Advice painting armour with Hawk Turquiose

[Jolemai]

I have the following Inquisitor model (UK link!) undercoated grey and I wish to paint his armour Hawk Turquoise (Sotek Green?). Can I have some recommendations on the following please:

• Base coat to apply the HT over
• Best ink to add to the recess
• Best highlight
• Anything else relevant :)

Thanks in advance :)

[Guest]

 

My dude is Sotek Green over Macragge Blue Spray.

 

I used Nuln Oil for shade, Temple Guard Blue for first highlight then Baharroth Blue for final highlight.

[Major_Gilbear]

Base coat to apply the HT over = Light/mid blue-grey.

Best ink to add to the recess = Blue

Best highlight = add white to the HT

Anything else relevant = Yeah, quite a few things! See below.

- If you want a fairly bright colour, then you are best applying a couple of thin coats of HT over a light cool colour. Pale and mid blue-greys are ideal for this.

- If you want a darker look, you can actually build the look up from black or blue. Over black, simply add more HT to the mix until it's pure HT, and then keep going by adding a little white to the HT for final highlights. I would suggest at least two steps between pure black and pure HT, but depending on the size of the area you can sensibly use up to five. You can do the same with the blue instead of the black, but will likely require fewer steps.

- If at any point the colour stops looking sufficiently turquoise, you can simply add a drop of HT to about four drops of matte medium and a couple of drops of water, and carefully glaze the whole area to bring the main colour back. If you do this, you may want to let the model dry for at least an hour somewhere warm, as the matte medium takes that long to go completely clear from being touch-dry (and unless the medium is fully clear, you won't be able to judge the colour very well).

- To shade HT, you can add some dark-ish blue to it. After that, you can add a little black if you need to *really* darken any areas. This is much less harsh than transitioning from HT to black directly, and keeps the turquoise looking bright.

- To highlight HT, you can add a little light grey, white, or even a light tan or ivory. The first two colours keep the turquoise quite cool, and are especially appropriate for anything that needs to look "electric". The latter two produce a warmer tone, and are better for anything that's more organic, like a brightly-coloured alien or lizard for example.

- You can use blue ink instead of blue paint for very gentle shading.

- You can add a little yellow ink to the blue ink to make a turquoise ink if you need to re-saturate the area. This is also useful on its own over clean white for any small glowing lights or such. Careful you don't add too much yellow though (the ink turns green!), but if you do you can just add more blue to the mix again.

- You can add a *little* black ink to the blue or the turquoise ink mix if you need a darker ink still.

- GW used to make a lovely turquoise ink called "Sky Blue Ink", but it came in the awful screw-top bottles and was discontinued when they next updated the paint range. Nobody really makes any ink like this either, but I managed to "make" some that was very close by buying Daler Rowney FW Artists Acrylic Ink (Turquoise!) and letting it settle out over a few weeks - then I poured off the clear blue liquid and disposed of the settled gunge in the bottom. That clear blue liquid is a very nice acrylic turquoise ink, and works perfectly with all my other inks and paints!

Edit: spelling!

[Grotsmasha]

I *think* Duncan on WarhammerTV just covered it with the Dwarves Blood Bowl team's blue armour.

 

Cheers,

Jono

[Jolemai]

Cheers for the replies all (especially Gilbear's in depth replay), will try to apply it as best I can.

[Aramis K]

I've done an alpha legion force all in sotek green. Lovely strong colour to work with.

 

I've been undercoating black, then grey drybrush on raised areas for a lighter base. A couple of thinned coats of Sotek to get a strong flat base, then selectivly shaded with layers of thinned nuln oil, followed by blacklining with thinned Abaddon black. Then I clean up with a Sotek glaze, and highlight by adding ivory mixed into the Sotek. Quick to do.

I found a blue ink made everything too blue and a green ink was hard to blend in.

 

 

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