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Painting: + The Imperial Aquilla + (Bone Scheme)


Ranulf

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Very helpful just like to say thx for the work you put into it :tu: .

 

Just curious I always like my eagles gold, what colours would you recommend?

Id think>>

 

Undercoat - Boltgun metal

Basecoat - Burnished gold

Wash - Flesh wash

Layer - Burnished gold/water

Highlight - Shining gold

2nd - gold/white

3rd - gold more white

 

How would that work out?

 

thx

xev

Just curious I always like my eagles gold, what colours would you recommend?

Id think>>

 

Undercoat - Boltgun metal

Basecoat - Burnished gold

Wash - Flesh wash

Layer - Burnished gold/water

Highlight - Shining gold

2nd - gold/white

3rd - gold more white

 

First of all, there's no need for the boltgun metal base-coat. Second, if you use a wash of scorched brown (1:3 sb:water) it will give a duller finnish then flesh wash. Third, don't ever use white to high-light metallics! Use a tiny bit of mithril silver to high-light the gold..

 

John T

what did you use to highlight the black?

 

The black was highlighted with:

 

#1 - 'Dark Grey' (3:1 Codex Grey/Chaos Black)

#2 - 1:1 Dark Grey/Codex Grey

 

I'll have to use that on my minis, would you do the same as this on, say, a shoulder pad? I mean the layering and all

 

In a sense - although the technique would vary a little.

 

I'd probably use the following:

 

#1 - Basecoat with Bleached Bone.

#2 - Shade the recess (where the rim meets the inner pad) with Graveyard Earth. (watered down a little so it's a bit like a wash)

#3 - Tidy up the shading with Bleached Bone.

#4 - Highlight the inner pad (just inside the shading) with a thin line of Bleached Bone/Skull White. (3:1 ratio)

#5 - Highlight all other raised areas (edges of the rim) with Bleached Bone/Skull White. (3:1 ratio)

#6 - Highlight the outermost raised areas (corner edges of the rim and the top) with Bleached Bone/Skull White (2:1 ratio)

 

Hard to explain without pictures, sorry.

 

Just curious I always like my eagles gold, what colours would you recommend?

Id think>>

 

Undercoat - Boltgun metal

Basecoat - Burnished gold

Wash - Flesh wash

Layer - Burnished gold/water

Highlight - Shining gold

2nd - gold/white

3rd - gold more white

 

How would that work out?

 

Metallics have always been an issue with me - I've yet to be satisified with my attempts. :(

 

However, I do use the following when painting gold: (Chaplain Des actually gave me a few pointers on gold-work, so he's not all hot air! ^_^)

 

#1 - Basecoat with Bestial Brown. (I find the brown gives a 'warmer', more even tone to the gold layer)

#2 - Layer with Shining Gold.

#3 - Wash with Scorched Brown (keep the wash heavily watered or you'll ruin the gold - the wash is there to take some of the 'bite' out of the gold)

#4 - Highlight One - Burnished Gold.

#5 - Highlight Two - 1:1 Burnished Gold/Mithril Silver.

 

IIRC, Des adds a final highlight of Mithril Silver, but I've never been able to get the highlights that high with stuffing it up,... :tu:

 

-Ran

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