Rune Priest Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Ok, first you need these (citadel) coulours: chaos black, regal blue, ice blue, skull white, hawk turquoise, and dark angels green. Alright then, Step 1: After basecoating your sword with chaos black, mix up a 1:1 mix of regal blue and ice blue and paint your initial lines http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs021.snc3/10834_173094343643_558573643_3047829_8248854_n.jpg Make sure to keep the lines thicker than you intend to, since you will have to paint inside of them later on. Make sure you think out a pattern which will make sense, as well. For the pictures here, I used an electrical-looking pattern, with many jagged edges and sharp angles. I will post an alternative pattern at the end of the article. Step 2: Apply pure ice blue within the original lines which your have just panted http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs001.snc3/10834_173094348643_558573643_3047830_3685699_n.jpg make sure to keep your paint thin and try and cover the lines in two coats or so, just to keep things clean (you will notice I could have done a better job at this, but I've recently been slammed with tons of work lately...) Step 3: Highlight the lines with a 1:1 mix of ice blue and skull white, making sure to paint where multiple lines intersect, as they would logically be brightest, as well as any significant details in the sword (for my sword, i paid attention to the runes) http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs001.snc3/10834_173094353643_558573643_3047831_7376348_n.jpg Step 4: With a glaze of 1:1 hawk turquoise to dark angels green, paint over the entire sword http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs001.snc3/10834_173094353643_558573643_3047831_7376348_n.jpg Step 5: Apology in advance for no photo of this side when it is finished, my camera just died... I'll post this sword from the other side. Anyways, just highlight the places listed in step 4 with pure skull white, barely more than a dot at the intersections. Keep it THIN! http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs024.snc3/11162_168659193643_558573643_3009692_5995988_n.jpg Alternatively, this pattern is more mellow, like water in a way; this is here just to give you other ideas. http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs004.snc3/11162_167891113643_558573643_3002996_2170573_n.jpg http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs024.snc3/11162_167891423643_558573643_3002999_1282946_n.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
relicblade Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Ok, first you need these (citadel) coulours: chaos black, regal blue, ice blue, skull white, hawk turquoise, and dark angels green. Alright then, Step 1: After basecoating your sword with chaos black, mix up a 1:1 mix of regal blue and ice blue and paint your initial lines http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs021.snc3/10834_173094343643_558573643_3047829_8248854_n.jpg Make sure to keep the lines thicker than you intend to, since you will have to paint inside of them later on. Make sure you think out a pattern which will make sense, as well. For the pictures here, I used an electrical-looking pattern, with many jagged edges and sharp angles. I will post an alternative pattern at the end of the article. Step 2: Apply pure ice blue within the original lines which your have just panted http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs001.snc3/10834_173094348643_558573643_3047830_3685699_n.jpg make sure to keep your paint thin and try and cover the lines in two coats or so, just to keep things clean (you will notice I could have done a better job at this, but I've recently been slammed with tons of work lately...) Step 3: Highlight the lines with a 1:1 mix of ice blue and skull white, making sure to paint where multiple lines intersect, as they would logically be brightest, as well as any significant details in the sword (for my sword, i paid attention to the runes) http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs001.snc3/10834_173094353643_558573643_3047831_7376348_n.jpg Step 4: With a glaze of 1:1 hawk turquoise to dark angels green, paint over the entire sword http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs001.snc3/10834_173094353643_558573643_3047831_7376348_n.jpg Step 5: Apology in advance for no photo of this side when it is finished, my camera just died... I'll post this sword from the other side. Anyways, just highlight the places listed in step 4 with pure skull white, barely more than a dot at the intersections. Keep it THIN! http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs024.snc3/11162_168659193643_558573643_3009692_5995988_n.jpg Alternatively, this pattern is more mellow, like water in a way; this is here just to give you other ideas. http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs004.snc3/11162_167891113643_558573643_3002996_2170573_n.jpg http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs024.snc3/11162_167891423643_558573643_3002999_1282946_n.jpg These are all nifty, but I think they'd be more suited to a force sword, or force weapon. Keep up this nice paintin'! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Captain Corveus Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 I've used this technique on my Terminator Sargeant and he looks great :) Great Tutorial! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aneato Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 thanks this is a great tutorial i used this on commander Dantes axe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicksy Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 Thanks for the great tutorial. I've struggled in the past to paint this. Especially seeing the Eavy Metal version shown in the Space Hulk edition of white dwarf. Within 15 minutes of trying the steps i have got far far better results than previous attempts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerixis Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 That's always such a gorgeous technique, it works with so many colours too! I'm gonna try and upload pics on the mirror/crystal swords I'm doing, one in every colour of the rainbow! They look so cool and you can use any colour you like! Great work dude! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majorpayne327 Posted July 31, 2010 Share Posted July 31, 2010 ,looks very nic the only question i have is how do you make a glaze? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterdyne Posted August 7, 2010 Share Posted August 7, 2010 A glaze is very thin paint (sometimes with a specific medium - eg Vallejo's glaze medium, though just water is fine) applied very thinly - sort of like a wash, but using far less paint on the brush and spreading it out rather than allowing it to pool in recesses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMcflaggerty Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 great tut now i just need some paints, Wolves all the way!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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