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Hello Dakka,

I recently got a Riptide for my birthday and I was looking for some help painting it. In the past when I painted things like a hammer head or other large models I kept getting brushstrokes showing through layers of paint with bright colors.
I am looking for some help on how to paint large surfaces with out it looking gloppy or have brush strokes showing up with out the use of an airbrush.
Also how can you get real clean edge highlighting on the individual plates? Is that done through masking?

Many layers of thin paint. But here is the trick: Don't apply each layer in the same direction. Make your brush-strokes in different directions every couple of layers.

Hope this helps.

Try watering the paint down and applying maybe 2 or 3 layers, just take your time over it. Or if you have one an airbrush is your best option.

Ladies "make up" sponges. Softest available. Gentle strokes.

I am for real here.

Or airbrush.



Cheers

/edit: image added. to avioid confusion.

another option for your basecoat is simply to get a bigger brush...
bigger brush=less/broader strokes...

cheers
jah

Thin your paint, for the fist coat, it may look like tron. keep building it up. Don't ever EVER stop between coats.


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edge highlight paint must be thinned and run your brush into a flat edge along the palette. take your time, deal with thick highlights quickly.

Spray... spraying is the answer! Gives the thinnest, most even coat possible.

Failing spray, get a larger brush, and thin the paint quite a bit, then remove all excess paint from the brush (they hold a fair amount) befor eyou take the brush tot he model, as it floods out of the brush and pools up into details when its this thin.

Let each coat fully dry before going onto the next.

If your paint is adequately thin, changing brush stroke direction wont matter because there will not be any brush strokes. If there is brush marks, the paint was too thick simple as that.

...this should be regular practise for all models really... not just large ones.

Thanks for the sugestions, I did more or less a combination of all during various stages.

 boredbeard wrote:
Ladies "make up" sponges. Softest available. Gentle strokes.

I am for real here.

Or airbrush.



Cheers

/edit: image added. to avioid confusion.

This seemed to be the easiest one, with thin layers and thinned paint this has become my new favorite tool.
Thank you for your responses, Ill post some photos when its done.

how about an airbrush?

Other than that, a Wash brush would be good.