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[Saladid]

Hello all

Started playing D&D again with old highschool buds. I have become the painter for the group. This is the model I like the most so far. Im really bad at painting faces any tips tricks would be great.

If you notice on the armor there is an eched pattern, I would like to highlight that in gold with out hitting everything else with paint. Im wondering the best way to do this?

Dont bash me to bad, the stuff i have seen on everyones posts is SOOO outa my league.

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[joshuaslater]

You're going to be in the big leagues sooner than later if this is just the beginning!! Looks great.

[Inarah]

To get the raised areas on the armor use the flat side of a smaller brush. Load the brush with a small amount of paint, and wipe it on your palette to distribute it evenly along the bristles. Lightly draw the brush horizontally across the raised area.

[themudhead]

I would try and make the darks darker and the highlights lighter. A good wash over the mini would help a lot. Then bring up the highlights with brighter colors.

[Saladid]

I would try and make the darks darker and the highlights lighter. A good wash over the mini would help a lot. Then bring up the highlights with brighter colors.

How would I make the highlights lighter? All the metal was dry brushed mythril how would I make that lighter... mythril with white mixed in? I did do another wash in some areas to try and darken them in hopes of making other areas LOOK lighter.

Thanks for the tips im really enjoying this new found hobby.

[Gailbraithe]

You could mix with white, or try some silver. What brand of paints are you using?

[Saladid]

Everything is Citadel.

[Bloodhowl]

I would try and make the darks darker and the highlights lighter. A good wash over the mini would help a lot. Then bring up the highlights with brighter colors.

How would I make the highlights lighter? All the metal was dry brushed mythril how would I make that lighter... mythril with white mixed in? I did do another wash in some areas to try and darken them in hopes of making other areas LOOK lighter.

Thanks for the tips im really enjoying this new found hobby.

You would need to make your basecoat darker to get the mithril silver to stand out more. If I remember the citadel line correctly, chainmail would be the base, boltgun would be the shade and mithril the highlight. A few washes of badab black or devlan mud (lots of other painters also use blues, greens, purples and reds to great effect on metals, unfortunately, I am not one of them!) would darken the base, then reapply the highlights with the mithril.

For the face, it depends on how you painted it. Drybrush and washes or layered the shadows and highlights?

[themudhead]

You would need to make your basecoat darker to get the mithril silver to stand out more. If I remember the citadel line correctly, chainmail would be the base, boltgun would be the shade and mithril the highlight. A few washes of badab black or devlan mud (lots of other paintersmalso use blues, greens, purples and reds to great effect on metals, unfortunately, I am not one of them!) would darken the base, then reapply the highlights with the mithril.

For the face, it depends on how you painted it. Drybrush and washes or layered the shadows and highlights?

Yep. What bloodhowl said sounds right. But it may be a bit difficult for you as a beginner to get the blends between the three metal colors to look right. You may have more success and get a brighter mithril by just painting on a layer of badab black over all the metal. Get it good and dark. Then hit the corners/bright areas with a white drybrush. Then hit the corners with the mithril again lightly to cover up the white. Once you get good at laying down a good drybrushing, you can move up to wet blending with the different colors. It takes some practice to get it right especially with metallics as they don't react the same as regular colors due to the metal flakes in the paint.

Sorry to hear about the citadel. Others may claim it is OK but I find Vallejo and Reaper Master Series paints to be far superior, cheaper, and last longer.

Happy painting.