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[@dante where is this place you speak of? Metal gks you say? Hmm...

Its a small newsagent in my local area.

Hoefully some updates soon, done some reverse painting this time around on marine 2 haha...... works quite well.

Now how to get the armour less brown looking???

dantay_xv wrote:Now how to get the armour less brown looking???

Have you tried the new glazes? Maybe the red woild provide the proper tint....

Hey, Everybody!

I've been getting ready for a conference this coming week, so no time for hobby and so no updates....

Just thought I'd remind everyone of the Paint a Fire Hawk Contest! One week left! Entries are due July 1. Rules are here. Still plenty of time to enter. Looking forward to seeing more Fire Hawks!

Tomorrow i should drop my picture and painting recipe off on here!

Oh, meant to do my method:

1. primed white
2. washed with new sepia.
3. glazed yellow
4. Next, flesh tone layer wash, except for on pads.
5. Red wash, oil on combi, green on grenades and laurel, Purple wash on cape. Dwarf flesh on, well, flesh.
6. Thin mechrite red on armour, sunset on yellows, and blood letter on cape.
7. Sigil: Outlines done with a brown Sakura pigma micron (.05) to help me, filled with gw orange.
8. Blue on seals, writing with black micron (0.1)

Et voila! Capt. Saul Ignis:

Mines not going to make the contest as I've not finished my Skyrar's Dark Wolves army yet for next month, he will be done though just stylishly late by about half a month or so

Here is my entry, now lets see if I can remember everything that made it into this!

1-I based the entire model with Chaos Black Spray Primer

Power Armor
I went with Mecharite Red Base
then went back over it with a layer of Terracotta stone for the darker highlights
I washed the entire armor with Nuln Oil to fill in the recesses and add depth
I then drybrushed over the major areas with Blazing Orange
and then with a 2/1/1 mix of Blazing Orange/Skull white/water I went and did outlines and highlighting
I then went back and any areas that got filled in by accident i made sure to touch up with some chaos black.

Pauldrons
I did the main area of the pauldrons in Regal blue over the black
I then did a layer of Ultramarine Blue (In honor of their founding chapter)
And then quickly covered it up with a smaller area layer of Enchanted blue
Then did a highlighting layer of 2/1 Enchanted Blue/Skull white (This area would be perfect for the Hawk symbol, I just did not feel comfy enough trying to freehand it after i had done so much work to the model already)

For the Yellow
I started with a base of Tauscept Ocrae
and then when back over it with Isyladan Darksun
I did a highlighting layer of golden yellow
and then tipped all of the points with the new Yriel Yellow

(This method for the blue and yellow were used all over the body in each location.

Weapons
I did both weapons in Boltgun for the silver parts and Dwarf Bronze for the copper.
I then washed the Boltgun with Nuln Oil very graciously and Washed the Bronze with Devlan
I yipped and lined the Boltgun with Mithral
And drybrushed some Shining Gold onto the Bronze

Skulls and Parchment
Based with Kemari Brown
Then washed Heavily with Devlan mudd
I then went over it lightly with Bleached boned doing the main areas to give it a depth look

The Freehand on the front was just a down curve of Mephiston red
Then went over the top of it with blazing Orange
and then feathered some Yriel Yellow onto it for a flaming birdlike thing

Basically thats what I did

You will have to send me your Address Firebeard so I can send you this guy as he will find no use in my armies

Thanks for your time


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Looking at these photos i see just how horrible my camera does sometimes! :(

@Graven: Thanks for posting the recie. Love the background in the photo for this guy.

@Giraffe: No worries. The Dark wolves are looking great, and I want to see them painted, too! I'll look forward to Fire Hawk when you're done with the wolves.

@CtC: Nice work. Thanks for all the painting details. I like the blue and yellowquartered bits; they add an interesting touch to the mini. I also like your nod to the Ultramarines; nice idea.

Finished.

