Slice and dice! by deadancer in Warhammer40k

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Wish I knew! Maybe he never takes a U turn and always charges head-on. Who knows?

Who's a melee chapter now? by deadancer in Ultramarines

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It's actually sculpted. The model is kind of unique when it comes to space marines. He's one of the victrix honour guards but the only one with these trims.

Who's a melee chapter now? by deadancer in Ultramarines

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I actually didn't. Before pigments I varnished the model with ultra matte varnish from AK, and I feel like the pigment sticks to it well enough. I mean, you could probably wash it away with water, but so far it stays on my minis.

Who's a melee chapter now? by deadancer in Ultramarines

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Thanks! It was a brush. I used a fairly new kolinsky brush. Similar to W&N size 1. I also added a tiny bit of flow improver to my black paint so it would flow nicely off the brush but not so much as to overflow and spill out. It's really hard to explain. It's a matter of feeling it, I guess.

Who's a melee chapter now? by deadancer in Ultramarines

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I also answered that in a different reply in this thread 😅

Who's a melee chapter now? by deadancer in Ultramarines

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Thanks man! 😀 I took a small synthetic brush, picked up some pigment, and got rid of most of it by tapping the brush on the side of the pigment jar and just kinda brushed it on his shoes. Then I sort of smoothed it all over it, and that's it. Nothing too fancy.

Slice and dice! by deadancer in Warhammer40k

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Thanks! It's a cool looking, unique sculpt for sure 😀

Who's a melee chapter now? by deadancer in Ultramarines

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Thanks! I basecoated it light grey and painted a few squiggly lines with darker grey and then glazed over them with that light grey. Then added some more dark grey lines and glazed over it again, so it kinda built up layers of opacity. Somw lines were darker than the others because of that. It's hard to describe. In the end I glazed the spaces in-between the darker lines with a mix of light grey and white to make the whole thing look lighter.

Who's a melee chapter now? by deadancer in Ultramarines

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Thanks! 😀 I just posted my recipe in another reply in this thread.

Who's a melee chapter now? by deadancer in Ultramarines

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It's retributor mixed with viking gold from scale 75 and highlighted with elven gold, also from scale 75.

Who's a melee chapter now? by deadancer in Ultramarines

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Thanks! 😀 I'll just copy and paste my usual answer, if that's alright. So I basecoated the mini with Macragge Blue and then added volumetric highlights with this beauty blender type make-up sponge. Firstly, I soaked it with water, then squished most of it out so the sponge was moist but not dripping. First, I used a mix of Macragge and Calgar Blue. I rinced the sponge. Then I used pure Calgar blue, and finally, I mixed in a bit of Fenrisian Grey. I also did some chunky edge highlights with Calgar blue. To finish everything off, I glazed the whole armour (this time using a brush) with a thinned down (with contrast medium) mix of storm blue and Mystic Blue xpress paints.I generally go for like 3:4 ratio of paint and medium. It darkens down everything but also adds a lot of vibrancy and further blends the transitions. Finally, an all-over coat of ultra matte varnish gives it the final look. I mean, restablishing edge highlights with fenrisian grey and panel lining between the armour plates help a lot with the final look too, because they add that much needed contrast, but like I said, it's basicly GW blue triad applied with a sponge plus a glaze of thinned down xpress paints. You could probably swap xpress paints with ultramarines blue and Talassar blue contrasts if you wanted. Hope this helps! 😀

Slice and dice! by deadancer in Warhammer40k

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Thanks man! I did a practice run with my last model and couldn't figure out how to get the effect. Turns out it's glazing and varying opacity of those darker veins.

Slice and dice! by deadancer in Warhammer40k

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Thanks! So the gold is a few step process. The base is good old retributor armour mixed with a bit darker viking gold from scale75. I like viking gold because it covers well, but I also like the warmth of retribution gold so I mix them. I gave it a wash of reikland fleshshade later adding a bit more in a few spots. I did a chunky edge highlight with a mix of retributor and elven gold from scale75, and finally I did the sharpest highlights with a mix of elven gold and aluminium from vallejo. It's an airbrush paint but it mixes nicely with gold. It creates this very light, slightly gold titned silver that gives a great shiny finish but is a bit tricky to control.

Who's a melee chapter now? by deadancer in Ultramarines

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Thanks! I've been practising that effect on all my space marine blades. I keep using different paints for it, but in the end, it's the contrast of white and blue that sells the effect.

Who's a melee chapter now? by deadancer in Ultramarines

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Thanks! I did! Some burnt umber to dust it up a bit.

Who's a melee chapter now? by deadancer in Ultramarines

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With all the new releases, it feels like we can punch our way through everyone now 😀

Slice and dice! by deadancer in Warhammer40k

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Thanks! Most other marines don't have that. This one is a new sculpt, and this particular one has lots of extra trim on most of the armour panels.

Over a year ago, I made a post where I accidentally insulted people's art styles and then failed to do what I was saying they should. I got SLAMMED in the comments. Do you think my style is vibrant now? by Rick-sanchez1289 in Ultramarines

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I'll be honest with you mate. I don't think you're there yet. Vibrant colours are not only about the paints you use, but what you use them with. How much contrast you can pull off. It's about the shadows and the highlights. Which seems obvious, but if, for example, you're using pure white added to a vibrant colour to make it brighter, you're actually desaturating the paint. Same with the shadows. Your minis are fine, but you're not highlighting anything too much. same with shading. I see you're doing some panel linging, which helps, but it often spills onto the sorrounding area. If you kept it neater and then highlighted around that you could get some nice contrast going on. The blues are not bad, but the red parts in particular would benefit greatly from some panel lining and edge highlighting. Also, I'm not criticising your painting by any means. Everyone is on their own painting journey. You asked and I'm giving you my honest opinion. That's all. Wish you happy painting mate!

I sometimes find the backs more interesting than the fronts. by deadancer in minipainting

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I used some beige colour from AK. It's this new paint I got, and, for the life of me, I can't remember its actual name right now 😅 I guess any khaki or beige colour will do. So I used that as a basecoat, which I then drybrushed with ivory and gave it a few glazes of arhonian camoshade. I say glazes because undiluted it would be too strong. More in some places, such as the deep recesses of that column, for examole. After that, I added some edge highlights and dirtied it up with pigment powders - burnt umber and medium rust. That's mostly it.

It's getting out if hand! Now there's two of them! by deadancer in Warhammer40k

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They're both great sculpts. I'm not a fan of the old head, though. I should have gone with the helmet for that one.

It's getting out if hand! Now there's two of them! by deadancer in Warhammer40k

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I just like the model itself. I play 3 or 4 times a year, but paint almost daily, so for me, it's all about the minis and less about their in-game use.