Just started slow-painting (as opposed to Army Painting) again after a long, long break (and about a year break from Army Painting).
Using VMC to work over a Blood Angel paint scheme. The transparent red did wonders & now I want to darken the greyish black trim to prepare for sharp blue-grey highlights. Never used their pre-bottled glazes before and was hoping for a result similar to the one I got with the transparent red. No dice!
Here is an old photo of the (messy looking) mini to show the sad state of the blacks before I reworked the red:
I'd use a couple of glazes of black thinned paint over the greys. Or the excellent P3 Armour Wash (it's black and it's thinned )
With patience and several layers you sohuld get where you want.
Vallejo Transparent Red probably worked wonders on these reds - it's excellent at increasing saturation of reds and smoothing transitions.
Nice to see you here again, and it's even nicer to see you painting again! And painting what? A space marine
Thanks. Tried it out already and it does just what I wanted.
Will continue this in the WIP forum as soon as trim is darkened... have to set up the photo booth for some 'straight-from-the-box' shots of Red Blok AT-43 minis anyways.
Oh, BTW Zombie-mod the messyness is a long story: I'm too darn practiced doing speed painting using VMC paints and glazes over white primer... that's all I've done for years now. Now I'm tired of the washed out look, but still addicted to speed!
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