Re: 54mm Harlequin Solitaire - From Sketch to Miniature

Posted by precinctomega on Dec 02, 2008; 11:54am
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/54mm-Harlequin-Solitaire-From-Sketch-to-Miniature-tp1585135p1603385.html

I've only just started to use the overspraying technique, so I can't give a detailed assessment of its value, but I recently recommended it to a friend needing to speedpaint a Blood Angels army and he found it really useful.  In this case, he was using the new Citadel spray gun and undercoated the models in Chaos Black and then oversprayed using Mechrite Red (in a 60/40 water/paint mix) before touching up with Blood Red.  I've not seen the results yet, as we're all playing Inquisitor at the moment, but he tells me it worked really nicely (given that he's not the world's deftest of painters to start with).

The few models on which I've oversprayed a white coat, I've chosen to do so because I wanted to paint the model with bright colours but to give them a distinctly muted tone.  This really works on 40k models, because the muted, slightly grubby finish its gives the models fits with the background, without giving them the slightly hurried look that the new Ink Washes betray somewhat (when used as a speed-painting technique, anyway).

The client hasn't paid me yet, but I couldn't resist getting started on the painting.  I'll post some pics of the WIP later.

R.