Re: [GZG] Question for the painting gurus...

This technique will probably work quite well. Bruce Hirst has a little
tutorial here:

http://www.hirstarts.com/painting/painting2.html#Lava

His site, in addition to selling first-rate plaster molds for scenery,
is filled with fantastic tips, tutorials and instructions. I've got
some of his fantasy molds and they're great.

Rob

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Doug Evans <devans@nebraska.edu> wrote:
> Have folks found reasons to try the reverse of  this? I've been trying
to
> get a paint guru to experiment with black drybrushed over dayglo
colors,
> say, red or blue, for volcanic rock or 'hot' engine heat sinks. One of
my
> trash ships has ribbing down the center of the pieces I've taken from
> plastic cutlery handles. It looks smashing in my imagination. ;->=?
>
> The_Beast
>
> P.S. Wait. 1951? DAD!
>
> Michael Llaneza wrote on 09/18/2008 12:08:54 AM:
>
> ***snippage***
>
>> That's pretty much it. True drybrushing transfers very, very little
>> paint on each stroke. You're just scraping dried paint off the brush
>> and onto the raised parts of the model. The last layers, AND YOU
>> ALMOST ALWAYS BUILD UP FROM DARK TO LIGHT LAYERS, just go on
reeeeeeal
>> easy.
>>
>> Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1993-1951
>
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