Where does your inspiration come from?
As I am finishing up the Galleon (pictures will be posted tonight, I promise).
I was thinking about inspiration. As in what makes me want to paint a model the colors I choose. Why did I pose it a certain way? What technique do I want to try next?
I draw my ideas from so very many different places:
From the official studio paint schemes.
Amazing folks like Les at Awesome Paint Job- http://awesomepaintjob.blogspot.com/
Hugo at Ichiban Painting - http://www.youtube.com/user/ichibanpainting/about
Meg Maples who just left Privateer Press - http://arcanepaintworks.blogspot.com/
Shnauzer Face Mini's (amazing airbrush work)
http://www.youtube.com/user/SchnauzerFaceMinis
The list goes on and on.
My question is where do you draw your ideas from? What makes you excited to paint and try new things?
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Thursday, October 31, 2013
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Who else had a crazy weekend?
I was down in Columbus, OH taking care of my real life job so not much got done. I did manage to do a bit of airbrushing yesterday though.
I swapped out my bent 0.2mm needle for the 0.3mm that came with the Masters G22. I can't wait to get back to 0.2. Its strange but that 0.1mm really makes a difference in how much control I feel I have and how big the spray pattern gets.
I grabbed two models that have been sitting on my desk that I had primed black about a month ago and figured I could get some bulk colors down.
I started with the Reaper Base Flesh Tone for the faces, and an amazing P3 Brown who's name escapes me right now.
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A happy accident happened here you can see that the top of his coat is a lighter brown and that was from over spraying the flesh tone first. On a side note, how cool is the Bart model, I love the pirate caption look to him and the detail is just outstanding.
Here we have Harlen Versh, amazing model and I love that he is going to be variations of brown for the most part. It will be fun blending and using different tones to make his details pop.
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As far as the Galleon is concerned I have not forgotten or forsaken him. I am at the point of starting to chip his paint and weather him. That is going to be a rather lengthy blog post with lots and lots of pictures so I am taking my time and I want to get it right and all pretty for ya'll.
Well that's all for now folks, see you in a day or two!
I was down in Columbus, OH taking care of my real life job so not much got done. I did manage to do a bit of airbrushing yesterday though.
I swapped out my bent 0.2mm needle for the 0.3mm that came with the Masters G22. I can't wait to get back to 0.2. Its strange but that 0.1mm really makes a difference in how much control I feel I have and how big the spray pattern gets.
I grabbed two models that have been sitting on my desk that I had primed black about a month ago and figured I could get some bulk colors down.
I started with the Reaper Base Flesh Tone for the faces, and an amazing P3 Brown who's name escapes me right now.
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Here we have Harlen Versh, amazing model and I love that he is going to be variations of brown for the most part. It will be fun blending and using different tones to make his details pop.
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As far as the Galleon is concerned I have not forgotten or forsaken him. I am at the point of starting to chip his paint and weather him. That is going to be a rather lengthy blog post with lots and lots of pictures so I am taking my time and I want to get it right and all pretty for ya'll.
Well that's all for now folks, see you in a day or two!
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