| ACW Gamer | 10 Feb 2012 7:41 p.m. PST |
Someone mentioned on their blog a technique called grayscaling. What is that? |
| haywire | 10 Feb 2012 7:43 p.m. PST |
Is that using various greys to get a black and white effect? |
| ACW Gamer | 10 Feb 2012 7:44 p.m. PST |
It doesn't appear to be.. |
| Toshach | 10 Feb 2012 7:56 p.m. PST |
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| ACW Gamer | 10 Feb 2012 8:04 p.m. PST |
So how does a digital photo technique apply to painting miniatures? |
| GypsyComet | 10 Feb 2012 8:06 p.m. PST |
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| ACW Gamer | 10 Feb 2012 8:13 p.m. PST |
Please look here, 2nd post: link |
 Flashman14  | 10 Feb 2012 9:29 p.m. PST |
I'll guess it's this kind of thing: link I can't seem to get a link that isn't a download on my smart phone – yet it loads up fine on this thing. |
| Given up for good | 11 Feb 2012 3:04 a.m. PST |
Do you mean 'grisaille' by any chance? |
| Flashman14 | 11 Feb 2012 3:42 a.m. PST |
Ignore my post above: I googled "Grayscaling miniatures" and got a pdf called: "Gray-Scale Washing Tutorial V2" In a nutshell: 1)prime black 2)heavy drybrush the entire mini with white then 3) ink/wash all the tones in instead of "painting" them in. The light and dark of the undercoat provides all the gradations. The other way works too: 1) prime white 2) wash in with heavy pigmented black then 3) as above. |
| ACW Gamer | 11 Feb 2012 9:03 a.m. PST |
Thanks Flashman…that makes sense now. I have never tried it but it might be something to give a shot!! |
| NOLA Chris | 11 Feb 2012 6:20 p.m. PST |
I use this style/technique on most of my figs,
just a slight variation: I prime grey (Krylon)
wash black,
heavy drybrush grey
light drybrush white
light/watered down colors to give an auto-shading effect this works differently with different colors, brands, etc,
so a fair amt of testing/practice is needed,
but I like the results.
The one problem I have is that I occasionally get
some "flocking effect" on the primer which is then
accentuated by my technique… see what ya think: 28mm survivors
10mm historical
NOLA Chris |
| ACW Gamer | 12 Feb 2012 6:26 a.m. PST |
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| Marc the plastics fan | 14 Feb 2012 6:16 a.m. PST |
That seems like a lot of work – but is it easier/quicker than more "standard" methods of painting? |
| NOLA Chris | 14 Feb 2012 9:01 a.m. PST |
works much quicker for me,
the prep may take longer,
but once I'm to painting the colors,
it seems to go WAY fast!
and results in good table top quality (5-7)for mass troops Chris |
| Karl von Hessen | 14 Feb 2012 4:15 p.m. PST |
Seems like two different definitions of "Grey scaling." I thought it refered to figures and terrain made to look like a "black and white" movie as in the example Gypsy Comet gave?!?! Both are cool in their own respects! |
| Paint Pig | 14 Feb 2012 4:56 p.m. PST |
pre shading, pre highlighting and now grey scaling? |
