In 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:part 𒐪one of our Painting Essentials guide, we took a look at the must-have equip🀅ment and steps𓆉 we should take before putting brush to plastic.
Shake Your Paints Well
If you pick up a new pot of paint, you have probably noticed that there is often more than one color layered up on top of each other. This is due to pigmentation separation. Good quality paints are manufactured using pigments finely ground into a powder, and this is mixed into a viscous medium or base. The type of paint used within the model making and wargaming hobby i♋s mostly water-based acrylic ♕and has the advantage that it can be easily mixed and cleaned with water.
S💟pecific quantities of the various pigments are mixed together to make the specific color paints, and each manufacturer has their own secret recipes. These pigments don’t always mix well and can become separated during shipping and also if left alone for long periods of time. Paints in this state will not give you the desired color you are after; in short, always shake/mix your paints well until a solid color is reached… and then shake some more to be on the safe side. There are commercial paint shakers available that can do this quickly but unless you are painting all the time, they may not be worth the cost.
Thin Your Paints
Once you have shaken your paints and popped the lid you will have paint ready to use. Take a couple of brush loads and add them to a palette. Most paints are too thick for our needs from the pot and should be thinned down using a thinner, or even just clean water. When thinning your paints you are looking for a consistency similar to 2% (semi-skimmed for the Brits) milk. You can check this by drawing a loaded paintbrush towards you over ♏the palette and see how the paint flows. It can take a bit of practice to get right, but once mastered your models will look better for it.
Watch The Ferrule
The ferrule is the metal part of the brush that holds the bristles to the handꦜle. Avoid loading your brush with paint to the point where it touches or covers the ferrule. This paint is wasted as it will not be used and you run the risk of damaging your brush through overzealous cleaning and/or dried paint getting stuck.
Applying The Paint
Before you begin slapping paint on the mini, remember the third rule of paint club: Acryꦡlic paint is not opaque. When you apply it, don’t expect full coverage or solid color in one pass, this is normal. To build up solid colors, multiple thin layers of paint should be applied. Come to think, that should be the fourth rule; Always apply thin coats. A minimum of two coats should be applied. Don’t worry about losing detail, as long as you have thinned your paints correctly you will be fine.
The🔴re are plenty of video tutorials online from manufacturers like Games Workshop and Army Painter. These can be a great refer𒈔ence for painting, both in general and specific models and armies.
Base Coat
The base cost is the first coat of paint added following the priming stage. Beginners will be looking for a single mid-tone color from which to work with. A mid-tone is basically a middle tone of your desired color. You also have a low-tone and high-tone, a lighter and darker tone either side of the mid-tone. For example, if you are working with blue, you may have a ‘primary’ blue for your mid-tone, a sky blue for your high-tone, and a navy blue for your low-tone. The high-tone represents the highlights and the loജw-tone the shadows.
Applying Shadows
Examine your model and look for the areas where there should be a shadow. Your low tone can be used to enforce shadows and can be further darkened if necessary with black. Use this sparsely as too much shadow won’t look realistic and could destroy the effect. Shadows will naturally occur on areas away f🥃rom the light, and on edges and recesses between areas.
Creating Your Highlights
Conversely, highlights are the areas of a mini facing the light. You will achieve highlights by using your high-tone and in rare cases a v𒆙ery small amount of pure white.
Layering
As already mentioned, paint should be applied in layers, but you don’t have to paint the entire surface to create a layer. For example, calculate where your shadows should be. This should be a small area away from the light. Typically these will be under or behind the mini, or into recesses. Appl𝓡y layers of paint to just this area until the desired effect is reached.
A more advanced technique can be achieved by creating a gradient or transition effect by adding further layers to the shadowꦦ, each one slightly smaller than the last moving away from the light. You can also darken your low-tone if needed by adding some black. The inverse is true for highlighting
Washes
Washes are a quick way of adding definition to your⭕ model. A wash is a very watery ‘paint’ that when added to an area, flows in the recesses. After a wash has been applied give it plenty of time to dry before moving one. You can also use a wash to add shadows instead of/in conjunction with la🔴yering.
Dry Brushing
Dry brushing is a special technique where a brush is loaded with paint and then has most of the paint wiped onto a pܫaper towel till there is very little paint left. This is then gently 'dry brushed' onto the model leaving tiny bits of paint behind. This is a great way to bring highlights to a model if used carefully, or for highlighting heavily textured ꦦareas such as fur.
In Conclusion
You are now armed with the basics of mini painting and with practice, you will see your craft improve. Try not to be disheartened if something doesn’t🐼 work out the first time, it can take a while to learn the technique 💦and it is only through failure that we can become better. Get feedback on your works from friends and other gamers. The only time you will have truly failed is if you give up.
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