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I am so excited and happy right now. I love Drybrushing!.
I'm a relativity new painter, I really only started to get into 40K in January, and havn't built/painted too much. I've recently learned how and started to drybrush while painting my marines. They are a very bright colour scheme(mainly white, with silver trim). When I started to paint my Landspeeder, I wasn't sure how I would highlight/weather it. I decided to try some drybrushing it, and it ended up looking fairly decent. Made it look kind of damaged and dirty.
I apologize for the poor image quality, unfortunately my only camera is located within my cellphone....

If you love drybrushing you will certainly enjoy washing.

Try picking up some dev mud or badb black

I have all the washes, havn't used them much yet.

I remember drybrushing my first Necron after trying to paint them normally for like a week. I think I cried.

Drybrushing is awesome

I pretty much only use it, while you can't rely on it for everything (faces for example) it's pretty good for stuff like blending.

Ordo Dakka wrote:I remember drybrushing my first Necron after trying to paint them normally for like a week. I think I cried.

Truly, a correctly drybrushed Necron is a beautiful thing.

Ahh yes, I remember learning to Dry brush on some Gondor Soldier way back when. Ah good times... But their dead now...

My poor dry brush gets quite the workout. Keep up the good work.

This is probably one upside of metal miniatures. They tend to have a better texture to do this with. (The plastics are getting very good, though)

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ummm sorry to sound like a complete loser but i am new to painting... what is drybrushing? i hear that word thrown around a lot...

stompydakka wrote:ummm sorry to sound like a complete loser but i am new to painting... what is drybrushing? i hear that word thrown around a lot...

Being new to something, and not knowing everything doesn't make you a looser.

Drybrushing is a technique where you use a completely dry brush, no moisture at all(didn't see that one coming.....). You then put some paint on it, and wipe most of it off onto a paper towel or something, so what remains on the bristles is almost like a paint dust. If you run the brush across your finger tip, and you only apply paint to the top of your fingerprints, then you have the correct amount, if you get the grooves as well, that would be too much paint. Then you brush your model. It's best used for highlighting, or to "dirty" something up.

stompydakka wrote:ummm sorry to sound like a complete loser but i am new to painting

At one point, so was every single person in this community, no exceptions. So don't ever feel bad about that. Playing Tau, now that's something to feel bad about.

Just make sure you remember that dry brushing DESTROYS your brush, so if you're going to use dry brushing as a regular technique (I'm currently repainting 4k points of Necrons using dry brushing as my primary technique) then you should have brushes that are only for dry brushing and nothing else, and never use a brush for dry brushing that you want to use for something else.

Way back when I used to use the same size brush for everything (1 for details, 1 for drybrushing etc...) but since coming back to the hobby a year or so ago and discovering the GW purpose made drybrushes it's brought my painting (such as it is) on leaps & bounds! So I can't endorse those brushes enough; the short wide head is SO much better that trying to use an 0 or a 00! If you're new to drybrushing and haven't got one I'd recommend you go out and part with a few of your hard earned on one!

The GW dry brushes work pretty well but if you're not after spending more money, old paint brushes where the bristles have frayed tend to work quite well too!