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Ouch. I'd say leave it till you're healed though, I'm betting painting a secured mini will feel very different, possibly causing further frustration.

Hope it's fine at the first check-up, rest easy and we'll just fill your thread with junk-talk till you're ready to post pics again

Depending on how long it will take to heal I am pretty sure that you can buy a vice that can be twisted and turned on a viariety of axis, allowing you to clamp in a model then turn it to face any that you need with just the one hand.... hell of a problem though

In an effort to stave off absolute boredom I decided to try and paint some stuff using my Airbrush. While I've used it for undercoating before the concept of fine control wasn't something I had tried, and bored as I was it seemed like a good idea at the time ^_^




Drawing heavily from Eggrolls Blood Angels I figured I'd give it a go with the red (Vent... Work with Red you say?! Surely not... And don't call me Shirley...) Overall I think its quite interesting, like anything, the more I use the airbrush, the better I get, and I think I require a few more squads before I'm fully comfortable with it. That being said, it is hellishly quick to do, so I imagine I'll be using it more for squad work...

I think the biggest thing I learned from today is too contrast the colors, go for a really large shift in colors to make things really pop. I think you could go from black to high end red if you wanted to and the effect would look pretty cool...

Dunno about the fine detail brush work and my hand yet... maybe in a couple of days... But yay! Painting!

Very nice! Eggroll strikes again lol -

There is something very molten about them in the pics, the red seems a little biased towards orange... All in all, the effect is actually quite cool though!

Thanks Tom

MajorTom11 wrote:Very nice! Eggroll strikes again lol -

Yes... Eggroll has motivated quite a few people on the forum, hasn't he...

MajorTom11 wrote:There is something very molten about them in the pics, the red seems a little biased towards orange... All in all, the effect is actually quite cool though!

The more I look at it the more I like the way the red has come up. I agree, it's a little orange, I'm playing around with some different brands of paint to see how things work... I might apply some wash to darken bits of it up... But I think when I add the other colors to the figures it'll change the look quite substantially...

OH, those are lovely vent....

I like em! Maybe you can get them all to that point (or further) with the AB and when your hand is all worky good again you can to the details.

Bummer about your hand man. You are right, those "just stop using it for anything" injuries are the worst.
One thing that might help a bit, when I broke my left thumb I put some washers in an old film canister and glued models to that. Holding onto the ~1 inch weighted canister with my gimped up hand and cast was much easier than anything else I tried.

Interesting, did you work up from a dark brown base to a bright red?

Thanks guys. I was just happy to paint something

Wehrkind wrote:Bummer about your hand man. You are right, those "just stop using it for anything" injuries are the worst.
One thing that might help a bit, when I broke my left thumb I put some washers in an old film canister and glued models to that. Holding onto the ~1 inch weighted canister with my gimped up hand and cast was much easier than anything else I tried.

Might give this a try. Cheers.

wyomingfox wrote:Interesting, did you work up from a dark brown base to a bright red?

There's quite a lot of playing around going on here. It was a red undercoat, then a bright red layer, then a mixed black and red and put some of that on there, then I did more red. I am thinking about getting some dark brown though

I find that dark browns work best as a base color for reds and greens. It applies much better over a black primer and provides a natural, more organic, base on which to build up from.

Day Two!

Not really day two, more like the accumulation of many small bits of painting as I've been giving my hand time to rest and recover over the past few days... The very fine detail work still escapes me as you'll notice from the helmet lenses, however they're passable for me




Done today:

- Helmet. Base coated with the Foundation yellow, heavily watered down. Then I've given it a few coats of really watered down wash to darken it and get into the corners. Almost 2:1 water to wash. This helps spread out the wash and you don't get those streaks. Only problem is the drying time, but hey, you can't have everything. Then I've gone over it again with the yellow and then added some bright yellow to the mix and gone over parts of it again. The Chalice on his helm was going to be gold and probably still will be, but it'll be lightened up quite a lot so there's a contrast between the yellow and gold.
- Wings. I went with White and Grey for the wings on his left shoulder. I was going to go with gold, but I like this enough and it's a good contrast, plus it's easy

Everything else is pretty standard for me.
Gold is boltgun > Dark Gold > Medium Gold > Orgyn Wash> Light Gold
Seals are Dark Green > Medium Green > Light Green (Still need to another green / yellow there)

To do:

- The armor needs touching up in places. Some of it looks messy as so I'll do that as well, this is more from my inexperience with my airbrush than anything else...
- The weapons! For the life of me I have no idea what to paint the housing of the flamer... Some of the GW stuff shows them as black for housing and silver for the internals, and I might try that, but I think a different kind of red might be nice? Opinions? Anyone?
- Gemstones! This one has a crap load of gemstones to do, and I'm not sure which colors to do. Fire gems or Green stones. You can see examples of either in the thread somewhere... Green is nice and makes a good contrast for the red, but he's a Blood Angel... And he's using a flamer! So maybe Fire gems? Gah... I'm not usually this indecisive...
- Jump pack lightning? Should I go with blue? Or would adding another color mess the balance up? Dunno... Batting a thousand today aren't I...

As you can tell I need help making some decisions, I'm a mess... And please note these color choices will be applied to the whole squad...

I like the black on the guns, but a color matching the aquilla (mine were bone or gold on vets) looks good as well. I think red might be to much red. That being said, I do like the red jems on them (as you say, they are blood angels), but at that point you really wouldn't want to do a red gun. I dunno if the lit jump pack matches your style, the charred look might work better for you, imo. Hope that was some help.

