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New Vallejo Diorama Effects Stuff
- Thread starter iambrb
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..Thanks for posting!
Got some, you can get the same effect in the Liquidtex products at Hobby Lobby.
BTW, I've been in that store. :geek
BTW, I've been in that store. :geek
ausf
Master at Arms
I was captivated by the shelves behind him and the idea of an actual store with products like that in it.
If I had inexhaustible money and space, I'd get one of everything, but honestly, a jar of Bindex, some Future and your normal paints and pigments could do all of that. Add some micro balloons and you have snow.
Mig's introduction of dry pigments years back was a major step in the hobby, but the real brilliance behind it was his blending and labeling. Taking a few raw oxide pigments and mixing them (a practice that goes back to the caves), but not making them into paint, just putting them in jars with names like European Mud or Vietnam Earth. It's priceless.
I love Vallejo, they are my only paint at this point, but jeez, how many different ways can you market a brown wash? Engine grime, oil stain, fuel stain. If you take a thick mud paste and add water, you have thin mud paste. Add more water, you have splashing mud. Add some tiny cut pieces of Woodland scenics grass and have mud with grass.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have a shelf with 30 tidy $5 bottles, but I already have all the fixings on hand drying up already.
If I had inexhaustible money and space, I'd get one of everything, but honestly, a jar of Bindex, some Future and your normal paints and pigments could do all of that. Add some micro balloons and you have snow.
Mig's introduction of dry pigments years back was a major step in the hobby, but the real brilliance behind it was his blending and labeling. Taking a few raw oxide pigments and mixing them (a practice that goes back to the caves), but not making them into paint, just putting them in jars with names like European Mud or Vietnam Earth. It's priceless.
I love Vallejo, they are my only paint at this point, but jeez, how many different ways can you market a brown wash? Engine grime, oil stain, fuel stain. If you take a thick mud paste and add water, you have thin mud paste. Add more water, you have splashing mud. Add some tiny cut pieces of Woodland scenics grass and have mud with grass.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have a shelf with 30 tidy $5 bottles, but I already have all the fixings on hand drying up already.
Swordsman
Active member
Thanks for posting this Bruce ... interesting video SBS ... after my jaunt to Eagle Quest I find I need all the help I can get ... sure all things can be made ... great to knoe that info ausf and I'll store all this away ... I meet a man at the Quest ... Multi-ribbon winner ... who is also in my local SCV camp ... He's an Armor guy so I'll be able to pick His brains for help with my projects ... that aren't good enough for my Eye ... looking forward to getting a start on my Battle Taxi ... and finishing up some of my failures ...
to prove my point on making stuff ... I couldn't find a 1/48 butane tank ....
So I made this from a old felt tip marker & a brake wheel from a HO train car kit ... :hmmm
to prove my point on making stuff ... I couldn't find a 1/48 butane tank ....
So I made this from a old felt tip marker & a brake wheel from a HO train car kit ... :hmmm
iambrb
Well-known member
I was captivated by the shelves behind him and the idea of an actual store with products like that in it.
If I had inexhaustible money and space, I'd get one of everything, but honestly, a jar of Bindex, some Future and your normal paints and pigments could do all of that. Add some micro balloons and you have snow.
Mig's introduction of dry pigments years back was a major step in the hobby, but the real brilliance behind it was his blending and labeling. Taking a few raw oxide pigments and mixing them (a practice that goes back to the caves), but not making them into paint, just putting them in jars with names like European Mud or Vietnam Earth. It's priceless.
I love Vallejo, they are my only paint at this point, but jeez, how many different ways can you market a brown wash? Engine grime, oil stain, fuel stain. If you take a thick mud paste and add water, you have thin mud paste. Add more water, you have splashing mud. Add some tiny cut pieces of Woodland scenics grass and have mud with grass.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have a shelf with 30 tidy $5 bottles, but I already have all the fixings on hand drying up already.
Now I agree that they REALLY have it overboard on some of this stuff, but some like the ones with grass mixed ito it are just a plain ol' good idea. I think i am going to get one and see how it works out
iambrb
Well-known member
The wife teases me by saying she can't tell which one of us (YOU & ME) better resemble Andy!
