Wyrmypops
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Can't be alone in having one of those moments. Where you come across a paint that makes you excited. As if you've stumbled upon a treasure trove, or something.
Had that with the old GW Fiery Orange. A surprisingly strong paint amongst a glut of weak ones in the yellow to red ranges. Proved great as a strong basecoat for the weaker paints to go over. A good highlight for red. Even proved useful when the yellow paints remained unsatisfying, as Fiery Orange blended to White, topped with a yellow wash made for a juicy yellow.
Their Bubonic Brown has been equally useful. Adds so many options. A shade for white. A highlight for any number of the darker browns, each of those ending up with a different result to those browns highlighted with white.
P3's Coal Black was a pleasent surprise too. Expected something more black. Instead, got a dark turquoise. Ideal for highlighting black with. Dark turquoise not really being a thing we notice every day (unlike dark blue), nor being pure grey which of course looks artificial - it tricks the mind in seeing a highlighted black rather than a dark blue or grey. Finding this paint cut out a lot of tedious mixing of Black/Turquoise/White.
Lately enjoying P3's Brown Ink. Tend to pick up a brown ink in most ranges, with the grungyness a brown can add to anything, and the variety in "browns" being made up of opposite colours of the myriad types and varying amount of component parts throwing up so many different browns. P3's brown ink is a particular fave. It's a more reddish hue than most. Tis proving a go to ink for quite a few situations. Shading red, adding further variety to browns, and currently alongside some Tamiya Red is injecting some dried blood effect on the zombies many of us have a great deal of.
A few people here about mentioned the superior quality of the Vallejo Model metallics. Based on those recommendations I've had a great time enjoying those. The finer metallic flecks are quite noticable.
A friend wondered if the viscosity of the Model Air metallics would be useful for applying the smooth highlights to True Metallic Metals we enjoy on non-metallic areas of the mini. Tried that, and proved to be the case. With those, can render as smooth a gradient as we can slap down on a cloth textured part of the mini.
Someone hereabouts mentioned the Lifecolour Flesh Paint Set a time ago. Had always been unsatisfied by the flesh paints I'd used before. Any given flesh paint being a mix tinted heavily towards red or yellow, it can be difficult to maintain a dark to light gradient with different paints without the red/yellow aspect changing along the gradients.
The Lifecolor set has a pair of triads. #1 is quite clean, while #2 is more ruddy. Quite a joy to use, the way the shade/base/highlight paints relate to each other so well.
Anticipating painting a lot of flesh (with the Redbox kickstarter) have since picked up a second box. Intending mixing up some pots of tones between the three triads to facilitate even easier and more standard transitions.
While I was persuing the Model Air metallics I noticed a metallic red. This is rare. All too often adding metallic flecks to a red results in a metallic pink. This one is alright though, it actually looks red. With some of the Dark Vengeance chaos badboys in the queue to be painted I dug this out with a view to make a fancy looking Khornate chap. Experimenting on a spare shield to judge it's qualities it apppears it should serve amongst the lighter parts of the intended areas. Keeping a strong base red down on the lower parts, this paint should make the 60-95% stages of the gradient exciting. The last 5% with some silver added could make it really pop. Might well make red a more varied thing to paint.
Purple is a bugger. Like the flesh tones, they're a mix. Some purples are more blue, some more red. Hard to get a hapy gradient going from dark to ligh without the blue/red proportions going wonky. As persevering with a pair of Reaper Triads. I'm not too happy with the strength fo their coverage as they seem to want to rub off the mini at the slightest opportunity, but an Indigo triad is rather satisfying as can the Violet triad be occasionally too.
Anyone else any "oooh" paints? Surprising finds, go-to paints and general joyousness?
Had that with the old GW Fiery Orange. A surprisingly strong paint amongst a glut of weak ones in the yellow to red ranges. Proved great as a strong basecoat for the weaker paints to go over. A good highlight for red. Even proved useful when the yellow paints remained unsatisfying, as Fiery Orange blended to White, topped with a yellow wash made for a juicy yellow.
Their Bubonic Brown has been equally useful. Adds so many options. A shade for white. A highlight for any number of the darker browns, each of those ending up with a different result to those browns highlighted with white.
P3's Coal Black was a pleasent surprise too. Expected something more black. Instead, got a dark turquoise. Ideal for highlighting black with. Dark turquoise not really being a thing we notice every day (unlike dark blue), nor being pure grey which of course looks artificial - it tricks the mind in seeing a highlighted black rather than a dark blue or grey. Finding this paint cut out a lot of tedious mixing of Black/Turquoise/White.
Lately enjoying P3's Brown Ink. Tend to pick up a brown ink in most ranges, with the grungyness a brown can add to anything, and the variety in "browns" being made up of opposite colours of the myriad types and varying amount of component parts throwing up so many different browns. P3's brown ink is a particular fave. It's a more reddish hue than most. Tis proving a go to ink for quite a few situations. Shading red, adding further variety to browns, and currently alongside some Tamiya Red is injecting some dried blood effect on the zombies many of us have a great deal of.
A few people here about mentioned the superior quality of the Vallejo Model metallics. Based on those recommendations I've had a great time enjoying those. The finer metallic flecks are quite noticable.
A friend wondered if the viscosity of the Model Air metallics would be useful for applying the smooth highlights to True Metallic Metals we enjoy on non-metallic areas of the mini. Tried that, and proved to be the case. With those, can render as smooth a gradient as we can slap down on a cloth textured part of the mini.
Someone hereabouts mentioned the Lifecolour Flesh Paint Set a time ago. Had always been unsatisfied by the flesh paints I'd used before. Any given flesh paint being a mix tinted heavily towards red or yellow, it can be difficult to maintain a dark to light gradient with different paints without the red/yellow aspect changing along the gradients.
The Lifecolor set has a pair of triads. #1 is quite clean, while #2 is more ruddy. Quite a joy to use, the way the shade/base/highlight paints relate to each other so well.
Anticipating painting a lot of flesh (with the Redbox kickstarter) have since picked up a second box. Intending mixing up some pots of tones between the three triads to facilitate even easier and more standard transitions.
While I was persuing the Model Air metallics I noticed a metallic red. This is rare. All too often adding metallic flecks to a red results in a metallic pink. This one is alright though, it actually looks red. With some of the Dark Vengeance chaos badboys in the queue to be painted I dug this out with a view to make a fancy looking Khornate chap. Experimenting on a spare shield to judge it's qualities it apppears it should serve amongst the lighter parts of the intended areas. Keeping a strong base red down on the lower parts, this paint should make the 60-95% stages of the gradient exciting. The last 5% with some silver added could make it really pop. Might well make red a more varied thing to paint.
Purple is a bugger. Like the flesh tones, they're a mix. Some purples are more blue, some more red. Hard to get a hapy gradient going from dark to ligh without the blue/red proportions going wonky. As persevering with a pair of Reaper Triads. I'm not too happy with the strength fo their coverage as they seem to want to rub off the mini at the slightest opportunity, but an Indigo triad is rather satisfying as can the Violet triad be occasionally too.
Anyone else any "oooh" paints? Surprising finds, go-to paints and general joyousness?
