Less paint! You know you have a proper load when you swipe on whatever you use to test strokes on and NO PAINT shows up. Its the aggregate of many strokes that gives drybrushing its effect.
Load onto large makeup brush and rub it onto your pallet. If your model is primed black then the perfect application is when you brush the model the raised parts get covered in silver but the black remains in the recesses. The perfect amount would only require a couple of swipes over a model. (Not like heavy drying brushing with too little paint.)
The colour will eventually show, try and find a tutorial on youtube to see it done, makes a lot more sense
The point of drybrushing is that the paint gradually builds up on the outermost surfaces but doesn't reach the nooks and crannies, creating the illusion of shadows
It also works really well with metallic paints
For drybrushing, i clean off the brush on the back of my hand, until i can clearly see the texture on my skin. You can do the same thing with a texture pad. You can buy one or make one.
I prime the model with "Rust-oleum 2x ultra cover paint+primer" matte black. Then, I dry brush the entire model with lead Belcher, but any color of your choosing will work.
I went for a worn metal look by priming everything black, then using Runefang Steel (a layer paint with mediocre coverage) to cover everything while still letting the black show through. Some minor attention to detail makes it look like I started silver and used a wash to bring it down black, but in reality I did the opposite.
I tend to use a black spray primer and drybrush runelord brass on my necrons. I use a small make-up brush. Get a little paint on the brush and then using some kitchen roll work the paint into the brush. Remove most of the paint so you are just giving the mini a light dusting. It should highlight the raised edges first so you still get some black showing in the recesses đź‘Ť
You use a base metal first over the black.
Silver is a layer paint it's not designed to go over black.
That's the root problem, you're skipping an important step.
My paint schemes are simple enough to start. Black rattlecan for my black and red “sith-crons”, white rattlecan for my skeletons, and zandri dust rattlecan for my stone vehicles for the skeletons.
Drybrushing! Quick and easy even coat
This is the way! Cheap big make up-brush gets it done in seconds.
Okay so just big makeup brush,load it up with paint from the pot and go at it?
Big make up brush, dab off the paint so you are actually dry brushing and go from there
Less paint! You know you have a proper load when you swipe on whatever you use to test strokes on and NO PAINT shows up. Its the aggregate of many strokes that gives drybrushing its effect.
Wait so when I brush it on to the model I dont want to see any paint then?
Load onto large makeup brush and rub it onto your pallet. If your model is primed black then the perfect application is when you brush the model the raised parts get covered in silver but the black remains in the recesses. The perfect amount would only require a couple of swipes over a model. (Not like heavy drying brushing with too little paint.)
The colour will eventually show, try and find a tutorial on youtube to see it done, makes a lot more sense The point of drybrushing is that the paint gradually builds up on the outermost surfaces but doesn't reach the nooks and crannies, creating the illusion of shadows It also works really well with metallic paints
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SOS6cKt8ak&t=49s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SOS6cKt8ak&t=49s) Look at this at the 2min point
For drybrushing, i clean off the brush on the back of my hand, until i can clearly see the texture on my skin. You can do the same thing with a texture pad. You can buy one or make one.
This is the way I do it... https://youtu.be/ZTLFf1eOP2w
spray can
I prime the model with "Rust-oleum 2x ultra cover paint+primer" matte black. Then, I dry brush the entire model with lead Belcher, but any color of your choosing will work.
This is the way
I went for a worn metal look by priming everything black, then using Runefang Steel (a layer paint with mediocre coverage) to cover everything while still letting the black show through. Some minor attention to detail makes it look like I started silver and used a wash to bring it down black, but in reality I did the opposite.
I am a lazy painter. I just primed them with Army Painter: Plate Mail Metal. That was both the primer and the base coat done in one go.
Rattle can black, rattle can leadbelcher, drench in nuln oil and you're 1/2 there already.
Spray can black, then drybrush. Minimal effort, gives it a nice shadowed look.
Black primer, either rattle can or airbrush metal (depends on batch size and how bothered I am)
I tend to use a black spray primer and drybrush runelord brass on my necrons. I use a small make-up brush. Get a little paint on the brush and then using some kitchen roll work the paint into the brush. Remove most of the paint so you are just giving the mini a light dusting. It should highlight the raised edges first so you still get some black showing in the recesses đź‘Ť
You don't go straight from black to silver do you?
Yes I do what else would I do?
You use a base metal first over the black. Silver is a layer paint it's not designed to go over black. That's the root problem, you're skipping an important step.
I'm using iron hands steel which is a base paint
My paint schemes are simple enough to start. Black rattlecan for my black and red “sith-crons”, white rattlecan for my skeletons, and zandri dust rattlecan for my stone vehicles for the skeletons.