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| Painting Guns; How do ya? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 9 2010, 06:37 AM (690 Views) | |
| Mr. Clean | May 9 2010, 06:37 AM Post #1 |
Wasteland Legend/Cat Skinner/Bad Speller/Super Nice Guy B^)
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Most of the guns I paint are black undercoat,drybrush Bolt Gun Metal with a black ink wash.Unless the gun with no doubt has a a wood stock,this is the way I paint em'.It's a throw back to my GW roots I know,so how do you guys/gals paint your minis guns,realistic or does every gun look like a dirty nickle? Brian |
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| tinker | May 9 2010, 07:23 AM Post #2 |
CEO of "Rat-on-a-Stick" Industries
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Have ya got any photo examples of your finished product? |
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| Rad Blight | May 9 2010, 07:48 AM Post #3 |
Wasteland Warrior
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Much the same as you Mr C, though it does vary a bit according to the subject. The more outlandish the min, the wackier the paint job. I did go through a phase of trying to paint guns in a realistic manner but they never looked right to me. |
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| v_lazy_dragon | May 9 2010, 09:55 AM Post #4 |
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I usually use a 50:50 mix of boltgun metal & black as the standard metal colour (or occasionally a dedicated 'gun metal' shade from the likes of Tamiya or Humbrol). As I tend to do mainly historical figures these days I found that 'dirty nickel' as you call it just didn't look right. I tend to just use Bestial Brown for the wood sections (as it looks rather like the sort of varnished wood & later platic inserts you see on the AK series) Mind you, I'm also a bit of a fire arms nut so I actually know what the darned things should look like and it bugs me if they don't! (At one point I ended up repainting most of my Africans RPGs so that they looked 'more correct' LOL!) |
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| Mal | May 9 2010, 10:36 AM Post #5 |
Road Warrior
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thr basic drybrushed gunmetal over black is my standard, of course how its drybrushed depends on the age of the weapon, the older weapons have very little gunmetal on them (same for those that should appear black, I only use gunmetal for places where its worn on those), but newer guns I tend to have a fairly solid gunmetal coat (leaving the undercoat to double for blacklining of course). |
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| mattblackgod | May 9 2010, 12:10 PM Post #6 |
Big boss warlord dude!
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Pretty much the same as you Mr Clean, although I do go mad and do the odd chromed or polished weapon. If I am painting a character then I might add chamo, kill markings or gang colours to weapons. Or just a wacky paint job. |
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| Ironblood | May 9 2010, 03:26 PM Post #7 |
Cannie!
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for me it largly depends on what gun im painting. on stuff like home made blunderbus, mediumsized handguns (close enough to be an old .45 1911) are usually dull gray metallics or shiny polished silver. smgs and whatnot I usually do black. Rifles I tend to paint whatever goes best with the look of the mini. On vehicle mounted weapons I tend to do a mix of black and greymetal with the occasional shroud in another color or the color of the vehicle. I usually stick to wood furniture on period weapons and homemade type stuff. |
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| mgentile7 | May 10 2010, 01:49 AM Post #8 |
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Pics????????? |
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| Mr. Clean | May 10 2010, 03:14 AM Post #9 |
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Wasteland Legend/Cat Skinner/Bad Speller/Super Nice Guy B^)
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I'll try to get some pictures up tomorrow of my minis that have their guns painted the generic way, and some of the historical stuff where the guns are painted more historically correct. Brian |
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| Deserter | May 10 2010, 03:30 AM Post #10 |
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Most of my guns are Boltgun Metal with a Badab Black wash, sometimes with highlights of Chainmail. Others are various shades of brass with similar washes. Sometimes I'll add some colour, or use camo, but generally I like to stick with functional-looking weapons, similar to those that are in use today. I've never really been a fan of bright coloured weapons, even my punky pink/blue/animal skin Escher gangers have olive drab weaponary! With those I wanted to have a sort of "Army Surplus" look to their weapons, webbing and holsters. |
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| RavenFeast | May 10 2010, 10:54 PM Post #11 |
Mutant Hunter
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This works for me. Usually, it's a base coat of dark gray then the metal of choice for the barrel, bolt, magazine and such. A light drybrush of silver to taste, though I dip these days, so drybrushing and inking are often lost in the process. It's chocolate brown as the base coat and then a not-so-dark-but-still-woody brown for the wooden stock. Click on URL for bigger picture. Darker wood tone -  http://ravenfeast.deviantart.com/art/Cultists-Assemble-90447943 Lighter wood tone -  http://ravenfeast.deviantart.com/art/Roxy-and-the-Boys-127836494 Lighter metal tone with more drybushing -  http://ravenfeast.deviantart.com/art/Lady-Pred-Take-No-2-82115514 Modern weapons for military, SWAT, militias, etc. usually just get dark gray all over to try for the "flat matte black" finish. A 3-water to 1-black ink wash will bring out the details, then drybrush with dark-gray. Or just dip.   http://ravenfeast.deviantart.com/art/G-MAN-81745640  http://ravenfeast.deviantart.com/art/SWAT-108445198 Hope this helps! Edited by RavenFeast, May 10 2010, 10:56 PM.
