Excellent work mate necrons were the first ever 40k miniatures I painted
@_gub
9 ай бұрын
You have some pretty good video production quality, nice. I'll answer some questions you asked and provide some tips: Zenithal? Zenithal is primarily for information regarding where you can potentially place your highlights, make a mental note of where the brightest points are or take a reference picture or two. It also helps you layer on translucent colors better, it would've been much harder to layer up your red (or white/yellow, sometimes even green) from straight black. Not particularly good for metallics though, metals look best with a gloss black under (but paints have trouble sticking to gloss, so just a matte black like vallejo black is fine). Drybrushing: It can look pretty good sometimes, most of the time it leaves your model looking very chalky (incorrect moisture in brush or too much paint, or maybe the paint is just too thin, or even too thick, many problems), it also requires you use cheap makeup brushes because it'll ruin your good normal brushes. It's primarily for speed and you want to knock out a lot of models, it also requires learning how much pressure to apply for what layers of paint. Layering: Midtones are pretty good to layer down first, just make sure if you're going to make it darker on the sides, thin down your darker paint a considerable amount more than your base layer, it should take 2 or more passes to get a good shade. Same for highlights, if you don't thin your paints enough the jump can be very jarring, but that fits some people's styles though so if you like that immediate contrast go for it. Washes: Washes are VERY good but don't let it be a crutch, the only time you'd want to give your entire model a wash is if you want to help your shadows/midtone/highlights blend in better, this WILL dull your highlights though. Thin washes down enough and you can push them directly into crevices. You could also thin them down a lot and help shade panels (this is how I like painting white since white is a hard color to layer). METALS: these are really good with acrylic washes (like nuln oil), I like basecoating with a basic gunmetal, shading with a dark wash, then putting a thin layer of gunmetal to reestablish the midtone. Professionals use oil washes because you can go back and remove exactly what you want, but that's its own category and can be pretty daunting because you need to use turpentine or mineral spirits. Necron gun: You had the right idea trying to have some of your paint spill over the side of the orb, those are energy weapons. Energy weapons like those will cast light on things around them, especially metals. I used to like drybrushing a very faint layer and having the middle of the energy source become whiter and whiter (glowing), but these days I airbrush because it's a lot more convincing. Edge highlighting: This is HARD to do, I struggle with it myself sometimes, it really depends on how the model is posed, what color is your edge-highlight, and the consistency of your paint. Generally you want your paint to be thinned the tiniest amount but it should still be incredibly opaque, and use the very side of your brush. It's very trial and error. I'm glad I got recommended this video, I'll be starting a necron army a little before christmas because I fell in love with their lore.
@_gub
9 ай бұрын
If anybody thinks I got something wrong here please let me know
@SandmanKingsCrafts
9 ай бұрын
thanks for this, this is some great information!!!
@parkerknowlton8909
9 ай бұрын
In my experience I don't find a zenithal highlight very helpful. I normally paint with opaque base coats that are then highlighted so nothing really shows through. They can be useful if you leave a little bit of transparency to your colors.
@_gub
9 ай бұрын
it's because zenithal highlighting is for three purposes: if you can't reach the shadows, don't worry they're already black. Before you paint it, either take a mental note of where the highlights land or take a picture of it so you don't have to guess where highlights are later on. And third, helps with bad coverage colors like yellow, red, orange.
@Antibet_Runnery
9 ай бұрын
So you got tonns of miniatures, but never try painting miniature?
@SandmanKingsCrafts
9 ай бұрын
yea, it's mostly because I'm an idiot. I got interested in Warhammer through Play on Tabletop like 2 years ago and picked up these boxes back then and just never painted them.
@Antibet_Runnery
9 ай бұрын
@@SandmanKingsCrafts i never played warhammer and bought like 5 kill teams. So we all are kinda retarded. No ofence
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