Post by sotf on Feb 10, 2018 5:27:54 GMT
There are a few things I hadn't wanted to mess with for a while that, now that I have, I can't really see why I didn't beforehand.
Acryllic Inks are one of the major ones there that are extremely useful and rather cheap if you use it properly.
It's one of the easiest ways to paint up rocks that look more realistic than most ways.
After you have the rocks ready to paint, just paint them a flat white and let it dry completely. Then take inks (I've used, largely, blacks and browns with a few greens added as well), you want to mix it about 1 drop of ink to 2 drops of water. Mix if up and you can pretty much slop it over the rocks like a wash. The end result works very well in looking like real ones for the scale. If you want it mossy or algae covered, use green ink for the same basic thing but use a smaller brush to work the areas you want it.
The same ink mixes work well for dirt with your bases or even full tables if you want. Paint it brown, give a heavy drybrush of a lighter brown. Then take some of the thinned black ink and work it along edges where there would be a shadow, then a brown ink over the entire thing and you get a muddy look, add another drybrush of the lighter brown or an ivory or tan for more dry dirt.
You can use a variety of watered down inks with flocks and static grass to add variety to it without needing more types of it just by dripping some of the thinned inks into it after you glue it down.
It tends to work better than normal washes for heavier detail on larger pieces...dinosaurs and similar things with highly textured skin is a great place for this sort of thing.
There's a lot of other uses that pop up.
Sure, it costs more than craft paint per bottle, but since you need to thin it and the bottles are larger, you get a whole lot more out of it compared to the craft paint bottles.
Acryllic Inks are one of the major ones there that are extremely useful and rather cheap if you use it properly.
It's one of the easiest ways to paint up rocks that look more realistic than most ways.
After you have the rocks ready to paint, just paint them a flat white and let it dry completely. Then take inks (I've used, largely, blacks and browns with a few greens added as well), you want to mix it about 1 drop of ink to 2 drops of water. Mix if up and you can pretty much slop it over the rocks like a wash. The end result works very well in looking like real ones for the scale. If you want it mossy or algae covered, use green ink for the same basic thing but use a smaller brush to work the areas you want it.
The same ink mixes work well for dirt with your bases or even full tables if you want. Paint it brown, give a heavy drybrush of a lighter brown. Then take some of the thinned black ink and work it along edges where there would be a shadow, then a brown ink over the entire thing and you get a muddy look, add another drybrush of the lighter brown or an ivory or tan for more dry dirt.
You can use a variety of watered down inks with flocks and static grass to add variety to it without needing more types of it just by dripping some of the thinned inks into it after you glue it down.
It tends to work better than normal washes for heavier detail on larger pieces...dinosaurs and similar things with highly textured skin is a great place for this sort of thing.
There's a lot of other uses that pop up.
Sure, it costs more than craft paint per bottle, but since you need to thin it and the bottles are larger, you get a whole lot more out of it compared to the craft paint bottles.