Matt\'s Sunday Project, round 2

[WesUK]

Good grief, i wish I had a fraction of that kind of talent.

Rune looks great to me and the orb, superb.

 

[Aliengod3]

Do you use 50% water 50% paint for highlighting and shading?

 

[Byronic]

Shame to hear you won\'t be updating, whilst looking at the brilliant job you did on that guys spine I was thinking that if you came across a mini for Dr Octavius you\'d do amazingly!

Look at all of that metal!

Hope your move and GD work goes smoothly

 

[mattsterbenz]

Thanks guys Everything in the new house is ready... except the internet! Gah! The cable/internet guy should be by on Thursday I think... hope to have an update shortly after that. And I guess I need to try and avoid people eating me, that might be painful... lol the roommates were watching a dvd about serial killers today, talk about deja vu!

A Doc Oc model would be really fun to paint! He\'s an awesome villain. I think the spiderman film didn\'t do as good of a job portraying him as they could have, though. I have been eying some of those large scale superhero models that were posted in the general forum a couple weeks ago. Must! have!

Originally posted by Aliengod3
Do you use 50% water 50% paint for highlighting and shading?

This may take a while lol well, here goes:

Probably something close to that ratio. A bit more paint than water for basecoats, and a bit less for the shade and highlight colors. There\'s no exact formula as it varies by paint (different amounts of pigment in different colors, etc)

I use one of those circular 6-well palettes and fill each well up with the colors I\'m using at the moment. Since they are pretty watered down they won\'t dry up (especially since they are confined in the well and not spread out all over the palette).

For example on the silver nmm, the colors I fill the palette with are as follows:
-Scorched/Chaos mix (bit more black than 50/50)
-Previous mix 50/50 with Adeptus Battlegrey
-Adeptus Battlegrey
-Codex Grey
-Fortress Grey
-Fortress + White 50/50
-Skull White in the center

I basecoat with Adeptus. This is thinned enough where I can get a smooth basecoat in 2-3 layers, over black primer. I\'m not sure what ratio that would be as I just eyeball it. If the paint seems too thin to do this I\'ll add more paint to the mix, and if it\'s too thick I\'ll add a bit more water.

The shade and highlight colors are thinned slightly more than the basecoat color, with the exception of white which is thinned a lot more (to keep the final highlights from getting too grainy, and also because white dries out the quickest on my palette).

Sometimes I will thin out a color a bit more if I need a more subtle transition, but I will do this mixing on the \"flat\" areas of the palette.


Talk to you guys later!

-Matt

 

[BPI]

How did I miss that last picture post!? ???

The orb looks absolutely wonderful, I like the spine as well but the orb is what does it for me.

Necrons are one of the new 40K races I\'m unfamiliar with & playing the DoW computer game was my first encounter with them. I thought they were terribly feeble, shabby looking creatures & seeing figures with nasty green plastic tubes & that godawful pyramid thing was most disappointing.

Now you\'ve managed to make Necrons look cool who\'d a thunk it possible?

It\'s great fun following your work, thank you, B.

 

[Aliengod3]

Originally posted by mattsterbenz
-Scorched/Chaos mix (bit more black than 50/50)
-Previous mix 50/50 with Adeptus Battlegrey
-Adeptus Battlegrey
-Codex Grey
-Fortress Grey
-Fortress + White 50/50
-Skull White in the center

Codex Grey to fortress grey is a pretty big jump in tone, how do you keep the color from looking too sharp? Watering down the paint with around 50/50 water/paint does not seem like enough.