A week of painting well worth it in my opinion. I have achieved the color I was after for the Sons of Horus sea foam green. I am already loving the shading that managed to achieve and I hope that it continues to stay this way after I put the other colors on the model. I think the models currently appear brighter than the end model will due to the lack of blacks and golds on the model, but it adheres to my usual style of painting.
I call it Dylan's god-awful-until-the-end paint jobs!
So the next step in the process was taking the models that have the 50/50 Lupercal: Abaddon Black and airbrush on the pure Lupercal Green highlight. After doing this the model really didn't seem all that different due to the muted colors, but the shadows were now in place and ready for the finishing stroke!
I take pure GW Sybarite Green and give the models that final level of highlight. I have learned over the years that I am not a light scientist and I just put the color where I think it needs to go. It is very instinctual and it's hard to describe.
Since this is army painting and not a thesis on light I just put the paint on there and let the imperfections stand. The last airbrushing step is to go in with some 4:1 Abaddon Black: Privateer Press Exile Blue to put the dark back in the shaded areas and make the green more interesting. This should also help fix up any imperfections from the highlighting and gives you more control on how the end result will look. When I started using the airbrush I thought that this was a unnecessary use of time, but come to find out it is just as important as the highlighting part.
The last step of the green is going to be very time consuming and make sure I listen to quiet a few podcasts. Edge highlighting the green and then slowly filling in all the black parts of the armor. The joints, pipes, gun cases, and certain knee pads are all going to be black and highlighted with some blues to accent the green. The cooler black will keep the colors muted and it will make the model seem a bit boring, but when the warm reds for the eye lenses and Eye of Horus objects get thrown in it is all going to just pop and start singing.
I call it Dylan's god-awful-until-the-end paint jobs!
So the next step in the process was taking the models that have the 50/50 Lupercal: Abaddon Black and airbrush on the pure Lupercal Green highlight. After doing this the model really didn't seem all that different due to the muted colors, but the shadows were now in place and ready for the finishing stroke!
I take pure GW Sybarite Green and give the models that final level of highlight. I have learned over the years that I am not a light scientist and I just put the color where I think it needs to go. It is very instinctual and it's hard to describe.
Since this is army painting and not a thesis on light I just put the paint on there and let the imperfections stand. The last airbrushing step is to go in with some 4:1 Abaddon Black: Privateer Press Exile Blue to put the dark back in the shaded areas and make the green more interesting. This should also help fix up any imperfections from the highlighting and gives you more control on how the end result will look. When I started using the airbrush I thought that this was a unnecessary use of time, but come to find out it is just as important as the highlighting part.
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The last step of the green is going to be very time consuming and make sure I listen to quiet a few podcasts. Edge highlighting the green and then slowly filling in all the black parts of the armor. The joints, pipes, gun cases, and certain knee pads are all going to be black and highlighted with some blues to accent the green. The cooler black will keep the colors muted and it will make the model seem a bit boring, but when the warm reds for the eye lenses and Eye of Horus objects get thrown in it is all going to just pop and start singing.
Looks great!
ReplyDeleteWell thank you!
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