Here are the boys all done up and ready to be driven into battle. I had mentioned I was going to do a tutorial on painting metal, unfortunately the pics that I took indoors had a crappy yellow cast to them from the lights and gave no good information.
As an apology here are a couple of tips to get you through until I do a proper tutoral, or scroll down the blog and find the tutorial on animal painting. Alright
TIP #1 - Use as little paint as possible, the technique we're using is called DRYBRUSHING - it means that your brush is dry - so pat out all the water on a cloth and then dip it into your paint. Before you start painting pat off as much paint as possible and then lightly start to work on the area. We build up colour slowly.
As you can see in the bottom photo we went from a dark base, to a medium grey, then a light grey highlight was added to the grille and then after that just little touches of a red oxide/raw umber mix were brushed in to add a rusty battered quality. Turned out pretty well and very little paint was used.
TIP #2 If you want some objects to look bright and shiny, paint them WHITE first. I know this seems obvious but sometimes you can end up doing alot of coats on a section that has a dark basecoat and still not get the POP that you want. My advice is paint it white and then add two or three coats of whatever colour you desire- this works especially well when using red.
Alright next step
Add a figure and a setting.
A.Shay Hahn
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