SLAPCHOP Spacemarines Does NOT Work! Can We Fix It?!?!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Dakota attempts to SLPACHOP a Dark Angels Space Marine and it does not work very well! Here is his process for painting the miniature and how he attempts to fix it afterwards!
From what I'm seeing, the main issue is that your dry brushing is a bit too aggressive and not giving you a proper undercoat. I've found that you get solid results if you hit it with an aggressive grey zenithal dry-brush (to the level you did), and then a much less aggressive white dry-brush focusing on edges and from above. That should give you a much better contrast effect.
I prefer using slapchop when I have to paint a bunch of similar but not quite the same models because it lets you move quickly in batches...Good for troops and stuff...but once I get higher tier or more 'interesting' models, I'd probably want to go more standard layering.
Marines are terrible models to try slapchopping. Too many round shoulder pads and flat armor plates. You need something with lots of recesses for the speed paint to sink into.
I only paint in slapchop but i use the army painter speedpaints then i layer over w vallejo the only citadel pots i use are the washes.
I started with contrast paints before speedpaint was out and just stuck with them, I do think citadel has better washes and I have tried both.
Use contrast medium to help the contrast flow better and more evenly.
I have used contrast medium a few times and thought about trying but I didn't want to dilute it to much, I will try it next time and see how it goes.
Or better yet, a drop of flow improver.
Would have been faster to just prime it white lol
Try using less white. Maybe go black, mid drybrush of grey, and then a light drybrush of a lighter grey or silver.
Also, large, flat surfaces are notoriously meh with contrast paints.
I went pretty heavy handed on the white, in previous attempts I didn't use enough and in this one I went overboard mixed with the flat surfaces.
Based on what I've seen from other painting vids, it looks like you've got to much paint on your brush most of time so you get uneven color layers when you lay it down, when you first color the gun holster really shows off what I'm talking about
I probably do, I will be keeping an ey e out on that moving forward.
You have to drybrush the highlights after the contrast paint. Or it looks weird.
Yeah for it to look more complete I would even go back through and add highlights or a dry brush, but for slapchop you shouldn't have to the highlights should come out with how you dry brush the grey and white.
Dude...that's not a slap chop. You actually have to do a lighter drybrush to highlight with white. Then, do a light grey highlight drybrush after contrast.
Your starting model is just...gray.
You don't dry brush grey after contrast, but yes my model does start out very white.
@@rollemifyougottem, dude, do a light drybrush using Longbeard Grey (Citadel dry compound) after applying the contrast colors. It highlights the edges and also smooths out the contrast color.
Part of the problem with your method is that you do a drybrush base that is too mono-value. You don't have any lights or darks after your base drybrush. It's all, basically, the same tone...to the point that you might as well have just sprayed it with Mechanicum Grey.
I'm not really a slapchop fan either. I'd rather prime white or light grey, speedpaint and add a wash to areas that need additional darkening.
Carl here: but yeah i do not think Dakota is particularly enjoying having to attempt to slapchop space marines right now. Haha.
Absolutely love the name btw!
@@rollemifyougottem it certainly feels like he is unhappy. my name comes from having minis I picked up over the last 40 years and never painted, so now the piles are out of hand.
Sounds like you need an airbrush and a vacation! Lol
The dark angels green contrast didn't work for me either.
I have used it a few time and it has been weird, its very dark and easily gets streaks. My best results have been on clothes or doing a double layer of it but that defeats the point of slapchop.
Slapchop sucks in general imo takes even more skill out of the painting and yes i get that its for beginners to still be able to do some nice looking minins in no time but it still is just a hack basicly and shouldnt be applied on every model
Yupp, its tough on marines having so many flat surfaces too, you are better off priming, base coating and dry brushing highlights.