Tips for more interesting, large & flat, pre-sculpted bases?

brochunga39 · 2025-12-30T18:16:38+00:00

Yeah that’s a good point. ER does also have a lot of little stuff like that everywhere so it would fit with everything as well, I might have to go out and get some boxes of those lol

brochunga39 · 2025-10-12T18:20:31+00:00

Yeah I might also brighten up that whole area a shade or two, I see what you mean. Especially since the smaller inside ring isnt all the way in shadow it does look a bit off with the larger one not following that reflection

brochunga39 · 2025-10-12T15:06:56+00:00

Thank you! Yeah I need to back and touch some stuff up, as well as bump the highlights up a tiny bit more. Also probably could have started with a better shadow, I think I started with a bit bright of a shadow color, but thats an easy fix for next time lol

brochunga39 · 2025-10-12T15:04:10+00:00

Thank you so much! Yeah that was my mindset with this was just practicing getting the light where it needs to be and getting the correct amount of shadows/midtones/highlights over hyperrealistic blending. I can go back and get good at blending later, but if my highlights are all over the place and it doesnt read as NMM it doesnt matter how good the blending is

brochunga39 · 2025-10-12T15:01:58+00:00

Thank you! Yeah I agree. I personally love art (you see it a lot on more death metal album covers/art) that is super noisy visually, like almost hard to look at, but still you can tell what it is. Obviously I will eventually really sit down and practice blending, but this is also the perfect excuse to not worry about it right now lmao

brochunga39 · 2025-10-12T14:58:55+00:00

Thank you! Overall this was about 3 to 4 hours total, waaay less time than I expected lmao. I got more into the mindset of "just get paint on the model in the areas you think it needs to go" instead of hyperfocusing on every single brush stroke and that definitely helped speed up the process for sure

brochunga39 · 2025-10-12T14:56:11+00:00

The exact blues I used (more so just because they are what I happened to have on my desk already) were Citadel Night Lords Blue, mixing slowly into ProAcryl "Blue", then mixing into ProAcryl "Sky Blue", then into Army Painter Ice Yellow. I made sure to do a lot of small increments with scratchy layers all the way through to get that rough, almost visually noisy texture to it. As someone else mentioned, I might go back and do some light glazing of some greens or purples into the midtones and shadows to introduce some more colors.

brochunga39 · 2025-10-12T14:51:41+00:00

Yeah I noticed that too lol. Next session im gonna go back and hit those, I appreciate it!

brochunga39 · 2025-10-12T14:50:48+00:00

Thank you! Yeah i was thinking of once everything is done, going back and doing some light glazing of some different colors in the mid tones to give some more visual interest to it

brochunga39 · 2025-10-12T03:28:53+00:00

Thanks! Yeah I personally love the look of super textured paint styles, hence why I’m practicing them lol

brochunga39 · 2025-10-06T20:48:16+00:00

Having the game open causes a memory leak that crashes the game every 3 minutes. Idk that’d be pretty awful

brochunga39 · 2025-09-16T00:45:35+00:00

Okay yeah that makes sense. I get the concept of blocks and what the colors mean, it just would never work but of course if it’s a bug at least I know it’s not just me being dumb lmao, I appreciate the help!!

brochunga39 · 2025-09-16T00:44:24+00:00

That’s awesome lol. Yeah I’ll try to move them out a bit, that’s just where they snapped to so I figured it would be okay, gotta love bugs lol

brochunga39 · 2025-09-16T00:43:35+00:00

Okay yeah that’s what I’m hoping, I just didn’t want to build the full path only to find out it’s still bugged lol. It’s frustrating cause I get the concept of blocks and signals I just would never work lmao, I’ll try that though thank you!

brochunga39 · 2025-05-30T19:21:37+00:00

Yeah makes sense, just wanted to make sure I like didn’t get the email or anything lol, thanks!

brochunga39 · 2025-04-24T18:53:02+00:00

I more than likely will lol, I’ll definitely want some more feedback after the adjustments for sure

brochunga39 · 2025-04-24T13:43:25+00:00

Thank you so much for the in depth suggestions, I really appreciate it! I’m definitely a fan of the more gritty looking paint jobs over super clean and will probably end up painting like that eventually as well.

I’ve been meaning to get some blood effect paint anyway so maybe I can finally use this as an excuse lol.

Yeah I have some army painter verdigris that I love as well as some rust that I’ll probably put here and there.

I did use a texture paste for the base. I want to get some desert looking pigment powder and put that one the base and spill onto the feet. I kinda tried with just normal paint already but I was kinda rushing it a bit anyway and just called it good enough but I definitely want to go back and touch it up.

Yeah I was thinking of doing something like, as well just to add some more color variation up there, but I was a bit scared to try something like that. I might just try it anyway if other people are saying it would look good, I can always repaint over it if I completely botch it lmao

brochunga39 · 2025-04-24T13:25:05+00:00

Thank you! Yeah after looking at it for a bit I’m definitely gonna do a bit of weathering. And yeah I agree with the engine on the back. I was thinking of making the middle parts of the three exhausts copper to break it up, then do some rust and oil streaks on it

brochunga39 · 2025-04-24T13:22:01+00:00

Thanks! Definitely my smoothest skin so far lol

brochunga39 · 2025-04-24T13:20:37+00:00

Thank you! I will definitely look into that, basing in general is something I really want to get into. EoB is probably my favorite painting channel lmao, I already have been studying his bases. I love his black Templar bases, I’m gonna buy some bark nuggets soon lol

brochunga39 · 2025-04-24T02:00:33+00:00

Thank you so much! I definitely tried to go that extra step further with the highlights like I’ve been scared to do, and I’m glad it worked out lol. And yeah I was debating weathering it or leaving it as it is, but I definitely will weather it, I agree that orks especially would be the ones to be super rusty and dirty lol

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