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| DAWGIE | May 11 2010, 12:07 AM Post #12 |
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i use either a black, charcoal gray, or brown base coat for the entire weapon, then paint the metal parts as: a. blue gunmetal w/ light silver dry brush. b. black gunmetal w/light silver dry brush. c. gray gunmetal w/ light silver dry brush. d. metallic green w/light silver dry brush. e. flat, metallic off white. f. oxide brown w/very light silver dry brush. g. oxide red w/ light silver dry brush. h. flat metallic silver gray w/ very light silver dry brush. i. drab non reflective camo designs overall, sometimes with a very light silver dry brush (especially around the muzzle) k. bright metallic silver, gold, red, green, purple, sapphire, ruby, emerald, pearl, black, opal, white, blue, etc, for those those "designer" handguns being used by the well dressed and style conscious gun- toter in PSYCHOPUNK/SHADOWPUNK/URBAN SCI FI genre games with bright colored, shiny grips. most of my wood, plastic, or metal gunstocks are painted drab, non reflective black, gray, green, various shades of brown, or entirely camo colored to match the rest of the weapon. heavier support weapons can be either painted an overall non metallic color (black, charcoal gray, oxide brown, oxide red, green, or tan, etc) and then lightly dry brushed with silver. some like RPGs require special attention to look right. magazines and or cassettes are black, dark gunmetal, gray, green or brown depending on the "look" i am going for. DAWGIE |
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| Mr. Clean | May 11 2010, 02:00 AM Post #13 |
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Wasteland Legend/Cat Skinner/Bad Speller/Super Nice Guy B^)
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WOW! About 50% of you guys put alot more detail into your minis guns than I do.I guess I'm just to lazy with my painting,to me it's more of a chore and I would rather be making terrain.I had no time to take pictures of examples today,hopefully in the next couple of days.Besides I take crap pictures of miniatures. Brian |
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| Mikey | May 12 2010, 02:31 AM Post #14 |
Vault Dweller
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For the longest time I would just slap a bit of Boltgun Metal down and follow with a very thin black wash. When I got into Western toys I decided to try to paint a blued finish on the all the guns my Old Glory guys carried. I added a bit of midnight blue to the boltgun metal which gives a nice glossy deep metallic blue on all those Remingtons, Winchesters, and shotguns. I don't knew why the did it but all the revolvers on the Old Glory pards are Remingtons rather than Colts... 
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| Mr. Clean | May 13 2010, 04:26 AM Post #15 |
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Wasteland Legend/Cat Skinner/Bad Speller/Super Nice Guy B^)
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So today I tried to take some pictures of my minis to show some examples of the guns.No dice! Man do I suck at taking pictures! I can't get my camera to focus on the minature. Any suggestions? Brian |
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| tinker | May 13 2010, 01:47 PM Post #16 |
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Mr. Clean, If your getting a lot of photos with just an eye in 'em you need to turn the camera around!! I know of at least one person that took photos for an entire vacation that way  tink |
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| mattblackgod | May 13 2010, 02:32 PM Post #17 |
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Big boss warlord dude!
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It wasnt you was it Tinker?
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| Mr. Clean | May 14 2010, 01:46 AM Post #18 |
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Wasteland Legend/Cat Skinner/Bad Speller/Super Nice Guy B^)
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MY EYE! Thats what that was! Gota do some lookin' around on the net for some skoolin' on taking pictures. Brian |
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