As mentioned recently in my Middle Imperial Roman Speed Painting/Wash Experiments article I'm attempting to speed up my painting, withy minimal loss of quality. This is purely to start to colour in the mahoosive amount of metal I have sitting about and get it onto the tabletop! Whilst I'm not 100% happy with the Middle Imperial Roman Speed Painting/Wash Experiments I reckon with some refinement, the wash can be made to be less garish and a lot more subtle. I managed to put together a completely different wash mix for the Franks (barring the armoured ones just below which were speed painted 20 years ago!) and I'm much happier with the results. There's a slight tincture of one particular colour in the eash, see if you can tell what it is.
I promise I'll go into more detail about the mix of washes, Speedpaint Medium and Contrast Medium/Lahmian medium plus Army Painter Tones etc at a later date. I would much rather do this when I have the nailed wash/medium/tone mixes than talk everyone through every experiment I attempt! I'm much more settled on a formula or formulas I have used here than the Middle imperial Roman experiments, which work on various amount of armour, different hues and saturation of colour. Possibly not so on the Franks ergo the change in formula! :>)
For comparison; Two Quickly Painted 20 Years Ago
Looking forward to that tutorial; I have a mountain of Wargames Foundry Greeks / Vikings that I need to get painted some time before I die. A faster method is very much needed.
ReplyDeleteI think a softer wash for the flesh tones ion the Greeks etc. A tutorial ASAP.
DeleteThey are excellent. Did you really use the same wash on the whole figure? Can’t wait to see how (Matt).
ReplyDeleteThanks. Yes, I'm looking to somehow (magically?) make up a few comprehensive washes that can be applied to models to facilitate the speedier brushwork.
DeleteWow! That's all I can say. Really looking forward to the tutorial. Will it include how you manage to achieve that incredible enhancement of your already superbly painted figures using varnish? That final finish sets your figures apart from all others I have seen.
ReplyDeleteThanks. tutorial slightly derailed by some Sassanid painting but it's firmly in sitting in the "drafts" section on the blog here.
DeleteI could have used my Google account to publish the above - I don't comment much on the internet anymore :) Stephen
ReplyDeletePerhaps this is precisely the reason that you should? To keep long form discussion of wargaming and painting going rather than the fleeting glimpses we are given to bit at on Facebook and other social media? food for thought perhaps? :)
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