Primed - Vallejo polyurethane black primer, with airbrush

Red - undercoat Vallejo Charred Brown - then 3:1 charred brown:gory red - then 2:1 - then 1:1 - then 1:2 - then puer gory red only on hi spots or where you think light will hit. all layers are watered down about 6:1 and with each lighter layer try to leave it dark where you think the least light will hit.

Yellow - Charred brown undercoat again - then 3:1 charred brown:calthan brown(citadel foundation) - then 2:1 - then 1:1 - then 1:2 - then pure calthan brown - then 3:1 calthan brown:plague brown(vallejo) - then 2:1 - then 1:1. Umber wash, then go over again 1:1 leaving recesses dark, then highlighted with pure plague brown on highest points.

Silver - Vallejo model air gunmetal, then black wash then gunmetal again leaving recesses dark, then Vallejo game colour Gunmetal(it is lighter) then highlight with game colour Chainmail. I then black wash again but try and only hit place where you think less light will hit.

Eyes - Dark green, then Escorpena(both vallejo) For the glow I went a bit made with the escorpena around the eyes, and it look wrong. But went over it again with 1:1charred brown:gory red watered down, and it sorted it.

I need a lighbox and a new camera, just can't get it to look good:(

Very nice, tipios! Thanks for all the painting details, too.

Obviously, you like Vallejo paints (as do I). How do the Vallejo Game Color paints compare to the Citadel paints? I've used some VMC paints but not the VGC paints. It's obvious that Vallejo intended the VGC paints to be the same colors as the old Citadel paints, and I'm just curious how similar/different they are.

Cheers!

VGC paints to be both thinner and glossier. VGC Black, for example, is very high gloss, whereas VMC Black is very matt/satin.

The VGC metals are trash though. I though i could get away with using them but the flakes are noticeably larger in VGC than GW.

The Dropper bottles are incredibly convenient though...

^ VGC metals are odd, I agree. In small quantities I quote like the golds. The VMC brass and silvers are good though.

The dropper bottle is the main reason I use vallejo, very easy to mix paint, and get the same colour again if you need to later. Also I really got back into modeling because I watched an awesomepaint job vid, and he was using vallejo's, his models came out ok so that was good enough for me

I just have an issue taking every color i have now and moving over to Vallejo

Thanks, gentlemen, I appreciate the feedback. I quite like the dropper bottles, too. I'm not sure why GW doesn't use them, too. Ditto on awesome paint job. I asked for a renegade krone airbrush for m b-day because of that guy. I also like that the VMC paints are a bit thinner....

Aaaaaall Righty then!
For the most part, Im done with my Fire Hawk! Well.... At least the important bitz.
Im heading out of town for the weekend tomorrow, so I cant put any more work on it tonight xD (Sorry!!) Ill be back the first, so if you guys are still taking entries then, Ill post a finished pic.

Had a lot of fun with this guy, and i gotta say Im pleased how the color turned out.








And finally, my pitiful chapter symbol


Here is a quick and dirty tutorial-- Ill do a bigger write up when I get back.
Paint Recipes
Reddish-Brown:
1) Base with GW Dark Flesh
2) Wash with Devlan Mud
3) Bring back to Dark Flesh
4) Highlight with mix of 3:1 Dark Flesh and Blazing Orange
5) Highlight with 2:1 Dark Flesh and Blazing Orange
6) Final light edge highlight with 1:1 Dark Flesh to Blazing Orange

Yellow:
1) GW Tausept Ochre
2) Wash GW Gryphonne Sepia (on pads only)
3) Bring back to Tausept Ochre
4) Light Highlight GW Iyanden Darksun

Great job Ramos, I really like that level of Orange you went with. Seems pretty easy to obtain as well.

Yeah, I think the orange is pretty spot on, at least for what's in my head.

This was a great idea btw. Lots of ways to get different combos from other painters. Had I not been spending all my p&m time on a land raider I would have joined as well.

