Savagezion said:
L. Declis said:
Savagezion said:
Right now though I am in a Warhammer 40k league and am trying to get all my little guys painted. I got my first squad done today.
Which army are you painting? What squad are you painting? Do you have pictures?
Inquiring minds want to know.
I am playing the Black Legion and just finishing up a basic space marine squad for my first game where I plan to proxy them as plague marines. The figures are done but their bases are drying. I should be able to post some pics of them in about an hour. I do have my champion done though. But he isn't legal in league play yet.
He turned out darker than i would have liked, butwhatever. I didn't have a good gold and used a more copper color called Balthazaar Gold. I was trying to toy with painting the gold parts yellow first and then bringing a light coat of that dark gold over it. However, it was too hard to keep even and eventually said "fuck it" and finished them in dark gold. It is more noticeable on the space marines.
EDIT: The Black Legion Space Marine Squad
They look cool. Let me give you some easy but lazy tricks.
Drybrush a really light version of whatever the colour of the eye lenses are around the eyes. DRY brush it. That'll give them the light source effect, and helps bring out that really dark lense.
If you're going to do black bases, then quickly give the sides of the bases another black coat to clear up any slips.
Use a bright silver and edge highlight the gold to bring it out; just use the side of the brush and the corner of the part to add a little highlight.
If you have a large patch of gold, put a brown wash over it to break up the plain colour of it. Dirtier, the better.
A brown wash over skin makes it twice as good. A dry brush of cream and then a wash will make it amazing. Make the eyes dark if you want, it looks like shadows and looks good.
A blue or purple wash over the silver guns will help break up the dry look of the metal, and will make them also look Chaos-y.
They're looking nice though. PM me when you get more done. Where the hell is Abaddon?