Tutorial - Working with liquid mask
submitted from Roman aka jar | Labels: Tutorial | Posted On 18 November 2009 at 12:19 AM
posted by roman, jarhead, kong
Then i took - for the first time ever - the liquid mask from vallejo model colour and a piece of a blister, nargh - what is the word for this soft thing... sponge yeah, haha.
Then i prepared everything MacGyverstyle for priming with white on the shield:
I took my time to search for my flower idea... but it just came out that way. Pretty cool in my eyes, nothing really special and for sure not the thing i wanted first, but i guess i can make something out of it at all in the end. Next time i try to be more careful while bringing up the liquid mask. So this ain't a tutorial on bringing a flower freehand mask liquid thing on a shield, this is just the effect what mask liquid can do:
Ok... another tutorial, ahh... first it was meant to be a tutorial of making a freehand on the shield of Ancient hero Maulg... but something went terrible wrong... no it didn't, haha - just made an experience i did not expected that way... takin it Hurricane Style... Making experience is good i think... I had my first time working with liquid mask and thought it might... nurgs, just share it with you... here we go and forget about that freehand thing, haha:
Working with liquid mask
I took a charcoal pen to predraw some kind of a flower thing on the shield of Maulg i thought might look cool in my eyes...
I put this on the shield with the blister to get a randomly created areas on the places i want to leave blue in the end. I did imagine a white flower thing there with some chipped colour from the long fights, but it all came different in the end... freshly brought up liquid mask looks like this:
Dried, there is a real layer upon the shield now:
Then i prepared everything MacGyverstyle for priming with white on the shield:
After i did went on the balcony i saw i had to secure the middle metal plate on the shield. I did this with some strip and i didn't even made it very clean - but this ain't a problem either... i am glad i did not forget it:
After Priming the shield was white - wow, yeah i know... great experience, haha. I now started to rub off the white paint on the places where the liquid mask had been placed. I first tried with a toothpick, then a knife and finally found what i was looking for - my fingernails... but Daniel told me on a comment that a pencil rubber also might work damm good.
It leaves a lot of good ideas on chipped paint from tanks, other vehicles, walls and whatever... this is how it works. You may vary the colours you like for sure - i now go to rescue an Ancient Hero shield, haha... and always remember there are no failures :)
Keep on happy painting!
Regards
Roman
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Looks very easy -Ive tried it before , and it taht TIme it didnt work very Fine :( Maybe i was to carefully with the liquid mask... I wil give it a new try.
Greetz Count
www.sockelmacher.de
Forgotten one thing - ypu should place a warningsign on your wet pallette : !Caution biohazzard! ROFL looks really ugly ^^
Cool effect. I've also just started experimenting with liquid mask. I've found that a pencil eraser works well for rubbing the mask off after you've done painting over it.
Nice tutorial Jarhead!
Do you know if it's possible to paint over liquid mask with a brush, instead of spraying the paint on?
I would love to do something similar on my orks to resemble chipped metal.
have a good one!
Tom
Yes ,very nice tutorial.
I think i try it! Have there a idea with a old tank in my mine.
Your wet pallette see like a "shrine of Nurgle" :-)))
Maulg rocks !!
Sponge Jarhead!
Thats the word you are looking for! :)
Great tutorial, i've just bought some masking fluid, looks like an interesting technique.
@count
Yeah, Raffa also told me not to be too shy with bringing it on... i am going to ask my wetpalette what she thinks to your idea of the shield, waiting to have it answered^^
@Daniel
Ahh... that sounds good. The pencil Eraser i will have a go on this sometime, thanks for your experience - i will add this in the tutorial...
@Tom
Yepp, that should not be a problem...
@Lacrima
Haha... yeah, shrine of nurgle...
@Vinny
Sponge... Ahhhhhhh... Spongebob! Ahhhh! My brain works again - thanks for telling me - will be added :)
Thanks for your comments :)
Thank you for showing this special technique, it helped me a lot! ;)
PPanther
Your welcome :) - thanks for your comment!