That looks great!
Nice choice of colours, the yellow really pops.
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Painted up a Unicorn over the weekend. The model is from Wizzkids. I used Arny Painter Speed Paints and have a couple of comments. First, Holy White is grey not white, so the Unicorn’s skin tone is two thin coats of white paint over Holy White. Second, the reactivation of Speed Paints has a big impact when painting an individual mini that you want to do highlights and details on. Basically, the Speed Paint comes through whatever you put on top of it. Sometimes you can use that to your advantage - it kind of shades and blends the top colour with the one below and so may save you doing several layers of subtly graded colours. But if you want to know that your top colour will stay the same as when you applied it, you need to varnish before the last highlight. I haven’t yet done that for this model, but I think I will, so as to get a brighter white on the raised musculature of the Unicorn and highlights on the mane, horn, tail,
etc.
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Have the same unicorn in my own collection. Love the job you did on it.
I’ve put the AP speed paints I bought at the back of my storage press (along with most of the AP Warpaint range for different reasons).
Not a hater on AP - I use their Quickshade washes every session I paint - best in the business in my opinion - but I found their speed paints nearly unusable due to the reactivation issues. I even seemed to have issues using them after ‘protecting’ the speed paint with various Vallejo varnish products. Its disconcerting to discover the speed paint colour on your brush on white kitchen roll when you are a varnish, highlight colour and two days away from the application of that speed paint.
Personally I think the AP Speed painter range is a hard fail at this stage. I’m looking forward to sampling the new Vallejo xpress color range in the next few months.
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Continuing the discussion from Edzig's Forces of Nature / Sylvan Kin:
A couple more Scorchwings regiments. In these the AP Speedpaints really shine, IMO. The reactivation is not a problem at all. If anything it even improves the yellow, orange, red combination. Just one coat of each, starting with the yellow and not worrying about overlapping.
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Sweet.
I can’t paint real fire for love nor money, so any easy way of doing flames is a godsend!
The two right hand models in the units - the pyre from a mantic terrain crate kit(?) and the other I assume is one of the scorchwings - it just looks like from the angle that it is walking?
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Yes, it’s the terrain crate pyre. One of the Scorchwings doesn’t sit on a stalk, but has a tail that bends round and under to act as a ‘foot’.
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