Urban War Viridian Colonial Marines

[Shaved Dwarf]

Marvellous!

[beefcake]

 

[stone-cold-lead]

Got the machine gun team finished off at last so here it is.



Working on retouching my old saurian rider paint job now.

[Sangennaru]

Awesome! And the old-style bases are perfect! Simple but balanced!

[stone-cold-lead]

Awesome! And the old-style bases are perfect! Simple but balanced!

Yeah, the lipped edge bases just seem a bit big and cumbersome for these models. I like them for other things but good old fashioned slottas look best on these.

[Orctrader]

Liking these a lot.   

[hubbabubba]

Firkin aces.

I've seen lots of fine work fom you but these are especially good.

Thanks for sharing

[stone-cold-lead]

Almost finished the retouching of the saurian rider. Just needs another coat of varnish and some grass tufts on the base.

[BigB]

Work of art as usual

[Andym]

That's brilliant!

[Major_Gilbear]

Beautiful work as always - a real treat to see!

I notice that your black colours (leather gloves, machine gun, etc) have a softness and warmth to the highlight colours... Do you achieve this by adding a touch of light beige to the latter highlights, or do you start from a not-quite-black colour and then highlight up from there?

[stone-cold-lead]

Beautiful work as always - a real treat to see!

I notice that your black colours (leather gloves, machine gun, etc) have a softness and warmth to the highlight colours... Do you achieve this by adding a touch of light beige to the latter highlights, or do you start from a not-quite-black colour and then highlight up from there?

There's a bit of a yellow cast on that photo but I do tend to use colours other than straight grey to highlight black. The gloves and boots on this guy used VGC Cold Grey which is very much a bog standard grey but for the gun I used VMC Stone Grey which I'd hardly call grey to be honest as it's more of a beige. That gives a warmer finish. Sometimes I use VGC Khaki instead. Any sort of off-white, cream, buff or beige works well.

[Major_Gilbear]

Thank you .

I have some black bikes to paint (Ravenwing Space Marines), and I wanted to show separation between the various materials despite them all being "black". I think I'm going to try highlighting with beige when I next get a chance, and (assuming I get a nice result like yours) was thinking it would work well for the tyres.

[stone-cold-lead]

Thank you .

I have some black bikes to paint (Ravenwing Space Marines), and I wanted to show separation between the various materials despite them all being "black". I think I'm going to try highlighting with beige when I next get a chance, and (assuming I get a nice result like yours) was thinking it would work well for the tyres.

Yeah, perfect for tyres. Try a blue grey highlight too for a bit of variety. I like VGC Sombre Grey.

[Major_Gilbear]

Thank you again! 

I'm always on the lookout for new ways of painting black and white colours, as they are tricky to get right (whether on a model as a small area, or as a major part of the colour scheme). Do you often work up from a plain black to the highlights?