<p>Ok so keeping in line with my marine phase and trying out different techniques, i was asked to write a tutorial for how i painted my blue armour. I thought i'd try it with red on the techmarines armour.</p><p> Firstly was a watered base colour of scab red trying to leave the darker areas with as much black base colour as i could. </p><p> <img height="480" width="640" border="0" src="http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4356/pict0549rt2.jpg" alt="Red 00" title="Red 00" /></p><p>Then following the thin layers of scab red i added slightly more thin layers of scab red to the edges and the highlighted areas. Following this i added some blood red to my palette. Successive thin layers to the lighter areas.</p><p> <img height="480" width="640" border="0" src="http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/334/pict0552gc4.jpg" alt="Red 01" title="Red 01" /></p><p>After this i did pure blood red watered down and following even smaller areas of the red. Normally at this stage i used to stop but i know my painting needs more contrast so i added some bleached bone to the mix. The thin layers around the top of the knee pad and the top part of the armour.</p><p> <img height="480" width="640" border="0" src="http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/7711/pict0555pm3.jpg" alt="Red 03" title="Red 03" /><br /></p><p>Then finally some cleaning up of the blend using some watered down red wash and reapplying some of the bleach bone and blood red mix gave me my final look. </p><p><img height="480" width="640" border="0" src="http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/8708/pict0557sp8.jpg" alt="Red 04" title="Red 04" /> </p><p>I hope this is helpful to people, any comments and criticisms are welcome. I've not finished the base btw 
i always like doing the base partially in case i get some other paint on it, but i like having a feel of the atmosphere with a model so i do the base. <br /></p>
i always like doing the base partially in case i get some other paint on it, but i like having a feel of the atmosphere with a model so i do the base. <br /></p>