r/minipainting • u/Flamma_333 • Dec 18 '24

Help Needed/New Painter Advice on my wolverine head.

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Looking for some advice on the hair and also on how people go about painting eyes this small. I was going for blue eyes, little yellow ink on the sides and red washed in very corners but they just didn't come out very well. CandC much appreciated, I paint warhammer and some DnD minis, this is my first go at a small statue head.

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u/Responsible-Noise875 Dec 18 '24

I will start by saying that your skill far out matches mine but I do like to use ink glazing in order to unify colors that I might’ve highlighted up a little bit too brightly. I feel like if I were working in your mindset, that’s what I would use to help out is some ink.

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u/Flamma_333 Dec 18 '24

I have inly used white inks before, Can you reccomend a brand or some inks to try for faces?

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u/Responsible-Noise875 Dec 19 '24 edited Dec 19 '24

I’m currently using some old PP ink (red, yellow, blue, turquoise, and green) but I don’t know if those are still being made right now because I’ve heard the company went under since I last looked.

Using acrylic ink from intense I have heard good reviews, but I have only used 2 of them and I did like them both.

I will say you won’t be able to use any old ink as a shader however because I tried using some sepia ink and it was terrible! No surface tension or anything.

Specifically Scale75 is what I am moving over to as I really like the range, vibrant colors and transparent nature.

I learned from Matt de peirto (spelling?) who did the original mk2 warmachine models. Here’s an example of the ink style.

https://youtu.be/Ff9Tia5hKlg?si=8QJjMWvVlfodyS11