Hi all,
The next miniatures getting the step-by-step painting guide is Tecchuili, Captain of Atalán. Tecchuili is a leader of warbands, agile and armored in a Combat Dive Suit.
This figure is encased in golden-orange armor, so the initial basecoats were done with Primary Yellow paint (Golden Fluid acrylics) It was kept thin enough to allow the white primer to show through on highlights. The fins, spear blade and crystals on the gun were painted with thin Cerulean Blue ink. The spear shaft and gun were painted with thinned gold paint.
One the base coats were dry, the initial midtone step was started. The armor was given a wash of a thick mix of Burnt Sienna Ink and Matte Medium, glopping it on so it filled all cracks and crevices. The gun was painted with Deep Turquoise ink and Matte Medium while the spear haft was painted with a mix of Burnt Umber and a bit of Turquoise inks and Matte Medium. The hands and fingers were washed with Burnt Umber ink.
The shading step was done with additional glazes of Burnt Sienna ink + a touch of black, painted on the arms, shoulders and knee armor. The upper legs and lower legs were glazed with Burnt Umber ink mixed with a bit of black paint. This color was applied to the upper chest plate between the filigree also. The fins were washed with Pthalo Blue ink mixed with 50% Matte Medium while the blade and crystal were given an additional layer of Cerulean blue ink.
The next stage was the highlighting and finish stage, one that took the longest. The key to all figures with armor is to get sharp edge highlights and this one was no different. Edge highlights were applied using a mix of white and Primary Yellow paint, with pure white used for certain hotspots. The paint was kept thin (50% water) for most details. For the upper and lower legs, a thin glaze of yellow+white highlight was painted on the front and back in a swath, with more applied as a line reflection in the middle of the swath. After that, the edges of the plates were highlighted using the tip of the brush, making lines that went around the legs completely. The forearms were given light glazes of yellow+white in the middle, then fine lines of brighter yellow-white were painted along the ridges of the of the armor there. The main armor plates were highlighted on the edge with yellow-white paint, building up multiple layers on the upper sections of the armor. The tip of the brush was used for most small details, but the side of the brush was used for larger armor plate edges. In the upper chest plate, pure yellow was used for the filigree, with pure white hotspots.
Next, the gun and spear haft was highlighted on the edges with gold + silver paint. The crystals were highlighted with pure white paint. Some additional blending was done on the fins, head fins and face plate with multiple layers of Cerulean Blue ink + white paint. The faceplate was painted with a main highlight on the top and a fine line of white on the bottom. A bit of blue glow was applied to the top of the spear haft and around the gun gems using thinned light blue. The glow was also added inside the gun, with light blue applied inside the holes, slats and the barrel end. Some small details were added to the knees, with Navy Blue painted first in the circles, then very light blue-white painted in a swirl inside the dark blue circle. Similar patterns were done on the chest diamonds and on the circles on the plate around the elbows. These were highlighted with small white dots.
The last step was to paint the base with bright magenta ink on the coral, mixing the magenta with Pthalo Blue ink for the rest of the base. The coral was glazed with layers of blue+magenta close to the seafloor. Highlights were done with thin layers of white paint, adding lines on the bottom edge of the holes in the coral. Many small dots of pure white were painted on the coral and the seafloor to make shells and bleached coral sections.
April 03, 2009, 08:03:38 AM
