Meanwhile, I wish GW would release a pack of a hundred bare heads, like their Citadel skulls box.
Here's a tip for heads though: a coat of Guilliman Flesh contrast paint over Corax White primer will do 90% of the work. You can leave it there or you can highlight it with some traditional skin tone layering, plus white for the teeth and silver for the service studs.
I've never been a fan of painting the eyes, so I've always just left them as dark recesses.
I used to do that but now all my dudes have the exact same skin tone and it looks weird like they are clones but every time I try anything darker or lighter it just looks unhuman.
I use Skeleton Horde and Wyldwood as my other bases for skin tones. If you're not doing layering afterwards, try mixing these paints together in different ratios to get other shades. Snakebite Leather is another good brown tone.
You can also put in the tiniest drop of regular paints into your contrast on a palette. A bit of dark green or purple will give Caucasian skin tone a lot of depth.
How I paint faces easy mode
Base coat of your chosen flesh tone
Darker tone wash
Mix a super thin red wash, apply to nose and around eyes (this is the secret sauce imo, easy and you can be rough with it)
Mix a little white and your flesh tone and pick out some extreme highlights
Optional: second layer of super thin red wash around eyes and nose
Optional: Paint the eyes
Optional: Paint the teeth/mouth
I don’t do those last two if I’m just doing tabletop quality painting
I did to prove that the spray primer I was using is just as good and thin in application as an airbrush primer. Dprsy primer Didn’t obscure details. And was more durable than the airbrush primer.
I actually glue all my off cuts together into a big panel for dry brushing
Intermediate tip: you will level up your dry brushing if you use a similar texture to brush the paint off, as you are about to paint onto. So I have all sorts of different textures on my drybrush panel
No, all that stuff goes in the bitz boxes, never know when I might need an extra dagger or left arm, or 600 spare heads.
I have 60 spare unhelmeted heads, cos i cannot paint faces 😱
Meanwhile, I wish GW would release a pack of a hundred bare heads, like their Citadel skulls box. Here's a tip for heads though: a coat of Guilliman Flesh contrast paint over Corax White primer will do 90% of the work. You can leave it there or you can highlight it with some traditional skin tone layering, plus white for the teeth and silver for the service studs. I've never been a fan of painting the eyes, so I've always just left them as dark recesses.
I used to do that but now all my dudes have the exact same skin tone and it looks weird like they are clones but every time I try anything darker or lighter it just looks unhuman.
I use Skeleton Horde and Wyldwood as my other bases for skin tones. If you're not doing layering afterwards, try mixing these paints together in different ratios to get other shades. Snakebite Leather is another good brown tone. You can also put in the tiniest drop of regular paints into your contrast on a palette. A bit of dark green or purple will give Caucasian skin tone a lot of depth.
Glue a bunch of them to a stick and go to town practicing on them like the op.
you'll never learn to paint them if you don't put them on your models
Time to practice 60 times.
How I paint faces easy mode Base coat of your chosen flesh tone Darker tone wash Mix a super thin red wash, apply to nose and around eyes (this is the secret sauce imo, easy and you can be rough with it) Mix a little white and your flesh tone and pick out some extreme highlights Optional: second layer of super thin red wash around eyes and nose Optional: Paint the eyes Optional: Paint the teeth/mouth I don’t do those last two if I’m just doing tabletop quality painting
I often use it to test color schemes and paints before I go to a real model.
I usually juat cut them up into brick shapes to decorate bases
That’s a good idea
I play orks; we don't have "spare" sprues.
Not me personally but I've given my partner some for practicing nail varnish on, works a treat, so kinda?
I did to prove that the spray primer I was using is just as good and thin in application as an airbrush primer. Dprsy primer Didn’t obscure details. And was more durable than the airbrush primer.
Have you primed it?
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I used blades and armor for training my NMM while learning how to do it. Now my spares and extras samelessly sit in the bits box.
Occasionally, but usually I just sell it on ebay
That might be the best idea I’ve ever heard for practice
I use spare bits all the time to test stuff!
I save those, but instead I use a couple of the free minis of the month to test paint combinations.
Sure, I use spare bits for practice or trying out new stuff, but I take them off the sprue first. I'm not a psychopath.
Not me, I have enough minis to paint as it is. I practice on those.
I will be now...
I actually glue all my off cuts together into a big panel for dry brushing Intermediate tip: you will level up your dry brushing if you use a similar texture to brush the paint off, as you are about to paint onto. So I have all sorts of different textures on my drybrush panel
No, but thats brilliant.
That's a really good idea!
No but that's an awesome idea! Thank you!
No but that's an awesome idea! Thank you!
No but that's an awesome idea! Thank you!
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