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Below is an index of various examples of painting techniques and effects as featured throughout my various painting series with links to the specific videos (or sections of videos) for your convenience. This index was requested by a viewer because given the number of videos now on the channel it can be hard to recall or find a particular technique – say, how to create a cracked-earth effect for example.
None of these techniques are of course intended to be seen as “definitive” in any way as I’m on my own learning journey like everyone else, but simply examples of how I’ve chosen to execute a particular effect for a particular mini at a particular time.
The index is also very much a working document which I will be adding to/re-organising on an ongoing basis, and if you have any suggestions as to ideas presented in my videos that ought to be added to the list then do please let me know. Enjoy!
Basing:
- Bony ground with glowing water pool: The Phoenix
- Lava: Fire Giant
- Snowy: Snowtroopers, Frost Giant
- Swamp: Rancor
- Cracked Desert: Bantha
- Acid Pools: Shadow Dragon
- Simple Painted Cobblestone: Zombicide: Black Plague
- Grass/forest: AT-RT
- Scorched Earth: Boba Fett
- Rocky Terrain using Slate: White Lion
- Pinning Figures to the Base: White Lion
Camouflage Patterns:
- Forest Camo: Rebel Troopers
- Urban Camo: Rebel Troopers
Effects:
- Marble/Granite Texture: Thanos’ Throne
- Fire: Ghost Rider, Balrog, Fire Giant, Boba Fett
- Saliva Effects: Sea Serpent, Screaming Antelope
- Painting the Ocean: Sea Serpent
- Blood: Zombies
- Fiery Cracks: Screaming Antelope
- Glowing Eyes: White Lion, Zombies
- Tattoos: Troll
- Dripping Water/Slime: Merriods
- Fiery Rocket Blast: Deadpool, M.O.D.O.K.
Gems:
- Turquoise Gems: Rune Golem
- Green Gems: Troll
Miscellaneous:
- Painting Large Vehicles (without an airbrush): AT-ST
- Painting Scars: Ettins
- Semi-metallic Swords: Aragorn, Ann the Nun
- Building Pine Tree Terrain: Scenery with Sorastro: Pine Trees
- Building Rocky Terrain: Scenery with Sorastro: Geonosis
- Building Urban Terrain: Scenery with Sorastro: Urban Terrain
- Painting alien eyes: Vinto
- True Metallic Metal Armour: Ettins
- True Metallic Blades: Wookiee Warriors
- Speed Painting over Zenithal Highlights: Orcs & Goblins
- Speed Painting Droids with Contrast Colours: B1 Battle Droids
Non-Metallic Metal:
- Dark Metal: Ghost Rider
- Red Metal: Hulkbuster
- Gold: Thanos
- Warm Gold: M.O.D.O.K.
- Shiny Shield: Captain America
- Red (and gold): Iron Man
- Grungy Armour: The Butcher
- Steel with Earth/Sky tones: Kainan the Damned
- Green: General Veers
- Steel: The Butcher
- Black Metal: Chewbacca
- Copper(ish!): Juggernaut
Object Source Lighting (OSL):
- Yellow/orange: Prologue Survivors, The Butcher
- Fire OSL: Fire Giant, Boba Fett
- Red: Darth Vader
- Blue: Luke Skywalker
- Green: Shadow Dragon
- Green: Jedi Luke Skywalker
- Orange “off-mini” light source: Onar
- Various Colours: Wights
- Fiery Hands: Captain Marvel
- Pink: Doctor Octopus
- Blue Pool: The Phoenix
- Lighting Blue: Thor
Skintones:
- Light: Kingpin, Han Solo, General Veers
- Dark: Lando Calrissian, Rebel Troopers, Gideon
- Olive: Sabine Wren
- Rodian (green): Vinto, Greedo
- Alien Blue: Grand Admiral Thrawn
- Sickly pale: Abominarat
- Green: Hulk
Weathering:
- Snowy deposits: Repulsor Tank
- Chipped Paint: AT-RT1, AT-RT2, T-47 Airspeeder, A-A5 Speeder Truck
- Rust: AT-RT
- Blaster Marks: T-47 Airspeeder
- Worn Leather: Star-Lord, Captain Terro, Hill Troll
Wet Blending:
- Large Monsters: Rancor, Jabba the Hutt, Dewback
- Skin Tones – large figure: Ettins
- Skin Tones – small figure: Prologue Survivors
Zenithal Priming: Orcs & Goblins, Frost Giant, Deadeye Walkers, Boba Fett
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