How To Paint A Dropzone Commander Reaver Gunship Part Three!
September 9, 2014 by elromanozo
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Great job Romain, very organic and disturbingly revolting with those eyes.
Another masterpiece, and it looks so sick and creepy! And please take that as a compliment.
Thanks guys ! I do my best…
Say, what other faction from DZC would you like to see me tackle next ?
Resistance would be nice with a focus on creating a used Mad Max-look without looking to much like a scrapyard-bargain. Do you know what I mean? Rust worn with a touch of style and pride. Sorry, english is not my mother language.
Entschuldige dich nicht, bitte, ist Dein Englisch besser als mein Deutsch…
Thank you, but let’s say it’s a draw.
I’d be fascinated to see what you could do with the Shaltari – either your take on their typically bright, detailed schemes or maybe a completely different scheme a-la-Romain?
Fantastic effect Romain. One question… do you ever use a glaze to highlight areas. I wondered if whether it’s back-passage-maw might look more visceral and sticky if it was a bit ‘shiny’ inside?
Thanks ! 🙂
I do use glazes to highlight, most of the time.
Here, however, the visceral insides would probably be best served by a coat of glossy varnish. At that scale, I wouldn’t do white dots and reflections “by hand”.
I have highlighted for a “wet” effect before, notably in my Mantic Dark Elf sorceress tutorial. You can see it done there. It’s not a glaze, as it’s barely dilute… In that very same tutorial, I use glazes to highlight pretty much everything else, from the cloth to the fleshtones.
Wow, really nice paint scheme. How would you copy this across an army? In other words how would you paint the troops and other vehicles?
DZC troopers are veeeery small indeed, so that’s a whole other matter entirely. I don’t know if I’d paint them bone, or just red… If people are interested, I would rather do a tutorial on painting at that scale : some techniques simply won’t give you results on such tiny things. Translating this to other vehicles is easy, and you can even paint some dirt and black/red ooze on the ground vehicles. The scourge all have similar “architecture” to their vehicles, with ribs, vents and eyes ! 🙂 I don’t think this scheme is overly complex to “chain paint”. You… Read more »
Another quick question Romain – what do you use as a membrane on your wet palette? I thought Kitchen towel at first but suspect that might break down too quickly.
There’s a tutorial I have done about wet palettes, too.
It’s not kitchen roll, it’s baking paper… you know, oven paper, for cookies and such. Just get the porous kind, not the glazed kind.
Very living creepy looking ship like something out of nightmares’ @elromanozo
Romain, great work and thank you for sharing. This gives me something to consider when I get ready to paint mine.
Horrific paint job, Romain, in all the right ways. I know that if I lived in this ‘verse, and I saw one of these flying at me down the street, I would want more than one of those “school buses of death” they showed us for DZC Resistance faction. 😀
Looks great, and I like how you’ve done it in such a way that less capable (read : people like me :P) can emulate it enough to get a decent looking force, while allowing more advanced painters to take it further to get the finished result we have here.
I’d love to see you do a tutorial on painting infantry at 6mm and 10mm scales, I don’t actually think I’ve ever seen any on the net before and I’d be curious what you’d do.
On more DzC stuff? I think I second the suggestions of Shaltari and Mad Max esque Resistance.
Romain says ‘not bad’, its bloody amazing!
That is almost too creepy to try to replicate. I’d be reluctant to move the damn things across the tabletop!