By Magnus913
Aug 24, 2019
So, there are a few things to know when painting a figure.
1. There is hard paint jobs, and light paint jobs. Picture one shows the sniper a full body paintjob from the bottom up, the black oni recon headhunter keeps all its original black and is just minor detailing.
With hard jobs you want to do LIGHT coats (see pic 3) and if you make any accidents you can carefully and clealy overcoat them. For small jobs like the oni recon if you make a mess or go out of where you wanted, I use my thumb to smudge it off. The light blue leg armor effects for example was done with a toothpick dabbed a few times into the line, and used my thumb. For a hard job I paint over my mistakes.
Picture 2 is my setup, I dont have a steady hand so I have a large magnifying glass to zoom in, and I use a sheet of wax paper as my painting pallet, you can flip it and fold it over to save on money.
Picture 3. my first recon attempt. the shade of red I used (dragon red) was different hues based on the original plastic, so the leg armor and helmet (yellow) were brighter than the rest. so I gave it all a base black coating and started over with a new coat of red. Long story short too many coats make the details dissapear. and over an hour worth of scraping it away doesnt do much for salvage.
Picture 4 is my ORIGINAL paint job attempt. I did metailic wash with silver and black (black one I tested a metalic orange)
Picture 5 and 6 is me working on my very first hard job custom with the paint set. as you can see many of the pieces were originally green/bronze from that one big skirmisher pack, but the legs were originally blue.
Overall I have to suggest investing in the 15ish usd small DND paint brush for smaller effects like visor painting, saved me much headache and helped keep a smoother outline on some of my newer ones. Red Visor effect was done with the army painter "Glistening Blood" effects paint @WhoThCares if you were curious, 4 coats makes it a lovely crimson.
Painting setup I use is army painter, I found out using white is not easy as it takes several dozen coats to cover original layer and brush strokes. I would recommend using the spray can primer from said painting company I use.
And if you are brave, I used an exacto knife and cut off the attachments on the Air Assault helmet for my sniper in picture one, I would do this at your own peril (Meaning if you mess up, you have a backup) If smart, and clever enough you can reattach the camera etc to new helmets. but a word to the wise, dont attempt getting the commando uplink from carters helmet or the up armor from Jorges, they would be too hard to attempt to glue onto another piece. Camera/Emiles attachment have a small little link holding it giving it wiggle room.
1. There is hard paint jobs, and light paint jobs. Picture one shows the sniper a full body paintjob from the bottom up, the black oni recon headhunter keeps all its original black and is just minor detailing.
With hard jobs you want to do LIGHT coats (see pic 3) and if you make any accidents you can carefully and clealy overcoat them. For small jobs like the oni recon if you make a mess or go out of where you wanted, I use my thumb to smudge it off. The light blue leg armor effects for example was done with a toothpick dabbed a few times into the line, and used my thumb. For a hard job I paint over my mistakes.
Picture 2 is my setup, I dont have a steady hand so I have a large magnifying glass to zoom in, and I use a sheet of wax paper as my painting pallet, you can flip it and fold it over to save on money.
Picture 3. my first recon attempt. the shade of red I used (dragon red) was different hues based on the original plastic, so the leg armor and helmet (yellow) were brighter than the rest. so I gave it all a base black coating and started over with a new coat of red. Long story short too many coats make the details dissapear. and over an hour worth of scraping it away doesnt do much for salvage.
Picture 4 is my ORIGINAL paint job attempt. I did metailic wash with silver and black (black one I tested a metalic orange)
Picture 5 and 6 is me working on my very first hard job custom with the paint set. as you can see many of the pieces were originally green/bronze from that one big skirmisher pack, but the legs were originally blue.
Overall I have to suggest investing in the 15ish usd small DND paint brush for smaller effects like visor painting, saved me much headache and helped keep a smoother outline on some of my newer ones. Red Visor effect was done with the army painter "Glistening Blood" effects paint @WhoThCares if you were curious, 4 coats makes it a lovely crimson.
Painting setup I use is army painter, I found out using white is not easy as it takes several dozen coats to cover original layer and brush strokes. I would recommend using the spray can primer from said painting company I use.
And if you are brave, I used an exacto knife and cut off the attachments on the Air Assault helmet for my sniper in picture one, I would do this at your own peril (Meaning if you mess up, you have a backup) If smart, and clever enough you can reattach the camera etc to new helmets. but a word to the wise, dont attempt getting the commando uplink from carters helmet or the up armor from Jorges, they would be too hard to attempt to glue onto another piece. Camera/Emiles attachment have a small little link holding it giving it wiggle room.