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Tale of Painters blog has a pretty good rundown of the new paints. They use all of them on a skeleton warrior to varying effects.

http://taleofpainters.blogspot.com/2013/11/review-citadel-technical-paints.html

You can not do a thin layer like you would with normal paints. This technical paint requires a thick layer in order to get the effect to work. I also used a hair dryer on low to help speed up the drying (The GW video said to wait a hour for normal drying), with that it took about 5 minutes. Here is the result of the one base I've tried it on so far.

Just bought Blood for the Blood God. I plan on painting some ghouls I ordered from Heresy in the near-future. I'll report back how they perform.

--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com

Thanks for the suggestion about the Agrellan Earth,

sadly I've tried thick (and really thick) layers of paint an not a crack to be seen

ho-hum I'll try again and return it if it still does not perform

I got some blood for the blood god, ryzax rust, and the corrosion one that goes with ryzax rust, so far I've just used the blood for the blood god with some nice results.

Looks like it's the UK batches that are messing up. One of the lads who I game with tried it thick, thin, base coated, straight on plastic etc but they all came out the same. Just a brown base with no cracks


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Niexist wrote:
I got some blood for the blood god, ryzax rust, and the corrosion one that goes with ryzax rust, so far I've just used the blood for the blood god with some nice results.

What's the end result like?

I usually use Tamiya clear red with nuln oil 70/30 to achieve a glossy, deep blood red finish. Are these any good?

I played with a few of these the other day, other than the cracking effect none of them seemed like anything you couldn't do with the same colour paint, a glaze and water.

Not bad since you have it all pre made for you but I wouldn't buy any of it over vejlleo (no idea how to spell that without a pot in front of me :/).

Ok, that is rather awesome looking.

I make no claim to be a great painter, but here are my results.

Here is my first use of blood for the blood god on belials sword, I'm still trying to figure the best way to apply it with blunt weapons like thunder hammers.



Here is the usage of the other 2 that are meant to be used together, the corrosion and rust. I maybe over did it with the rust a bit, let me know what you think.




Any suggestions are appreciated, but I think these are very cool and once again help us noobish painters to add something awesome looking.

wow. thats a realy solid rust effect. I'm realy gonna have to get me some of these.

Shame they didn't also release a "Mud for the Mud God" paint... it's been a while since they've displayed a sense of humour in the paint names.

I really like the base cracking effect but I question how sturdy that would be, it seems like it would be very brittle.

Planning on picking up some of the blood technical this week for my forgeworld bloodthirster that I'm nearly finished with

I plan on trying a few ways to keep it set. I've seen people already trying PVA glue mixed with water for good results. Going to try dull coat too, see which holds up better. It seemed pretty sturdy on its own for a display model, but for a gaming model it will definitely need a coat of something to hold it on.

The How To video sold me on Blood for the Blood God. Ordered.

The instruction videos that GW did are indeed quite informative and helpful, I'm sold on two or three of these as well.

The Nurgles Rot one smells really bad though.

 The Grumpy Eldar wrote:
The Nurgles Rot one smells really bad though.

BrotherVord wrote:
I really like the base cracking effect but I question how sturdy that would be, it seems like it would be very brittle.

Planning on picking up some of the blood technical this week for my forgeworld bloodthirster that I'm nearly finished with

Im in that same boat, I know how to do burn effect make up art on people with corn starch and after a while it just flakes right off. Plus, they never try and highlight it, it just looks bland.

Niexist wrote:
I make no claim to be a great painter, but here are my results.

Here is my first use of blood for the blood god on belials sword, I'm still trying to figure the best way to apply it with blunt weapons like thunder hammers.

Spoiler:

Here is the usage of the other 2 that are meant to be used together, the corrosion and rust. I maybe over did it with the rust a bit, let me know what you think.

Spoiler:

Any suggestions are appreciated, but I think these are very cool and once again help us noobish painters to add something awesome looking.

The blood is looking good! Thanks for the pics, it's appreciated. I like that 'fresh' quality it has to it, and the rust looks great, too. I'm hoping the Nihilakh Oxide works well

Niexist wrote:
I make no claim to be a great painter, but here are my results.

Here is my first use of blood for the blood god on belials sword, I'm still trying to figure the best way to apply it with blunt weapons like thunder hammers.
Any suggestions are appreciated, but I think these are very cool and once again help us noobish painters to add something awesome looking.

Looking good. Maybe "bang" the end of the hammer into a small amount of B4tBG to create an impact point, and then do the "splatter" effect he showed around the impact point?

Ok, I have to get one of these today.....and people say GW paints suck

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Ok, I have to get one of these today.....and people say GW paints suck

A lot of people prefer the dropper bottles that Reaper and Valejo use, and I personally hate the GW flip-top pots, but few people say that the actual GW paints suck.

I got some aggrellan eath. Lets see how it does

Ordered 1 of each. Should be interesting!

Put in an order for blood, rust and corrosion myself, would be grand to have a quick and easy way to weather vehicles.

Actually pretty impressed by the Nurgle's Rot and especially the Agrellan Earth.

Agrellan Earth and Typhus Corrosion are quite interesting, but the fixed colors are very... limiting, which is a shame. I'll be sticking to the Liquitex effects for the most part.
And after seeing BFTBG in person, I really don't think it compares with Tamiya Clear Red, except for being much easier to get a hold of.

I wonder if you could tint the cracked earth paint with something like a vallejo ink and it still set and crack?

It looks good in the pics posted in this thread, but its just one colour, I was thinking grey/black ink for urban , even red for a different type of planet perhaps, I'll have to get some and experiment.

As an aside, adding Vallejjo/Windsor Newton or whatever your local art shop sells glaze medium to any blood red paint gives the same effect as that paint,add in a little gloss varnish to the mix for that wet look fresh blood.

You supposedly can mix in ink our paint to the earth effect and it will change the color but still crackle. I have not tried it myself yet. The brown works for me theme so I'm not too worried. After I base my necrons i can try some different colors.

I have a GW Voucher that I struggle to get rid of. These just might be something to look into.

The cracked earth one would look great with some sand sprinkled on top.

Edit: No sleep + spelling = pissed off internet-people