I use
acrylic paint shapers to give a nice smooth join and shape the milliput
very nicely, they also stay wet for longer which aids the use of green
stuff and lessens that annoying moment when the green stuff sticks to
the sculpting tool ruining your hard work.
For
painting it I went for a very neutral colour scheme with a fair amount
of greys to match the rest of the army but decided that as the model
looked very dark I should attempt something I hadn't done before, Source
lighting. Now having never done this before I thought this might be a
bit risky so took my time with it. But this technique works surprisingly
well done in two ways. The way I did this was by drybrushing, which is
the quicker way of doing Source Lighting. By making the outer areas the
darkest and the areas nearest to the source the lightest drybrushing is
effective and quick.
But
if I were to spend more time doing it I would do it with a careful
blending of colours starting with a large area of darker blending into
much smaller lighter areas. Next time I do source lighting I want to
experiment with a technique I saw on Bell of Lost Souls where the
undercoat is used as a guide to light areas. Spray black first then
lightly dust the model with white spray from the direction you want the
light to come from and use that as a guide to paint your light areas.
Until next time Love to your Mothers!
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