Rifle Green

Check out the green on this 95th Rifle.

Let me know your opinion!

The Colour of the day is...

Anitas Burnt Umber.

Uses:

This is a very useful brown and a good undercoat or flat coat for many areas of your model. It can be used on wood, hair, leather and cloth. I use it alot for muskets and Napoleonic campaign trousers for British soldiers fighting in the Peninsula.

Quality:

Most Anitas colours are fairly average in terms of paint quality but are incredibly cheap at around £0.79p per 59ml bottle. Good consistency, Bad for dry brushing. Easily blended and easy to use.

Use with: Anitas Earth brown and Chocolate brown as highlights. Alternatively use any brown of the same hue that's lighter. Add cream to lighten.

The Colour of the day

This is a new feature to the blog which I will pick a colour of paint from a manufacturer and give my opinion on the quality of the paint and it's uses.

So Todays colour of the day is Vallejo Vermillion

Uses:

This is a very vibrant red and a good highlight for many dark reds. I use it lots on Napoleonics such as the British Red coat. This usually acts as a first highlight for scarlet reds or a second highlight for a more subtle darker red.

Quality:

As with most Vallejo colours this exceptional paint quality. Good consistancy and flow. Easily blended too when watered down slightly.

Use with:

Highlight over Vermillion with Vallejo Orange red for brighter reds or Highlight a darker red such as Americana Napa red.

No skool like the old skool!

Here are a few shots of a recent Necromunda commission. These make a nice change from the general historical stuff painted at the Studio.

More to come soon!

Pixeltastic

Well, Tonight's Vision was a success. We got through it without any technical difficulties or freezing. The way we got around that was by reducing the quality of the video slightly which in turn made it a bit more pixelly. So we compromised the quality slightly.

However I do feel slightly disappointed after re-watching it that you can't see as much detail as I had hoped. When I see the video on my screen as I'm recording it the video is much sharper.

We shall continue experimenting with quality and hopefully come to a happy compromise.

I'd like to hear your thoughts too on how you think the Vision went.

Thanks for watching!

Artmaster Vision announcment!

Vision live painting sessions will go live again on Friday 18th September at 8.30 GMT.

I will be painting a Renegade ECW pikemen

Tune in and sign up to Ustream to comment live as it happens or just come along to watch and pick up handy tips and painting advice.

Signing up gives you the chance to ask any questions you like and even make suggestions for future Visions.

I hope to see you there!

Perry Samurai

Here is the figure painted on last nights Artmaster Vision.




Visit our Ustream page at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2162558
Here you can watch the entire video in order as it's split into 2 or 3 videos.


The Figure was painted in about one and half hours. I am fairly pleased with it. Let me know what you think!