Let me say I really appreciate your stippling videos, particularly this one as it shows an effective technique for painting vehicles without an airbrush. ❤
Dir Sir Richard The Gray, i watch my stokes constantly, and thank you for this amazing video!! I will be stroking on some DG tanks really soon, and will be using what you taught us!
Thanks. Amazing as always! Your stuff has really inspired me and I feel I've learned a lot from your videos, even if I can't apply all of it yet. You liked a picture of a great gargant I painted on eavier metal a few weeks ago. Literally made my year 😊
Absolutely stunning. Holy Nurgle. Okay. I will buy this model and I will copy this. Thank you so much for sharing all that nurgley goodness. I need more of this!
I personally do chipping where I start doing chips with the highlights color, and then use a dark (brown or black) to put chips inside that highlight colour, instead of highlighting the chips after.
The Contrast + Medium technique is not only every bit as easy as the oil wash, but it dries in a fraction of the time, no nasty thinners or spirits to work with, and no different finish than other acrylics.
When I last did any Deathguard I used Vallejo Smoke ink mixed with large quantities of glaze medium and retarder. Had a huge working time (if I stepped up the retarder content) only thing was that it took a couple of applications.
Rich, I recently came across squirrel hair brushes, particularly series 42 by Rosemary. I found they are amazing for applying fluid paints such as contrast, plus they are cheaper. I encourage you to give them a try. Cheers from Spain
i straight up sold the first rhino i built (unpainted) because i had the front closed up before I realized the little portholes were not blocked off the new predators are the same way, too
Oil paint will evaporate but contract won’t. A bit confusing statement. Both mediums will evaporate depending how thick they are. If you don’t thin the medium it will clog everything. We thin oil paints before use you can also thin contrast paints.
The wash section is definitely a use-case for oil paints, they accomplish what you are doing (reductive technique) without the headache and hassle due to drying time. Also, you're reducing on a large amount of very expensive medium (contrast) whereas with oils, it'd be around three pennies worth of medium, IMHO. Amazing technique to pull it off with acrylic based mediums, but I gotta say I'm nowhere near able to keep that working time at that level, or at that cost (I see around $10 of paint and medium on your desk in use) - I think I'll have to stick with frugal and forgiving oil/enamels rather than acrylics (personally).
@@demonrich To be honest, I resisted oils for a long time... a LONG time. I've worked with them in canvas painting and considered them way too messy to use easily. But I broke down for a specific project, and now I just cannot imagine NOT using them. It takes some workflow adjustment, but especially going grimdark, there's just no substitute for how oils work. Greatly appreciate you catering to the acrylics only crowd, which I was a part of, and your dissertations about why you do what you do (and your approaches) are GREATLY appreciated. It helps a lot to understand paining processes. Thank you!
@24:15 talking about the hole in the front the helldrake model, all of the exhausts at the back of it are just big empty holes, one of them is literally over a cm in diameter, you can CLEARLY see fully into the model i blocked up the smaller exhausts with greenstuff, but the main central one was just too big to fill, its very irritating
Most people who do large projects honestly get multipacks of coloured chalk grate it up and can of course be mixed together for .ore pigments, after all coloured chalk is pigment.
Use the airbrush if you would normally Richard. If people want to use a brush then it's on them to adapt and take parts of your video that work. Don't change your workflow to suit others because then it isn't you showing YOUR true work. Anyone painting tanks and large vehicles should have an airbrush anyway.
