Super fast OSL

Transcript

What’s up everybody. We’re back with this guy.

Picking Up From Yesterday

After everything dried from yesterday’s video, I came back in with that same flesh tone and highlighted the lips and the nose. Did the nails too, since like the teeth, the nails are also metallic. Painted the shell white because we’re going to finish that today. Just a quick one, I’m going to contrast paint it. I just wanted a somewhat uniform base.

The kids are upstairs screaming. Gonna continue to mind my business.

The Plan

What else am I going to do? The tail. Tail is also that peach color, going to wash it.

And then we’re trying OSL, which I’ve never done in this fashion before. Honestly I haven’t done a lot of OSL, mostly because I think it usually kind of looks silly. I know that’s probably sacrilege to say, but unless you’re doing a diorama or a piece of art or a display piece, I think OSL often looks pretty silly on the tabletop.

But we’re going to give it a shot. I need to improve my OSL skills, because I want to be able to say I don’t like it because I think it’s dumb. Not that I don’t like it because I can’t do it.

Inks vs. Watered-Down White

I’ve got this white, severely watered down. The fancy thing to do these days is use inks and let them flow in the cracks. But what is an ink but watered-down paint anyway?

So a lot of this is white. I’m hitting the parts that are going to be glowing, then just rimming it, you know, as one does. It’s not going to be obnoxious. This bracer is just glowing pink.

I lost my reference photo, but he’s coming along nicely. Going for high-quality tabletop level on these.

Oh, I forgot about those damn spikes. Got to do those still. I can’t see them in the reference photo, so we’ll figure it out.

Airbrushing Warlord Purple

Starting with Warlord Purple. Tiny bit of flow improver in there too, just a bit, we’re not going to need much.

Going to test it. See how liquidy it is. Don’t want that. We want it actually coming out thick, because we’re going into such a tight area that we don’t want it to go over.

I have this little notebook I made out of an offcut of a notebook. Whoa. Let me put the airbrush down so I don’t spray everywhere. Spray my knee purple.

Going to pull a sheet of paper out and tuck it up under this arm so we don’t totally make us have a bad day. Very carefully rocking the trigger to build that up. Very straightforward.

Squid Pink

Squid Pink. My favorite pink.

Same thing, going to test it. I’ve got paint on my fingers, so you’ll see. Got my sheet of paper in. I’m only going to hit the middle of the bracer with this. Going to let this dry.

The Wet-On-Wet Glow

I’ve still got that white on my palette. Put some on my brush, hit this rim right here. Because the pink is still kind of wet, the white picks it up, and it’s going to give the glow effect I’m trying to achieve.

Is it the best OSL ever? No. But is it what I want right now? Tabletop level, hell yeah. Only took two minutes.

First Model of 2026

Technically, I think our first model of 2026 is done. I’ve painted a ton of stuff, but I haven’t finished anything. I’m going to do all the bases at once, but boom: first model of 2026 is done.

Look at his beady little eyes.

See you tomorrow.