A friend of mine has the Deep Rock Galactic board game that comes with multiple figures that can be painted.
Of the six types of figures I’ve done from this set, this was the most frustrating. Over-painting corrections looked super obvious, I overestimated my ability to control paint from the airbrush leading to over-spray, and I was disappointed in my object-source lighting from the headlamp. TL;DR — I don’t mind spending time and resources to fix my mistakes, but I do get irritated when fixing mistakes makes it look more obvious that I made mistakes.
Here’s a gallery with 50 pictures.
Things I tried / learned:
- Example video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rFI1qw9WVM
- Should have used a brighter metal than gun metal for the base coat.
- Over-painting of non-metallic colors where I corrected it with gun metal seem super obvious that those were fixes
- Hand painting large, even surfaces was not as effective as airbrushing
- Should have masked far more than I did
- Could have done over-spray on the leg lights, like this one: https://www.instagram.com/p/DB30jd8JRWS/
- Should have used masking around straight edges to avoid over-painting
- I was hoping the dot filters I did with the oils would have yielded better results. Instead, it just blended every color together as if there were no color.