I’m currently working on my Infernal Guard/Ironsworn unit and was trying to figure out what the best color scheme would be for the enscorcelled weapons,the troops are painted a mix of metallic copper and bronze and brown ink, I still plan on highlighting the darker armor with a lighter mix of bronze and silver and painting the shield design in red.I was considering doing the weapons either a flame motive(yellow/orange/red) or perhaps a glowing greenish/yellow paint scheme(to represent maybe a warpstone forged weapon),but I’m not sure which I should pick.I’d greatly appreciated your opinions on the best color scheme for this endeavor
Green! highlighted bright green would go awesome with that. (a bit like warpsone) it would really brighten up those models. (the metal color looks great BTW).
Green! highlighted bright green would go awesome with that. (a bit like warpsone) it would really brighten up those models. (the metal color looks great BTW).
Bolg
Thanks for the thumbs up..the models look a bit rough right now, but once I get them detailed they should look decent.I was leaning toward the green glow too, I was also thinking about doing the green glow on the shield design instead of the red.I painted them to match my Destroyer and warmachines, like bronze statues with the green patina on the armor,I'm also leaning toward reddish/orange beards(?),I think that will bring some color to the darker armor, but we'll see.Should I highlight the armor with a lighter metallic bronze/silver mix or should I leave it the dark brooding color?
Its when you use the side of the brush (with just a bit of paint on it) and gently just go past the edges of say armour with a lighter color.
like this but with a brush.
its more controlled than drybrushing and it does wonders for shapes with a clear edge (like shields and most armour plates)
Bolg
Oh.. ok thanks for the explanation, so basically highlighting the high points and edges(I didn't know it was called hard lining).I really need to get some better brushes,the ones I have look like the brushes you use to paint your house with.
Yeah whats in a name, the only reason I know is I attended a tournament and to get full painting points you needed at least 5 techniques over your army (tere was a complete list with guidelines). pretty stupid as with any 2 techniques you can paint a awesome army. I ended up painting some source lighting on models I already finished just to get full points.
Yeah whats in a name, the only reason I know is I attended a tournament and to get full painting points you needed at least 5 techniques over your army (tere was a complete list with guidelines). pretty stupid as with any 2 techniques you can paint a awesome army. I ended up painting some source lighting on models I already finished just to get full points.
Bolg
I read somewhere that some people are using specialty pens to do fine details and highlighting on painted miniatures to bring out the details, I have a few sets of the Micron brand pens(various thicknesses) and they are good for fine thin outlines of detail on miniatures,I don't have any metallic colors but found this on Ebay..what's your opinion on using these pens instead of brushes?
I read somewhere that some people are using specialty pens to do fine details and highlighting on painted miniatures to bring out the details, I have a few sets of the Micron brand pens(various thicknesses) and they are good for fine thin outlines of detail on miniatures,I don't have any metallic colors but found this on Ebay..what's your opinion on using these pens instead of brushes?
I would not buy those, but instead buy a pair of good kolinsky brushes, a number 1 or 2 and a number 000.
With them you should be able to paint anything and edge highlight every corner.
In this video you may see how to edge highlight...how to push the brush, how to hold it in a perpendicular way to the edge you are going to highlight, etc.
I read somewhere that some people are using specialty pens to do fine details and highlighting on painted miniatures to bring out the details, I have a few sets of the Micron brand pens(various thicknesses) and they are good for fine thin outlines of detail on miniatures,I don't have any metallic colors but found this on Ebay..what's your opinion on using these pens instead of brushes?
I would not buy those, but instead buy a pair of good kolinsky brushes, a number 1 or 2 and a number 000.
With them you should be able to paint anything and edge highlight every corner.
In this video you may see how to edge highlight...how to push the brush, how to hold it in a perpendicular way to the edge you are going to highlight, etc.
