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I use Liquitex airbrush medium, works well for me.
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Blood Red is chalking when applied over itself
Cypharius replied to Kilazar's topic in Tips & Advice: Painting
I have no idea, over to the Mad paint Scientist... -
Blood Red is chalking when applied over itself
Cypharius replied to Kilazar's topic in Tips & Advice: Painting
Test it out on one of the mini's armour bits, it should be ok, failing that have you tried adding some brush on sealer to the mix? -
Blood Red is chalking when applied over itself
Cypharius replied to Kilazar's topic in Tips & Advice: Painting
This is the stuff I'm on about, works for me. http://www.liquitex.com/Products/fluidmedairbrush.cfm I've got a slightly modified mix in a MSP spare bottle, where the mix is:- 50% Airbrush Medium 25% distilled water 12% flow aid 12% fluid retarder There abouts anyway. -
Blood Red is chalking when applied over itself
Cypharius replied to Kilazar's topic in Tips & Advice: Painting
Here you go, I think this is the same problem. the front half of the mini was done with MSP Deep Red and Water 1:1, the back half was done using a 1:1 mix of paint and Airbrush medium. -
Blood Red is chalking when applied over itself
Cypharius replied to Kilazar's topic in Tips & Advice: Painting
Have a look at the pic in post 10 in one of my older threads. The front half of the model was a mix of the colour and distilled water. The back half of the model was done with 1:1 of the paint and Liquitex airbrush medium. The front half looks a bit chalky and dried out, whereas the back half looks a better solid colour. http://www.reapermini.com/forum/index.php?/topic/38733-airbrushing-with-msp/page__p__556301__hl__Airbrush__fromsearch__1entry556301 Maybe similar? I'll have a go at doing the same with Deep Red now and see the results. -
I'm using the Black Primer with a somewhere around a 3:1 - 4:1 ratio for Paint:Water. It seems to do the job for me.
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Blood Angels Space Marine (step-by-step blog link, 4-21)
Cypharius replied to jah-joshua's topic in Show Off: Painting
The gold metallic colour is excellent. Nice work. -
Gamezone Chaos Chariot and GW Marauder Horsemen
Cypharius replied to DavidVC04's topic in Show Off: Painting
Excellent stuff. -
A friend asked for this colour scheme, so after a bit of playing around with suitable colours... More to come.
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Master Series Paint Bottle Labels
Cypharius replied to EbonStorms's topic in Tips & Advice: Painting
found it. see post #4 by Anne. http://www.reapermini.com/forum/index.php?/topic/36592-lots-of-questions-from-a-reaper-noob/page__p__526069__hl__MSP%20label__fromsearch__1entry526069 -
Master Series Paint Bottle Labels
Cypharius replied to EbonStorms's topic in Tips & Advice: Painting
It's more to do with keeping the costs down. There is a post somewhere on the forums that explains why they changed. -
Yes, they will look and feel exactly like VMC paints. Thick and gloopy.
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I've used GW paints for years eventually getting a bit annoyed that my second Mega paint set had dried up, those new plastic pots are rubbish for paint longevity. so I decided to try out Vallejo Game colour, wasn't too keen on them, despite the similar colour range to the GW paints. I then decided to give the Vallejo Model colour range a bash, nice range of military colours but was always finding that some of my choice of colours were hard work to put through the airbrush and I want always keen on the Vinyl look so after finally getting to a position where I could get the RMS paints to the UK, I decided to give Reaper Master Series a go... I now have the range of RMS paints which I use pretty much exclusively now and have the following full sets of paint collecting dust on a shelf:- VMC VGC Coat D'Arms The RMS paints just seem to complement my paint style. I can control the fluidity and characteristics of the paint and a useful aspect for me is I can use the paint via brush OR airbrush, so colour matching is less of a problem. I might crack open the Coat D'Arms paints from time to time when I need to do a bit of brush dunking to get a lot of mini's painted for a game army, but it's pretty much RMS all the way for me these days.
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I've put the GW washes in some Reaper dropper bottles, more chance they'll last more than 6 months before drying out.
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What are your must have Triads...Top 3...
Cypharius replied to Druthu's topic in Tips & Advice: Painting
Walnut brown is a great black substitute. I use it a lot of the time instead of black for space marine armour, as it allows me to shade with pure black. -
The new GW brushes are pretty ordinary, they certainly dont look/feel like kolinsly sable from the other brands. I've got some Series 7 brushes that I've had for about 5 years and are still going strong. If you want a good 'cheap' kolinsky, get some from Rosemary & Co, as they're comparable to GW prices, but MUCH better. Sharpe, The W&N S7 Mini brushes are good, but take a look at them first, you might not get on with the short brush height, I found that the ferrule was too big for my liking.
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Question about the new RMS Wash Triad 1
Cypharius replied to pralix's topic in Tips & Advice: Painting
well, I've gone and dropped an order in for some. If they're similar to the Citadel Devlam Mud, Ogryn flesh and Gryphonne Sepia, I'll be sorted. -
I've been doing a bit more with the airbrush, and have been trying to use the RMS paints exclusively on the speeder model. After a respary with a Paint:Thinner mix, I've had a bash at masking off areas and using a nice dirty brown (Russet Brown) for some test weathering styles.
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Fantastic!
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I use Milliput.
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Crusader Army and General Painting Tips
Cypharius replied to Dwarflord's topic in Tips & Advice: Painting
If using Brush on Sealer with an Airbrush, how much would you thin the mix? -
I've spent some time this evening going over that model, specifically covering the frontal area, which looked bad. I mixed the paint with the Liquitex airbrush thinner on a 1:1 and it's now looking a nice colour tone all over the model. Note to self. Stick with the airbrush medium as a mixer...
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Here's a pic.
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I've been doing a bit more over the last day or so with the airbrush and tried to use water rather than liquitex medium and there's a stark difference between what was sprayed with liquitex and what was sprayed more recently with a RMS : Water mix. (1:1) The liquitex mixed paint section is a nicer colour, the watered mix has come out as a more pastel / chalky, lighter colour. I'll put up a pic later if I can get the camera to capture the colour difference. It's not a huge problem, as I tend to use medium more than water for mixing through the airbrush, but it's an interesting difference. Anyone have any ideas on this? EDIT: Can someone link me the Windex approach please?