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Drop Trooper with Demo Charge




USA

I was curious if anyone has used oil paints to fill spaces in icons and such. I have seen videos on using oil paints with mineral spirits and flow agents to fill the spaces between armor panels but never to fill the space inside of a raised icon.
I'm wondering if using white oil paint in such a manner would work as a way to fill the inner circle of imperial fist shoulder pad upgrades. Would it be possible to just paint the entire icon the shades of black I desire and then "fill" the "blank space" inside the circle and around the fist with white?
Any info/tips/advice would be most helpful. I've nearly a company painted and have been waiting to get all the icons of their left shoulders done at once.
   
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That sounds like an awful idea I gotta be honest. There’s nothing about the qualities of oil paint that makes it a good filler, unless you enjoy waiting literal weeks for it to dry, and getting a weak finish that couldn’t sand.

I’d use something acrylic-based like gesso or gel medium or just regular old polyfilla or another unbranded bathroom filler. You get a bit of shrinkage so might need to do a couple of layers, but oil would be no different.

Or just milliput. Or Greenstuff. A bit confused as to why you’d want something else? Is there a special use-case here that I am not understanding?

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Brigadier General





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Why not use actual fillers?

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Frenzied Berserker Terminator




Southampton, UK

Think he's talking about doing an oil wash with white oil paint to paint all the recessed background bits of the embossed pauldrons. No idea if it's feasible I'm afraid.
   
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I think the question here is how much of the icon are you wanting to fill? do you just want an easy way of getting a bright white surround to the fist icon, or are you wanting to fill the circle up to the top surface of the raised detail?

Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!

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Thane of Dol Guldur





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This won't work the way youre envisioning I think. If I get your gist, you want to do the background field to the fist icon white, and want to use an oil wash to do this. Technically it could be done, but the washes will act like washes, and go into the recesses. It will take ages for the oil wash to build up enough.

For the effort it's worth you'd be better off just investing a little time to paint it in properly, in my opinion of course.

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Lord of the Fleet






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 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
This won't work the way youre envisioning I think. If I get your gist, you want to do the background field to the fist icon white, and want to use an oil wash to do this. Technically it could be done, but the washes will act like washes, and go into the recesses. It will take ages for the oil wash to build up enough.

For the effort it's worth you'd be better off just investing a little time to paint it in properly, in my opinion of course.


This. From my experience with oils, they'll tend to hold their surface tension more than acrylics in a small space like an emblem. Your best bet is just to paint the whole thing light grey, paint the emblem white (Vallejo Dead White is a good one), then just go over the details in black.
   
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Drop Trooper with Demo Charge




USA

Well that's unfortunate. I e tried to paint a few dozen by hand and they all looked terrible. My hands are too shaky to get a smooth line down. I'll have to experiment with a few things.
   
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Buttons Should Be Brass, Not Gold!






You can also lower the surface tension of acrylic paints by using flow aid and the like
   
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Deathwing Terminator with Assault Cannon






The only real way of getting good white in between is to paint the raised portion carefully.

Basecoat/prime in white, go over raised embossing with grey (or other better fitting medium tone) first to create a transitional layer then apply the your color carefully over the grey.

Washing with light color doesnt work quite the same as applying dark washes.

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Longtime Dakkanaut






White oil paint works great in recessed runes, especially followed with a transparent coloured layers on top. I wouldn't expect you getting a good result in a circle though.

If you want to be done quickly, you could use a stencil with holes matching the shoulder pads and airbrush the white, then come back in with a brush to catch any spillage on the pauldron until you got it running tight.

   
 
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