Help with colours.

[GrandMagnus]

DISCLAIMER: Oh venerable mods, If you see a need to close this feel free, I'm not sure if I'm breaching the rules considering I'm asking for the colours, but that's up to you fine guys/gals.

 

Hej fraters, I would like to achieve the colours of the armour and cloak of this eidolon of Mathlann do you have any ideas. As far as I can tell the armour seems to be a dark blue with a few washes of black and then blue highlights, but I'm not sure. And I have no clue about the cloth.

 

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[Dosjetka]

So long as discussion doesn't slide into discussing AoS instead of the colours it should be fine, GrandMagnus. :tu:

[Dosjetka]

Anyway, this is my guess.

 

Armour:

1. Abaddon Black
2. Stegadon Scale Green
3. Temple Guard Blue
4. White Scar (?)

Cloak:

1. Incubi Darkness
2. Sybarite Green
3. Pallid Wych Flesh (?)

[GrandMagnus]

 

Anyway, this is my guess.

 

Armour:

1. Abaddon Black
2. Stegadon Scale Green
3. Temple Guard Blue
4. White Scar (?)

Cloak:

1. Incubi Darkness
2. Sybarite Green
3. Pallid Wych Flesh (?)

 

Thanks! I think you might be right about both, though it looks more like lothern blue (I think that's the one) rather than white. Anyways I'll give both of these a go on a test mini and see what I get :)

[GrandMagnus]

 

So, my attempt at the blue/black armour.

 

Essentially:

Base: abbadon black

Highlight: Stegadon scale green.

Highlight2: Temple guard blue.

Extreme highlight: Temple guard blue / White scar 1:1

Glaze: Guilliman blue.

 

So, any thoughts on the result? I'll try the cloth next.

[Bryan Blaire]

So, my attempt at the blue/black armour.

 

Essentially:

Base: abbadon black

Highlight: Stegadon scale green.

Highlight2: Temple guard blue.

Extreme highlight: Temple guard blue / White scar 1:1

Glaze: Guilliman blue.

 

So, any thoughts on the result?

It looks great! It looks like an awesome color.

 

I think it's a bit brighter than the Eidolon Aspect of the Storm armor, I think the extreme highlight might be too much. Have you considered muting it by mixing with a light grey (maybe Ulthuan Grey or Administratum Grey), or a bright cream like Screaming Skull to give it a bit of greenish tone to the highlight, instead of the White Scar?

 

I want to say that I actually saw an answer on how they painted that armor somewhere, I'll dig through my White Dwarfs and see if it was there, or maybe on Warhammer TV.

 

If you are using the GW shades, you may also consider Coelia Greenshade, it is that teal/blue-green type shade, you may even be able to make a glaze with that using some matte medium/air brush thinner to thin it down to the right consistency and using that instead of Guilliman Blue glaze.

 

Either way, you achieved a great color, so long as you are happy with it then I would run with it - looking forward to seeing what models you put it on!

[GrandMagnus]

 

So, my attempt at the blue/black armour.

 

Essentially:

Base: abbadon black

Highlight: Stegadon scale green.

Highlight2: Temple guard blue.

Extreme highlight: Temple guard blue / White scar 1:1

Glaze: Guilliman blue.

 

So, any thoughts on the result?

It looks great! It looks like an awesome color.

 

I think it's a bit brighter than the Eidolon Aspect of the Storm armor, I think the extreme highlight might be too much. Have you considered muting it by mixing with a light grey (maybe Ulthuan Grey or Administratum Grey), or a bright cream like Screaming Skull to give it a bit of greenish tone to the highlight, instead of the White Scar?

 

I want to say that I actually saw an answer on how they painted that armor somewhere, I'll dig through my White Dwarfs and see if it was there, or maybe on Warhammer TV.

 

If you are using the GW shades, you may also consider Coelia Greenshade, it is that teal/blue-green type shade, you may even be able to make a glaze with that using some matte medium/air brush thinner to thin it down to the right consistency and using that instead of Guilliman Blue glaze.

 

Either way, you achieved a great color, so long as you are happy with it then I would run with it - looking forward to seeing what models you put it on!

 

Nice ideas! OK, I'll give it a try on another piece bit I have around here and give it a shot. thank you

 

Here's what I've gotten mocking about with the teal coloured robes: 

 

 

EDIT: Truth be told, the help I need is a for AoS minis, but I just love asking for help on this forum because all the fraters and  mods are such great people and have such good advice. However if I ever find a 40k reason to use it I'll definetly post it :)

[Dosjetka]

Teal robes look good, the blue armour looks a little too blue when compared to the original. Bryan's suggestion to use Coelia Greenshade is sound and I'd perhaps not use the Guilliman Blue glaze at the end unless the end result is too green, and even then I'd probably dilute it 1:1 with water or Lahmian Medium.

[Bryan Blaire]

Here's what I've gotten mocking about with the teal coloured robes:

 

The teal color looks good, but I would consider mixing the final highlight as 1:1 Sybarite Green:Pallid Wych Flesh, or do the broader highlight with that and then do a very fine line highlight with Pallid Wych Flesh.

 

 

I'd perhaps not use the Guilliman Blue glaze at the end unless the end result is too green, and even then I'd probably dilute it 1:1 with water or Lahmian Medium.

While I haven't done it for blue+green to make a teal color, I have mixed the red and yellow glazes with a bit of air brush thinner to make an orange glaze that I used on my Lugganath Eldar to blend the highlight back into the color some, so it might work with the blue + green glazes, you may just want to run a couple of tests to figure out the ideal ratio for you of blue to green.

 

Re: the EDIT message - that horn looks like a great musical instrument for your local 'medieval' themed PDF regiments... ;)

[GrandMagnus]

 

Here's what I've gotten mocking about with the teal coloured robes:

 

The teal color looks good, but I would consider mixing the final highlight as 1:1 Sybarite Green:Pallid Wych Flesh, or do the broader highlight with that and then do a very fine line highlight with Pallid Wych Flesh.

 

 

I'd perhaps not use the Guilliman Blue glaze at the end unless the end result is too green, and even then I'd probably dilute it 1:1 with water or Lahmian Medium.

While I haven't done it for blue+green to make a real color, I have mixed the red and yellow glazes with a bit of air brush thinner to make an orange glaze that I used on my Lugganath Eldar to blend the highlight back into the color some, so it might work with the blue + green glazes, you may just want to run a couple of tests to figure out the ideal ratio for you of blue to green.

 

Re: the EDIT message - that horn looks like a great musical instrument for your local 'medieval' themed PDF regiments...

 

I actually did do a 1:1 pallyd wych flesh and sybarite green :P But I layer on the final highlight of pure pallyd way too thick (that's what happens when painting at 23:00 

 

Hehe, 'medieval' PDF regiment, that might be an idea for the future...

[Claws and Effect]

Try Deepkin Flesh instead of Pallid Wych Flesh. Not sure if that's what it's called, but they released 2 colors with the Idoneth Deepkin. One of them is a pale flesh tone that has a slight greenish hue to it.