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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: powerfrog99 on January 02, 2023, 08:31:22 AM

Title: My new O&G army project (update#2): new painting technique - new motivation
Post by: powerfrog99 on January 02, 2023, 08:31:22 AM

I liked the new GW Orks at the first glance, but with my old painting method I was not really happy with the results on these...
The until then method consisted of some strong highlighting with an overall wash of Army Painter Quickshade and fitted well to many different ranges I painted in the last years.

When Vallejo introduced their new Xpress color range at Spiel in Essen last October I managed to grab a set of the pre-released 8 colors.
I really liked the first trials using these paints together with the slapchob technique. It gave me boost to my motivation to paint whole armies even with my not particularly improving eye sight.

Have a look for yourself:

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Post by: OSHIROmodels on January 02, 2023, 08:52:05 AM

They look great  :)

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Post by: SpaceArmada on January 02, 2023, 10:03:29 AM

Powerfrog they look great. What are you using as an undercoat?

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Post by: Red Orc on January 02, 2023, 11:03:37 AM

They are really incredible. I think I need one of these:  :o

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Post by: Ockius on January 02, 2023, 06:00:30 PM

Great work on these!

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Post by: powerfrog99 on January 04, 2023, 07:22:03 AM

I use a black primer, with a first dry brush of grey and a second very light dry brush of white.
After that only 1 layer of Xpress colors is used and you basicly have the effects shown here. Only the metal is done differently, a medium to to dark metal paint with a Xpress 15/35/50 mixture of yellow, red and water was used here.

All in all I save a lot of time and detailed brushwork.

On the orks it looks magnificent I think, these days I am working on Freebooter's Fate Debonn. These look also very pleasing, but for the faces which got a bit too much of a contrast, but I am working on that issue. 

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Post by: DivisMal on January 04, 2023, 07:25:16 AM

Bloody good results! And i must admit these new GW orcs are pretty interesting.

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Post by: LouieN on January 06, 2023, 05:20:24 PM

The minis looks great

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Post by: Elk101 on January 06, 2023, 05:22:09 PM

Great painting results!

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Post by: powerfrog99 on January 11, 2023, 05:56:39 PM

Thanks for your nice replies 😊

Here are some more pics.

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Post by: Grumpy Gnome on January 11, 2023, 08:08:40 PM

Great work! Brilliant results. 👍

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Post by: Pattus Magnus on January 11, 2023, 10:32:58 PM

Yes, definitely great results there! The basing, figures and whole effect looks quite good.