I’ve seen various people mention that they play Warhammer and other games involving self-painted figures, so I’ll see if this gets any responses.
I’ve been painting models for some years now, and it struck me that some of the tricks I’ve picked up along the way are only used for one thing. I’ll give an example:
**Zombies quick and easy ** - cover the fleshy bits of the model in small overlapping splotches of paint in various colours, as many as you like. Wash the whole thing in Sunburst or Golden yellow. Some property of GW yellow paint makes this come out absolutely disgusting - like far-gone rot, which is the desired effect. If it gets too yellow, paint more splotches and repeat, or ad a second wash with some light brown colour (snakebite leather, beastial/vermin brown etc.)
So, anyone feel like sharing similar tricks? The more spesific and obscure the better, though feel free to share more widely usefull ones.
Tamiya headlight paint. I love it for giving anything a wet look. I use it over ‘stealth armor’ figures to give them this glossy, almost-colored look that’s still ‘none more black’. Plus, I can tell the difference between squads of all-black figures. I use Red, Blue and Grey (Smoke) mostly.
For headlights, drill out a shallow conical hole with a large-diameter drill bit. Paint with silver paint. Then mix a small amount of gloss white with clear epoxy and fill the depression, letting it mound up a little. The gloss white mixed with the epoxy gives it a milky look that looks very realistic.
To create a “glowing appearance” in D&D ghosts, undead, unicorns etc, get some Moonstone/Mother Of Pearl, & use that in a wash.
Works amazingly well on flat white.
I almost discovered the same trick for adding Nurgly touches to models, except I used a mixture of brown, green, and yellow ink. I base the model with splotches of snakebite leather and near-snot green (don’t remember if it’s heavier or lighter than regular snto green.) Then I coat the whole thing liberally with my ink (with a lot more yellow than the rest to make up for its lightness.)
Maybe if I coated different parts with different inks it would look even splotchier and sicker.
Give Chaos Space Marines a Chaotic glow: base with Midnight Blue, then coat with purple ink followed by black ink. It will look almost exactly like Chaos Black, but at certain angles the light will sort of shine an off-black, making the armour looking evil and magical.