What miniature painting style do you love and which do you hate?I know grimdark/blanchitsu is in weird spot because many have reduced it to excessive rust and washes but what are other styles?I’ll post some different styles below.
Cel shaded/comic book style
Foundry aka Kevin dallimore painting style.
>>98349923I like when a minature looks like extremely cell-shaded. Something like pic related. It also looks great on car models (thinking about those famous initial d paintjobs)What i hate is deliberately visible brush strokes.
The ‘eavy metal style and probably the most popular one.
>>98349945Cel shaded is high risk high reward.I was all over it until I tried it on some dolphin minis and then I changed my mind.It is high risk high reward and I’m just not good enough when I want to paint an army.Also I don’t feel comfortable in how I can maintain my brush tips.And I don’t know what brushes will be best for this.If there are specific brushes that can excel for this kind of style.
>>98349974It absolutely is, and its way beyond my skill to paint like that. But i love to see others doing great looking minis in that style.
>>98349998Things are coming back to me.I remember this video on the subject that might be the most idiot proof but not by much. I can’t properly prime white if my life depended on it: youtube.com/watch?v=JYpo0kzlWcM&ra=mAnd I’m not sure how well any speedpaint from contrast to xpress to ap speedpaint to AK interactive’s quick gen to more I’ve missed would work on pro acryl white primer.Already asked wip maybe someone can chime in.
>>98350009>asked on /slop/ for ai recommendations to take a painted example and gen a cel shaded/comic shaded example to have a reference to refer toI’ve sold myself out to abominable intelligence.
>>98349940I don’t care that his models look like fondant. They’re clean, and you can tell exactly what everything is without a mess of NMM and OSL or whatever the flavor of the week is. It’s basic but refined. You’d be happy to see this on any table. It is the Gentlemen’s Choice.
>>98350605I’ve actually bought the kevin dallimore book from wargames foundry.I do fear the place not releasing it in digital so I am looking for a place that can scan all pages without damaging the book for high quality scanned pages.Might buy another if it isn’t possible and the book gets damaged.I don’t like the idea of painting with a book near me as paint might get on the pages.
I like the combination of old school style choices with modern techniques that some of the Olden Demon winners pull off amazingly well. (pic)I'm not particularly fond of grimdark style on minis, even though I love it in 2d.
>>98350728I really want to get a copy. Aren’t there two version? There’s a “MasterClass” and something else, I think
>>98350842I only saw one edition in foundry and it’s warmonger miniatures sister site so that might be the latest and only available one now.
>>98350846Cool. Yeah, I see it. Is it any good? I’m mostly excited about a collection of painted metal models.
>>98350864Check the wargame foundry pdfs for painting.They’re like that. And I personally still enjoyed the book.You also have to remember that the paints correlate to foundry’s acrylic paints so there will be some getting used to using different paints but the principles are still there.I will admit it is a matter of taste and being flexible with following the guide but not having the exact paints.I’ll have to check my book again.
>>98349923Anime style
>>98349927>>98349945Am I alone in thinking this is the most head ache inducing scheme ever? Like its visual torture, I dont even think its really ugly but its like my eyes feel to overstimulated to focus in on it.
For me, it's seeing stuff painted to an upper tabletop standard that makes me happy. I don't really go in for the overly stylised or competition style stuff.Not a fan of really obviously slapchopped stuff, prefer traditional basecoats and highlights and washes
>>98349923Ugly >>98349927Faggot>>98349940Based & SOVL >>98349945Sodomy (receive) enjoyer >>98349951NPC>>98350788Based>>98351024Tranny>>98351078Based
>>98351040That's how I reacted to the first cell shaded games I tried. It took some getting used to. It's definitely not my favourite style, but I want to try it some time, just to see if I can pull off the effect.>>98351078I like your philosophy and your models Anon.
>>98349923Basecoat+wash+highlight is all you need. It's a playing piece not an art project
I don't know, but I like gloss varnish and colours that contrast each other a lot. If it looks like it could have been in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th ed Chaos books, it's something to aspire towards.
>>98352844I can’t even do basecoats+wash right. But I understand what you mean.But I see Vallejo xpress colors in the background.How are those paints? Good, bad, gets the job done?Anything one should be aware of when using those paints like them behaving in odd ways?
>>98353131Xpress colors work fine, they have the same tricks as other brands that you want to be careful with the amount and how the color pools. You also want to prepare the models with the right primer and preshading. These Tyroleans are painted with a lot of xpress paints.Washes and highlights (aka shading because that's what you're actually doing) really doesn't need to be more complicated than having a darker color were there would be less light hitting the model if it was a real thing out in the sun and the highlights are brighter areas were the light would be hitting first. It's all representative to make the models stand out on the tabletop so they can be seen better
>>98351040I don't think the look works so well when you've got lots of dense details and different layers all packed onto a small area like on current Warhammer minis. It can look great on larger figures, or robot models, but best results do tend to come from stuff with lots of open, plain surfaces to work withThe 'linework' being really thick doesn't help either, it just contributes to the whole thing looking cluttered. It might actually work better on a sort of Mike Mignola-esque look, with few colours and you use the black for stark shadows across like half the surface
>>98353366Are xpress colors better quality than speedpaints and AK’s new take on contrast?I’ve seen posts on wip say armypainter speedpaints take a day to fully cure maybe he’s referring to 2.0 and I think quick gen from Ak is too new for proper conclusions.And then Vallejo supposedly has a bubbling problem that I’m not sure has been quietly fixed that annoys me.How common are xpress bubbles if they happen?
