3 Colours Up Tips: Painting Power Weapons
August 16, 2011 by elromanozo
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Would certainly use this technique on a Demon sword for Chaos perhaps. Would work well with the shifting magic of the blades. Awesome video tutorial as always Romain.
I used to paint power weapons mithril silver then just give it a blue wash so that it looked like it was humming…worked for the vast majority of my minis, but me likes this one for a demon sword 🙂
Bloody hell, I was tired when I did that one… I almost screwed up the sword. Thanks to diligent editing and the magic of webtelevision, this tutorial still works !
BoW Romain
i do what i can Romain, i do what i can 🙂
BoW Justin
You do look a little worse for wear there Romain. It all works though 🙂
About to get an army general for my wood elves , it comes with a two handed greatsword – thing 🙂 so I’m going to use this effect on it because it would give it a nice magical effect.
I really like the guide but for me this wasn’t so much a power weapon guide. As @brennon said it seem far more like a demonweapon guide. Chaos guys having this no worries not so much marines. I wonder however if you used the same techiques in blue if I would be saying the same thing? Ethier way great guide but I guess thats the great thing about artistic vision everyones is different and coming at from a different angel can make something so much better.
Anyway great work Romain
As a matter of fact, you can use the very same technique with whatever color you fancy… and I indeed used it with prussian blue in my Grey Knight Terminator tutorial (still waiting to get rerun). It goes for with Space Wolves as well… I’ve also had excellent results with green, on a completely unrelated figure. As for artistic diffrences with Games Workshop… Why is purple suddenly a Chaos color ? I believe there were plenty of SM chapters in all sorts of colors in the 90’s, including pink and mauve… They’ve been studiously expunged from the main codices, just… Read more »
I would say it has to do with the connection with blue being used to show electricity ergo power in these weapons. Also I think it has less to do with purple being chaos as with purple being mystical. Not being found often in nature at all, purple has a mystic about it that blue does not. Oh an pink is for boys it was for a very very long time long before blue because pink comes from red and it was blue that was for girls the cross over happened what some 80 years ago or so? I will… Read more »
Grey Knight Terminator tutorial is up and running man.
BoW Justin
Yay ! Thanks a bunch, my good man !
BoW Romain
Yeah well GW is going to get a ‘girly awakening’ when my My Little Spah’rines sweep the galaxy with holy Friendshipium!
@elromanozo Using alot of the techniques you have taught (not this one although I’ve said in an earlier post where I will be using this) I entered a painting competition a few weeks ago and ended up coming 3rd! This has boosted my confidence of painting up as normally painting isn’t the mot exciting thing for me but it’s becoming more fun and more fun. Again, thanks.
Any reply to this anecdote would seem conceited on my part… But congratulations for your patience and dedication !
BoW Romain
Cool!
Awesome. Thanks for the tips. This will work great for my monofilament close combat weapons.
Would be amazing to see a Gun painting video next.
Great vid Romain, i have a skaven assassin with three blades that I want a cool finish on. This would work well for warp stone tainted blades I think. A hint of green in there and that might be the look I’ve been after 🙂
On a different note, is there anywhere on the site detailing the White undercoating over black I have seen on the dark angel I think? It looks like you use the White to enhance the vibrancy of the paint in direct light maybe?
I’ve shot a tutorial about basecoating in my special way, it’s sitting in the BoW vault… And I wish someone would edit and publish it so I everyone can see how it’s done, instead of me having to explain it all the time… It’s not your fault, @darkdreams, it’s an excellent question ! The procedure is briefly explained in my Grey Knight tutorial and in my Mage Hunter tutorial, as well as in comments in both of those. I simply spray black everywhere, in a fine but quite covering coat, then I spray grey on the raised areas, and, finally,… Read more »
a quick question about your palette Romain. I’ve started using your suggestion of sponge+oven paper, but i dont seem to be able to get the paper saturated in the same way as your’s seems to be. since talking to my wife she informs me there is more than one type of oven paper so what type do you use?
@theunnamableone, I use cooking paper, thin, non waxed nor glazed, preferrably white to see the colors better…
Touch it and look at it : if it has a sleek, shiny surface, it’s no good. It should resemble tracing paper, slightly.
I don’t know about other types of cooking paper…
If you don’t have a proper flat sponge, you can use a few sheets of kitchen roll/towel paper instead.
I hope that helps !
BoW Romain