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Good luck with this! If you pull it off it will look epic!
Have you thought about using pearlescent medium? I haven't used it myself but a few people on Dakka have in the past, that would really add to the crystalline sheen you're trying to achieve?
And that is why you hear people yelling FOR THE EMPEROR rather than FOR LOGICAL AND QUANTIFIABLE BASED DECISIONS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE MAJORITY!
Phototoxin wrote:Kids go in , they waste tonnes of money on marnus calgar and his landraider, the slaneshi-like GW revel at this lust and short term profit margin pleasure. Meanwhile father time and cunning lord tzeentch whisper 'our games are better AND cheaper' and then players leave for mantic and warmahordes.
daveNYC wrote:The Craftworld guys, who are such stick-in-the-muds that they manage to make the Ultramarines look like an Ibiza nightclub that spiked its Red Bull with LSD.
Generalian wrote:Right now though my biggest problem is that I dont have a spray gun...
I've only ever seen that effect done with airbrushes. Unless you feel like forking out the cash for one (even a cheap plastic T-shirt brush and a can of air is likely to run you around $50, according to my last trip through a craft store), your options are prayer and spraypaint or blending. You could try meticulous layering or very careful wet-blending, as watery paint doesn't play well with masked lines (just loves to creep under those edges, even burnished ones). Oil paints would make your life easier if trying to blend, but that's another something you're not likely to have laying around the house, so more $$$ and practice.
I think I'd grab a can of whatever spray I had laying around and see what sort of feathering you can get on a scrap of paper or cardboard. If the gradient is remotely even, with some thorough masking and a can of light blue, you should be able to pull it off.
The Dreadnote wrote:But the Emperor already has a shrine, in the form of your local Games Workshop. You honour him by sacrificing your money to the plastic effigies of his warriors. In time, your devotion will be rewarded with the gift of having even more effigies to worship.
you know an airbrush wouldn't be a bad idea, i found a good kit at www.airbrushcompressorshop.co.uk for about £100. it comes with an airbrush, compressor with moisture trap, and air hose. it hasn't failed me in a year
Be on the lookout for nail guns on special offer as they sometimes come with a compressor with storage tank which would be more compressed air than you would ever need for an air gun but will work out cheaper than bottled air in the long run.. I found a nail gun + compressor combo on special offer 6 or 7 months ago that was £20 cheaper than just the compressor itself...
An airbrush would work fine for scales IF you make a template to spray over that you just move down as you complete each row of scales.
"Bryan always said that if the studio ever had to mix with the manufacturing and sales part of the business it would destroy the studio. And I have to say – he wasn’t wrong there! ... It’s become the promotions department of a toy company." -- Rick Priestly
