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Hi Guys, I thought I'd list all of my tutorials here in case any of them are of any use to someone, let me know any feedback on them or the format, I didn't want to spam this forum with 20 at once so instead I've copied my hyperlinked index page - if you think there's a better way for me to do it without clogging up the forum please let me know!

I'm open to all types of criticism, whether it is on the techniques used or my terrible grammar and grasp of the English language!- I'll only improve via your thoughts

Cheers,

Byron

Tutorial Index:

If you cannot see the one you're after please make a post and I'll pop it on the list of requests.

Equipment Reviews/guides
My airbrush set up + a brief buyers guide

Combined Tutorials - Multiple Recipes

The Basing Bible - Basing Schemes
The Metal Bible - Metallic Schemes

Metallic tutorials
Slaanesh Steel
Dark Steel


Basing Tutorials
Light Planking/Decking
Frontier Town Planking
Southland Swamp
Ellyrian Plains


Sculpting Tutorials:
How to Sculpt Chain Mail
How to Sculpt Scale Mail

Construction/converting tutorials
How to Make Planking Bases

Painting Tutorials (everything else):

1 Day Daemons: High Standard Speed Painting
How to Paint Daemonettes
How to Paint Nurglings
How to Paint Plaguebearers
How to Paint Screamers


Speed Painting (Army Production)
Army Basing
How to Paint Necron Infantry
How to Magnetise Bases
How to Pin Models

Scenery Painting/Basing
How to Paint Planking Bases/Wood (Multiple tutorials)
How to Paint Buildings: Dreadstone Blight (+water effects)
How to Paint Buildings: Skullvane Manse
How to Paint Skyshield Landing Pad


Others
Basing start to finish + making Reeds
Colour Sequencing/Airbrushing Vehicles (Necron annihilation Barge)
Multi Stage Pre-highlighting and Hybrid Glazes
How to Paint Ogres
How to Paint a Flamespyre Phoenix (Airbrush Heavy)
How to Paint Flesh
How to Paint Gore/Blood
Making Model holders
How to Paint Paint Rust and Chipped Metal
How to Make Snow Effects
How to: Stencilling Banners
How to Paint Stringy Gore/Blood
How to Paint an Ogre Thundertusk
How to Paint Thunderwolves/Fur
How to Paint Verdigris+Metallics

Exalted, thanks for these.

 Nightfall wrote:
Exalted, thanks for these.

Cheers nightfall

Here's another: this one is a fairly big one - a step by step of how I painted my plaguebearers, it's fairly similar to the nurgling one but a lot a few people asked how I did them, and I had the pictures so it would have been pretty rude not to oblige!

How to Paint Plaguebearers

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Great work, thanks for putting these up!

Post exalted (whatever that does)..

Awesome stuff. Just make sure you put the [LINK] after the thread's name.

Jaeger wulf wrote:Great work, thanks for putting these up!

Post exalted (whatever that does)..

I assume it's good, cheers Jaeger!

Far Seer wrote:Awesome stuff. Just make sure you put the [LINK] after the thread's name.

Thanks Far Seer, do you mean after each in the first post? (IT Ineptitude showing itself here ).


I've written a little How to Pin Models toturial, nothing majorly exciting, but something that I use almost daily, so maybe it'll be of some use to people.



I've also got one on how to paint a skyshield landing pad due in the next few days, I really had fun painting it, love scenery!

Hello again guys, another tutorial is up: How to Paint Skyshield Landing Pad - in this I've covered how to approach painting metallics efficiently on a large scale mini such as this one (and my god is it huge!).



As ever any feedback or requests for other tutorials let me know.

Thank you for all your hard work

Lots of time saving tips! I've seen the wash for color approach before and it works really well on some models, especially with sickly skin. I'm wondering how that approach would look on cultist's as I have a ton of them!

Incredible tips. every painter on Dakka should exalt this, and it should be pinned for all to see.

This is seriously a fantastic collection of tutorials mate! Thank you so much posting them, they are great exalted

That's a great list of hints and tips - thanks I'll be putting some of these into action

One thing - how do you get such good flat metallic bronzes? Mine always come out way too bright or too messy (I'm using P3 or Vallejo - but not having much fun with either)

Apologies for the delayed response guys, especially after the kind words, hopefully the new tutorials will go some way to make up for my bad manners!

