Sproket's WIP
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Sproket
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Well it looks like my love affair with bicarbonate of soda as a texture medium has come to an abrupt end!
While getting my minis ready for tomorrow’s showcase at GW Southampton I noticed a dusty white bloom on some of them! It has affected some minis where I’ve used the bicarb as a texture medium in, for example, rust or corrosion effects but it was quite pronounced. Most alarmingly although it’s been stable and unchanging for at least a year this all happened in the last few days. My best guess is that it is down to a change in humidity.
A dusting off with a clean dry brush retouching of the paint has fixed the issue for the moment but I’ll have to keep a very close eye on these minis.
As I’ve been promoting the use of bicarb and singing it’s praises I thought I’d better put this warning out quickly! I’m going to monitor the situation closely and look into a permanent fix (if needed) and alternatives.
While getting my minis ready for tomorrow’s showcase at GW Southampton I noticed a dusty white bloom on some of them! It has affected some minis where I’ve used the bicarb as a texture medium in, for example, rust or corrosion effects but it was quite pronounced. Most alarmingly although it’s been stable and unchanging for at least a year this all happened in the last few days. My best guess is that it is down to a change in humidity.
A dusting off with a clean dry brush retouching of the paint has fixed the issue for the moment but I’ll have to keep a very close eye on these minis.
As I’ve been promoting the use of bicarb and singing it’s praises I thought I’d better put this warning out quickly! I’m going to monitor the situation closely and look into a permanent fix (if needed) and alternatives.
wargamesculptor
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Agree with Lee, should form a barrier and keep any reactions tucked away in it's shell
Sproket
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I'm busy, busy, busy! I've put Akito on the back burner as I'm now prepairing for my next workshop. For that I'm painting the Abyssal Warlord from Scale75. I've had my eye on this model for some time and I thought he would be an ideal candidate for NMM. Once the prep and priming (YES PRIMING!) were done I got down to some painting and it's been a real pleasure!
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Sproket
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I've been making steady progress on the warlord. I still can't get over how much faster it is to paint larger scale pieces!
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BloodFather of Kharnath
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Makes me really...really wanna try my hand at this mini.
Sproket
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It's almost entirely stippling. some of the orange tones are glazed but that's all.
I can recomend it, it's a lovely model to paint.
fluisterwoud
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This is looking very impressive. This is my favorite model and I'm glad you're painting it, you'll take it in an amazing direction.
Sproket
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Time for an Abyssal Warlord update. I had considered keeping him as a WIP demo model for my workshops but I'm having too good a time painting him to do that! I've made steady progress and will soon be attaching the sword & shield. Their is a post on my blog discussing some of the colour choices I've made.
https://sproketsmallworld.blogspot.co.uk/
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