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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Father Primus on July 22, 2015, 10:38:43 AM
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Our community suddenly remembered about loads of BFG ships, storaged for years in the depths of our private collections...
This collective impetus even motivated me to repaint 8 starter cruisers (with some conversions). And if my motivation doesn't run out, we'll see some fleet reinforcement! ;)
Dishonored heretics and separatists
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Stalwart defenders of the Imperium
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Wooo! Beautiful! You can never go wrong with BFG :)
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Nice painting.
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I really like the chaos head used for the ships prow. Very nice detail. These look great.
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They look great! Really nice :) :-*
I would be interested to know your techniques and colours used if you are inclined to go into any detail
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They look great! Really nice :) :-*
I would be interested to know your techniques and colours used if you are inclined to go into any detail
Thanks! :)
Main difference between imperial and chaos ships: imperial cruisers don't have a lot of plain surfaces - so they could be easily painted using drybrush. First imperials were coated with black spray, and then with dark brown spray. After that - heavy drybrush with some kind of Vallejo Olive Drab (color of WWII american greatcoats). Then much lighter drybrush with Iraqi Sand (one of my favourite colors ever :)). Finished with light drybrush of Pale Sand - just to highlight the external details.
Drybrush on chaos cruisers gives dirty result - so I used another method. It's also easy, but requires some experience. After basecoating cruisers with black primer (and 15-20 min. to dry), I took medium grey spray and gave them some "very light touches". In effect it highlighted the edges and gave additional shape to plain surfaces. Then I used Adeptus Battlegrey to highlight the center of the prow and the control towers.
Metal parts were first painted with some kind of Vallejo blue-grey (bottle is so old, that the title is unreadable...), and edges highlighted with white (+ a small dot of the same blue-grey). Finishing touch for pseudo-metal (in fact, I can't call it a real NMM) is a watered down Burnt Umber to create shadows/reflections - use it carefully, and only on a non-highlighted parts.
For the "gold" I use a mix of Yanden Darksun with Burnt Umber, highlighted by Flat Yellow. Then I just paint some white (with a tiny amount of Flat Yellow) dots on the extreme edges - in case with flat surfaces, like a prow railing, I place these dots on the intersections.
It took about 4 hours to paint chaos ships, and about 2,5 hours for imperials.
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They've turned out great and I really like the effect on the Chaos ships, it almost looks like they are alive and writhing 8) 8)
cheers
James
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Thanks! :)
Main difference between imperial and chaos ships: imperial cruisers don't have a lot of plain surfaces - so they could be easily painted using drybrush. First imperials were coated with black spray, and then with dark brown spray. After that - heavy drybrush with some kind of Vallejo Olive Drab (color of WWII american greatcoats). Then much lighter drybrush with Iraqi Sand (one of my favourite colors ever :)). Finished with light drybrush of Pale Sand - just to highlight the external details.
Drybrush on chaos cruisers gives dirty result - so I used another method. It's also easy, but requires some experience. After basecoating cruisers with black primer (and 15-20 min. to dry), I took medium grey spray and gave them some "very light touches". In effect it highlighted the edges and gave additional shape to plain surfaces. Then I used Adeptus Battlegrey to highlight the center of the prow and the control towers.
Metal parts were first painted with some kind of Vallejo blue-grey (bottle is so old, that the title is unreadable...), and edges highlighted with white (+ a small dot of the same blue-grey). Finishing touch for pseudo-metal (in fact, I can't call it a real NMM) is a watered down Burnt Umber to create shadows/reflections - use it carefully, and only on a non-highlighted parts.
For the "gold" I use a mix of Yanden Darksun with Burnt Umber, highlighted by Flat Yellow. Then I just paint some white (with a tiny amount of Flat Yellow) dots on the extreme edges - in case with flat surfaces, like a prow railing, I place these dots on the intersections.
It took about 4 hours to paint chaos ships, and about 2,5 hours for imperials.
Thanks! Will have to give some of these techniques a try ;)
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Wooo! Beautiful! You can never go wrong with BFG :)
Oh, yes, what he said!
Doug
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Imperial reinforcements have arrived!
Brettonian' helmet decorations make perfect statues for BFG ships.
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11013169_822522924529879_4970483186002579392_n.jpg?oh=61f5b43911c36e6fb9e6909d323d5c0d&oe=56463B89)
Unfortunately, I decided not to waste my time on the Photoshop courses in the university :(
So now I have to study this useful programme on my own...
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Да, это правда!
Doug