Bobakos wrote:Thank you for all your hard work

Not at all, I'm just happy to see people getting some use out of them, makes it worth it!

decoste007xt wrote:Lots of time saving tips! I've seen the wash for color approach before and it works really well on some models, especially with sickly skin. I'm wondering how that approach would look on cultist's as I have a ton of them!

I think it'd come out pretty nicely! One of my painting heroes uses them a lot, and his came out really well:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/316273?browseid=3323774

ENOZONE wrote:Incredible tips. every painter on Dakka should exalt this, and it should be pinned for all to see.

This has made my day Thank you so much!

celeborn wrote:This is seriously a fantastic collection of tutorials mate! Thank you so much posting them, they are great exalted

I have no idea what this exalting stuff does but thanks, as I've sad before the time is easily worth it if can help a few people out with their speed-hobbying!

SoulDrinker wrote:That's a great list of hints and tips - thanks I'll be putting some of these into action

One thing - how do you get such good flat metallic bronzes? Mine always come out way too bright or too messy (I'm using P3 or Vallejo - but not having much fun with either)

Thanks soul drinker! I either use the vallejo liquid gold (alcohol based paint, I use it in my dreadstone blight tutorial), or i mix brown with gold for the base, in either case I always wash over with sepia+a little brown painter afterwards, I use this method on my skullcrushers in the latest tutorial .



Two new tutorials guys:
How to Paint Skullcrushers of Khorne

How to Paint Stringy Gore/Blood

These are really great, I really like how you lay them out. I will be using these soon, I hope.

Thank you very much.

These are simply fantastic. I'll admit I was hoping for a guide on human flesh tones when I read the flesh guide, but that's more a problem with me than with the tutorial itself.

In short, simply fantastic. I'm exalting the crap out of this.

Da Boss wrote:These are really great, I really like how you lay them out. I will be using these soon, I hope.

Thank you very much.

You're most welcome matey .

grayshadow87 wrote:These are simply fantastic. I'll admit I was hoping for a guide on human flesh tones when I read the flesh guide, but that's more a problem with me than with the tutorial itself.

In short, simply fantastic. I'm exalting the crap out of this.

Reading this made my day, as you can see I have neglected to check back in a while unfortunately, thanks mate!

I've done a couple of new tutorials:

Multi-Stage Pre-Highlights and Hybrid Glazes (not nearly as pretentious or complicated as it sounds, I promise!)


And secondly a short guide about buying an airbrush and compressor/my airbrush set up, which I've had a lot of questions about (I wrote it for the store,)

Airbrush Article

These are great, thanks for compiling them into one thread.

My I ask what the a alcohol does to the paints? I notice you use gin quite a lot and wondered why? It achieves a fantastic result and I'd like to know a little more behind the reasoning.

Lilloser

 LilLoser wrote:
These are great, thanks for compiling them into one thread.

My I ask what the a alcohol does to the paints? I notice you use gin quite a lot and wondered why? It achieves a fantastic result and I'd like to know a little more behind the reasoning.

Lilloser

Cheers bud, of course you may!

Basically it thins paint, not only does it do this better than water, but the mix will actually dry faster (a bonus in most situations, but a negative in some) on the mini also.

You don't want to use 100% though! Dilute it or just use cheap booze like I do

Hi chaps, I've written a couple more tutorials (click picture for link):

How to paint planking bases:


How to make planking bases:


As ever all feedback welcome!

how to paint planking bases (part 2):

Byronic, thank you for your tuts.

I have been using the pre highlighting / glaze method a bit recently. I however have no glaze medium by vallejo yet. I have been doing a poor man's version until I get some medium today.

In any case, how would you suggest glazing metallic models or parts of models that you have pre highlighted? do you just make a glaze of silver paint and glaze medium?


2nd question, do you every dry brush white onto the glazed models while they are wet? I stumbled on a "wet blending" technique thanks to your tut! (no glaze medium so once i glazed in guilliman blue by GW, I dry brushed white on the still wet model and was very impressed)

skyfi wrote:
Byronic, thank you for your tuts.

