Old and New Elves - Spring Cleaning
Searching for a Theme
Been looking for a while...I’ve been playing High Elves for many a year and I never had the right paint theme in mind. I’ve tried several but never finished any of them. None of them did the job well enough.
Launching into the Lumineth I knew I had to nail something down or I’ll be pushing around greys for another decade. That prompted me to dig out my colouring pencils and start from there first.
This was the end resultDeep blue through to a sea foam green with soft yellow and browns thrown in. Would it work? Not sure. Also the armour I went against using metallics, just raise the difficulty level that much higher, ’cause I’m crazy that way.
I don’t have a good enough picture of it but I tested the blue to green out on the cloak of an old Phoenix Guard model. It worked well so I set about trying it on a Lumineth spearman
A little of the progress there. The finished, yet baseless so far, model was shown before.
To show the process a bit more, I’ve done the same method on some Vanari Dawnriders
At the back is the finished blend. Now to break it down. Start with the middle colour to align the gradient 
Add in the second main colour. We'll blend between the two from here
With the paint not quite dry, the third between tone, picked up some of the paint and blended it well
Down to the next colour
Then the next, and repeat the between layer. Again if the paint is still wet enough you can draw up from the bottom to belnd through the layers
I then repeated the process going up. This was trickier to take progress shots of. 
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