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Title: Finally starting on my twilight collection! Post by: Gantoris on August 24, 2016, 12:14:55 am Been a slacker even by my own very impressive standards but am finally gonna get these Twilight minis painted so i can buy more at Salute 2017! Before i get stuck in i was inspired when watching some painting Buddha to try a whole new technique that i found very impressive, wondering what folks think before i soldier on and start em proper. The gist of it is that u paint it grayscale then glaze red over the top and you get a nice deep polished look, sadly i cant effortlessly wet blend the grayscale in seconds like the total boss on painting Buddha can but i seem to have been getting better at achieving the effect.
Heres the first 4 trial runs and a closeup of the best of em... (http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee424/Kemsley/1.jpg) (http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee424/Kemsley/2.jpg) Heres the 5th one with a nice before and after the glaze... (http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee424/Kemsley/3.jpg) (http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee424/Kemsley/4.jpg) They aint perfect especially the shoulders/helm on last one but deffo see some potential in this, any opinions? I worry it might have a kinda "evil dark lords armor" sorta feel to it so not 100% sure. Title: Re: Finally starting on my twilight collection! Post by: Crucium Giger on August 24, 2016, 11:54:17 am Looks like polished beetle shell to me, very effective.
Title: Re: Finally starting on my twilight collection! Post by: Carcharoth on August 24, 2016, 03:03:46 pm Looks like a clever technique! Makes for very shiny reds.
Title: Re: Finally starting on my twilight collection! Post by: Gantoris on August 24, 2016, 05:21:46 pm Thanks, it really does have a sort of beetle shell look to it. In the video he was painting a chaos dudes armor with it, it looked outstanding. It seems to make it much easier to get a smooth looking transition from very dark to bright and only using black, white and one shade of red.
Title: Re: Finally starting on my twilight collection! Post by: TuffSkull on August 24, 2016, 08:03:31 pm Nice result with the glazing there - works particularly well on those figures I think. Great to see another completely different style applied to the figures of this world & I look forward to seeing more!
Title: Re: Finally starting on my twilight collection! Post by: Gantoris on August 24, 2016, 09:30:23 pm Thanks, gonna reset em to black and start properly tomorrow so watch this space for some battle fragg... urmm i mean fubarnii warriors!
Title: Re: Finally starting on my twilight collection! Post by: Lost Egg on August 25, 2016, 07:53:16 am Wow dude he looks cool!
I think it will work well as a Fubarnii armour colour though if you are concerned they look a little dark you can always lift them up a bit with the skin tone. Title: Re: Finally starting on my twilight collection! Post by: Gantoris on August 25, 2016, 09:35:55 pm Yeh i think it will look great, especially with gold detailing on the commander when i do him. All the rest of the minis will be bright, colorful and cartooney.
Title: Re: Finally starting on my twilight collection! Post by: Jase on September 03, 2016, 07:38:44 am That looks really good!
Do you have a link to this tutorial perhaps? Title: Re: Finally starting on my twilight collection! Post by: Gantoris on September 08, 2016, 01:20:53 pm Hey man, here is a link to the exact tutorial... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7dmPDrWfuI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7dmPDrWfuI)
I hadnt really watched much of their stuff before and was just browsing around for some tips for Red Armor, watching a bit of this tutorial impressed me a lot so ill deffo be looking at more of his stuff. Got started on my Beta Fubarnii! Just hope i dont screw it up doing the armor now, am pretty happy with how the flesh has come out... (http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee424/Kemsley/DSC_0002.jpg) Title: Re: Finally starting on my twilight collection! Post by: Lost Egg on September 08, 2016, 06:17:46 pm I like the natural looking green. Great stuff! :D
Title: Re: Finally starting on my twilight collection! Post by: Crucium Giger on September 09, 2016, 10:47:23 am Looking very promising so far.
Title: Re: Finally starting on my twilight collection! Post by: GrimSnik on September 09, 2016, 12:53:22 pm that looks great. can't wait to see more. :)
Title: Re: Finally starting on my twilight collection! Post by: Carcharoth on September 09, 2016, 04:40:09 pm I like the skin tone a lot - feels very natural.
Title: Re: Finally starting on my twilight collection! Post by: Gantoris on September 10, 2016, 02:26:55 am Thanks for the kind words, the slow motion paint job has made a little progress!..
Added more grey to make the end result a bit more red... (http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee424/Kemsley/DSC_0014.jpg) (http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee424/Kemsley/DSC_0010_1.jpg) Think it came out pretty nicely after the glaze... (http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee424/Kemsley/DSC_0018.jpg) (http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee424/Kemsley/DSC_0020.jpg) (http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee424/Kemsley/DSC_0022.jpg) These are the colors i used for the skin tone in case anyone's interested... (http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee424/Kemsley/DSC_0003%201.jpg) Just need to do the little tassles on his shoulders and all the bags he is carrying and were done with the first of my little horde! Title: Re: Finally starting on my twilight collection! Post by: TuffSkull on September 11, 2016, 12:00:31 am He looks superb, and the skin contrasts really nicely with the armour, both in colour and in texture. Great stuff!
Title: Re: Finally starting on my twilight collection! Post by: Kryptovidicus on April 13, 2017, 01:53:28 pm A very effective and brilliant technique.
I agree with TuffSkull, the contrasts between skin and armour are very, very nice. |