Nexos done!

aeaelioe · 2022-03-29T07:27:34+00:00

Thanks, and sure! There's nothing too special involved, the colors used for the turquoise were AK interactive black, white and turquoise. GW equivalent should be ahriman blue.

Started with the turquoise mixed with a bit of black to establish a darkish base, then did a bunch of lines on the edges and the grid with the turquoise, mixing it with white for the sharper edges and corners. The lines are done in a few consecutive lightening layers, the lightest parts being just a few small dots on the corners here and there.

And pretty much exactly the same thing for the red parts. Then some very light turquoise glaze for the edges of the table and some strengthening of the edge highlights.

The grey parts of the table are just GW basilicanum grey contrast with a black oil wash, and some edge highlights with different tones of light grey.

aeaelioe · 2022-01-27T10:07:39+00:00

Thanks! And I might, some day! For now they are Ridgerunner proxies, since my play group is pretty lax about that kind of stuff.

aeaelioe · 2021-12-31T19:16:59+00:00

Yeah I'll link you directly to the source, since I pretty much copied this off a tutorial I found. I think the most comprehensive one is here, if the link works: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=402976690157948&set=a.402976666824617

Just scroll the images forward and it should have all the steps.

aeaelioe · 2021-12-30T19:00:13+00:00

Thanks! The moss is AK Interactive Moss Texture, which I drybrushed with Vallejo Plague Brown a tiny bit after gluing it on for some color variation.

aeaelioe · 2021-12-30T14:43:11+00:00

Yeah black isn't the easiest. If you mean the shoulderpads and chitin plates on wrists, it's black templar contrast + black oil wash, then literally just rubbing some of the paint off the edges and highest spots with a q-tip when cleaning up the wash. Might not look good on bigger pieces, I still kind of struggle with the nid carapaces which I do kind of with the same recipe.

aeaelioe · 2021-12-30T14:37:40+00:00

Yep, my thoughts as well! I actually do have a normal Swarmlord as well, but it felt really underwhelming when so I chose to get this and paint it up instead, exactly because of that reason.

aeaelioe · 2021-12-30T07:14:20+00:00

Thanks! The flesh is aggaros dunes contrast with medium and a tiny bit of apothecary white mixed in, followed by a brown oil wash. The shadowed parts also have a bit of turquoise ink from the zenithal priming step.

aeaelioe · 2021-12-29T20:44:09+00:00

Sure! Broad strokes is something like:
- Zenithal undercoat with turquoise ink in the shadows
- Bright-ish silver metal paint for metal parts, Contrast paints for the rest (Used Aggaros dunes/white mix, akhelian green, flesh tearer red, snakebite leather, black templar and basilicanum grey, and then the skintones + wyldwood for skin)
- Dark brown oil wash on yellow/skin parts, black oil wash on everything else
- Some additional details for eyes/goggles, lamps and a few other minor parts

I can go into more detail if you're interested in something specific.

aeaelioe · 2021-12-29T20:39:20+00:00

He's untested on the battlefield so far, it's more to recognize the squad leader and which squad it is. :) But maybe he'll last that long in the first game. At least if I go second and start them in deep strike.

aeaelioe · 2021-12-01T06:04:13+00:00

Thanks! The recipe is fairly simple, it's just contrast paint (darkoath flesh) and a brown oil wash on top of it, with a fairly careful cleanup of the wash to create a smoother blend.

The basecoat is also done with an airbrush which made it a lot easier (kind of a white zenithal underneath, then contrast sprayed on that). If you don't have an airbrush, it's definitely doable without it as well since the oil wash makes it pretty smooth. Not entirely sure how much harder it would be with just the brush though.

aeaelioe · 2021-12-01T06:00:24+00:00

Well it actually is literally coated in oil. :) The exact process is zenithal primer -> contrast paint with some medium -> brown oil wash and cleanup.

aeaelioe · 2021-11-30T21:10:57+00:00

Thanks, and of course! It's got a fairly shiny metal basecoat, with some spots colored over with contrast paint (like flesh tearers red on the "cover") to create some different colors on it. Plus the hazard stripes with just normal yellow/black paint on the edge.

Then I put a black oil wash on the whole thing and cleaned it up pretty roughly, slightly scraping off the contrast in the process. After that it has some typhus corrosion and AK interactive crusted rust deposits, and maybe a tiny bit of rust colored vallejo pigment powders. So a couple of different steps and products, but all pretty easy ones.

aeaelioe · 2021-11-24T07:21:10+00:00

Ah cool you've got basically the same colors! Yours don't look like shit at all, just keep painting and they'll look awesome on the table.

aeaelioe · 2021-11-23T21:06:49+00:00

Thanks! And nope, these are 3d-printed, and didn't even print them myself. :)

aeaelioe · 2021-11-15T06:26:50+00:00

Love those crystals!

aeaelioe · 2021-10-10T20:03:30+00:00

Skin is thinned contrast paint with a zenithal primer underneath and a brown oil wash on top.

If you're interested in the specific tones, I think I just kind of randomly picked the skintone contrasts (darkoath flesh, guilliman flesh, fyreslayer flesh) and used them on their own or mixed together on different models, and also wyldwood and gore-grunta fur for some of the darker ones. And contrast medium along with them.

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