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Gitsplitta wrote:

Ramos Asura wrote:What do you use to mix your paints in (color mixes as well as thinning) before putting them in the airbrush?

I mix them in the little bowl on top of my airbrush.

Aha!
I had considered that, but feared it might somehow damage/mess up the brush.
You just do all of it in there? Any specific order or...?

Pesky magic space phone...
Hey, loving the zenithal highlights - fancy doing a wee Gits tutorial?

Yeah for Lamenters!

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@Ramos: I guess I usually go darker to lighter. I don't usually do the whole thing in one continuous go as it makes the brush harder to clean, so if I'm doing a shading I'll do half, then clean the brush, then the other half. Actually what I did here was a main color base coat and then a dark shade, then a light shade... but that's not quite the right way to go about it.

@graven: I could do a tut, but honestly you want to see this video by ScaleModelMedic... Color Modulation Part 1 . It's better than anything I could put together and they guy is a very good communicator/teacher. My technique is a pale imitation of his.

Did something neat on the back of the vehicles... just a little thing but I like it. Will post status tonight. I hope to get many of the details done, especially around the turret main hull.

The weathering I used on my c.a.t for example was just a simple sprue sponge. Size of dings can be controlled with the amount of paint loaded/ tearing up a few sides of the sponge to roughen it and 'spottify' the coverage. I saw this on CMdante's IG trooper, tried, and loved. Then mixing that secondary lighter color in that is close in tone to the mid/highlight colors is something I tried on the c.a.t and I am really happy with the subtlety it added in.

Seriously though, you are a big inspiration for me to get out the airbrush sooner than later! Great work gits! Are you going to try marines themselves next???

Jesus this log got big!

@MajorTom11: Actually I'll need to do the Iron Clad next because that's the last thing I need done in order to start practicing with the army. I can proxy the troopers for now, though whenever Whalemusic gets them done (he's the builder extraordinare) I'll get to work on those.

Those tanks are beyond awesomely awesome! Wow, I wish I had an airbrush. Such great contrast, colors etc, just wow.

Hey Git,

Iv got to say how impressed i am with the lighting on the tank, it really is beautiful. Love the contrast and shading. Not to say the rest of you stuff isn't equally as good (which it clearly is).

This thread is always full of great new stuff, keep it up! I cant wait to see more.

Thanks bunnygirl. You too can have your own vehicle magic brush y if you have the scheckles for it!

Hey Hits. Nice to see you. Didn't know you followed the blog. That's high praise from someone of our painting and modeling skills... thank you!

Here is today's offering. You'd never know it but I pretty much painted all day. Depressing how little progress I made. Like a dummy I didn't evenly finish both vehicles, so parts are done on one while other parts are done on the other. I liked the recesses and joints with dilute thraka green, worked on the turrets, made cool little tail light deelybobs, adjusted the color of the tank that was too lime green, etc.

OOOoooOOoooo pretty...

One note, though... the yellow lights on the bumper don't fade-to-black quite as smoothly as the red ones... just a little nit picky.

o_O

Very nice!

That'll look awsome on the tabletop!

Very nice! Still totally vote yellow on that front strip of the gun shield!

Love the back end with the taillights and the hazard stripes...however it kinda looks like a face to me. o_O Not that that's a bad thing. =D

Looking good, like the tail end. Will you be adding something to the license plate?

Paint the reg. number of your car onto it!
And paint your car green with yellow doors!

Very nice gits the tanks and group shot look great i think i like the single hatch better though but gotta love the back end with the hazards and the exhaust....not that surprised that im gone for a day and the blog grows another page n a half lol

love the tank but the red bits on the turrent are llooking kind of meh. is that one part that isnt finished? too me it lacks something but i cant put my finger on it

fatty wrote:love the tank but the red bits on the turrent are llooking kind of meh. is that one part that isnt finished? too me it lacks something but i cant put my finger on it

I'm going to agree with fatty on that one. I think the plasma guns should be purple like how you painted Inushi's.

Other then that nitpick, I think it is turning out awesome.

Reminder... WIP shots... not done yet.

I'll do some yellow trim and metallic reinforcing plating next, then we'll see how she looks.

Are you planning on adding any battle damage/weathering etc?

P.s. Iv been watching this thread for quite a while now, and you too kind.

I think so. Even with the details and the nice shading they're pretty plain looking. A bit of weathering would look nice on them... just something I don't have experience in so I have to gin up the nerve to do it.

Sort of like the airbrushing actually.

How about a sign that says "mind your head."

Well if your first attempts at airbrushing are anything to go by, i would say that you don't have anything to worry about when it comes to weathering.

What kind of technique do you have in mind?

Well, I really love grey_death's Sons of Medusa and the weathering he used for them. It's the sponge method... even saw a tutorial he did for it once (off dakka I think). The trick I think, is to get the right sized sponge and to get your beat up areas in the right places on the model. We'll see.

this only gets better and better

Gitsplitta wrote:It's the sponge method... even saw a tutorial he did for it once

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/224015.page#1623877

That's it! Thanks Shrike, got it bookmarked now.

Crazy work Gits! I float into the ether for a weekend and theres almost 3 pages of posts and updates. Awesome! You've definately upped my confidence in getting an air brush.. you're achieving great results... now to find 50 odd practice necrons..

So.. I was making some chain weaponry and thought I'd have a quick bash at the katana idea (mostly as a sh*ts and giggles idea).. you'll probably want to click on them and hit the gallery for some zoom action (kinda hard to see the shaping on the blade). Keep in mind I still need to do a lot of greenstuffing (power node(s) on the blade, end cap of the hilt and possibly detailing on the tsuba). Which tsuba is preference? Then I can put it together and work on the rest of it.

Bits..

Bits with comparison to the normal power swords..


PS - Love the tail lights.