@Ramos Asura - I think you have done a great job. Flames on legs are great Hawks good too, not as bad as I think you think it is

@Ramos: very nice work. Nice and clean. I agree with Ice; the brown/red/orange you achieved is very nice. At one point, I had started to play with Dark Flesh, but I hadn't thought of mixing in Blazing Orange. That worked well. The flames look nice, too, and I agree with tipios, the hawk is well done.nice pose, btw.

@WM360: yeah, credit goes to Solar_lion and Gitsplitta for coming up with the competition, but I agree that it's been great! Lots of great ideas and techniques. Lots of great painting! It's a little intimidating actually....

I had a few spare moments while painting Dark Wolves today to paint my Fire Hawk on the last day of the comp

Here he is 3rd pic is more representative of what the colour looks like in real life.

I'll post up the colours used in a few hours when I have more time








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Here's the colour brake down.

Based in black (Army painter spray)

Main colour

Vallejo Terracota
Highlight Vallejo Bloody Red
Wash GW Sepia
Wash GW Devlan Mud

Shoulder pads

Vallejo Heavy Goldbrown
Wash GW Sepia

Skulls

Vallejo Heavy Goldbrown
Vallejo Bonewhite

Parchment
Vallejo Heavy Goldbrown
Vallejo Bonewhite
Wash GW Devlan Mud

Halo/Eyes
P3 Blighted Gold
Highlighted Vallejo Liquid Gold

Hey, Everybody, just a quick reminder that the deadline for the Paint a Fire Hawk is coming up tomorrow, July 1. Still time to enter! nerdfest09 told me he painted his entry in an hour. I love the entries so far! Hope we get a couple more in tomorrow!!


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@GiraffeX: Great work, mate. Love the flames!

Better late than never! I've spent more than an hour trying to upload this all sorts of ways, as my gallery seems to be broken again

bigger version:


So I pretty much followed the Badab War scheme. I couldn't discern from the Badab Book whether the trim was bone or a sort of light brass, so I tried both and bone ended up looking better.
I cranked the contrast up high compared to the original scheme as I find that, while often lacking finesse up close, high-contrast models look a lot better from a few feet away on the tabletop. (which is why I added the smaller picture, to give you a more 'life-size' feel).

To make duplicating my painting easier I scanned swatches of all the colours I used. I use a mix of paints from all walks of life; from GW to Vallejo to Golden and everything in between, so rather than giving mixing ratios I think it's easier to just show the exact colours to either mix yourself or find a colour that's close enough (which is what I would do if I would actually start an army of these).
For the GW paints I used straight out of the pot I only have the old names as those are the ones I have, so you'll have to look up the match in the new range yourself.
edit: the bigger picture seems to be a little bit washed out by the upload. The smaller top picture conveys the colours best.
edit2: I'm now looking at this thread on an iPad rather than my laptop and here the big picture is super overcontrasted. So if this happens to you as well; it is not representative for the actual mini.



happy judging!

Fantastic mini *and* "how to" Tibs! Wow!

Beautiful mini, TiB! And the how-to is fantastic! Thanks for entering the contest.

Sorry I could not get my self entered into this thing. Life has swallowed me whole! Everything looks great though!

Ok. Sorry its late, but I wanted to give ya a final finished picture of my Fire Hawk. I hate the plasma pistol, but this particular one had no detail on the coils ><;;



The full step-by step tutorial can be found on my Ork Project Log HERE.


Also, i found something you may want to look into. Krylon makes a Primer called "Ruddy Brown" and its actually a pretty close match to Dark Flesh. Below is a picture of two bases, the one on the Left is Dark Flesh over a black undercoat (Unfortunately my DF is very thin so it covered incompletely, resulting in a dark color). The one on the right is Krylon's Ruddy Brown Primer.


I figure this might save ya a step in priming and putting your first color!


EDIT:: Thanks to Gitsplitta for the better pic! White balance restored!

Thanks, Ramos! Great tutorial.

Ramos, do you have any Vallejo Light Rust (Panzer Aces)? If you do, could you tell me how that Ruddy Brown compares to it? Thanks!