Building HG Todvierres 4/5 (painted details + inking aka washing)

This build was on hold for over a month. Was getting distracted from it by div. other models / real life et cetera. After visiting a Games Workshop I had to test out the Citadel Washes and so I started to work on it again.

The first part of this video consists of detail pictures I shot after the first detail painting run I did several weeks ago. After that its inking time. First with the Citadel paint and after that with custom mixed paint.

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• lhasarus

[crapmunky99]

Looking good! How were you able to paint the wings yet still keep them transparent? What did you use to do so?

[lhasarus]

Gracias, Senior crapmunky99 ^^

I first painted the thick veins with acrylic skin color and then used a custom mixed acrylic wash to alter the color of the wings and give emphasis to the tiny veins. Because of the fact that I only used this inking technique only small amount of paint dried on the even areas and they stayed translucent.

[crapmunky99]

Senior crapmunky! xD Ok, thanks for the tip. I've wanted to try something interesting with clear/translucent parts, but didn't know if it would stay that way afterwards. Now, knowing how you did it, I'm thinking my original idea probably wouldn't have worked, so I'll either have to deal with the parts no longer being translucent, or I'll have to take a different approach. Thanks again!

[lhasarus]

Pre-colored transparent plastic is troublesome. You can change the color with transparent colors but the resulting color is always a mixture of the applied and the original.

It would have been impossible to change the wings color to transparent lilac or pink for instance (yellow is complementary).

But I suspect you know that. What was your original idea? Mind telling?

[crapmunky99]

I had thought of using a translucent neon on beam blades and other such things. That way, the blade would stay clear (relatively) but have the blacklight effect too. I had a feeling that only "like" colors will work together. Orange or red would work with pink blades, but not green or something "colder" like that. Although, I imagine one could create a dark color by mixing non-complementary colors together (neon blue paint on a pink blade) so that it's a dark color that glows under blacklight...

[lhasarus]

That should work. Try mixing marker ink with future floor acrylics (like I did in one of the Alex videos) and try it out (perhaps first on the transparent tree).

You could even create a black transparent color that glows white under uv-light if you mix many different colors. If you mix red green and blue in equal quantities it should result in black (substractive color) and glow white (additive color).

The mixing is critical though...

[shadowblack1987]

I like how he uses a glove for the left hand... but handles the parts with his ungloved right hand... lol

[jayko657]

yay some deatail finally!

it was REALLLY lacking it

[cabellism]

hmm ive been wondering about this for while and ive been trying to guess the thinner to paint ratio, how thin is this stuff really? prety much ive been trying to mock this idea with my gunpla here lately, with acrylic paints and thinner. could you perhaps give me a bit help here?

[crapmunky99]

Actually, I recently purchased some FFA and neon color gel-pens. I've been experimenting with it, but I'm finding it hard to work with. I may just be mixing it too thin, but if I make it too thick, it loses translucence. I'll keep experimenting, and see if I can get it to balance. But, that "neon black" idea really sounds cool, and I think I'm going to give it a try in the near future. If it does work, I'll be sure to post a video of it. Thanks again!