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What are you fielding the mushrooms as? (on the dwarf image)

vince1248 wrote:

For future projects, you might want to invest in a wet pallette as -I think- you can improve your painting even further by keeping your paints a little more moist. (in some cases, your paint appears a little thick, thereby obscuring the details a little)
Thinning down paints really help in allowing for more layers and a more smooth transsition from one colour to another.

But is it really always what you want? if you thin it down you MUST do multiple layers because its not thick enough, thus you need more time (and more time per model = less models)?
I always shied away from the wet-pallette so far because of this (and the effort to get/build one). on the other hand i've heard it so often now already that it helps to improve...



and to arctic dragon for your original post:
cool models and great inspiration for my own abyssal painting task. thanks!

@vince1248:

Thank you for the explanation. i will follow the tip with the well-wet brush and see if anything changes!
And you are right, what you describe is not more work than what I now usually do. But I can remember that when I started, I was already happy if I put one layer of paint on any spot the model and never wanted to touch that place again. painting over one spot 4 times? shading, drybrushing? not that I knew back then what that was, but the mere thought of not being done after one go: unbelievable!

Hi guys,
ok, time to start to show off some of my fruits of labour. I will start with 3 gargoyles that I did for my Kings of War: Vanguard Abyssals warband.

Here I experimented with nearly "only washing". Primed Grey (Vallejo), then a bit of Priming in white from the top for light effect (Army Painter), then all army painter washes (except for the belt and loin-cloth).

Yeah, additionally, i found it to be really enjoyable to paint it that way. i look forward to do that again with some models!

I think Mantic's emphasis on the Forces of Nature this week makes it necessary to show off some of my Forces of Nature models that are already finished.

Lets start with my two Naiads.

My druid is not yet finished, but I will dig out my 3 Shamblers of which I am very proud. The rest of my Forces of Nature forces is unfortunately from a manifacturer whose-name-shan't-be-mentioned.

Since the Vanguard Kickstarter Blaine sat unassembled on my shelves... but this week I will need him for my next campaign game...
Brown primer (Army Painter Leather Brown Spray), one or max 2 layers of paint and then different washes for different regions.