Battle of Styles: Silver Armor Techniques
In this video I'm comparing painting armor using Army Painter Speed paint and my go to method of painting armor which involves using dry brushing. I found both processes to be relatively quick to apply, I wanted to share each process to help other decide which process they might like better.
Paints Used
- Army Painter Speed Paints Starter Set amzn.to/4bZtgzZ
- Citadel Black Templar amzn.to/3Sj3XjH
- Citadel Gulliman Flesh amzn.to/3S8lLhe
- Citadel Nuln Oil amzn.to/3HzOLJN
- Citadel Agrax Earthshade amzn.to/3SxTfXO
- Pro Arcyl Bright Neutral Grey
- Vallejo Game Air Chainmail amzn.to/48XUh52
- Pro Acryl Coal Black amzn.to/3unl63E
- Pro Acryl Tan Flesh amzn.to/4953QPL
- Pro Acryl Rich Gold amzn.to/3T1rXIf
- Pro Acryl Warm Brown amzn.to/3SYCN1L (link to set of colors)
- Pro Acryl Light Umber amzn.to/3T4AiuK
Paint Brushes used
- Artify Dry Brush Set amzn.to/47ScpvN
- Artify Dry Brush #5
- Artify Dry Brush #7
- Artist's Loft Vienna Round #1 & #2 at Michael's
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What a great idea to use one of those poppet toys as a pallet. Lord knows there’s like a 100 around my house
Thanks 👍, I learned the fidget popper pallet from another painter.
I think they look pretty similar, I think I am going to do certain parts of a mini with speed paint and others with dry brush and speckle shading, thanks for this comparison.
Sounds great!
You can dry brush with speed paint. What looks best is not limiting yourself to one technique.
Cool
Drybrush looks better but speed paint is easier (for me at any rate).
Thanks 👍. I wasn’t crazy about the sheen from the AP Dark Tone and would probably trade out for Nuln Oil.
what is that handle base you have the miniatures on? looks much more handy than other handles
The handles are 1 1/8” dowel rod that i picked up at the hardware store. I cut it down to 3” lengths and have blue tack under the models base.
afaik you dont use AP speed paints of a wet palet, it makes the paint to thin.
Correct 👍, I use one of those fidget poppers for the speed paints and washes.
@HobbyBottMinis What did you use for the metallic at the beginning? Looks like a home made wet pallette.
@@GeeWhizz34 Yes it’s a homemade wet pallet. Plastic sandwich container, folded paper towel (4 layers thick, dampen the paper towel, then a sheet of parchment paper (kitchen paper-not the wax paper)
What are you using for your drybrush palette?
The palette is a piece of MDF wood that I spray painted with satin black.
@@HobbyBottMinis Thanks! I use a small sheet of MDF as well, yours looks more textured than what I have though so I was thinking it may be something else. Definitely prefer the dry brushed mini! I use the same method on my SCE