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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: Hammers on December 16, 2010, 10:44:45 AM
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...is apparently one of the current fads in miniature painting.
The basics is that you turn the mini upside down and spray with a black primer. Then you turn it heads up and spray with a white primer. The whole idea seems to be to on the miniature stress where the noon shadows and hilites appear on a figure. (Noon shadow/hilite is the customary shading effect which mini painters stick to).
Has anyone tried this methos and do you think it helps
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I have tried it after a fashion.
When I did this figure
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb155/GrunterPulpit/Chaos/SicBalls.jpg)
I primed the whole thing black, then drybrushed the fur and flesh progressively lighter grey to an almost white.
Then I washed the fur with thinned Badab Black and the flesh with alternate coats of Gryphonne Sepia and Ogryn Flesh.
If you keep the washes thin enough, the highlights come through really well and will take just enough of the wash colour to make it look right.
I did a few of the other beastmen in a simialr fashion, but using brown rather than grey as a base. They can be seen here:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=20619.0
So far its been my only experiment with zenithal shading/highlighting, but I found it really easy and quite effective, although given that you have to use three or four washes and let them dry inbetween applications, I'm not convinced its actually any faster than the normal painting method.
Hope that's useful to you. :)
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I think I shall try it on a batch of various cattle whot I just received from Cavalcade.