Power Sword effect idea

[Skywrath]

Had a realisation today, and I wonder whether the following would work...

 

Background: After watching how to do gem effects through the warhammer videos (stormhost silver + a technical paint), I saw a pattern emerge. Not with this specifically, but with other techniques and ideas. One of which was a combination of doing a GK purifier helmet in white, then making your own shade with a combination of apothecary white and Lahmian medium. There were other instances of where a similar technique was used, so you get the idea.

 

Idea: Then it hit me, why couldn't we use a contrast paint with a suitable neutral undercoat (perhaps leadbelcher, stormhost, corax white) and then go over with aethermatic blue? Then do the edge highlighting and so forth. Of course you would have to still focus on certain points at a gradient (in my mental illustration, leaning towards the hilt heavily over the tip), but it should give the effect the blade is powering up? Of course you could do this with certain colours such as red and purple (again with a suitable undercoat), but the idea should remain the same. 

 

Anyhow, thoughts?

[Rik Lightstar]

I think this would certainly work, the general principle for getting those smooth power weapon transitions with a brush is to use lots of very thin glaze layers to smooth your gradients from light to dark and back.

 

If you were to do it using "Contrast" paints the same techniques would apply but you'll want to keep them REALLY thin especially with how strong the pigments are.

 

All of these glazing techniques rely on using lots of very thin layers and you shouldn't really be able to see the change in colour with each layer, you want to build the layers really slowly.

 

Rik

[The Unseen]

I literally did that, though the lazy way. Layer of silver, found that I think stormhost looked the best but it didn't make much difference in the end. Basecoat stormhost, cover in aethermatic blue, then once dry go back over the area you want bluer with another aethermatic blue coat. Edge highlight if you want, I did not.

 

[Lord Raven 19]

I've done that, though, admittedly, with guilliman blue glaze rather than contrast, I think it should work if you thin it right though.

 

(No, the glaze is not for sale)

[Firedrake Cordova]

(No, the glaze is not for sale)

If anyone needs Guilliman Blue, Juan Hidalgo did a video on how to make very good approximations using the Vallejo Game Colour inks.