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Painting Dark Angels


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I use Gw Chaos Black

 

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My version would be similar to Dark_Vengeant's:

Use Dark Angels Green (thinned) to paint the basecoat. You will need two or three layers. But leave the blacklining black and try to use the layers for shading. Shoulder pad example. Cover nearly the whole pad with the first layer. Now with the second start a bit further up and should have a bit of shading done already. After two or three layers you should have a bit of shading and the basecoat. Now just add some Snot Green or Rotting Flesh to the Dark Angels Green and add the highlights. Add more of the lighter colour for following layers and if you want finish it with pure white.

This is my method:

 

Black basecoat

2-3 thin layers DA-green

black-ink wash

highlight 1: 50/50 Da/snot

highlight 2: 20/80 Da/snot

highlight 3: snotgreen

highlight 4 (just the outer edges) 50/50 snot/scorpion

 

There's a DA-thread of my army in the PC&A, if you want to know how this looks. Just use searchy ^_^

Prime the whole model black and let dry. Stand the model upright on its base and spray dark angels green in a downward angle. This will get the green on the raised areas and leave black in the naturally shaded areas. Detain and you are done.

 

Thats absolute useless advice. DA green spay has not existed in years. Use your loaf!

well what i do is spray black, paint anything that you want to be DA green straight DA green, dont worry bout obscuring detail just get it on there. Highlight with a thin line of goblin green, then mix some dark green ink with chaos black and wash all the green parts. Extremely quick, and it looks pretty good too.
Here, I actually wrote a tutorial that Shadow Guard put up on the Fortress of Unforgiven site. Check it out:

 

Lazy Painter's Guide to Dark Angels

 

Very similar to the way i do it.

  1. Basecoat: Spray/paint the model black
  2. Paint eyes as described
  3. Paint armour DA-Green (Water/color usually 1:2) and make sure that any recessed parts stay black.
  4. Paint raised areas of armour with thin lines of 2:2:1 DA Green, Gobbo Green, Water
  5. Paint the most exposed edges with even thinner lines of 1:2:1 DA Green, Gobbo Green, Water
  6. Clean up any messed up parts and go on for the details.

by the way: i assemble the torso and the legs before step 1. Depending on the pose, the arms (and sometimes the head) are painted separately.

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