posted by Andrea, MXP, Big Orang-Utang
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MASSIVEVOODOO!!! :D
Hey Ho junglelovers (excuse me, but I'm a Ramones fan): D
I share a small tutorial to paint in alternative way the metals on our figures. .. and I think that this is the worse English that you read on massivevoodoo... : D
Well, I try to explain, with this easy step-by-step, my way of painting metals with the printer's inks.
I have taken as example the painting of a helmet, but the procedure is also equal for the armors or others metal's objects.
The printer's inks can be mixed to oil's colors and the enamels, they has a pigment very concentrated and extrafine. The printer's ink can be diluted with an all thinner for oil's colors ... and with small quantities of printer's ink you paint an big surface.
For the lights you follow the same procedure .... when you have ended to paint light and shadows, allow the colors to dry.
Finally! Delineating all the small particulars with extreme lights and shadows (exemple: rivets, edges , and/or cuts and hits,etc..) and finish your work!
When the color are completely dry... the finish is opaque.
If necessary, you paint over with a small quantity of X19Smoke or another Glossy Varnish.
ATTENTION : The printer's Inks are toxic, and if possible you use a set of brush for painting only with Printer's Inks. Use any oil thinners to clean your brushes.
This is not a only way to paint with Printer's Ink.
Many painters paint the metals (shadows and lights) normally with acrylic , and use a printer's Ink only to finish the extreme lights or shadows. This is possible, but not a good idea to paint acrylic on the dry printer's ink base.
Other miniatures that I've painted in this way :
thanks for view and .... HAPPY PAINTING!
Andrea -mXp-
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MASSIVEVOODOO!!! :D
Hey Ho junglelovers (excuse me, but I'm a Ramones fan): D
I share a small tutorial to paint in alternative way the metals on our figures. .. and I think that this is the worse English that you read on massivevoodoo... : D
Well, I try to explain, with this easy step-by-step, my way of painting metals with the printer's inks.
I have taken as example the painting of a helmet, but the procedure is also equal for the armors or others metal's objects.
The printer's inks can be mixed to oil's colors and the enamels, they has a pigment very concentrated and extrafine. The printer's ink can be diluted with an all thinner for oil's colors ... and with small quantities of printer's ink you paint an big surface.
Step 1:
Normal procedure... primer first... 
Step 2:
I prepare an acrylic base... for painting the golden helmet of my knight,
simply I use an acrylic color ...like Ochre
..Printer's Ink..
Step 3:
When the base is dry I prepare my colors...
I withdraw a small quantity of gold and silver from the wrappings and I dilute her on my palette.
The oil's color that I use for the shades is cassel Earth
For convenience I prepare before many different tonalities that serve me for my painting job
(shades / lights.. from left to right in photo)
Step 4:
Start to paint!.... I divide the surface that I will paint in 3 sectors.
in the sector 1 (low) I paint with a darker tonality (more Cassel Earth + Gold)
in the sector 2 (middle) I paint with a middle tonality (Gold)
in the sector 3 (tall) I paint with a clear tonality (Gold + Silver)
Step 5:
Now, with a clean brush to hard bristles I blend the 3 tonalities in the zones pointed out by the arrows . Practically I blend the sector 3 with 2... and with another clean brush the sector 1 with 2. All this when the colors are wet!
Step 6:
I get this result...
A good base on which to subsequently work the lights and the shades.
Normally I wait 24 hours ...until the colors are dry.
Step 7:
After I add more lights and more shadows in this way:
1- Add few color with a little brush
2- Blending the color with another brush ( court - hard bristles )
IMPORTANT: don't put too much color! Better, put small quantity of color because if you put more color the blending are difficult...and you risk to compromise all work.
For the lights you follow the same procedure .... when you have ended to paint light and shadows, allow the colors to dry.
Finally! Delineating all the small particulars with extreme lights and shadows (exemple: rivets, edges , and/or cuts and hits,etc..) and finish your work!
When the color are completely dry... the finish is opaque.
If necessary, you paint over with a small quantity of X19Smoke or another Glossy Varnish.
ATTENTION : The printer's Inks are toxic, and if possible you use a set of brush for painting only with Printer's Inks. Use any oil thinners to clean your brushes.
This is not a only way to paint with Printer's Ink.
Many painters paint the metals (shadows and lights) normally with acrylic , and use a printer's Ink only to finish the extreme lights or shadows. This is possible, but not a good idea to paint acrylic on the dry printer's ink base.
Other miniatures that I've painted in this way :
thanks for view and .... HAPPY PAINTING!
Andrea -mXp-
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...thx for the tuto
...nice..very nice :-)
thanks dude.
Cool Tutorial!
Maybe one day i will have the time to try this as the result looks amazing!
Very Nice, very nice.
Thank you for this great tutorial!
Thanks for this great Tutorial!!! I always wanted to use printers inks one day.
Please tell me where you got the printers inks from? Is there any internet-store for it?
Hi Andrea, great article, I'll try this soon. I always used the printer's inks on an metallic base (painted with acrilics). Do you think using them on a non-metallic base lead to a better result?
@The maxican: just go to a typography and ask them for some gold and silver inks. I got pots for just 5€ this way.
@Eriol: Thanks, mate! Going to search for a typography here now... ;-)
Thanks all for comments! :)
@maxican : I agree with Eriol... the most economic and fast way is... ask in typography. I purchased 4 jars in a fair in Italy. I purchased them some years ago because I found 4 colors : brass, bronze, gold and silver. I don't believe that the seller has a website, I try to ask for more information. :)
@Eriol: I think that if you painted with printers ink over a acrylic metal base the final result are the same that if you paint over an nonmetal acrylic base. For example I paint the extreme lights also on the polish-metal, no problem for this.
I paint on a nonmetal-base because I try to get the same ownerships of oil's colors with the printer's ink (especially for blending), and I prefer painting with printersink on a base more opaque possible. If you have a opaque base (the old formula of Andrea colors are awesome for this..) the printer's ink sticks with more facility because an opaque surface absorbs a small quantity of color ...and the time to dry is more fast :)
thank you for the comment :)
Great tutorial! Very informative in how well worded and descriptive you were! You know they say that if one knows how to describe what they want really well, then life is just as good as how you describe it
Saving this to my reading list (you gotta love the new Safari feature on iOS 5!). Great post.... P.S. Blessed Sunday, everyone :)
Hi Guys,
May I ask what kind of printer inks you are using and where do you supply yourself with it?
Great blog by the way.
Cheers
This is great. I need a printer for home use for the Plastic cards printing purpose. Which will be the best for me?
can toner cartridges brother be used also?
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