Drybrushing Question

[Cold Fire]

Hi

 

I am about to start dry brushing my marines and wondered if you recommend using thinned down paint or paint straight from the pot?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Tropicana]

Dry Brushing, I'm sure you just Load the Brush with Out-Of-The-Pot Straight Paint, remove most of it, and then Paint on.

 

If you're looking for Hints and Tips, or even want to see exactly how other people do it, YouTube Search for 'Warhammer Drybrushing', and you'll find plenty of Instructional and Tutorial Videos, which'll help you to visualise what you've probably read and hear about.

 

Best of Luck. Enjoy your Painting, and show us some WiP Pictures! :(

 

Any more Questions, don't hesitate to ask. :)

 

Tropicana

:lol:

[Cold Fire]

Thanks I'll take a look at you tube :(

 

I have a WIP thread on the go, it the Cold Fire Space Marines thread. Hoping to do some drybrushing today and the put some updated pics up. I am currently base coating the arms, shoulder pads and weapons. Then wil move onto the heads.

 

I had forgotten how much fun and how rewarding the hobby was!

[rat of vengence]

If you thin the paint, you risk it becoming to wet to DRYbrush :(

 

Different effect then.

 

RoV

[time wizard]

As the other posters said, straight from the pot.

What I do is load the brush tips, then dap the bruch on my palette (an old bathroom tile) so that the brush is fairly evenly loaded with paint but not too much.

Then I scrub the brush on an old newspaper to remove most of the paint, then on a paper towel. When I can just see the paint on the paper towel then it's ready to hit the model.

It is time consuming to do right, but the effect is well worth it.