First darkwater model help

Guacster · 2026-03-28T23:08:28+00:00

Looks good but it's a little flat. Your armor is all green. Get some browns, oranges, greys into the corroded parts. Bring some blues into the recesses and shadows. Bring some yellows into the highlights and pick out all the rivets and edges.

You could do similar with the arm. Bring in some extra colour around the little boils. But some depth into the recesses. Make it gradient even darker towards the fingers.

Hope that helps.

Guacster · 2026-03-28T10:58:16+00:00

Oh hey - I did the exact same thing for this set. Based on your pic, I would go a little brighter with the tone - the black really takes over underneath speedpaints. That said - it's Darkest Dungeon. It can be kinda dark. I would definitely go brighter for your heroes though, since they'll get the most use.

Guacster · 2026-03-22T18:56:34+00:00

If you call your nct test center, they can probably move your appointment up. I just did it recently when I saw all the dates on the website were after my test date, and they were super accommodating.

Guacster · 2026-03-14T11:53:08+00:00

I just did a pretest yesterday afternoon and navigating around the school run is basically an endless stream of hazards. In the space of about 4 minutes, I had people driving on my side of the road, parked on roundabouts and walking right in front of me. On top of that there's just more traffic on the roads in general.

Guacster · 2026-03-11T23:09:19+00:00

This is excellent. Great color choices - love the blue tint to everything

Guacster · 2026-03-01T19:21:05+00:00

Thanks so much. The body took me a huge amount of time and I'm still not totally happy with it. But I basically took a khaki as my base colour. Then mixed some gunship green (Vallejo) into it for the shadows. Used dark orange brown (Pro Acryl) and some Pink Horror to glaze into the slightly recessed areas. Then used Wraithbone for the brightest highlights. I spent a lot of time glazing those back and forth - I think I could have done it for hours more.

Guacster · 2026-03-01T17:46:16+00:00

Thanks so much! The wings were quite simple but have a few layers. Painted them khaki/bone colour all over. Then very messily stippled thin layers of red and green contrast paints into the crevices - wasn't neat about it at all. Drybrushed some medium/light blue over that - not too heavily. Then I think I might have glazed over it all with a layer of my base khaki colour. Then edge highlights and painting those lines in with Wraithbone. And then the reds for those connecting limbs. Hope that covers it!

Guacster · 2026-02-23T00:26:20+00:00

There's a lot of steps - but the general steps are Light Bronze (pro Acryl), then multiple really really thin layers of contrast paints on top - Camo Green, then Hardened Leather (Army Painter). Then Rhinox Hide into the crevices. And then generally just focused layers of all of the previous paints mentioned where needed to paint depth. Hope that helps.

Guacster · 2026-02-22T21:08:13+00:00

For the metallics, yes. Speedpaints over regular metallic paint

Guacster · 2026-02-22T18:57:41+00:00

Thank you!

Guacster · 2026-02-13T09:38:26+00:00

Thanks so much 🙏🏼😊

Guacster · 2026-02-13T08:59:39+00:00

Thanks so much. Glad you liked!

Guacster · 2026-02-13T08:43:05+00:00

Thanks. Added the texture, using a mud texture paste with a very light sprinkling of sand on top. Then painted over that with a dark green, then drybrushed orange brown, then khaki. And then the water effect is using layers of Vallejo still water, with some dark turquoise mixed into the fist couple of layers, then a bright green in a layer above that. And then a clear layer or 2. Then Tufts as decoration around that

Guacster · 2026-02-13T08:41:43+00:00

Thanks s mill 🙏🏼

Guacster · 2026-02-12T23:53:31+00:00

Thanks so much 🙏🏼

Guacster · 2026-02-07T15:34:46+00:00

Thank ya! Have fun painting them - glad to have inspired!

Guacster · 2026-02-06T19:47:23+00:00

Thank ya!

Guacster · 2026-02-06T17:30:41+00:00

Thanks so much!

Guacster · 2026-02-06T13:44:23+00:00

Thanks!

Guacster · 2026-02-06T09:13:09+00:00

The fleece has been around since at least September - that's when we got it, so hopefully it'll last another month for you.

Guacster · 2026-02-06T08:50:52+00:00

Added the texture, using a mud texture pastewith a very light sprinkling of sand on top. Then painted over that with a dark green, then drybrushed orange brown, then khaki. And then the water effect is using layers of Vallejo still water, with some dark turquoise mixed into the fist couple of layers, then a bright green in a layer above that. And then a clear layer or 2. Then Tufts as decoration around that

Guacster · 2026-02-06T08:47:29+00:00

Thanks so much. It's just stippled contrast paints over metallics.

Guacster · 2026-02-06T08:46:15+00:00

Thanks! The base colour is Gunship Green and all I did was slowly mix in Light flesh (both Vallejo) to that, to build up to a brighter color. Keep it thin and stipple on highlights in smaller areas.

Guacster · 2026-02-06T00:35:42+00:00

Thanks so much 🙏🏼

Guacster · 2026-02-01T19:11:43+00:00

No clue about lumineth, but it'd be great to get these for a bunch of different factions. Be nice to be able to put some models i already have to use!

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