I have been playing around with the airbrush again. It was a little less daunting this time and yielded some good results.
I ordered a colour on eBay called Vallejo dark sea grey as the codex carcharodon colours where a little bright for my tastes.
I created a 1:1 dark sea grey to black as my shading colour and applied the first layer.
next was an original dark sea grey layer. when both of these layers dried i realised that although it looked allot better than being hand painted that the colour variation between the two layers may of worked a little better using a light grey or white undercoat as the black may of made the already dark grey darker, after this i applied a lighter variation of dark sea grey by adding 1 part white to it.
Although this did make the darker tones stand out i may of been a little heavy handed brightening up too much of the model, again something i will keep in mind for the airbrush's next outing.
After the b base layers were painted I sealed them with a gloss finish so that if I made any mistakes from here on out I basically have a save point to come back to. From the picture you can see the gloss looks white but this is just due to camera flash and is actually invisible to look at.
I finished this session by painting the shoulder pads abandon black just to get a better feel for the final colour scheme (washes and details next)
I was impressed with my first attempt at 3 layer base coats and learned a few things I would like to try out next time.
I ordered a colour on eBay called Vallejo dark sea grey as the codex carcharodon colours where a little bright for my tastes.
I created a 1:1 dark sea grey to black as my shading colour and applied the first layer.
next was an original dark sea grey layer. when both of these layers dried i realised that although it looked allot better than being hand painted that the colour variation between the two layers may of worked a little better using a light grey or white undercoat as the black may of made the already dark grey darker, after this i applied a lighter variation of dark sea grey by adding 1 part white to it.
Although this did make the darker tones stand out i may of been a little heavy handed brightening up too much of the model, again something i will keep in mind for the airbrush's next outing.
After the b base layers were painted I sealed them with a gloss finish so that if I made any mistakes from here on out I basically have a save point to come back to. From the picture you can see the gloss looks white but this is just due to camera flash and is actually invisible to look at.
I finished this session by painting the shoulder pads abandon black just to get a better feel for the final colour scheme (washes and details next)
I was impressed with my first attempt at 3 layer base coats and learned a few things I would like to try out next time.
- Grey base coat instead of the black to see if there is a colour variation.
- Lighter handed on the hi light coat as I think it was a little too much.
- Thinner layer of gloss.
While this is only 3 things I can think of to try next time I'm sure I will come across a few other snags or happy surprises but ether way I'm impressed with my first attempt and things can only get better right ?......RIGHT ?
OK well that's if for this post
Dan
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