Horizon Explorations in Painting
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- This is a fantastic hobby kit painting video with Tom Gilliland (now Creative Director at Sideshow Collectibles!) that seems to be out of print. I found this at a comic shop as a teenager and it taught me an enormous amount about painting three dimensional figures and inspired me to work with characters and sculpture.
Description from the box:
This video covers painting techniques with the specifics of poly-vinyl figure kits in mind, but many of the techniques would be applicable to many kinds of models.
Sections cover:
The Universe of Poly-vinyl Model Kits
Painting Basics
Dry Brushing
Washing
Detailing
Airbrushing
Customizing
Finishing
Gallery of Completed Figures
Horizon Hobbies is no longer in business, but they produced a wide range of figure models - typically movie characters, comic book figures, and movie monsters, but they also produced a line of dinosaur figure kits based on molds used in creating special effects figures for the Jurassic Park movies.
This video would be of interest to anyone wanting to learn or improve model painting techniques.
I still look for Horizon and Screamin kits on eBay. Much nostalgia.
I've been modeling for 25 years and this still taught me a few things. That's one of the cool things about the hobby... there are ALWAYS new things to learn.
I still have this VHS. Great video. Thanks for uploading it.
I love these old kits, they have such a better macho comic look than most the newer ones, I like to brush them all, I have several on my channel.
Tom used to work at a place called Kit Kraft in Southern California he personally taught me how to paint.
In Studio City right off of Ventura Boulevard I used to go there all the time I bought quite a few garage kits from them also him and I painted together but he taught me a whole lot also
This is amazing, thanks so much for uploading it ❤️
Great video. I've really learned a lot from this. I'm having trouble with the wash technique, going to mess around with it some more this weekend. Every single video I've watched on TH-cam gives a different method for how to make a wash.
I usually make washes using 50/50 water and paint. There really isn't much to it. The more paint you add, the more saturated the color will be. If you go too thick, you can brush over it with water to help break it up and smooth it more (he actually does this a lot in the video.)
One thing that this video did not mention but it is common for model kit builders are the use of plaster and pinning.
I tend to put a plaster mold on my kits so it would be harder plus pinning.
That's what I'm looking for! What to use for the inside of the kit
That's a great technique. Basically fill the hollow parts with plaster to make it more like a weighty statue, and use pins between the joints to make it harder to snap apart.
thanks for vid ! probably best one I've seen yet ! Im new to model making very helpful thank you
Great Video - Clearly And Well Explained -Many Thanks
thanks for putting this up. I used to own this and forgot about it till today.
No prob, David! That's why I posted it. I fear it may be lost to history otherwise. This is the video that taught me how to paint when I was a kid.
Ah, the early 90's.
very helpful Tom thanx for the help
I'm about to get my first paint brush (mainly doing vinyl model kits)
should I get gravity or pressure fed? Also is it better to get a bigger
resevoir? Any recommendations for good starter models? Thanks!
Sorry, just saw this. I went through a few at first, and I realized it really is a personal preference thing. I find the #1 thing will be getting quality paints. Bad paints will kill the whole experience even if you have a great brush. I use Createx, and I water it down with the Createx Airbrush Medium. It works much nicer than water. And don't listen to all the crazy stories about thinning it with windex. Best thing is to experiment and see what works best for you.
As for the brush, I prefer a gravity feed internal mix because you can get it to spray with a lighter air pressure so it's precise and good for detail work. A smaller tip size is good for details as well, although you'll need to thin the paint more for that. A really nice Iwata or Badger can be really nice, or you can use the 40%-off coupon to grab an Iwata Neo from Hobby Lobby. They're manufactured in China to be cheaper, but built pretty carefully to Iwata's specs, so they aren't bad. Or you can just grab a Pasche H siphon feed external mix to keep things very simple and easy to use and clean. That's actually one of my favorites, too. Sometimes its nice to just use a simpler brush that I can clean up quickly.
i got this one on vhs
Same here..would love to get it transferred to dvd
Great videos, I have the catwoman kit, I have a question about cutting the plastic, do I also cut the plastic inside the kit, please advice, thank you for this great video
Sometimes you gotta shave it off a little to get it to fit right
Not sure what you mean. As he shows in the video, sometimes you have a bit of a plug that you need to keep on there if you want it to be movable, or you can cut it, then putty and sand the seam for a seamless fit. If it doesn't fit right, then by all means cut and shave it, then use putty and sand it to hide the seams.
does anyone know if you can use regular artist acrylic paint for vinyl models like these or if you have to use special model acrylic paints (ex. TESTERS)?
With vinyl kits, acrylics or lacquer paints are great. You might get a better result with at least a lacquer primer (Testors or Tamiya, stay away from thick auto primers that will fill in the details.) You'll find that with a good primer, almost any paints will do well. I prefer to use the cheap Wal-Mart acrylics with brushes, unless I want a unique color that I can't reproduce with them, or if I'm using an air brush, a nice vallejo model air or at least something like Createx to get a smooth flow.
Okay so the testors acrylics are "lacquer" acrylics? Sorry I'm just getting into this I do have some painting experience but not with vinyl models. I already have regular water based acrylic paints at home so just to clarify they will work on the vinyl as long as the surface of the model has had a primer applied?
If not airbrush or either The Tamiya, Testors or Mr. Color paint, I would recommend those Games Workshop Citadel Paints, hopefully it is available in your area.
These are the official paint product for those Warhammer miniatures.
Yeah +1 for the Citadel paints. I had terrible results from the Testers paints as a kid, and finding Citadel was like a miracle.
Some of the techniques not mentioned here are filling / pinning and the use of pastels.