Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Why am I at the office?

[horati0nosebl0wer 19649xp 5]

Doing my work these days seems to be a lot of odd hours and generally riding around getting business in order. I’m hobbying as I can but much less than I want to be.

1. I do own an airbrush setup but it is more bulky than I care to move into the place where I’m staying right now.

2. The airbrush is good for priming but I’ve experimented with how to blend in zenithal highlights for basing. The process of glazing layers has proved interesting and useful. It all started as an accident with not sealing the values from the priming. The white ink I used as highlight was quite intense as I began to hit it all with inks so I started to knock it down with other color. Well, it mixed a little but more as layers and it started me to learn about the kind of opacity you achieve with the airbrush and brush glazing.

3. Dancing with devils in pale moonlight… nah… can’t say that I recall. I’ve done quite a few things otherwise in those conditions.

@sundancer Different Jokers for different interpretations of the character. No argument on Nicholson as the Prince of Murder being good. Ledger played well for a world akin to Sin City.

@woldenspoons I think the prevailing use of airbrushes has been due to the size and scale of the work people are attempting now. I look at GW knights and I don’t see any other way of getting about to do them without killing all detail with a house paint brush. A lot more flat paneling has shown up in figures as well. Privateer Press and all the Warmachine work as well as the latest GW mech models make this clear to me. Brush marks are great for Impressionism as well as organic surfaces but the influence of railroad and armor/aircraft modellers is here.

To ease the pain I offer this.

https://youtube.com/channel/UCUBnnYBx1Quivdtv0VhZDug

@irredeemable Iwatas are pretty good by all accounts I hear. If you can snag one at a reasonable price look at Olympos. If its out of reason just read the history of it and their relation to Iwata. Good background on the machines.

Now long listening