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Post by Nick P on Jul 19, 2016 7:46:24 GMT -6
After a long hiatus of finishing the Witcher 3 (so, sooooo good you guys) and building my corsairs, I'm back in painting my Thousand Sons. I finally bought an airbrush on amazon prime day, and while I'm still getting used to getting consistent with it, it has made doing the vehicles much easier. I've also been experimenting with stencils and varying thicknesses of masking tape to create designs and patterns, but more on that later (after I finish my Spartan). Here's my finished Praetor with combi-melta (might convert it to a volkite charger) and paragon blade. Trying something new with my power weapons, by painting them very bright silver and glazing them, but not sure I like the results - they're much darker than I expected/intended - will likely go back in and paint the blue with proper layers per usual. Will have to go back in and add a XVth Legion symbol to both his cape and his left shoulder - waiting to see what the FW decals end up looking like first. And here's an update on my Leviathan - went in and highlighted the armor properly, and used the airbrush and masking tape to give him the golden accent on his torso and the white/red knee markings before going in and highlighting both with a detail brush. I'm unsure what I want to do to finish off the gold, likely some black hieroglyphics or overlay a large white XVth Legion symbol; will likely add a golden XVth Legion symbol to the knee. Work on the Spartan is slow going, but I hope to have it finished by the end of the week. Lots of little annoying details I keep overlooking on that one.
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Post by Asyrean on Jul 19, 2016 8:54:31 GMT -6
Looking fantastic.
Did you still use a brush for the highlights on the Praetor's armor? Also, on his cape, did you do any wet blending/glazing on that at all? I can't really tell from the picture (but it looks great!)
I'm working on my Space Marine Librarian in Terminator Armor currently (he's also my general for the campaign) and I'm working on wet blending/glazing on his cape. Once I figured out how to do it, it's coming together pretty well. (I'll post pictures of it whenever it gets done...) Anyway, just curious if that's also what you did.
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Post by jefferestinpeace on Jul 19, 2016 9:05:17 GMT -6
fuck yeah
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Post by geofflloyd on Jul 19, 2016 9:31:06 GMT -6
Great work. Always a fan of well-done capes, cloth, etc.
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Post by Nick P on Jul 19, 2016 10:27:11 GMT -6
Looking fantastic. Did you still use a brush for the highlights on the Praetor's armor? Also, on his cape, did you do any wet blending/glazing on that at all? I can't really tell from the picture (but it looks great!) I'm working on my Space Marine Librarian in Terminator Armor currently (he's also my general for the campaign) and I'm working on wet blending/glazing on his cape. Once I figured out how to do it, it's coming together pretty well. (I'll post pictures of it whenever it gets done...) Anyway, just curious if that's also what you did. Nothing on the praetor was airbrushed actually, its all done with large/layer/detail brushes. As for the cape - no wet blending, no glazing; just lots of thin layers using nearly every color that GW makes in the grey scale. Started with black, then mechanicus standard grey, then warpfiend grey, celestra grey, and ulthuan grey followed by a final highlight of white scar. Just followed the same flow of the cape with each layer, leaving just enough of the previous layer behind to add depth. Just your classic feathering/layer technique lol not too fancy I'm afraid!
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Post by Asyrean on Jul 19, 2016 10:35:40 GMT -6
Nothing on the praetor was airbrushed actually, its all done with large/layer/detail brushes. As for the cape - no wet blending, no glazing; just lots of thin layers using nearly every color that GW makes in the grey scale. Started with black, then mechanicus standard grey, then warpfiend grey, celestra grey, and ulthuan grey followed by a final highlight of white scar. Just followed the same flow of the cape with each layer, leaving just enough of the previous layer behind to add depth. Just your classic feathering/layer technique lol not too fancy I'm afraid! Looks great! Definitely capes are tricky if you follow the generic, GW "How To" where you base/shade and then highlight the ridges. Just leaves really jarring lines... anyway, I like what you did here, it worked out very well! And if you're using really thin layers, I mean, super thin/watered down, then maybe it is glazing that you're doing? I might have my terms wrong (or maybe different people use terms differently) but in one video I saw recently, that's basically how they described glazing. Meaning many multiple layers of super watered down paint, and using progressively lighter shades to blend it all together to create an even transition. I might be mixing terms, but sounds like regardless it's the same kind of basic idea. Again, good job on it! Would love to see this guy on the battlefield! (Shooting at someone else.)
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Post by Nick P on Jul 19, 2016 10:47:58 GMT -6
Well glazing is basically thinning the paint to almost transparency, and working it over the entire area to help blend colors, and tint them somewhat in some cases. Its like using a wash, but rather than settling in the recesses, it covers the area evenly.
What I did was use thinned down layer paints, not so thing they were transparent, just thin enough that they weren't creating stark transition lines, and following a similar highlighting pattern to what one would typically do for, say, highlighting power armor or whatever.
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Post by Asyrean on Jul 19, 2016 12:01:59 GMT -6
Well glazing is basically thinning the paint to almost transparency, and working it over the entire area to help blend colors, and tint them somewhat in some cases. Its like using a wash, but rather than settling in the recesses, it covers the area evenly. What I did was use thinned down layer paints, not so thing they were transparent, just thin enough that they weren't creating stark transition lines, and following a similar highlighting pattern to what one would typically do for, say, highlighting power armor or whatever. Interesting. Thanks for the further explanation. I might have to play around with that technique myself.
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Post by Luke GR on Jul 20, 2016 2:11:37 GMT -6
Very nice looking 1000 Sons. When I get my Wolves up and running they'll have to meet on the tabletop. Even better when we get our rules!
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Post by dennish on Jul 20, 2016 17:30:35 GMT -6
Holy poops dude, amazing job. I love it!
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Post by Nick P on Jul 26, 2016 7:08:44 GMT -6
Almost done with the Spartan - I finally bought some actual airbrush paints and holy shit, they are 10000% better than diluting normal acrylics with a medium. I felt like a total pro basically right away. Now I know what ebay means by "pro painted"! Pics coming tonight after I finish weathering and detailing the SOB. Also need to weather the Levy so he's not so pristine.
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Post by Nick P on Aug 11, 2016 7:18:21 GMT -6
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Post by T1m on Aug 11, 2016 7:26:56 GMT -6
This looks really nice. Was it a horrible nightmare to build? I've heard that about the spartan.
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Post by Nick P on Aug 11, 2016 8:10:33 GMT -6
This looks really nice. Was it a horrible nightmare to build? I've heard that about the spartan. The toughest part was that the tracks, honestly; but the newer version from FW has the tracks molded to the actual sides, so it is much easier. Took me probably 2 hours to put together, though most of that was heating pieces in boiling water and bending them into place, since the track pieces and the floor piece on mine were severely warped. From what I understand, FW has gotten a lot more consistent over the last 6 months with their heresy resins, so that shouldn't be a huge issue anymore. I accidentally glued the quad lascannons into place, so one of them is angled up and one is pointing forwards; I would recommend magnetizing them for any would-be heresy addicts out there. I may end up popping them off and doing just that. I also think I need to go back and add more weathering to my characters and dread - the rhinox brown looks great on the tank, and just stippling it around the hull to show where the red paint wore off looks awesome in person (not sure of the pics picked it up right). Think that will definitely add another layer of depth to my Leviathan, and help give the characters a more gritty feel - right now they just look like their armor is fresh off the production line, and happened to get just a tad dusty. BORING!
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Post by Nick P on Aug 11, 2016 8:12:41 GMT -6
Also just realized I haven't done any of the lenses. DOH! Luckily my airbrush skillz will lend themselves well to doing #propainted OSL
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