After reading around on forums and a few painting blogs, I've had a go at changing my red recipe to improve it. In the past, I used excessive black lining in the crevices to add shade and I've tried something new for me.
To add a more natural shade, after the red basecoat I've used a mix of red gore and dark flesh on the recesses washed with Devlan Mud - this is followed by another slight wash of Devlan Mud later on in the process. This has produced a more gradual progression from the red armour to a very dark brown in places where I would previously have used a simple black line.
On top of this, I'm taking my highlights further towards fiery orange, but at the same time I'm using fewer, more subtle highlights. I like to think this has improved my red a great deal, but the new models will hopefully still be recognisably part of the same army.
This is a comparison shot - one of my original recipe Blood Angels compared to the marine that I was testing the new red out on. The new one's still WiP, but the helmet is more or less finished. Both pictures were taken with the same camera, the same lighting and at the same time.
Sunday 31 July 2011
Improvements on Red
Posted by Gavin Schofield at 17:45 0 comments
Labels: Blood Angels, Gavin, Painted Models, Space Marines
Friday 29 July 2011
Blood Angels Librarian
The paint-job is a bit of a disappointment to me, but at least it's one more Blood Angel painted. Luckily, I have a much better librarian model soaking in some paint stripper right now, so I'll hopefully have a better painted librarian to go alongside this guy eventually.
Posted by Gavin Schofield at 14:40 1 comments
Labels: Blood Angels, Gavin, Painted Models, Space Marines
Wednesday 27 July 2011
Black Templar Terminator Squad
Here's another unit of the table standard Black Templars I'm painting. This time, it's a terminator squad.
Posted by Gavin Schofield at 17:35 0 comments
Labels: Black Templar, Gavin, Painted Models, Space Marines
Tuesday 26 July 2011
Blood Angels Rhino
I've completed a Rhino for my marines - I've used a 'weathering pen' that I picked up from hobbycraft, although it gives a nice built up mud effect I find it's hard to get the coverage right.
Posted by Gavin Schofield at 19:39 2 comments
Labels: Blood Angels, Gavin, Painted Models, Space Marines
Monday 25 July 2011
Blood Angels Captain
Posted by Gavin Schofield at 19:41 0 comments
Labels: Blood Angels, Gavin, Painted Models, Space Marines
Thursday 7 July 2011
Black Templar Marshall
Another speed-painted Black Templar here - a Marshall using the stock AoBR Captain with no conversions.
Posted by Gavin Schofield at 17:48 0 comments
Labels: Black Templar, Gavin, Painted Models, Painting / Modeling, Space Marines