I took 3 classes Thursday night. I’m glad I did them early, because last year I did them on Saturday and was to exhausted to learn anything! I recommend anyone to take a class like this – a 2 hour thing at a convention, or a full weekend with a dedicated teacher – you will learn something. Even if you know everything you could possibly know, you still get the chance to sit down and talk with a master of the art. It’s well worth it.
My first class was True Metallics with Dave Pauwels. Dave was an excellent teacher, and had a lot of great examples to show us and was very personable.
I learned a few things which I’ll share with you:
- A wash is a mixture that is designed to fall into crevasses.
- A glaze is a mixture that is not for this purpose.
- The difference between these two is less than you’d think…mainly in their usage, rather than their mixture.
- You can add a drop of white glue to help break up the pigments.
- You should be highlighting your metallics the same way you highlight your regular colours.
- You should be shading your metallics.
- Be sure to let each layer dry first.
- He sometimes puts 20 layers of washes on his metals!
- He went over some chipping techniques I had learned previously — use foam to stipple on the chip colour, then shade and highlight your chips.
- Sometimes you may want to dull coat your models just to make the “shine level” the same across the model.
- Shadows are more interesting if you start with blue.
Except for the white glue, all of this was something I was working on with my Rail Golem already. That’s not bad though – it confirms that I’m doing the right thing!
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