HELP ON PAINTING GK
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Dragonsreach
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Just had a look and there two things I\'d suggest:
Hope this helps
- Either cover the gold with a thin wash of Flesh Wash or equally as thin Dark Flesh. This will tone down the gold and give it sone depth. You can always very gently re highlight via drybrushing with a little Gold or even Mithril silver.
- Edge brush with a little bit of Spacewolf Grey to give the black some variation. Black is a very difficult colour to highlight as metal as it tends to reflect everything when shiney.
Hope this helps
Padawan716
New member
Highlight all the edges of the black armor.
Also, you could use some blacklining, like between the name-scroll on his shoulder and the golden writing on the pad.
Silver needs a dark wash.
The gold is the biggest problem with this, but it\'s easily fixed. You could ink it as stated above, or repaint them like this:
1) basecoat Tin bitz
2) layer of tin bitz-shining/burnished gold (whichever you use), leaving basecoat showing in the recesses.
3) a smaller layer of gold
4) just a light, light drybrush of silver on a few points.
Also, you could use some blacklining, like between the name-scroll on his shoulder and the golden writing on the pad.
Silver needs a dark wash.
The gold is the biggest problem with this, but it\'s easily fixed. You could ink it as stated above, or repaint them like this:
1) basecoat Tin bitz
2) layer of tin bitz-shining/burnished gold (whichever you use), leaving basecoat showing in the recesses.
3) a smaller layer of gold
4) just a light, light drybrush of silver on a few points.
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Atlach-Nacha
Guest
Too late to fix IMHO. If you layer on top of that you\'ll lose all detail. Strip and start again, here are my suggestions for the look I think you are going for:
Start from a black undercoat, thin your paints lots till they have the consistency of milk. Start the metallic bits with tin bitz, wash that with brown ink. Then highlight that up with brazen brass then shining gold. Brown ink wash again if you need to restablish the detailing.
For the black, take a mix that is mostly black, with a hint of one brighter colour (I\'d suggest codex grey) then layer it towards the highlights till you have a really thin line of codex grey at the edge. If it all ends up too bright, a really thinned down dark ink wash can darken and bind it.
Other details in whatever colours suit, but I find that red, black and white are always the best heraldry and detailing colours for grey knights.
Hope that helps.
Start from a black undercoat, thin your paints lots till they have the consistency of milk. Start the metallic bits with tin bitz, wash that with brown ink. Then highlight that up with brazen brass then shining gold. Brown ink wash again if you need to restablish the detailing.
For the black, take a mix that is mostly black, with a hint of one brighter colour (I\'d suggest codex grey) then layer it towards the highlights till you have a really thin line of codex grey at the edge. If it all ends up too bright, a really thinned down dark ink wash can darken and bind it.
Other details in whatever colours suit, but I find that red, black and white are always the best heraldry and detailing colours for grey knights.
Hope that helps.
Spacemunkie
New member
It doesn\'t need stripping!!!! Ignore the last post - sheesh, anyone would think that you caked the paint on! What you have achieved is an almost perfect \'basecoat\' on your mini. Highlighting is now what you need to practice. Look in the Articles section for advice on this.
You obviously have good brush control, so the quicker you start to use highlighting/shading/washing, the quicker your minis will improve!
You obviously have good brush control, so the quicker you start to use highlighting/shading/washing, the quicker your minis will improve!
