Any idea how to paint these guys?

[deity12]

Any ideas on how to paint the sons of vengeance?

 

Picture for reference:

 

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/image...ance_Marine.jpg

 

Thanks.

[Shadey]

I have never tried to get that effect so this so this is only a guess, but as long as you water your paints down the model will take quite a few coats so the option to paint over is always there.

 

1. Keep your paints thin, base coat in blue and let dry, might need 2 coats.

2. Do another coat in blue.

3. Before step 2 is dry (in other words immedietly) take your red and a stipple brush and dab it over the areas you want red, working the paint. Blend it into your blue, you may need one brush for blue, one for red (with the seperate paint on a pallete). Go back and forth as needed adding more red or blue to get a smooth transition. This step will blend a lot of your red into purple that is fine. The important part is the blend. (remeber to leave some as untotched blue). Some drying retarder in both paints here might be good to give you time.

4. (Optional). You may need to go over the inside of the red to bring it up to your chosen colour more, again you will need thin paint.

 

I would also avoid using blood red if possible. Hate that colour, doesn't bend for me.

 

You also have the option of replacing the red with a white. After it is all dry a red glaze or ink (probably several coats) should turn the white into your red.

 

Do let me know if the above actually works lol. As I said, never tried it. This is my best guess.

[d@n]

you could try a stipple brush.

[Olis]

Blue undercoat, stipple on red. It's an unrefined theory... :D

[ShinyRhino]

I'll echo stippling. You'll likely do the basecoat in blue, stipple red, and then go back and restipple blue in areas you didn't get just right.

[Chapter Master Ignis Domus]

Do a heavy drybrush. I do that same effect on my Wolves with Fortress Grey. Basecoat one color, then put enough paint on your brush of the other color so that you aren't quite drybrushing, but nor are you painting, then brush it over the whole thing. I'll try to get pictures up if you like.

[Durus]

In order to mix with the blue paint as described above, you would have to be inhumanly fast.

 

Instead I'd just paint them blue, and keep a big brush and some clean water close, when you paint on the red. Just load the big brush with water, soak the surfaces you are going to paint on and watch the paint mix with the water. It should fade out giving you some interesting "veined" patterns. Just make sure you mix your paint with water as well. You can go back in there with a wet (not soaked) brush to influence how the paint runs a bit.

 

To get the best result with this you should probably use a very opaque or pigment heavy color for the spots. Red Gore mixed with Bleached Bone should work well enough and look pretty close to what the picture looks like. I only used foundation paints once, so I don't know much about how they would behave, but if you have some try them.

 

Practice on a piece of paper to see how much you have to thin your paints and how long your working time is.

 

+edit+

Just forget to mention that you should probably add a bit of detergent to the water to break the surface tension. You don't want any drops to form you just want an even coat of water over the surface you are working on.

[HamHamLunchbox]

try this:

 

1: basecoat red.

2: spray on hairspray

3: while still wet, put on very fine salt

4: wait till dry

5: basecoat blue

6: repeat 4

7: use a brush to remove the salt.

 

that way i paint rust:

 

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e354/bahamut2k/Foto2-6.jpg

 

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e354/bahamut2k/Foto5-3.jpg

 

or red undercoat and stipple on blue