looking for some advice and help please ( possible reward )

[chrismisterx]

Well let me start at the begining.

I used to have a fully built Eldar titan, one friend later its in bits on my floor :cussing:

So after spending last night with a bottle of wine cooling down, I decided to look on the bright side, should be easier to paint now.

Lucky after taking a close look at the damage all but 2 joins broke clean and the 2 that didnt are in places where it shouldnt get noticed.

So the help I need.

I am looking for someone to spend the time teaching me the way to paint real light effects and where shadows would be on this model, to also help me choose the right colours to shade and highlight and to also beat me with a stick when I dont paint lol

Anyone up for this ?

I fancy a colour of scaly green and bone with red gems.

I am willing to send a little thank you to anyone who can spend the time teaching me zenith lighting effects ( think thats what its called ) cause mine always sucks lol

thanks guys


Pic before it broke:-

 

[Dammekkos2]

Dear me, I thought you were talking about epic scale before I saw the pics. That sucks. Any after pics?

 

[DaN]

Are you talking about the same sort of lighting effects I\'m currently trying to do in my WIP thread (Banner bearer)

If so - I would have a look at Taloincus\'s chaplain - where I got my inspiration

 

[chrismisterx]

Here is the after pic :-

been respraying some parts and putting a base coat of scaly green down.


@DaN nice banner bearer, thats he sort of thing, a more real lighting effect, in the past I tend to just highlight all the edges.

 

[MathewBaich]

did you hurt your friend severely after the titan kissed the ground?lol I\'ll help you if I can on zenithal lighting.

 

[Talion]

Shawn - runs an OSL help thread in this forum section, maybe you could ask him. I found his help extremely helpful.

 

[chrismisterx]

@mathewbaich well my friend offered to pay for a new one until I showed him the price lol , I was mad at first because he was messing around, but these things happen

if you could help me out mathewbaich that would be great.

@talion do you think OSL light would be right, was just wanting to learn how normal light would fall, always mess it up when its large areas of armour.

Might be worth asking shawn if he can help.

anyway got 50% of the model base coated in scaly green, but not sure what colour to mix in with it for shading, should I just add black ?

if anyone can spend time helping me get this lighting effect and a few little other things done, will be more than willing to send a little thank you gift for your time

 

[vincegamer]

You can always take this to the OSL class thread where everyone practices OSL with advice from a master at it.

 

[MathewBaich]

@chrismisterx: don\'t add black to shade, it\'s often not the best color to use,try adding a darker green to the base color. To highlight the scalie green, use a bone color. also take some WIP pics too so we can help you more. Hitting up the OSL class wouldn\'t be a bad idea either.

 

[Dammekkos2]

Adding a touch of black can sometimes be good for shading colours, but it\'s easy to go over-board with black. Maybe a nice dark blue (GW Regal blue) would be a good shade colour for this.

 

[Avelorn]

You can do zenithal light.. or overhead lighting from some different starting points.

1. You can photograph the primed and ready figure with a lightingsource directly from above. Then use the image as reference

2. first prime the mini black from under, grey slightly from above and finally white straight from above. Works best with airbrush.

3. Study the work of people who have mastered the light. What mini are you going to paint? Find the same mini here and see where they\'ve placed the light. Or alternatively pick a mini you like here and then paint it.

4. Try to imagine how to do it without reference...

One thing to keep in mind though is that you don\'t need to overemphasize the effect. Ground reflection and other reflections will light things facing the ground as well. So it\'s no crime picking out details not hit by light. Remember also that as with NMM Reflections will IRL be relative to the observers position so it\'s not an exact science. I go by the motto: If it looks good... it is good.

 

[supervike]

One slight positive in this is that resin usually breaks cleanly...so once you glue it back, you may not even notice it!

Check out Shawn\'s OSL thread, as suggested, but Avelorn has some great advice there as well.

Using the photo as a reference is very helpful, I have started doing that myself.

 

[Hygmer]

If I was you, I\'d be one friend shorter, and he would probably be in his eternal rest by now