Zhiv does Legio Astorum and Legio Mordaxis.

[Shard of Magnus]

It depends. It can be argued that most people won’t notice a difference between tap water and distilled water. Some of the factors that can influence this are your local water quality, painting technique, and whether you are aiming for table top or golden demon level.

 

Hard water (minerals), lots of additives (chemicals), or an acidic pH balance could have an effect on paint flow, pigment granulation, chalkiness, and color in theory. If you store a wet palette or mix water with paint in a bottle then there’s also a potential that bacteria could start to form from crud in the tap water. If you’re not experiencing oddness when thinning with water the likelihood increases that any differences will be slight at best.

 

I prefer to use a medium and/or flow enhancer instead of water, but I also use a lot of washes and glazes normally and worry about binding properties being affected too much by water.

 

Note: one exception to all the above would be if you are using an airbrush. I would always recommend using distilled water with an airbrush, if you use water, just to avoid the possibility of mineral deposits.

[Rabenga]

Hmmm. Mabey I will try.

[Mandragola]

GW released its own war-ter a couple of years ago. You might be able to find some on ebay still. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ9w9J7gfJI

 

Personally I use normal water for thinning (which is essential) and Lahmian Medium for blending. Lahmian Medium is fantastic stuff - will change your painting forever.

[blackbabyjesus]

GW released its own war-ter a couple of years ago. You might be able to find some on ebay still.

 

Personally I use normal water for thinning (which is essential) and Lahmian Medium for blending. Lahmian Medium is fantastic stuff - will change your painting forever.

Can't tell if attempting a wind up or serious.

 

The date of that video is telling

Edited May 28, 2019 by blackbabyjesus

[noigrim]

Clearly a must have product Edited May 28, 2019 by noigrim

[Zhiv]

Suddenly this thread went off-topic!  No worries, though. 

 

Perditrix is sorta ready?  Other than missing work on void shield generators, transfers and weathering.  But first GW needs to release those   Astorum stamps!

 

[Fajita Fan]

Very pretty!

[Mendi Warrior]

Very nice! 

[Zhiv]

Back to the forges!

 

Warlord Titan 'Lux Aeterna' - Light Eternal, the head titan of Axiom Maniple Lux Aeterna, piloted by Princeps Majoris Ravin Drauca

 

 

[Fajita Fan]

I'll never know how you guys are getting such opaque yellows...

[Mendi Warrior]

Cool!

[Zhiv]

I'll never know how you guys are getting such opaque yellows...

 

 

Army Warpainter matt white (rattlecan) -> Army Warpainter demonic yellow (rattlecan) -> army warpainter demonic yellow (pot and brush).   Slow process... as both the white and the yellow rattlecans suck.  So you have to be really careful to not to losr details. 

[Fajita Fan]

Speaking of white why didn't you block in any white panels like on your last Reaver? I thought it was a really nice touch to the Astorum scheme.  

[Zhiv]

Speaking of white why didn't you block in any white panels like on your last Reaver? I thought it was a really nice touch to the Astorum scheme.  

 

 

Because I started painting this guy before I got the masking tape!  And then I over-sprayed one leg panel and the small chest panel.     So I had to wait to get some safe paint removing material.    

 

Now, I have 3 reavers and 2 warhounds unpainted... and I have titan battlegroup on the way.  They will for my traitor legion... as soon as I can decide on one.

[Fajita Fan]

Aww, oh well.  You could just stipple on some white like the blue is chipping to reveal the coat underneath, I thought white was a really nice unexpected touch the standard scheme given how popular Astorum is right now.

[Chaeron]

Great work Zhiv - nice and clean finish!

[Zhiv]

Finally got some paint on my warp missile launcher.   The black is base-coat, courtesy of previous owner of the missile. 

 

[Zhiv]

<.< a week to paint a single small piece.

Perditrix showing her spanking new warp missile launcher. 

[Fajita Fan]

Looks awesome though, I wish I had more but I only have 2.

[Zhiv]

Well, it has been a while, hasn't it.  GW finally released the transfers! 

 

Here we have Fulgor Aurorae 'Glory of Daybreak' an ancient machine known for its bellicose nature.

And here we have Canis Audens 'Brave Hound'.  The personal heraldry of this titan represents the union between the Lucius and the cult mechanicus. 

 

The new transfers are pretty snippy!

House Idrax also got some reinforcements. 

Another knightly house is born.  The House Snek (working title) marches to war. 

[Fajita Fan]

Absolutely keep House Snek, Danger Noodles is an awesome bit of frivolity. That white, purple and gold looks great.

[Marshal Loss]

Really nice stuff, well done!

[Mendi Warrior]

Really nice indeed, I love the colours you picked for House Snek!

[Zhiv]

House Hyboras.  Don't paint orange on black kids. It's a bad idea.

 

[Fajita Fan]

Okay let’s talk about this, I just stripped an orange Questoris because it was coming out poorly. Jokero orange is pretty crap, I’d be tempted to use Averland instead of Jokero again. None of the GW oranges looked good over it so I used an expensive little tube of Golden brand orange that, while intense, covered way worse than I expected. I had a hard time getting it smooth even with medium!

 

What did you end up using? That looks bright and opaque.

Edited March 21, 2020 by Fajita Fan