Comments Wanted!

[Duende]

My gallery

I\'ve noticed many of the photos here have public comments after them, most are helpful and offer some adivse or constructive criticism, some less so. I would love to have some helpful comments with my pics because according to my ratings, my paint jobs aren\'t awful but not spectacular either. If anyone can offer ideas for improvement, especially when painting mass figures at once (like a Guardian squad), I\'d very much appreciate it. Thanks!:duh:

 

[McCragge]

The best and fastest way to paint masses of troops is to pick a color schme that goes on with one coat. For example, green and blue usually are one coat paints. Where as Yellow and red take several coats to look halfway decent.

McCragge

 

[ZaPhOd]

Dude, don\'t hate me for this but I gotta call you on the blue and green. I also don\'t want to turn you plea for help Duende into a debate of shading and highlighting. I\'m not huge with the marines or mass armies, but if you have a particular pic in mind, drop me a note and I\'ll pour over it for you!

 

[McCragge]

It will take a lot more then that to make me angry

But in any case (Talking of massed armies only) It is easier and faster to paint darker colors such as Black, Blues, Purples, Greens, and dark Greys.

Comparitively, how many coats of paint do you have to apply to get Red, Yellow, White, or even Orange to go on nicely and evenly?

I will make it a point Duende to make constructive comments and helpful hints when ever I run across one of your submissions. But make sure you take what I say with a grain of salt as I am not the best painter on the block.

McCragge

 

[ZaPhOd]

Me too! Me too! Of course, I don\'t paint massive amounts of armies at once. I am a pure detail freak! I do see your point about the dark colors though

 

[Errex]

Ok, Goblin, here are my comments.

From what I saw at your gallery, I think that you should switch to GW\'s paints.

Armies like the Eldar benefit a lot from bright, clean colors. Even if you keep the same colour scheme, you\'ll see that the change of texture of the paint makes a noticeable difference.

Some of your exarchs look fairly well with the subdued color palette, but you seem to rely too heavily on drybrushing, wich is not at all suited for smooth surfaces like wraithbone armor.

Your conversions are well planned and most of all, make sense.

 

[Thri-Keen Priest]

One-Pass Colors

McCragge,
Are you talking about laying color on top of black primer? Coz I find that red, yellow, etc. go down fine over white primer.

 

[sivousplay]

Patience ...

So, I don\'t play any of the mass combat games, but an occassional need for a bunch of bad-guys requires painting a lot of the same thing, and the best advice I can give is be PATIENT. If you want your army of 25-50 figs to be done tomorrow or next week, it\'s only going to be so-so. You simply can\'t paint that many figures well in a short period of time, and man it get\'s real BORING doing it.

So, paint 3-5 this week, and 3-5 in a couple of weeks and do something else in between. Yeah, it\'ll take a couple of months to have 25-50 well painted miniatures, but I think you\'ll get something better in the long run and you won\'t rush at the end of some marathon paint session to \"just get it over with!!\"

your local paint psychologist,
jim

 

[McCragge]

Thri-Keen,

I never use black primer I always use either grey or white. But what I am trying to say is that in my experience (and I know it is different for everyone) That the lighter colors seem to be more translucent requiring more coats of paint. Where as the darker colors are more opaque, making one coat applications more likely.

Of course don\'t get me wrong, I am not trying to say don\'t use light colors for massed units, I just find darker colors faster.

McCragge

 

[nadinbrzezinski]

Two things, though you do blending very well... what is not helping, believe it or not, is the background.

The other thing that is not helping is the fact that there is almost no drybrusing on edges of armor where it can help to bring out detail. Yes that is more work.

Now on teh other hand, I wish I could do freehand as well as you can.

Now to the comment about paint... to be brutally honest, that is not the problem and I am guessing you are either using Vallego or Ceram-Coat, either very good choices. You might want to try inking with a very fine blush very fine areas, like borders, instead of the whole thing. For this I will sugest GW since they are darker. If you need soemthing that flows well, use Pro Paint. A good compromise is Pro Paint Ink extender with GW ink, or watered down GW ink.

Hope that helps!

Nadin