Harby & Ishio

[stone-cold-lead]

You have amazing skills, your miniatures always look fantastic.


I was wondering if you could give some tips on painting grey colour schemes.   You don't need to give complete level of detail, as I'd never be able to achieve your level anyway, but I would love to attemp to mimic the colour scheme you used on your Rogue Trader era Imperial Guardsmen that you feature on your blog.   The light and dark grey works so well together, I would like to attempt something similar (but much more basic) for a future security squad I am planning.

Thanks!

Thanks for the comments 

The greys are pretty straight forward and I used the same shades on Ishio as I did on the guardsmen.

For the light grey I used a base coat of VGC Cold Grey and highlighted it with VGC Stonewall Grey.

The dark grey used a base of GW Foundation Adeptus Battlegrey and was highlighted with VGC Cold Grey.

Add a bit of white to the grey to give a few sharp highlights here and there and follow with a black glaze (dilute ink or GW Wash) and you're done.

I should add that I layer my highlights but tend to apply the layers using a lot of feathering and crosshatching rather than solid blocks of colour with a hard edge. I was hoping to try and demonstrate that with a model I'm currently working on but the main colour isn't the easiest to photograph so it didn't quite work out. I might have another go but use one of my guardsmen as an example (grey photographs better than red!). Hope that helps. 

[A_Train]

That does help alot, and I would really appreciate any demonstration of your technique that you could share, it would be  great.

Thanks for sharing.