3 Colours Up Tips: Painting Dark Angels Armor
August 9, 2011 by elromanozo
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very nice tut as always Romain keep up the great work. Could you do a vid that shows a good way to do spacewolves as the old 1 is no more
Hopefully, it’ll be rerun… But don’t worry, there are more “power armor” tutorials scheduled, for different colors !
As for that tutorial, the final images show an armor that’s still wet… It’s better when dried, of course.
BoW Romain
Fancy indeed, that looks fantastic.
This is how I paint too, although not nearly as well it has to be said. The only difference is that, because I have access to an airbrush (my other hobby is plastic kits) , I tend to not just have white for highlights, but use colours, dark blue/grey towards the bottom of the mini , through green , to a greeny/yellow mix at the very top works very well for red or green main colour minis, it means if I use thin paint/glazes , the mini is bright at the top and darker at the bottom, as per natural… Read more »
I like enriching my tones as well, but this is a simple tutorial to teach people how to do it the easy way… And of course, not everyone (including me) has access to an airbrush !
BoW Romain
Romain
Nice to see you in a shirt with short sleeves. Looks real comfy 🙂
Great, love these tutorials.
I am really loving this tutorials. It also has something to do with the fact that I am a dark angel player; well more a dark angel painter at the moment but that is nethier here not there.
One thing that could make this so much better.
A list of the paints your using and next to them a compartive paint from the other popular brands.
I’ll do articles on brands of paint… There are some equivalents, but only sme of the time, and there are differences in texture and glossiness.
I’ll try to make a list of all the colors I’ve used for other tutorials.
You’ll notice I tell you what I’m using, pretty much everytime…
For this armor, the three colors I use are pretty much the equivalent of Dark Angels green (with perhaps a little black thrown in), snot green, and a mix of bleach bone and skull white (from GW).
BoW Romain
That’s a really nice blend and a great technique, though I would have used a darker green for Dark Angels (but who cares).
Just wondering: is this kind of blending suitable for army painting? It does look like a *lot* of work.
This is more appropriate for characters… I’d just dry-brush carefully the rank and file with the same colors and wash them afterwards with the base color to achieve a more blended result.
Still, if you’re only painting a squad or two, you’ll see that it gets easier and faster the more you do it. It takes merely 5 or 6 minutes on camera, but I’d say it only takes half that time when you’re at home and you don’t have to worry about showing what you do or explaining it to anyone…
BoW Romain
Great tutorial. I’d probably go a bit darker with my DA’s but that’s just my personal preference. Thanks Romain 🙂
p.s. If you ever felt like doing a full DA tutorial complete with the ivory robes and whatnot that would make my day.