I am slightly annoyed you paint better than me with one hand, while not quite tied behind your back, out of commission.

whalemusic360 wrote:I like the black on the guns, but a color matching the aquilla (mine were bone or gold on vets) looks good as well. I think red might be to much red. That being said, I do like the red jems on them (as you say, they are blood angels), but at that point you really wouldn't want to do a red gun. I dunno if the lit jump pack matches your style, the charred look might work better for you, imo. Hope that was some help.

I am slightly annoyed you paint better than me with one hand, while not quite tied behind your back, out of commission.

Thanks Whale. Good advise. I dunno if I'll go for the gold plated flamer, but I nice yellow to match the helmet might be an option... Or maybe just black... Dunno...

Beautiful work on the marine vent. Man my airbrushing never looks that smooth... not to mention the brush work.

Couple of ideas spring to mind for the flamer that echo other elements in the model.

- treat the body of the flamer as you did the wings. light with very dark shadows & bright highlights
- make the flamer housing the same yellow as the helmet & the canister the same red as the rest of the armor
- push the flamer housing and canister further towards orange so the fill the color "gap" between the red armor and the yellow helmet

Really great work!

Well, I'll throw out yellow for the flamer and sword, a nice dark red for the canister and contrasting green for the gems. However, blackstone style red gems may well have enough contrast themselves.

And totally agree with WM on the one-handed paint job you bugger

Blamo... Rattled through the last few steps for the test miniature...



- I went with Firestone gems. Seemed more appropriate for some reason?
- Flamer housing is yellow, I thought about making the chainsword yellow as well, but black is better with the scroll on there...
- Simple flagstone painting for the base
- I'm trying a couple of new varnishes on his legs, so far shiny... much too shiny... But he will be well protected when I'm finished
- Jump pack engine thingies are just a progression of dark to light grays... Rather than glowing I wanted it to look well used...
- There's a tiny amount of wear / tear on the miniature. Mainly just his legs. I want them to look like they're going back into the field rather than in the midst of battle... Not sure why... Who can say how the dark recesses of my mind works... I do things on a whim

And that's all she wrote...Oh I don't like the photos very much, but the weathers going down the crapper and I can't find my lights...

Hey Vent,

I thought I had commented on thos airbrushed Marines... The colour gradients are outstanding !

And the latest test model looks great too, though as you mentioned, the varnish makes it look a bit shiny...

And I like the yellow casing for the flame pistol !

Yggdrasil wrote:Hey Vent,

I thought I had commented on thos airbrushed Marines... The colour gradients are outstanding !

And the latest test model looks great too, though as you mentioned, the varnish makes it look a bit shiny...

And I like the yellow casing for the flame pistol !

Thanks man. I'm in the process of hunting down some testors dullcoat... but its hard to find over here apparently?

Your Blood Angel looks stellar!
*looks away* you are making me want to paint them again

Hey vent! Looking great my friend.

Those gems are really excellent... the predominance of black with a hint of reds and the white highlight really counter and compliment the solid red of the armor nicely.

The goldish color around the gem on his right shoulder pad looks different somehow. Grainy & very cool. How did you paint it?

Thanks guys

Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:Your Blood Angel looks stellar!
*looks away* you are making me want to paint them again

Everyone should be painting!

Gitsplitta wrote:Hey vent! Looking great my friend.

Those gems are really excellent... the predominance of black with a hint of reds and the white highlight really counter and compliment the solid red of the armor nicely.

The goldish color around the gem on his right shoulder pad looks different somehow. Grainy & very cool. How did you paint it?

Three layers of gold over a Boltgun silver base. Then for the wash I added a very small pinch weathering powder and mixed it up so it was almost dry and applied it. Gives it a grainy, dirty gold look. Then to smooth a touch out I glazed the whole thing (Once it was completely dry) with sepia, twice... I'm not 100% certain I like the result, I was reading Starship Troopers and they were getting their 3rd LT pips, and the commandant was telling Birdie about the pip with the discoloration must never be buffed out... I wanted something similar

Heh, how's that for crazy reasoning

Great book. I like it vent (the look)... very unique.

The pre-order cost for Dreadfleet in the United Kingdom is $70 GBP. This converts to 133.34 NZD.

The pre-order cost for Dreadfleet in the USA is $115 USD. This converts to $138.75 NZD.

The pre-order cost for Dreadfleet in New Zealand is $220 NZD. This converts to $155.45 GBP.

I live in New Zealand

Will I be playing this game? No... No I will not...

Yeah she's 190 pre-order here in Oz as well and it's meant to be a rare game like Space Hulk but damn the boats are pretty.

I very much doubt I'll play it either.

Hows the hand and nice touches finishing off the assault marine.

Santobell wrote:Yeah she's 190 pre-order here in Oz as well and it's meant to be a rare game like Space Hulk but damn the boats are pretty.

I very much doubt I'll play it either.

Hows the hand and nice touches finishing off the assault marine.

Cheers Santobell.

Hand is pretty good, it gets tired from holding things and is still much weaker than normal, but from here on it's a time thing.

:sigh: These are the kind of threads that make me want to buy an airbrush.

Super smooth gradients you've got there, Vent. Keep it up!

Cheers,
Rawson

I'm not dead! No Really! I exist! Hehehe... Am I the slowest painter in the world? I think so... The Photos are ass... Sorry about that...





I was working at the Armageddon Pop Culture and there was Big Red Marvin; how could I resist?!

Hehe good to some pics, even better to know you are still amongst the living

Good to have you back vent! Assault marines are looking good (as usual). "Big Red" is quite impressive. Armageddon Pop Culture??