Painting miniatures, terrain and scenery.

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Chief said:
Yeah stuff like firefighter suits seem to be tan or yellow:

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Mine are supposed to be during a shift on the front line so more grime than less is probably the way to go.

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Maybe a drybrush of brown around the boots and lower legs/gloves to give that dirty been walking around in the dirt look.

Then you can highlight back the other parts and leave the agrax in the recesses
 
Yellow and white are just difficult. make the paint really watery / thin, like a milk, then layer, layer, layer.
Do not cake it on as it'll look terrible.
As sterge says, just wash directly into the recesses to save time
 

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baz_machine said:
Yellow and white are just difficult. make the paint really watery / thin, like a milk, then layer, layer, layer.
Do not cake it on as it'll look terrible.
As sterge says, just wash directly into the recesses to save time
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Also never use white, use light grey
 
Although I did put another wash over the messy silver edge highlights on the masks to dull them down a bit more. And why the f is this photo flipped on its side??

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Stand back from your screen a few metres and tilt your head to the left.
 
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Chief said:
Game over, man. Have to call it a day. Yellow is caking up a bit. Good enough for a game of something.

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Looks great, yellow is vibrant as *. A million times better at taking pics than i am. the bases look good as well

I reckon a final drybrush or weathering pigments on the feet and lower legs to give that impression they have been trudging through dirt would look ace
 

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Sterge said:
Been playing around with some ideas for bases my next army

Knocked these up as a POC not 100% happy with the sand colour and the 'waves' are too big but as a first trial i think it works

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Yeah keep trying things out. Interested to see how you go.
 
But for basing and some dabs of highlight they’re done.

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(Then you look at the closeup and spot all sorts of s**t you have to fix.)

But from a foot away, they look fine.
 
I've been giving my new Creality CR-6SE 3D printer a work out
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Jagdpanzer 38 "Hetzer", Jagdpanzer IV/70, KV-1s, Semovente 75/18, Char B1 bis, Heavy Tank T28/105mm Gun Motor Carriage T95/Super Heavy Tank T28, and Tank, Cruiser, MkVIII, Cromwell all in roughly 15mm scale

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Making a chess set for a secret santa. As much as it's cool to look at, the rainbow metallic has proven a lot more difficult to work with than the purple, or the white I got for free with the printer.
 
So I'm totally hooked now. This is a really fun hobby. I've learnt some lessons along the way

1) Don't try and imitate what's on the box. They're painted by professionals - I'm not
2) Don't sweat the small mistakes
3) Be fun with colours - I recently painted some orcs blue - I thought they might come out looking like smurfs but they ended up looking pretty bad-arse
4) Shading is your friend. It hides imperfections

Here's some of my recent completions. A froghemoth (that was an absolute bugger to put together), a gelantinous cube, a remorhaz and a bone golem.

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