FAQ: Painting Imperial Fists

[metcalfedan]

This guys Fists are how I plan to do mine once I get some yellow. http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.p...p;hl=weathering

DUDE! That's what I used to do my dude :)

[sonofwaranddeath]

This guys Fists are how I plan to do mine once I get some yellow. http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.p...p;hl=weathering

DUDE! That's what I used to do my dude ;)

 

 

:D great minds think a like.....wait me thinking?!?!?! whats going on!!!! :D

[Terrahawk]

I have been recently toying around with various recipes for yellow and painting yellow reminds me of the IFs' underlying "masochistic" tendencies. Just kidding. :o

 

Now seriously speaking, the method I'm currently trying out is icallitsoda's recipe. (the recipe is further down the post)

Too early to tell the results as my first coat of Golden Yellow is drying as I type this, but man do those pictures look awesome!

[Rob_Loken]

I paints 'em like this :

Undercoat Black

Basecoat with Iyanden Darksun

Heavy wash of Gryphonne Sepia

Drybrush Iyanden Darksun

Highlight with 50/50 Iyanden Darksun and Bleached Bone.

Should come out like this

Works for the old table top.

[Ameal2007]

I use the following recipe:

 

Chaos Black basecoat

Iyanden Darksun

Devlan Mud

Iyanden Darksun

2x THIN coats of Golden Yellow.

 

Gives you this:

 

http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/87/l_79c94a52937a47f3b0f032b5a489626a.jpg

http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/103/l_95b3a9700c8c41eebfbf2d6f83ab34e5.jpg

[Captain Belzakare]

http://www.users.on.net/~a.forbessimmons/ImperialFists/Squad%207.3.jpg

 

1 - White undercoat

2 - Golden Yellow

3 - Orange ink in the recesses (or thinned blaxing orange)

3 - Highlight Bad Moon

4 - Highlight Bad Moon/White

 

i do almost the same thing but i use the sephia wash and it gives the yellow a dirty kinda look. as if theres a sand storm going on or something like that. i may work with some of the other ideas on here though.

[Servant]

How's this look?

 

Results were achieved with:

 

Iyanden Darksun over bare plastic (I live in a cramped apartment complex, no place to spray)

Devlan Mud wash

Re-highlight raised areas with Iyanden Darksun + Golden Yellow in a 3:1 ratio

Thinned down Golden Yellow (two coats with flow improver)

Highlight with RPP Deep Yellow

Highlight with RMS Sun Yellow

Final Highlight with RMS Sun Yellow + Linen White in a 2:1 ratio

 

Colors look a bit washed out due to the lighting, but the process makes for a very realistic and deep yellow rather than Lemon Fists.

 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wrVgPy5Ouso/SnCh...600-h/if001.jpg

Edited August 22, 2009 by Servant

[PaganLinuxGeek]

I am new to painting yellow, and do NOT profess to be an expert.

That being said I wanted to interject with my current findings.

I inherited a partial Imperial Fists army, already painted to some degree with a shade of darker golden yellow that I prefer to the brighter lighter yellows I see online.

Here's a picture. Granted the lighting could be better but you get the idea... (Ignore the left talon as it was an experiment with testors spray enamel and will probably be reworked)

 

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8207/8249685229_c3d0d48d19_c.jpg

PLG's Imperial Fists vehicles by PaganLinuxGeek, on Flickr

 

I start with a thin primer coat of white.

Then I airbrush with thinned antigue gold acrylic.

 

Am I the only IF player that prefers the darker gold to brighter yellow?

 

I know that I don't use the exact shades of boltgun metal, or whatever gw markets. I use a lighter gray as I do want my pieces to be a little distinctive on the board.

These are all works in progress.

Comments / Suggestions welcome.

Edited December 11, 2012 by PaganLinuxGeek