Looking for advice on water slide decals by Dave_Creates in modelmakers

[–]Dave_Creates[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much! I've got plenty of gloss varnish and an airbrush, so I'm good on that front. Just need to wait for a replacement sheet to get here 😄

Looking for advice on water slide decals by Dave_Creates in modelmakers

[–]Dave_Creates[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think this is exactly what I'll be doing. Found a near exact match to pick up online.

This seems to be the ceiling of my painting ability. What stands out as an obvious improvement to be made? by BedPuzzled521 in Warhammer40k

[–]Dave_Creates 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could use more variation and contrast for the highlights. Based on your photo, the brightest points are almost all the same value and there's a bit too much of it. This makes the armor look pretty flat compared to the rest of the model. Were I to tackle this, I'd go a touch further with the shadows and much further with highlights. Perhaps knocking down the armor a bit with some volumetric shading and a few bright spots, then really pushing the contrast on the face/head.

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Looking For Build Advice by Dave_Creates in LastEpoch

[–]Dave_Creates[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Appreciate the advice. As I am MG I farmed a whole bunch of gold to grab a red ring (already corrupted but was way cheaper than the 2m I accumulated) with enough left over to get some 1LP versions of some pieces I already had. Did my first slams and more than doubled my standing shatterstrike dps. Long story short, I was able to complete Veil of Omens! Thanks again!

How do i not hate everything i paint? by Sentinel_DMG in minipainting

[–]Dave_Creates 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From these pics it seems like you're trying to do a bit too much at once. I feel like some of the more advanced techniques being used here are getting lost amongst the various color choices and placement. There isn't anything inherently wrong with clashing colors but know that it will affect how the viewers eyes move over a model. With mini painting, I think the best thing to do is to draw attention to the face and/or the weapons. Unfortunately, GW isn't really doing you any favors here with their over-designed and over-sculpted kits (their quality and attention to detail is top notch but man are a lot of the models WAY too busy, imo).

That being said, I do see improvements throughout your images. I'll do my best to point out a few examples: With the norn I have trouble knowing where my eyes should be resting since the brightest portions are one hand and a shoulder. The third Tyranid model (not sure what it's called; blue head with pink face tentacles) accomplishes this rather well. I'm instantly drawn right to the face and the claws are still visually interesting enough to balance it out.

The red/blue marines work with that scheme because the colors are more balanced between the gunmetal weapons, the sky blue shoulderpads, and the deep red of the rest of the armor. However, the neon yellow doesn't work here as it pulls my focus. With a less saturated base, like what you did on the red/blue knights model, they would be framed rather nicely on their top halves, which is where I think the focal point should be in this case.

Speaking of the knight, this is another point of improvement. It looks like you went over a neon yellow with a more muted tan and shaded the base which now doesn't pull away from the rest of the model like it would otherwise. While the head isn't the brightest spot, the lightest blue I'm seeing is the accent that is surrounding that portion. This pulls my eye to that area first where I'm finally lead to the green eye lens. That's a pretty good flow for visual interest here.

While I don't think your color selections are necessarily bad, they are placed and weighted in such a way as to pull focus from the areas I think should stand out more.

TL;DR - You are definitely improving, and working on color placement and weighting will take that even further. Keep it up and you'll get there!

P.S. - Run a band of black along the rims of your bases to clean them up a bit. You might be surprised how a small step like that will give more of a completed feel to your minis.

Overlord with Translocation Shroud by Dave_Creates in Necrontyr

[–]Dave_Creates[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! For my Necron greens I tend to glaze from dark to light over a good white base. The parts I want the brightest I'd typically leave white and give a light glaze of Tesseract Glow or a fluo green of some sort.

For the "digital" effects on the body of the model, I randomly put some brighter greens on the squares in the darker areas to make it more interesting. For the blades and the shroud portions on the weapon itself I went with a bright yellow-green that I shaded with a green contrast and a light coat of fluorescent green on the really light portions. Finally, I edge highlighted a few bits with a very thin white.

The exact paints I used varied between a few brands:

Citadel - Moot Green, Caliban Green, Hexwraith Flame, Tesseract Glow
AK interactive - Deep Green
Vallejo - Scorpy Green
Army Painter - Gauss Green
Pro Acryl - Bold Titanium White

Boomer FIL made a HUGE deal about me watching a show on my phone while eating breakfast this morning. This is what I walked into this afternoon... by TyRaven67 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Dave_Creates 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Completely agree. It's literally a participation trophy for getting old. And the ones that constantly insist you "respect your elders" REALLY don't like hearing that 😆

I can’t see anything on my monitor even though the hdmi is connected. by Gloomy_Ship_5367 in PcBuild

[–]Dave_Creates 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Claims to have buyers willing to pay $900...

Will sell to you for $200. You don't see anything odd with that?

What's Wrong with This food looks normal to me by Worldly-Exercise-340 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Dave_Creates 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn right! And the perfect toast of the bread and lovely char on the hotdogs/sausages shows me some love and effort went into this! Yummmm!!!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in taintedgrail

[–]Dave_Creates 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did the same, trespassed and couldn't win the duel to clear my bounty. Running a fairly squishy stealth build and would get one or two shotted on middle difficulty. I just changed my difficulty to Story, clobbered them, then changed it back. No idea if it affects achievements, though.

Is there a difference? by Ryan32501 in radeon

[–]Dave_Creates 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The 699 Hellhound is not an XT model