Battle of Styles: Silver Armor Techniques

In this video I'm comparing painting armor using Army Painter Speed paint and my go to method of painting armor which involves using dry brushing. I found both processes to be relatively quick to apply, I wanted to share each process to help other decide which process they might like better.
Paints Used
- Army Painter Speed Paints Starter Set amzn.to/4bZtgzZ
- Citadel Black Templar amzn.to/3Sj3XjH
- Citadel Gulliman Flesh amzn.to/3S8lLhe
- Citadel Nuln Oil amzn.to/3HzOLJN
- Citadel Agrax Earthshade amzn.to/3SxTfXO
- Pro Arcyl Bright Neutral Grey
- Vallejo Game Air Chainmail amzn.to/48XUh52
- Pro Acryl Coal Black amzn.to/3unl63E
- Pro Acryl Tan Flesh amzn.to/4953QPL
- Pro Acryl Rich Gold amzn.to/3T1rXIf
- Pro Acryl Warm Brown amzn.to/3SYCN1L (link to set of colors)
- Pro Acryl Light Umber amzn.to/3T4AiuK
Paint Brushes used
- Artify Dry Brush Set amzn.to/47ScpvN
- Artify Dry Brush #5
- Artify Dry Brush #7
- Artist's Loft Vienna Round #1 & #2 at Michael's
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[@oktoberbabyfee]

Either one is well done.

[@amdudley83]

What a great idea to use one of those poppet toys as a pallet. Lord knows there’s like a 100 around my house

[@HobbyBottMinis]

Thanks 👍, I learned the fidget popper pallet from another painter.

[@Mon22king]

I think they look pretty similar, I think I am going to do certain parts of a mini with speed paint and others with dry brush and speckle shading, thanks for this comparison.

[@HobbyBottMinis]

Sounds great!

[@echo-hotel]

You can dry brush with speed paint. What looks best is not limiting yourself to one technique.

[@stanislavjohnson3605]

what is that handle base you have the miniatures on? looks much more handy than other handles

[@HobbyBottMinis]

The handles are 1 1/8” dowel rod that i picked up at the hardware store. I cut it down to 3” lengths and have blue tack under the models base.

[@goforitpainting]

Cool

[@kkaspars22]

What are you using for your drybrush palette?

[@HobbyBottMinis]

The palette is a piece of MDF wood that I spray painted with satin black.

[@kkaspars22]

​@@HobbyBottMinis
Thanks! I use a small sheet of MDF as well, yours looks more textured than what I have though so I was thinking it may be something else.
Definitely prefer the dry brushed mini! I use the same method on my SCE

[@Boonedale]

afaik you dont use AP speed paints of a wet palet, it makes the paint to thin.

[@HobbyBottMinis]

Correct 👍, I use one of those fidget poppers for the speed paints and washes.

[@GeeWhizz34]

​@HobbyBottMinis What did you use for the metallic at the beginning? Looks like a home made wet pallette.

[@HobbyBottMinis]

@@GeeWhizz34 Yes it’s a homemade wet pallet. Plastic sandwich container, folded paper towel (4 layers thick, dampen the paper towel, then a sheet of parchment paper (kitchen paper-not the wax paper)

[@thetabletopskirmisher]

Drybrush looks better but speed paint is easier (for me at any rate).

[@HobbyBottMinis]

Thanks 👍. I wasn’t crazy about the sheen from the AP Dark Tone and would probably trade out for Nuln Oil.