Walk into a bar…. Well okay maybe not.
I managed another bit of painting this evening and got these finished.
I am quite pleased with myself as I was really not wanting to do anything. I started with the pony and as I had paint on the palette I moved onto the dwarf, ditto with him so a third miniature was done.
These were all done with Speedpaints 2.0. I had less problem with bleeding this evening… so either I am getting more used to them or I shook the pots more.
So today I set to work on the Speedpaints knight. These paints are a lot different to the Xpress ones. Colours are fine. The biggest issue I found was that they seemed to bleed/spread into other areas.
Now to be fair, these paints are relatively new and as such I do need to learn how to use them. I had forgotten these weren’t what I am used to so perhaps I didn’t leave them long enough. Possibly a case of “only fools blame their tools, when the skill is lacking!”
So anyway here is the glamour shot…
Here he is with his buddy…
So, on the left Speedpaints 2.0 and on the right Xpress paint. Have I got a favourite… I am a bit torn… but if we look at only the blue, then i would have to go Speedpaint. I am going to print some more knights and do some with Contrast and the rest in the above two.
This evening I was sitting in the conservatory messing on the computer. I had actually set an alarm for 21.00 but the midges had somehow got in there with me… they were a bloody nightmare so I evacuated.
I decided to do something constructive. And painting seemed constructive enough.
So I worked on the Xpress painted knight and various other miniatures I had handy to avoid wasting paint.
This is where I got to with him…
I may have gone a bit overboard with the mud along the bottom of the horse trapping. I will need to do something with the stag on the helmet as it is looking very flat.
I also need to grubby up the bottom of his tabard too.
I will get the base done tomorrow which should make it look better overall.
I shall also try something on the Speedpaint knight tomorrow.
I also have to print another one to do a Contrast knight.
Zoggin Heck another day with paint on a brush….I must be Ill or something !
This chappy is done in Speedpaints 2.0. On this one I tried the metallic Speedpaint. It went on so nicely and sort of dried flat. However I put a wash over the metallic bits on the first knight and have actually ended up with a similar effect. I was going to dry brush them with silver anyway so no problem there.
So let’s see if I can manage three days in a row… (probably won’t pick up a brush for a month).
To be honest, I reckon the only reason I did anything today was because of Geek Club in school.
Bloody Hell. I have actually managed to do some painting this evening….
I really, really, really cannot be bothered to paint at the minute so this took a lot of effort. A lot of it was belts and bridles so it took a good old bit of concentration. I really need to get back into this and stop making any excuse I can think of to avoid it.
I think that Duc de Renoir will look okay once he is finished.
I had better get back into researching heraldry as I have a feeling that there may be a fair bit in the future.
Of course I will have to do me…
I have me in 10mm and 15mm… really got to do the 28mm version sometime. Interestingly the maroon and black used above are almost an identical colour match to my soft kit.
So hopefully I will get my arse into gear and keep painting…
This evening I came up with a bit of a cunning plan to test out the XPRESS paint and Speedpaints. So as you may have seen in an earlier post I printed a knight. I now have two,..I am going to paint one in one range and another in the second range. This will give me a bit of an idea as to how they compare on larger miniatures…
So this is a start with the Xpress paint. The blue was thinned with four drops of the Vallejo Medium.
The second one will be a reverse of the above. I still have my original GW Brettonian water slide transfers.
I still have to work out how to do the quarters on the knight.
The tabard on the body is easy, these ones have the long bits covering the legs.
So this evening I got booted off the computer. I was busy making a camel to go with the 2mm miniatures. I also have worked on a legionary century. The auxiliaries I did did kind of work. But they need to be increased to at least 110% to match what I already have.
So I went for the Barbarian forces. With some additional buildings and siege engines.
I have done a flesh base colour for the infantry and a dark brown base for the cavalry. Once fully dried I will dry brush the riders white to allow the flesh colour to be put over the top.
The other thing is my Mug came back yesterday…
I have also been a bit busy on the other blog… every time we have been out I have done a little vlog blog… this is one of the latest ones:
Last night I grabbed the only miniatures I had handy that were undercoated and were surplus to requirements…
I chose four colours and tried to match them as close as possible across the three ranges
I painted a strip of miniatures in each range. To make my life easier I did it in purchase order. So from left to right we have Contrast, Speedpaints and finally Xpress. These were all done neat. I will do thinned tests at a later date.
The results were quite similar for each range. I honestly thought there would be a huge difference based on the head colours.
I think using 6mm miniatures didn’t help either… time to find something else methinks.
Last night I got kicked off the computer so I decided to get the ork heads painted with the Vallejo Xpress paints.
Once again these are very saturated colours. They seemed thinner than the Speedpaint 2.0. But as it was a while ago I need to do a side by side test. I will do a couple of colours from Contrast, Xpress and Speedpaint and paint the same thing with each one.
I also used some of these colours on various miniatures I had knocking about.
Today we had a family outing to ‘Aa Fired Up’ in Lerwick. This is a decorate your own pots and a plethora of other unbaked ceramics. We all chose a mug and after much humming and hawing I decided on a Dino themed one…. Here it is in all its glory… well raw glaze state.
The dinosaurs are stickers which were removed after taking this photo. I will see if I chose suitable colours in a couple of weeks. Gemma who owns the business is such a lovely person and I am glad her business is still going strong. We actually were her first ever booking for our eldest’s birthday when she first opened.
This evening I stuck heads on Vallejo bottles. These are as bright as the Army Painter Speedpaints. Once the Greenstuff has cured I will do the individual colours like last time.
Once again I reckon these will need the use of medium to thin them down to the Contrast consistency.
Today I started messing around building a fortification in 3D Builder. At the minute these are in separate bits. They are also a whole lot bigger because I forgot to add in my 2mm stunt auxiliary for scale. Poor sod keeps getting giant cubes metaphorically dropped on his head in the software. On the other hand he may be entrapped in a big green cube!
