Le Sigh! I am having a bad painting sesh. I am desperately trying to get this flyer completed for blog wars on saturday, but everything my paintbrush touches turns to s#¥t!
All my washes have turnes out really (really) blotchy on the red and whites (although I have done some touch ups on the red to make it look more presentable). I am making a ton of mistakes and getting paint all over the metal basecoat that I cannot replicate as it is at least 5 wash layers to get the effect. Every paint layer just makes the model look even worse. Now in the pics above I have tried to fix all my mistakes and it looks a bit better but my motivation has just plummeted over the last couple of days doing this, and it seems to be going down even further. Now my question to you dear readers, is should I just continue and hope for the best (I still have quite a few layers, such as the gold, bone and browns to add) or just accept defeat and bring it to blog wars unfinished and re-visit it when I can actually spend quality time on it? I will be quite disappojnted it will not be finished either way for the tournament, as all the rest of my army is fully painted, but I just need to decide how unfinished it will be on the day.........
.......... Phew it feels better to vent! Thanks for having the patience to read through my minor rant if you got this far :) I would love to hear from you though as I am in the s#¥t's right now about it
(A rather frustrated) NafNaf
Cover it all with weathering, scorch marks and battle damage :)
ReplyDeleteYeah I think that is going to be the way forward. Gonna be a new challenge though as I have never done any proper weathering before. I better do some research so I can hide my mistakes with it :)
Deletetutofig.com has tons of SBS tuts of varying levels :)
DeleteHey thanks. Never come across that site before. It looks great! I will be doing some reading for sure before progressing with the flyer :)
DeleteWas gonna +1 but I'm not sure that's really the right sentiment.
ReplyDeleteMate I've been there - and I'll be honest, continuing right now is just going to make you more frustrated. See how you feel tomorrow, but leave the brushes alone tonight.
It really sucks doesn't it? Especially when there is a deadline to finish something. I did leave it be last night and went to bed. Not sure if I will do any tonight again though .......
DeleteIf you have a secondary project, try picking that up in the meantime. That also helps.
DeleteAlso realize that sometimes when things don't work, the end result comes out better then expected due to experimenting on ways to fix it. Never lose heart, paint happy trees.
I have decided to leave it for a bit, seems I was a bit too worked up about it which made me make even more mistakes. Got a few carnival minis to paint, as well as some malifaux, so I will do those for a bit as you suggest and come back when I am ready again. Zab gave me a good website with plenty of tutorials so I will be trying out a few new weathering techniques on it too, so hopefully the end will be positive :)
DeleteYou will LOVE weathering! If you mess it up, it ends up even looking better!
DeleteI hope so. If I can get it looking even remotely as good as the weathering on your dakka jet I will be happy, it was awesome :)
DeleteI wish I had a video of me doing that. Everyone would be like WTF? Greg is just randomly doing shit? How is this even working...he's not even paying attention!
Delete:D lol that would be good to watch. I can imagine clouds of weathering powder dust in the air obscuring the camera, with just a pair of furiously working hands on show, and then bam! The dakka jet emerges from the mist :)
DeleteMore swearing :)
DeleteAs far as a "bad" paint job goes, its till pretty good! The metal in particular looks brilliant. Will have to quizz you about it on saturday. I definitely think a break and re-assessment is best as Nick said. Though I am terrified of weathering in general... not my forte!
ReplyDeleteI have had to do a lot of remedial work to get it to look ok in the pics, which is partly where I am getting frustrated as I am going round in circles.
DeleteI have not much experience weathering either so it will be a new challenge for me too :)
Catch you sat for sure :)
Looks good to me, put some GW Lahriam fluid in the wash or failing that, a drop of Klear or Pledge floor polish to make the washes flow better, see you Saturday
ReplyDeleteI did use some medium on the black wash for the white areas, but forgot for the red. I also managed to hold the model while the black wash was still semi wet and ended up with finger prints all over it :/ catalogue of errors
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