Lime green slime: 77306 Bones translucent slimes wip

[lexomatic]

In between base coats of glow in the dark medium for specter #2 I decided to unwrap and quick paint the slimes with ink. What follows is, to my belief, THE green slime recipe.

Edited February 19, 2017 by lexomatic

[BLZeebub]

Well...pics?

[lexomatic]

Whoa my phone totally killed this post. Had a completely different title. Not sure what happened.

[lexomatic]

 

 

I only remembered to take photos of one in the original state. Oops!

 

Then came the base coats of the vivid lime green. It was supposed to be opaque but went on pretty light. I also added highlights with the yellow, which is not opaque, but was much thicker.

 

Then I added the phthalo green wash, which just made everything pop. It looks positively toxic!

I'm going to see if I need more tomorrow.

Edited February 19, 2017 by lexomatic

[lexomatic]

Base is vivid lime green highlight yellow and wash of phthalo green (yellow) with medium to thin. In this case glow in the dark.

[Glitterwolf]

Nice!

[lexomatic]

It figures I choose the ooze that isn't in 5e. D'oh. I'll be trying a variety of hot glue ones though at some point.

[lexomatic]

I did another coat of the phthalo, and it still looks awesome, so it goes to show off, and then a nice gloss, then matte, finish.

Edited February 19, 2017 by lexomatic

[ced1106]

Nice. How did you get the inks to stick to the model? I thought the inks are water-based, so would bead on the plastic?

[lexomatic]

Nice. How did you get the inks to stick to the model? I thought the inks are water-based, so would bead on the plastic?

 

I usually mix it with a coat of medium (usually matte, sometimes airbrush, even less often glow in the dark). You could also just paint a coat of medium as primer, and use the inks over that, but:

1) I haven't tried it

2)I prefer the extra thickness of medium

Also, these are artists acrylic inks, so behave different than many of the inks out there, like calligraphy stuff. I thin these with water(and medium). Some other forum members could explain this better than me.

[CorallineAlgae]

Someone a couple years back discovered that applying a coat of gloss sealant over any of the bare clear bones minis made them much more transparent. I always start off painting these with a coat of sealer. It works fine as a primer and really bumps up the transparency for the upcoming ink or paint layers.