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Can someone walk me through an east way to make power weapons (swords, axes, etc) without the use of airbrush or wet blend.

 

Currently I've just been using a blue wash over top of a dark teal basecoat with a highlight of lighter teal but it looks funny to me and I'd like something more permanent.

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Sockwithaticket has a pretty cool and unique way of doing power weapons that doesn't seem too hard to reproduce :

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/240799-crimson-tears-occasional-allies-update-070914/?p=3716981

 

This is his recipe, all his, I take no part in its inception, only its propagation because its waaaaaaayy too cool looking xD

 

 

Steal away, II have posted the recipe elsewhere, but it is easy to lose specific posts once threads acquire too many pages so here we go :
1.Vallejo Game Colour Night Blue.
2. Broad edge highlight 50/50 Night Blue/VGC Imperial Blue
3. Slightly narrower highlight of Imperial Blue
4. Progressively narrower/finer highlights of Imperial Blue mixed with increasing amounts of VGC Glacier Blue until you're using pure Glacier Blue

 

 

Can someone walk me through an east way to make power weapons (swords, axes, etc) without the use of airbrush or wet blend.

How easy do you want?

Paint it ice blue.

 

 

I have used a few different styles but what I have done the most is the old lightining bolt look.

Start with a dark metal like leadbelcher

Paint iceblue lightining pattern across the blade.

Go back over the bolt with a thin line of pure white

Wash with a deep blue.

Drybrush with mithril silver

 

Even easier to to treat the power weapon much like you would the coils of a plasma gun; starti with blue then glaze/drybrush up to pure white mixing blue and white in as many steps as you want. 

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