What a technique. Just wonderful.

I enjoyed that thank you Kathy 😊

Those plastic spoons look better than my counter-top!

crunched up newspaper work really well

Another instructive tutorial Kathy well done . Green Filter silver only

Green scouring pads can make a cheap and cheerful alternative to spray booth filters. These finishes look like they'd make some cool looking Eldar armour for 40k; especially with some colour-gradients in the filters. Lovely stuff.

Great to see these techniques Kathy!!

Brilliant advise, thanks Kathy.

Thanks for the techniques! A fantastic job!

I've used the dryer sheet method in the past and absolutely love it! -John

All of them look cool! Thanks for sharing.

There's an interesting acrylic variation on the sort of subtractive marbling you might want to experiment with. Here's what you do, in a nutshell - Airbrush a color. Airbrush a second color, usually kind of blotchy. Mist with windex (must be the kind with amonia). Blot with various wadded up things like paper towel, newspaper, plastic shopping bags, saran wrap, etc. Optionally, repeat. Basically, the amonia in the windex gets the top layer of paint moving again. There are a lot of variables to play with - Drying times between layers. Drying time between second layer and amonia spray, acrylic over a different kind of paint to make the base paint more resistant. Different blotting materials. Color combinations. Number of layers. Etc Here's a video of a guy doing a demo of the concept - v=TGNrYHWD1wI The only real issue I see with it for modelling purposes is that you have to be a bit more careful about the amount of windex you use to avoid too much runniness due to geometry. There are also interesting spray can art variations on these basic ideas but I'm guessing that the result is going to end up too textured for general purpose modelling stuff. Might make for some interesting rock texture for game terrain and/or dioramas though.

Thank you. 👍🏻

Fascinating. 😊

Great video! The secret to good results with any new technique is practice, practice, practice! We might be impressed by the result but have very little appreciation for the time and effort that went into it! Thanks for showing your 'process' and not being afraid to show what worked and what didn't (although that can be subjective). 👍

Great video, thank you for the fun content!

Highly effective results Kathy, even the failure of the foil would look okay on an alien shell or armour. The thing I have with marble when you look closely at it, is that it contains other colours within the marbling that you initially see.

VERY cool! Thank 'e!

Awesome video as always Kathy, very thorough. Normally these kind of finished deter people from trying them out as they seem difficult but you explain it so calm and clear.

That's pretty cool. I've been planning to do some undead wights with marble effect blades and have been on the look out for effective methods. I like the first approach best.

The foil+silver+thinner and the cling film+2xsilver look more like malachite than marble to my eye. That's not a bad thing. The others look like perhaps some alien minerals we don't have on Earth. I don't do Gundams and don't quite get why that sort of finish is appropriate on something supposedly made of metal and ceramic, but that's just me. The technique does strike me as useful in off-planet dioramas or exotic ancient temple stonework for sure.

This helped alot, thanks! Might i suggest a ww2 diorama

First thought: Mechs made of marble? Maybe I do NOT know what gunpla is about :p

very informative! I may need to give this a try myself.

It's marblin' time

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Hi Kathy, I think they look fine , (What you going to do with the rest of the spoons??) All the best Brian 🤗😎😍

Some great ideas to try for a marble effect, some have an almost Moss Agate look to them, thanks Kathy. Have you ever thought about making a movie prop replica with this method? I'm thinking particularly about the sacred rocks from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Could be an intesting project to include 3D printing, lighting and the marbling effect..... plus, if done right it could look better than any Himalayan Salt Lamp ;-)

I think they all have a use, as you say. Using filter material for me might be too much effort..... as I can 100% guarantee I'd leave some of it on the model. 🤔 I wonder if dipping might work similarly..... (never tried it, but looks cool) ..... albeit more work to it?? (All about short cuts, so dipping might be a huge no, no.)

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To think I spent $1,000's learning how to woodgrain, marblize etc at The Painter's Union School and I could have picked it up from Kathy. I need a V8 P.S. It's called Saran Wrap because they invented it.

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