Painting an oil spill

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Modderrhu

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Related to the interference colours thread, but a bit off-topic for it; how do I paint an oil spill? I\'ve been thinking of building up multiple layers of PVA mixed with brown and black ink and pearlescent medium to get the rainbow coloured interference film effect.

Anyone got any better ideas to start off with?
 
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Sonnyslayer

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hmm.. i think its kinda hard to paint a rainbow thingy in it.. so do as you said and paint a couple of layers whit gloss..
 
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Wolf_Fang

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oooooooooooo this is fun! paint oil.....

mix scaily green liche purple and midnight blue with silver.. then swirl the 3 together but dont mix them together its not real bright but i thought it looked good... looks good for the scale of the minis that is..
 
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Modderrhu

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Right. I\'m definitely going to try that method, and some variations of it, before buying some pearlescent medium to only do one little oil spill. More control to this method too. Thanks, Wolf.

@bayrodney: It\'s obvious you\'re in Oz, mate. \'cos if you turn the mini upside-down like the northerners do, the oil would spill. :p
 
Dragon Forge Design

Dragon Forge Design

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Vallejo Makes a color called Oily Steel, Maybe that thinned and glazed over black will get the effect. Also in military modeling to get the effect of spilled fule around filler caps iys common to use a little Tamiya clear or Tamiya Clear Smoke to give the effect of spilled fule or oil.
 
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Ogrebane

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Hey wolf you go a picture of that method. Sounds good too me. Smoke and blue ink sort of works as well. Do the blue ink first then use smoke over the top.
 
freakinacage

freakinacage

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my local toy shop has started selling tamya paints so i can actually start using the stuff you guys reccomend. i have some of the clear red (apparently used for blood) sounds like the smoke is next.

i also want to see a picture of wolf\'s method as it sound pretty good
 
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Wolf_Fang

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umm... yes and no... i have pictures of the model i did it on but.... not very good ones and not really of the area i tried it on..... alos id love to get new pics of it but,.... that mini was left at friends house and he claims not to have it along with another one of my necron :flame: lord knows they aint using no more of my minis and they aint even going to his house no more..... if you wish i could prolly find something to put it on to show you guys:rolleyes: (only i have no longer scaily green so will need to use soemthing else)
 
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Ogrebane

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Sounds a it like the wolf ate my homework. No probs wolf I have most of those colors so I\'ll give it a go and post the pic if it works.
 
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Modderrhu

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Right, so I gave it a try, and I must say that the effect looks good. Some wavy lines of two colours next to each other, with the third colour fairly swirled through the others while all the paint is still wet. Looked good, now to try it with wood glue...

The colours needs to be on top, so I pulled some paint through the wood glue and did as before. Let dry throughly. Repeat with a thinned layer of glue, and more paint. Being thin, the underlying layers do show through and give the illusion of depth. Pretty impressive, but...

The colours need to form an interference film. Painted on a flat surface, the effect is really good, but I\'m yet to adapt it to a pool of glue.
 
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Wolf_Fang

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simply do the paint swirl as you have before and put a thin layer of white glue ontop after it dries itl\'l gloss it over so it looks moist (or just use a high gloss clear coat) once again id show pics but i dont have that model eny more (and didnt gloss the oil part)
 
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Modderrhu

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A coat of glue over the surface moves the colours below the surface - they don\'t form a film on top anymore.

But I\'ve got an idea for which I\'m preparing some test bases right now. Wood glue as before, with the swirled colours, then topped off with a layer of undiluted Future, also with the colours swirled in.

Easy, freak. Still experimenting here. The glue base is drying as I type.
 
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Modderrhu

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Sorry, freak and Wolf, I cannot get a picture of the oil spill. The colours are just too damn subtle. You\'re going to have to try this out for yourself. :(

The bulk of the spill was done using wood glue thinned with brown ink over a gravel base. This was done in a number of layers to build it up, and the texture of the base was still apparent through the glue. The colours of the spill were done using inks straight onto the glue. Blue, purple and green ink. In real life, it\'s actually turned out very, very well. It just doesn\'t photograph all that well, but I\'ll try under full sunlight to see if I can get a pic of it. I did post the mini here, but all it shows is the brown slick.
 
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Wolf Fang

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ive done this i know what it looks like when i do it i wanted to see what its like whe nYOU do it ;) try using realy bright light close up 2 it?
 
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