One of the bits I was most looking forward to painting, I do like metallic paints, although they can be hard to use without it looking tacky, I think ive managed to keep the bling under control.
Process was: (as usual too many steps, I think lack of confidence is made up for by many, many steps in the process)
Paint it boltgun - keep brush strickes in a uniform direction and do not load your brush, wipe some paint off on paper. (cover every bit of metal)
Give it a wash or black/asurmen blue, nice and heavy in the cracks, on the high surfaces try and get them stained a bit but dont blob it on.
Let the above dry and wash the cracks only with black, be heavy but controled with the wash.
Paint boltgun over again. leave the cracks.
add chainmail but move further to high areas and leave lower areas.
Same again with mythril silver.
Wash it with pure blue ink, stain the metal blue, we are not really trying to shade in this stage, just stain.
Paint (drybrush) mythril silver over the highest areas.
The end result is below, I wanted a definite blue steel type colour, this stuff isn't straight out of the smithy.
Same technique on the sword, blending up the blade through the metallics, black ink blobbed at the hilt. I want it to be solid steel except the grip. Always tempted to go gold but gold is a soft metal, and this isnt supposed to be a decorative sword.
[[generic looks better in real life statement]] (It totally does!)
***yes I am too scared to even attempt the eyes just now***
No comments:
Post a Comment