Even though the studio feels oddly and sadly empty without Simba, I have managed to spend some time there recently.
Since the last time I wrote, I airbrushed a few areas (withers, ears, knees, fetlocks, rump) with a darker mix and then the slow process of hand detailing began. I am not done airbrushing by a long shot, but the bulk of the body painting is done.
Even though hand detailing isn't my favorite aspect of painting model horses, I DO like how it starts to pull the various aspects of the model together and make it look more real and finished.
For the white markings, I am using this:
Even though hand detailing isn't my favorite aspect of painting model horses, I DO like how it starts to pull the various aspects of the model together and make it look more real and finished.
For the white markings, I am using this:
Createx Wicked Colors Detail White airbrush paint thinned with Createx Wicked Colors W100 Reducer. So far I am liking it a lot. In the past, I've mixed equal parts of gesso, white acrylic paint (Golden High Load Acrylic Titanium White, to be exact) and airbrush paint to mix a nice, pigmenty white markings mix. But that seemed to be like SO much work - gah! Even mixing a big batch and storing it required remixing before using and then it usually ended up with some nasty dried bits from the edges in it, no matter how careful I was mixing.
Being the lazy soul that I am, I thought I would just skip all that measuring and mixing and thinning and simply drip a bit of airbrush paint into my palette cup, drop a few drips of airbrush thinner into it, swish it around and apply it.
I would say the coverage is similar to my tedious mix, but it goes on much smoother and dries fairly fast. I think I will stick with using slightly thinned airbrush paint for white markings from now on.
For the mane and tail, I "cheated" and used a mix of craft acrylics:
Being the lazy soul that I am, I thought I would just skip all that measuring and mixing and thinning and simply drip a bit of airbrush paint into my palette cup, drop a few drips of airbrush thinner into it, swish it around and apply it.
I would say the coverage is similar to my tedious mix, but it goes on much smoother and dries fairly fast. I think I will stick with using slightly thinned airbrush paint for white markings from now on.
For the mane and tail, I "cheated" and used a mix of craft acrylics:
While I don't like using craft acrylics through my airbrush (clog, clog, clog, clog....), I do like using all the wonderful horsey colors they come in for mixing colors for manes, tails, hooves and the like. In this instance, I used a mix of Americana Camel tempered with a bit of Americana Honey Brown. That gave me the underlying yellow/gold color that will be the basis of the mane and tail.
Right now the mane and tail look way too yellow, but I will be toning that down with some layers of airbrushed body color and probably some layers of darker mixes. Stay tuned.....
Right now the mane and tail look way too yellow, but I will be toning that down with some layers of airbrushed body color and probably some layers of darker mixes. Stay tuned.....
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