3 Colours Up: Shaltari Light Cruiser (Part One)
December 1, 2016 by elromanozo
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loving the green, didn’t like the look of the orange Shaltari. Now I find myself saying possibly…
I do think the green suits it better.
Thanks ! the only issue is that a lot of people are painting the human ships green, for some reason. It’s not like they’re going to need camouflage in space, though… I say, introduce variety : paint the humans pink ! Vive la différence.
pink UCM, a little less Star trek and a little more village people in the navy.
The Ross of happy little dots. Great episode on the detail work.
The green is a great scheme for those ships. About the comment that “Star Trek is not really the same since Gene Roddenberry died”: If the implication is that the stories were not as good, I disagree. Gene Roddenberry’s stewardship disallowed storylines that would become some of the franchise’s best. That being said, I agree that the new Star Trek movies are fine as movies, but don’t really inspire me to want to further explore the universe they portray. Hopefully the new show will remedy that.
I didn’t mean it’s “not as good”, but I don’t like it as much, personnally. It’s not as inspiring, and it doesn’t follow the same ideal… I think it’s not all rubbish, and some explore great stuff (DS9 for example), but some consider it a betrayal (and they have a point). While the reboots aren’t bad, I must say that philosophically, the latest Star Trek movie is bankrupt : yet another simplistic storyline with forgettable characters barely introduced in between a plethora of gratuitous special effects, yet another “bad guy we created ourselves ohmygodwerethebadguys #americanguilt, an interstellar yet very american… Read more »
Something that would be really helpful in the painting videos is when you are adding a color to have a small pop up with the color name in the corner, and when using an air brush, showing the pressure. Probably more trouble than it is worth, but something I would like to see.
Or, already have it an me miss it completely. Crap. I just noticed the color pop up at 4:10.
Never actually seen a wet palette in action. Suddenly it makes more sense!
Green looks darn good on Shaltari!
Please don’t take this the wrong way, but you put me in mind of Hercule Poirot as played by David Suchet. I mean this as a complement!
Thank you ! I’m taking it as the highest of compliments… this is a great actor, even if his french accent isn’t the best.
I think the green ships will look great an other colour worth considering would be cream/bone as they do look like spines and could be grown similar to eldar ships I think? Romain.
Thanks ! I actually already have done a bone/flesh scheme on a Scourge ship a while ago. teh tutorial is somewhere on teh site, you can look it up. It’s a good idea for those Shaltari ships as well… but perhaps not as interesting on the straighter ones from Drop Zone Commander.
How To Paint A Dropzone Commander Reaver Gunship. I can’t find part 1…
Part Two:
http://www.beastsofwar.com/backstage/paint-dropzone-commander-reaver-gunship-part/
Part Three:
http://www.beastsofwar.com/backstage/paint-dropzone-commander-reaver-gunship-part-2/
thanks @beetle yes I remember them now the Sicily kidney ships. @elromanozo its more a skeletal look was more what I was thinking as your hinting to as well?.
Great tutorial Romain, a very quick and effective colour scheme. One which I will be giving a try. I may use a Mig modulation set ‘Russian Green’ which gives me four shades of green from dark base to highlights.
I do love how this one turned out, and i cant wait to see what everyone comes up with after the Dropfleet Boot Camp.
the green looks fantastic, both alien and threatening. I do like the new more red orange of the shaltari , orange is a great colour that is often under used and the deeper red for the shading makes this version a lot richer than the dropzone colour scheme. I think the sky blue and bright green really pop on the orange and these colour’s have a very alien feel to them. I think I might be in the minority in my love of the orange though. currently doing scourge in scale75 deep blue working towards a lighter purple or even… Read more »
argh no, you didn’t like the orange. twice in one week, the sky must be about to fall in.
you have made me think the tohaa would look good in green mind.
i think i need to start the week again.
last week was my favourite week up to now on beasts of war, i think I’ve just had the polar opposite this week.
thanks as always, see you next week
Orange is a perfectly respectable colour… but it’s generally pretty loud. Louder than I was prepared to paint this ship.
The Tohaa… well, the Tohaa would look excellent in blue, turquoise and gold, like Protoss. It would be spectacular. But I’ll not be the one to paint them : too many projects already ! 🙂
Thank you for your viewership and your kind words ! Keep painting, orange included.