Your washes are superb. What kind of paint do you use and what is your liquid ratio to get the desired effect? I have trouble determining the sweet spot for proper application.
Very well done. They positively glow.
Vast majority of my paints are games workshops citadel paint range. My spray cans are all from the army painter range however.
Generally I’ll try and use a spray as the color to work from. the citadel range of washes are amazing, They do most of the hard work for me anyway so all Im really doing is blocking flat colours.
Aircraft seem to benefit the most from actual painting detail and that’s generlly roundels and other markings… There’s not really much use for washes on aircraft since the pieces look the best with a smooth look since the eyes drawn to The roundels… Although I did use washes on my Finnish planes to help me get the shade of green I wanted…
Ships really benefit from some drybrushing since the sharp edges of most sculpts can really make the most of the technique. Most of my ships started as the same shade of spray grey before been washed up to change the shade or dry brushed down to lighten it.
Infantry and ground units I mostly just use the spray colour as a base then pick out boots/guns/belts in a suitable shade of brown… I always water down my paints even though this may mean doing a few coats to get the right shade. Next step i wash the whole piece with a citadel Wash, there’s 4 different washes I choose from depending on what I want the final piece to look like. Once that dries I pick out the skin and paint the base… Which takes quite a few coats generally since I want it to look like flat like cast plastic rather than something that’s been painted.
Great. Thank you for the insight.
I am pretty good at drybrushing, but I need to work on my washes. Excellent stuff.
Love all of these, great work, wish I had Your patience AND STEADY HAND lol.
Lol ……painted SOME of My a and a… Lol
Great. Thank you for the insight.
I am pretty good at drybrushing, but I need to work on my washes. Excellent stuff.
Yeah I’d recommend the citadel washes. I got hooked on them with the previous range they had…… Devlun mud was a one stop wash for every purpose… This weird green/brown/black mix. Pure magic
Yeah I’d recommend the citadel washes. I got hooked on them with the previous range they had…… Devlun mud was a one stop wash for every purpose… This weird green/brown/black mix. Pure magic
Ha! Awesome, that is what I need. Thank you.
What I have used predominantly is a black ink wash, but it is much too intense and pools in an annoying fashion. I need something softer and more subtle. Delvun mud sounds like the ticket.
Yeah I’d recommend the citadel washes. I got hooked on them with the previous range they had…… Devlun mud was a one stop wash for every purpose… This weird green/brown/black mix. Pure magic
Ha! Awesome, that is what I need. Thank you.
What I have used predominantly is a black ink wash, but it is much too intense and pools in an annoying fashion. I need something softer and more subtle. Delvun mud sounds like the ticket.
I think In the current range its closest replacement is agrathx(or something) earth shade…… I’m pretty sure the company that originally made the mix for games workshop now do an exact replica under a different name for army painter… I’ve not had to look into it myself yet as even though devlan mud was discontinued years ago I’ve still got 4 pots of it.
Nice. Yeah, the wash I have is a Citadel one. Originally got it for painting GW Lord of the Rings minis. Works okay on minis, but not on A&A pieces.
HBG order didn’t rock up today like I was expecting/hoping so I didn’t want to work on my Dutch/Finn navies till I had all the pieces in hand…. Instead the kriegsmarine got bulked up. I did have plans to also make a start on my Chinese pieces but I actually had a lot on today so did get much painting time…
This is what the piece count was this morning.
And then another shot tonight once I’d done all the essential work.
That’s probably it for me for the next few weeks since me and the wife are off on a holiday for the rest of October.
I’m jealous…nice work.
Freaking awesome. Well done.
Awesome, your cranking them out faster than I can look at them. Nice job. :-D
Awesome, your cranking them out faster than I can look at them. Nice job. :-D
Well thats pretty much it now, progress will come to screeching halt.
The kriegmarine pieces count is excessive but I like to cover all the bases, I have all the pieces anyway and it doesnt take that much longer to paint a few more of each type. One rule I am using is only one sculpt of each unit type per nation…. I dont mind adding new unit types like the escort carrier and early battle ship as long as it a different unit and not 2 pieces sharing a stat line… May get confusing in game is all…
My HBG order included a heap of the 1941 pieces so If I use them in any of the main nations it will be instead of the global40 pieces.
Italians, british, FEC and ANZACS will probably get the same piece count as kriegmarine where as the Russian, French and canadians will get half as many… I wouldn’t be far off the counts on those smaller fleets now actually… The French navy may get an upgrade when they eventually get that HBG release and jump up a piece count to match the larger group.
And ambitiously enough I imagine the U.S. and japanese navies being double the size Of the kriegsmarine!
Love your shading technique/effects, pretty cool.
New stuff!!!
German jet fighters and heavy bombers. Maybe now I’ll invest in tech?
And some Anzac fleet and air
mentok27. these are awesome paint jobs. Thanks for sharing. :-D
Super clean work. Very nice. Luftwaffe splinter camo is the best!
Wow! Extremely impressive. I especially like the two-tone naval camouflage scheme; I’ve seen a similar scheme (in dark blue) on some WWII-era US Navy battleships.
Your lines are so clean! Are you using Vallejo acrylics or something different?
And for the decks on your ships and aircraft carriers: do you paint the decks after your ink wash or before?
Great work. I love the Luftwaffe. Please keep posting as you work!
Your lines are so clean! Are you using Vallejo acrylics or something different?
And for the decks on your ships and aircraft carriers: do you paint the decks after your ink wash or before?
Great work. I love the Luftwaffe. Please keep posting as you work!
Some Vallejo but mostly citadel as that’s what’s available locally and what I’m used to.
For the ship pieces I paint the deck on after the superstructure has been washed on pretty much all the nations I’ve done, the Japanese and American navy’s were some of the first I did and I hadn’t quite worked out my technique yet so they are a little different.
I’m at work for the next 2 weeks but I brang up maybe 120 pieces with me to work on but I won’t make much progress as I left some key paints at home which now limits what I can achieve with these.