>>98353366These need a coat of satin varnish
>>98349923>grimdark/blanchitsuThese styles have had the “just glue some gears on it” problem steampunk got but it was instead dunking brown and black wash over it.Really what does a proper blanchitsu/grimdark model look like without the meme simplification that it got when it got popular?
Whatever this is called.
>>98349923Rackham / Cry!Havoc official paintjobs.Pic related may be not the best example but it’s what I just found.They are realy colorful so they pop on the table but also painterly,They don’t have metallics so rely on something like NMMs but without overdoing it and making every surface look like shiny chrome.Meanwhile the non metal colors also have realy rich gradients which are just nice to look at IMO the best official style (it helps that the minis realy lend themselves to it.
>>98354176That looks beautiful. Any official tutorials you can find for mimicking the rackham style?
>>98349923>>98349927Is there any feasible way to properly do a grimdark/blanchitsu painting style in the comic painting style?I want to stick with acrylics so it might be just slathering ink or acrylic washes over the grimdark models after loads of weathering on the model.
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>>98354182>>98354182The Cry!Havoc magazines are still out there in pdf form and they do have tutorials, I’m trying to stick to those general points in my minis but I’m nowhere this good>pic related
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>>98354176I was going to say Rackham/confrontation, you are a Scholar and a Gentleman with a great taste in miniatures! So sad they were a bunch of silly Frenchies who ran their company into the ground.>>98354182Its mostly pastel colors with a lot of blending in combination with non metallic metal. I had some of their paints, they had a lot of pigment so they were excellent for blending (I'm not good enough to do nmm)
>>98353407NTA, but I use a fair bit of Vallejo.Xpress colours are good, on average they are a little more transparent than GW contrasts I think. I have only seen the vallejo bubble issue in opaque paints, but I don't know for sure if it can't happen in the Xpress, though to be frank I think the reputation is a little exaggerated.Something like >>98353366 can be achieved with your choice of Xpress or speed paint or contrasts. Probably AK quick too, but I haven't tried them. I would just get whichever is available and reasonably priced where you are.Juan Hidalgo has a video review of the Xpress range, I think it gives a better impression of which colours to get since Vallejo swatches are pretty bad.
>>98354266Confrontation has been acquired by Monolith - properly this time, not like the previous shysters who just bought a few old molds and registered some trademarks then ran with the cash raised - of Conan and other pile'o'plastic boxed boardgames fame, who are apparently going to do both a new wargame kickstarter(updated rules and new models, but the models will ostensibly be in the original style and they've brought on many of the original Rackham sculptors and artists) and later on another KS for a pile'o'plastic boxed game/dungeon crawler. It certainly *seems* like it's a passion project for the guys who run Monolith so who knows, it might work this time.
>>98353407Just go and watch Stahly's videos on them, they have all the information you're going to find that isn't just people stating their personal taste as fact.I went with Speedpaints because like Xpress they're more consistent in their application than Contrast, but most of the colours seem to be a bit punchier/more covering than Xpress and I'd rather dilute something when I occasionally want to glaze/filter than almost always have to do additional applications when using some colours normally.
>>98354891>>98354957Thanks guys. I just saw the painting style and feel excited to try something out.>stahly mentionedIs he really trustworthy in reviews?
>>98355322>Is he really trustworthy in reviews?Having tried a couple paints after seeing his review, and having used his pdfs of painted swatches, I'd say he's the most objective reviewer we have. But just listen to what he says. "X has more hiding strength and Y is more matt" will be objectively correct, "I give X an 8 out of 10" is purely subjective.
>>98355491Fair enough. Thank you.
>>98354929The mini's are still available on cadwallon.com I liked confrontation as a setting, very pretty miniatures and the lore was deep but vague enough to stay interesting. I would like to have the expansion book for their rpg, Cadwallon but that is rare AF in English because they were already pretty much in decline by that time. I want it for the lore and the art because the game itself got butchered in translation.
>>98354176I think most of the Rackham stuff was done by Spanish painters and they developed that particular style of super glaze heavy over a white basecoat. There was a guide on how to do it on the Reaper forums (maybe) but I can't find it any more
>>98351085bro who asked lmaooooo
I always really like the paintjobs on websites like northstar, otherworld, and crooked dice, like from andrew taylor>>98349940Has a similar look to them also. It's just nice, blocky highlights with a highly matte finish that look good but also achievable to normal hobbyists unlike some of these other "pro painted" models like GW or corvus belli. The style seems to be most prevalent on metal sculpts
>>98353495Look at the old white dwarf articles and blanche's own models. They are not just a normal miniature with a meme grime product slathered on top of it, there were genuine attempts to emulate john blanche's style, look at how the cloth on the wizard for example has a ton of stippling effects and intentional blending on it to mimic the backgrounds of john blanche's concept pieces that have those splatters and warm, warn out shades. Unlike modern day grimdark which is just some fag base coating a model normally then putting a $20 youtuber product on top it to make it look brown
>>98355828What was done for that rusted blade?That looks good.>otherworld>crooked dice>northstar This means it has a name. And maybe not be as niche as I thought.