I have been using the pre highlighting / glaze method a bit recently. I however have no glaze medium by vallejo yet. I have been doing a poor man's version until I get some medium today.

In any case, how would you suggest glazing metallic models or parts of models that you have pre highlighted? do you just make a glaze of silver paint and glaze medium?


2nd question, do you every dry brush white onto the glazed models while they are wet? I stumbled on a "wet blending" technique thanks to your tut! (no glaze medium so once i glazed in guilliman blue by GW, I dry brushed white on the still wet model and was very impressed)

I am definitely going to try that drybrushing out! Do you have any pictures to show?

Vallejo make a product called 'Metal (or metallic) medium, take a looky - Metal Medium which I think may be perfect for your uses!

My apologies for the delayed response, my laptop died!


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Hi guys 'n' gals, I've done a couple new tutorials!

How to Paint a Flamespyre Phoenix (Airbrush Heavy)




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Hi Guys, I've just added a Painting Swamp Bases tutorial.



And also an Ellyrian Plains tutorial.

Thanks byronic! That is exactly what I was looking for!


Here are some photos.

I initially primed black and overspraeyd in a zenithal highlight with gray and then less with white and when applied glaze it didn't provide enough color (there wasnt enough gray or white and the highlights were not nearly contrasting enough. It was my first attempt at the hybrid glaze method. I had better results with my spider rider attempts which I'll have to post at another time because the only pic I have is very rough/unfinished and doesn't show the technique.


here is the blue glaze over the zenith highlighting with skull white drybrushed on while glaze wet: (sorry for the lighting in that one pic, im not a great photographer, mucho room for improvement!)








Thanks again for the tutorials! very helpful!

Dipping tutorial is up:

skyfi wrote:
Thanks byronic! That is exactly what I was looking for!


Here are some photos.

I initially primed black and overspraeyd in a zenithal highlight with gray and then less with white and when applied glaze it didn't provide enough color (there wasnt enough gray or white and the highlights were not nearly contrasting enough. It was my first attempt at the hybrid glaze method. I had better results with my spider rider attempts which I'll have to post at another time because the only pic I have is very rough/unfinished and doesn't show the technique.


here is the blue glaze over the zenith highlighting with skull white drybrushed on while glaze wet: (sorry for the lighting in that one pic, im not a great photographer, mucho room for improvement!)

Cheers mate, and thanks for the photos, always helpful in explaining!

It looks like it may be a cool technique for 'soft' looking surfaces, I'll have to give it a test next time I'm painting cloth or something, I just need to start an army of monks!

Byron

Awesome, some great guides on here!

I don't suppose, since you've done a Flamespyre Phoenix, you could do a guide for a Frostheart too? Pretty please?

 The Shadow wrote:
Awesome, some great guides on here!

I don't suppose, since you've done a Flamespyre Phoenix, you could do a guide for a Frostheart too? Pretty please?

Thanks very much mate, unfortunately not, unless someone asks me to paint one on commission/gives me one for free or something , which is a shame because I'd love to do one!

However I'd be doing it pretty much exactly the same way that I did my screamers, if you combine the Flamespyre and Screamer tutorials, taking the colours from one and the methods from the other that'd be the way I would go.

I hope that's of some help - the screamers are an effective looking unit so I think it'd look swanky on a larger scale!

Byronic wrote:

 The Shadow wrote:
Awesome, some great guides on here!

I don't suppose, since you've done a Flamespyre Phoenix, you could do a guide for a Frostheart too? Pretty please?

Thanks very much mate, unfortunately not, unless someone asks me to paint one on commission/gives me one for free or something , which is a shame because I'd love to do one!

However I'd be doing it pretty much exactly the same way that I did my screamers, if you combine the Flamespyre and Screamer tutorials, taking the colours from one and the methods from the other that'd be the way I would go.

I hope that's of some help - the screamers are an effective looking unit so I think it'd look swanky on a larger scale!

Yeah, that has helped, I'll try doing that. Thanks

I've written a tutorial for the Plague Drones I recently painted, another lovely nurgle kit from GW, only complaint is the gap between the two pieces that make up the body. Once that's been dealt with they're great to paint!


How to Paint Plague Drones

Another good guide!