Power Armour Rebooted

[Photographer]

[Commander Vyper]

Sorry mate, too thick basecoat and highlighting... you've obliterated alot of the detail, the paint's so thick it's clogging up the joints at the shoulders and visor!

I really would suggest a little dip in the N stuff and start to thin your paints, (especially if foundation paints I'm thinking?).

The Commander

[TheMightyFlip]

My humble take on the em4 Power Armor.

[Commander Vyper]

Photographer's ones are later Coppplestone (future wars).

Mine are painted in US colours for SOTR, nice police style there flips.

[Westfalia Chris]

While I generally like yellow powered armour and mechs (hell, I have a yellow army of those!), I think yours would benefit tremendously from added definition; it's just yellow. You could try adding dark orange or rust-coloured shades to non-moving panel joints, and fine black ones where moving parts touch. Not only does it define the different limbs, it also helps to make the yellow look brighter.

Here's a Space Marine of mine to illustrate what I mean:



Also, you could add some of those "warning stripes" around the "turntable" at the minigun barrels' base.

[Photographer]

While I generally like yellow powered armour and mechs (hell, I have a yellow army of those!), I think yours would benefit tremendously from added definition; it's just yellow. You could try adding dark orange or rust-coloured shades to non-moving panel joints, and fine black ones where moving parts touch. Not only does it define the different limbs, it also helps to make the yellow look brighter.

Here's a Space Marine of mine to illustrate what I mean:



Also, you could add some of those "warning stripes" around the "turntable" at the minigun barrels' base.

Thank you very much for the advice. I am very annoyed that I chose yellow for the figure and this was the result I achieved. I think I will do as you suggst and add black lines. It was a complete nightmare painting yellow on something that size.

[MrHarold]

Ink it! I think a wash with GW Devlan Mud (or something similar) would work magic!

[Photographer]

Ink it! I think a wash with GW Devlan Mud (or something similar) would work magic!

We can do that!

[MrHarold]

Niicceee... already looking much better... I came to believe in the magic of washes (and inks) after I used them on a project of mine: http://www.rebelminis.com/bizohu.html

It's hard to tell from the pictures so much, but in real life the ink really made the miniatures stand out. Now, especially with my 15mm stuff, I always wash, and I love my devlan mud!

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[Westfalia Chris]

Thank you very much for the advice. I am very annoyed that I chose yellow for the figure and this was the result I achieved. I think I will do as you suggst and add black lines. It was a complete nightmare painting yellow on something that size.

Yellow is quite unforgiving if you aim for a bright result (i.e. not an "ochre/sandy" finish). It's not made easier by the fact that many acrylic yellows don't cover that well (I think it's a general problem with non-cadmium-based pigments). I've tried numerous brands over the years, and the best (as far as I'm concerned) is Revell Aqua Color (available from Hobbycraft and Modelzone stores, for example), applied in two or three rather thin coats over a good, clean white basecoat.

Next, I usually define recessed areas with the aforementioned ochre/orange/rust wash, depending on how clean I want it (clear orange, or "signal orange" is best for "clean yellows"). You can then highlight using yellow lightened with small amounts of bone white (don't use pure white since that comes out chalky - I suspect you did that with the original model from the photos).

Here are some other yellow figures painted using that method:

[MrHarold]

Nice lookin figs!

[Commander Vyper]

Yellow isn't a knightmare to paint if you a) take your time & b) thin your paints!  



I still think that half your problem is using neat foundation paints.


Strip it down again and start again with thinner paints.

[Jonas]

Yellow isn't a knightmare to paint if you a) take your time & b) thin your paints!  



I still think that half your problem is using neat foundation paints.


Strip it down again and start again with thinner paints.

this looks great and where is the model from?

[Ramshackle_Curtis]

The last version is much better than the first! Looks good.

[TheMightyFlip]

One way to paint yellow I found is start with red, then orange, then yellow, its time comsuming and yo u really need to thin your paints down to prevent it looking gloopy.