successive layers. Should I keep layering and see the red smooth out?

I have also considered to rebase with Mechrite Red and do blood red over that, but the rust primer is very similar in colour to the mechrite and am not sure if the end result will be worth starting over on the red armour sections.

Also, does anyone know if successive layers of blood red followed by Baal Red wash would work to get rid of the streakiness?

I may break down and *finally* break out my airbrush and some Tamiya red acrylics...but I am hoping I don't have to, but the option is there.


Any opinions from Dakka on this?? Looking for people who have solved the 'red' dilemma, lol


On a side note I have done a land raider in red, with mechrite>blood red and it turned out great, but did not have quite the same large surface area of the reaver.

I had red streaks when i use GW paints.

Then i use vallejo paints , no problems there.

Hard core GW painters insists its the same, i dunno :"D

Vallejo eh? I'll stop by the local hobby shop see if they carry them. I have a few of their paints but didn't see anything that amazing, maybe they deserve a second look.

Joyous_Oblivion wrote:Vallejo eh? I'll stop by the local hobby shop see if they carry them. I have a few of their paints but didn't see anything that amazing, maybe they deserve a second look.

which colors did you try out? I bought all the light color ones that GW's couldnt cover over.
And pretty much can do the job with half the amount of layers, Not to mention smooth every layer, no ( thin your paints! )
effect.

If you are going to use the GW paints on a large surface you will need to water it down till it looks like water colors, and then paint it on in overlapping "pools"

From my past experiences Ive had to either spray paint or use an airbrush on large surfaces. Simply because GW paints just CANT cover large areas smoothly enough. It drove me crazy, I painted a few 3rd edition Rhinos awhile back and the first one looked layered and bad, the rest I sprayed and such and those turned out good.

I havn't tried large scale red but to smooth mine out I do thin coats of blood over black primer and GW's red wash.

I usually do 2-3 thin coats of red followed by a baal red wash and it seems to work for my needs.

Buy an airbrush.

Seriously. You're painting a reaver titan - you spent hundreds on it. Make the investment in an airbrush so that you can paint it to look good.

Here's my red gargant, in the dakka gallery. See how smooth the red is. It's trivial to get good reds with the right tools.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/8451-gargant.html

Hmmm Redbeard you may be right...

I said in my first post I do own an airbrush, jut haven't broken it in yet...

My roommates are gone for the weekend, so I may hook it up and give it a shot.

I am going to try and pick up some Vallejo reds tomorrow to give them a shot before I dip into the airbrushing though.


I need to learn to airbrush I know, lol

This Reaver is practice for my FW Warhound I have sitting in the bag beside it.