Kimmo
A Fixture
- Joined
- May 30, 2018
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Been a weird few months, and the last couple of weeks were kind of bleh and couldn't decide on what I could do or find the motivation to do much of anything. I remembered I had this chap from my 3d print test collection and thought I'd try to have some fun with him and practice some NMM techniques.
I started off priming with Scale75 black and white primer to get a value sketch, something I haven't tried often enough. My white primer had last been used maybe two years ago and was literally a solid lump that took 15 minutes of prodding and stirring to break up enough to get something smooth enough to use. I love how these primers go on, and they are very workable and dry dead flat. My only reason for not using them more often is that they aren't quite as durable as Vallejo Surface Primer. If the figure is well pinned for painting, then it isn't really a problem. If you have to handle the figure a lot, then it does tend to wear off a bit before you get some paint on it.
I decided on using the Malefic Flesh set from Nocturna/Vallejo and added Red, Prussian Blue, Light Yellow, Sunny Skintone and white and black to the palette. A lot of lovely desaturated colours to work with, plenty of purple undertones.
I had originally done up a sketch in GIMP with cool looking black armour, but once I got the first layers down, I thought this was looking rather nice and stayed light.
After another session, things have really started to look pretty good, if I do say so myself.
This is turning into a rather fun, free-flowing piece. The value study has helped somewhat, I've gotten too heavy in some areas and the priming doesn't come through as well. I do think it is worth the extra effort though as it gives you a good idea of values right from the start, and with more practice, you'll be able to incorporate this better into the piece.
Kimmo
I started off priming with Scale75 black and white primer to get a value sketch, something I haven't tried often enough. My white primer had last been used maybe two years ago and was literally a solid lump that took 15 minutes of prodding and stirring to break up enough to get something smooth enough to use. I love how these primers go on, and they are very workable and dry dead flat. My only reason for not using them more often is that they aren't quite as durable as Vallejo Surface Primer. If the figure is well pinned for painting, then it isn't really a problem. If you have to handle the figure a lot, then it does tend to wear off a bit before you get some paint on it.
I decided on using the Malefic Flesh set from Nocturna/Vallejo and added Red, Prussian Blue, Light Yellow, Sunny Skintone and white and black to the palette. A lot of lovely desaturated colours to work with, plenty of purple undertones.
I had originally done up a sketch in GIMP with cool looking black armour, but once I got the first layers down, I thought this was looking rather nice and stayed light.
After another session, things have really started to look pretty good, if I do say so myself.
This is turning into a rather fun, free-flowing piece. The value study has helped somewhat, I've gotten too heavy in some areas and the priming doesn't come through as well. I do think it is worth the extra effort though as it gives you a good idea of values right from the start, and with more practice, you'll be able to incorporate this better into the piece.
Kimmo
