Looks good! I use blue tac poster putty on plastic sauce containers as paint holders & that happens to us all. Worse was when my drink was on a nearby coaster on the floor & the mini flew off and in the drink😅.
0:34 seconds into the video, I really need to say this: please, never stop doing videos with WW1 related material! The color scheme, the weathering, the basing, it's a fantastic paint job! I really appreciate your work and even if I just discovered your channel earlier this year looking for Death Korps ofKrieg painting tutorials, I look forward for your videos as a fresh look into miniature painting. Thank you and I hope you have a great 2023!
If you want to reduce the chalky finish with drybrushing, try to wipe off excess paint using cardboard or a texture palette. Using a paper towel will remove too much moist from the paint leaving the remaining pigment dry and chalky.
In this case, I'm actually looking for the chalky finish. It's extra texture on clothing which might otherwise appear quite smooth without small scratches and highlighting.
Short answer is that it's almost impossible to catch on camera. It's just drybrushing while basing, though; check the description for the colours used.
Recently restored my 20 year old Revell French WW1 and currently working on Airfix vintage WW1. I'm using Tamiya ocean gray spray as the primer. To get a horizon blue outcome it really is important. Dry brush technique you use is fantastic and I have replicated on my project. Overall good outcomes. Once the other colours go on it's interesting how the horizon blue just starts to pop. Great video Sir.
For things like the respirator tubes you could try a colour called "tire black" (or something like this) from Secret Weapon. It looks really, well, rubbery 🙂
Look amazing chap. I tend to do like you and matt varnish all at the end, and then I havea small pot of vallejo gloss varnish which I stick on any scuffed bit of metal, a gem, a wet tongue, gore, or very shiny metal: works really well!
Great stuff bud I am grtting ready to print off a bunch of stuff this coming week. I love the other helmets they designed and made available with most of their Valor Korps range (of course csn print them off from other ranges as well for even older ones or for Characters. Soing a OnePageRules army for human defense forces but also want ro use them in Horus Heresy as Imperial Militia as rhe rules just came out for thrm.
Nice to see dry brush techniques. Just finishing Warlord Games Eighth Army... prime, slap on base coat, then contrast paint for depth/creases. Leave to dry and then dry brush. That's the uniforms done. Dry brush techniques makes it quicker and does add to the effect of material. Webbing colour is slightly different between figures... uniforms in action are never, well, uniform.
Unfortunately you can’t get these on his Etsy shop, I’ve emailed them and waiting for them to release them and then I’m gonna make a whole army! Love these sculpts
Great. This is now I'm going to paint my army. Can you do another tutorial with a vehicle in the same style to go with them? I printed a Ace Minis tank and have no idea how to paint it.
These minis could be used as Gear Krieg's adversaries, WGA make some WWI boxed sets that coul be a good start for conversions, f.e. for an Alternate history Earth, they seems really a What If? likes for a retro sci-fi past👍
Looks great, was there no further weathering added to the bottom of the greatcoats? The final products on the turn table look like they have had some further work down to them but it may have been the drying time? Either way, thanks for the video!
Amazing work and paint scheme, any chance of doing the vehicles or Artillery of the Valor Korps ? Also, the dust effect on their jackets is that only due to the shading or did you do anything else to it?
The dust and grime is leftover on the brush while drybrushing their bases; once you've got most of it off, you skip up on to the legs and coat and it's nice and quick to do. The colours are in the basing section of the description! :D
Do you think this color scheme would looks good on the dkok kill team? I haven't seen anyone paint their new dkok kill team with this lighter style blue, Worried it will look bad
I'm not the person to ask! 😅 Do YOU think it would look good? Honestly, if it works on the Valor Korps, it'll almost certainly work on the Death Korps. They're close enough except for the helmets they're practically identical.
Amazing video as usual! I really like your Imperial guard videos. Only one question, throught... What did you use to blend them in with the base? Did you use pigment powders? Or is it drybrush? Thanks a lot!
The dust and grime is leftover on the brush while drybrushing their bases; once you've got most of it off, you skip up on to the legs and coat and it's nice and quick to do. The colours are in the basing section of the description! :D
I already have 20 painted a lot darker than this with 10 more primed and ready to go. Now I have to decide to go back and fix the old ones to this wonderful scheme or continue with mine…
Remember: Uniform isn't! There's all sorts of reasons you could have multiple colours throughout an army, supply chains, weathering and fading of fabric, or new equipment being introduced while the old slowly phases out of an army's stores... There's nothing to say you need to repaint what you've already done if you like how a different method looks. :D
Indeed! The beautiful thing with uniforms is that the age of it likely could reflect experience, with the more vibrant colours likely being newer folks, with only the old guard having the dye bleed into the battlefield. It is probably only a matter of months for guard...Ahahaha!
I'll second the comment about how long they're cured probably being a contributing factor. I use the water washable resin from Elegoo, but once these guys are out and cleaned up I cure them under the rotating UV lamp for just 5-6 minutes. Any longer and things like swords and lasgun barrels start getting a bit too crispy.
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