RIP to my heat gun

Transcript

The glowing gem

Today we’re just going to paint this little gemstone. I think it’s a glowing little magic Jimmy guy — a lot of these Dusk models have these glowing effects. I’ve put a single coat of white paint on it as a base.

Back here I’ve got AK fluorescent orange. I’m going to come right in on top with that. We want this to be pretty bright, but I don’t want crazy OSL bleeding from it — this is a basic model. I haven’t used this floral paint before, but it’s really thin, so we should be able to glaze it very easily.

I’m glazing it over the white and catching just the edges around it. That’s pretty much it — that’s how you paint it. Do that over and over again.

Working the color

Will I ever get my normal talking voice back? I don’t know.

I’m glazing, and it’s okay to get a little bit in the cracks because the light would go down into them. At this point I’m really just putting the orange to catch that area and make it a little bit brighter.

Now I’m going to flip this model upside down. First I was thinking about painting this like a gemstone, but it’s not really a gemstone — the whole thing is just brightly glowing. So we’re just going to paint it evenly. If anything, we want the center to be the brightest point. So we’re just going to keep glazing.

RIP the heat gun

Okay — I don’t know if it’s going to come through on camera, but this gem was taking so long to dry. I went and got my heat gun that I’ve had literally my entire life. It was my grandfather’s before I was alive. It’s never had any problems.

The coil just blew on it. The inside is fried.

Tomorrow’s video is going to be making some crazy kitbash or a background Grievaal kind of piece. But because I had all this time waiting for the gem to dry, I went ahead and re-highlighted all this armor in a way I said I wasn’t going to do.

It actually didn’t take me very long. There’s not very much paint on my brush right now because I’ve already done it, but I just went through and highlighted all the armor. Now you can really see the transition from the shadows into the highlights. I glazed it on, edge-highlighted some spots, and I think this red is almost looking done. I need to do a little bit more on these nuts. It does look a bit more finished in real life than in the footage. We’re going to add a couple of white accent lines in a few spots, but I think the red armor is done for the most part.

I’ve got to finish up a few tweaks on the red of the sword and paint the sword blade, but it’s definitely getting there.

The technique on the highlights

I guess this turned into not the video I thought it was going to be. I’m actually quite devastated about my heat gun. Rest in peace to the heat gun — I’m going to have to get a new one because that thing was pretty clutch.

I wasn’t planning on making a video about painting the red, so I just did it and didn’t really record it. This back leg I didn’t do yet, so you can see the difference versus the front leg. Let me show you the method.

The fluorescent orange is very thin — there’s almost nothing to it. It’s not washing out the red, and it’s pretty much a glaze consistency. I think it’s meant to be airbrushed. Because of that, I can just treat it like a glaze, hit the raised edges, bring it into the shadows, and it doesn’t wipe the shadow out.

Here’s the clutch part: I took some of this white — literally just a dab of white — and snagged some. The white gives it a little more body and opacity. So now I can draw lines with it. I can come back into camera focus and hit this very carefully to hit that edge. I want to do just a light pass. That’s probably too much — so I just have water on my brush, I can come in and brush it out. Hit the erase button. Feather that out a little bit.

I don’t know what this video is going to be called. This video is going to be called Just Trying to Survive. Rest in peace to the heat gun. Getting the hobby time in even if it kills me. Hobby or die. See ya.