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@blinky465 Bustle gowns… I see you’re a man of culture. Unfortunately I cannot find the ecard for “Bustle gowns… business in front party in back”. I duly agree to the sentiment.

@m30wm1x Good work. I can say that playing with Vallejo mediums and slapping on Secret Weapon pigments has been my bag and works so far. The details of doing details really means that you’re in the hobby.
I think that weathering and texture painting is a skill set developed at a certain competence level when “gritty realism” becomes something you look for

@crazyredcoat NMM is easy once you see the metal as just swathes of color. Imagine the monochrome black/white value scale as all other colors. Add blue to the spectrum and you have silver/steel. Take gold the same way through an umber, sepia, light brown/beige, yellowed bone/sand and then white. Brass/copper is tricky because of the orange/green undertones. It all sounds off when you think pure pigment from the bottle but if you’re glazing the hints of color blend well.
The harsh transition in where light hits is the key for textures. Think about the edge highlights to space marine armor and you’ve got good footing for the glint of metal weapons.
I’ve read numerous interviews in Juxtapoz magazine with ultra-realist painters and their chrome is phenomenal when showing off cars. The mirror finish is not something I plan on doing with my own work any time soon.

Ahh Tom Lehrer.. he had a great one for Wehrner von Braun regarding rockets. I’ll leave it there as it cuts close to the line on politics. I laughed at the end where he talks about the Chinese and it ties in nicely with the Fallout story arc.

Now all I can think of is Six String Samurai

Now some music after the movie