| Bill Slavin | 07 Apr 2016 8:15 p.m. PST |
I'm new to this board, so I hope this is the right place for this! I just painted up some 1/72 Hat Spanish grenadiers and although my painting is so-so, I thought people may be interested in my technique for handling those ridiculously complicated flames!! And it may be a technique creative minds can put to other uses…
Here's the link to a step by step:
link And here's a photo of some of the results:
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| raylev3 | 07 Apr 2016 10:23 p.m. PST |
Freakin' excellent! Seriously, this tip has so many uses. |
| evilgong | 07 Apr 2016 11:25 p.m. PST |
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| Chokidar | 08 Apr 2016 2:45 a.m. PST |
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| davbenbak | 08 Apr 2016 6:11 a.m. PST |
Great results! Could you post the upc number for golden matte medium you use? I'm just getting back into Napoleonic's myself and am going the 1/72 route. Also, I did not see anywhere on your blog but what is your white on white painting technique? |
 ColCampbell  | 08 Apr 2016 6:44 a.m. PST |
What a great technique!! Jim |
| Bill Slavin | 08 Apr 2016 6:56 a.m. PST |
I'm glad this might be useful. It's pretty fast once you get the hang of it.
Davbenbak, the upc code is 73879735305. I should note that it goes on milky but dries transparent – obviously, you want to avoid heavy layers.
As for my "white on white' technique, as I say, I'm not much of a painter, but nothing too clever there. I paint the figure white, cover it with a thinned down black ink wash, go back in with white using a dry brush technique, building up the white on the high relief areas and leaving the wash in the folds. I then come back in and paint the webbing, epaulettes, collar etc.solid white (the last before going back in with the regimental colour, leaving the white for the piping – easier than painting little thin lines, I find!). |
| IronDuke596 | 08 Apr 2016 8:47 a.m. PST |
What a brilliant technique! Many thanks for sharing this with us. |
| Larry R | 08 Apr 2016 8:54 a.m. PST |
Christmas in April!!! Brilliant, thanks so much! |
| Marc the plastics fan | 08 Apr 2016 10:06 a.m. PST |
That is very interesting and a clever technique. Thanls for sharing. 1/72 leads the way again … |
| jwebster | 08 Apr 2016 12:16 p.m. PST |
Great technique ! I have been using waterslide decals – will be interesting to compare the two approaches Thanks John |
| Gonsalvo | 08 Apr 2016 3:13 p.m. PST |
Very clever. I have figures for 2 units of Front Rank Spanish Grenadiers and will have to remember to consider this technique! |
 Condotta | 10 Apr 2016 7:27 a.m. PST |
I'll give this a go…will work for many applications. Thanks! |
| janner | 10 Apr 2016 9:27 a.m. PST |
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paints the Dogman from the Flintloque starter set.
