Painting - Spatter & Stipple - help requested

[s.e.charles]

anyone have a preferred technique for spatter painting? also, for stippling the spattered paint?

i tried an internet search but most demonstrations are geared towards big painting projects.

specifically interested in:

type of brush

type of tool to spray bristles

how thin to make the paint (acrylic vallejo)

how much of any additives (flow enhancer?)

how to stipple & blend the larger spatters to add a mottled look

anything else that will mke it work for me!

i'm hitting about 50% of my desired result just by "doing" - but cannot help think there's a more predictable way to get consistent random (!!!) results.

thanks

ps: cannot bring myself to use the term spLatter - seems all too icky.

 

[Mirofsoft]

 

[arj]

All I've managed to locate for figures is blood spatter.
The first one is on PF:-
https://www.planetfigure.com/threads/pegaso-spartan.33135/#post-339290
The other is a video showing the process used:-


Cheers,
Andrew

 

[s.e.charles]

interesting videos both. i need to work on my flicking technique.

 

[Rocco82]

Two techniques that spring to mind I've seen.
Is a bit similar to the Sergey video above. A favourite technique I've seen armour modellers do is hold a toothpick and pull the brush down over it next to the model and it splatters paint off the brush.
Masking putty is good to protect parts you don't want hit.

Theres also something you can do with an airbrush. Turn the pressure down and it causes it to spit. Something like that!
You can fire the airbrush into a brush head loaded with paint and again achieve a nice splat.

Did you mean that actual stippling though when painting like doing skin, clothing etc?
Or did you indeed mean weathering, mud, blood splatters etc?

 

[sippog]

Here's a couple of workbench articles that include my own attempts to build skin tones using a spattering technique.
Plus a link to a YouTube video by someone.

homunculi.co.uk

dclough.org

homunculi.co.uk

dclough.org