Post by malebranche on May 3, 2012 23:14:50 GMT
First let me say I have painted before, and although im not brilliant at it, I am decent.
The disaster: Having decided on a color scheme for my unpainted nids, I decided to get to work. I decided on porcelain looking white carapace with dark, fleshy red flesh. Anyone who plays magic the gathering might be familiar with "Elesh Norn" (if curious, google it). Thats the basic scheme I was going for. So I bought some paints from the local hobby shop. Since my metal broodlord was meant to have a dark crimson tinge to the red, which would make up most of his skin, i gave him a black basecoat. A friend then warned me about the crappyness of the paints I had bought, at least on plastic models, but i decided i like the look of it. Apparently he had used the same brand a long time ago and it was very poor quality, leaving a very uneven coat on plastic, but my metal broodlord looked fine so far. I added red and had a decent start on a fleshy looking broodklord.
Then i decided to test the white on a Venomthrope, since a sickly venomthrope can easily be salvaged if only the undercoat is lacking. Well, he was right about the paint on plastic, white looked horrible. No worry though, it can easily be fixed on a model I wanted to look disgusting anyway. So I shrugged and decided not to use the white on any more plastic models. Then I decided to add the white bits to the broodlord. Big mistake - its not the whole brand of paint - the white has gone bad or something. It looks terrible, and now my potentially awesome broodlord can only be accurately described using language likely to get me banned from the forums. Not like "wow, you could have painted that one better.". No, more like something you would expect a small child to do to wreck his brothers toy.
And now im thinking the entire color scheme was a mistake. Not for most of the models, i think it would look great on most nids. But not genestealers, which are a big part of my army. And I want the whole army to fit, not everything but the stealers.
So the choices are;
a) Strip it. Thats the best part of metal models (other than the sexy weight) and start from scratch.
b) Darken it again. This will make the paint thicker than expected, but I could still salvage it and have a borderline acceptable black and red broodlord.
c) Go all out. Stir the white tio make sure it wasnt just stubbornly settled and slather it on to get the thick porcelain look I was going for in the first place.
I'm leaning towards "a".
Also, sorry for poor grammar or whatever. I just finished work after getting 4 hours sleep over the past 2 days. Maybe if i hadnt tried painting in this state I wouldnt have messed up so bad...
The disaster: Having decided on a color scheme for my unpainted nids, I decided to get to work. I decided on porcelain looking white carapace with dark, fleshy red flesh. Anyone who plays magic the gathering might be familiar with "Elesh Norn" (if curious, google it). Thats the basic scheme I was going for. So I bought some paints from the local hobby shop. Since my metal broodlord was meant to have a dark crimson tinge to the red, which would make up most of his skin, i gave him a black basecoat. A friend then warned me about the crappyness of the paints I had bought, at least on plastic models, but i decided i like the look of it. Apparently he had used the same brand a long time ago and it was very poor quality, leaving a very uneven coat on plastic, but my metal broodlord looked fine so far. I added red and had a decent start on a fleshy looking broodklord.
Then i decided to test the white on a Venomthrope, since a sickly venomthrope can easily be salvaged if only the undercoat is lacking. Well, he was right about the paint on plastic, white looked horrible. No worry though, it can easily be fixed on a model I wanted to look disgusting anyway. So I shrugged and decided not to use the white on any more plastic models. Then I decided to add the white bits to the broodlord. Big mistake - its not the whole brand of paint - the white has gone bad or something. It looks terrible, and now my potentially awesome broodlord can only be accurately described using language likely to get me banned from the forums. Not like "wow, you could have painted that one better.". No, more like something you would expect a small child to do to wreck his brothers toy.
And now im thinking the entire color scheme was a mistake. Not for most of the models, i think it would look great on most nids. But not genestealers, which are a big part of my army. And I want the whole army to fit, not everything but the stealers.
So the choices are;
a) Strip it. Thats the best part of metal models (other than the sexy weight) and start from scratch.
b) Darken it again. This will make the paint thicker than expected, but I could still salvage it and have a borderline acceptable black and red broodlord.
c) Go all out. Stir the white tio make sure it wasnt just stubbornly settled and slather it on to get the thick porcelain look I was going for in the first place.
I'm leaning towards "a".
Also, sorry for poor grammar or whatever. I just finished work after getting 4 hours sleep over the past 2 days. Maybe if i hadnt tried painting in this state I wouldnt have messed up so bad...
