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Anti-Mag wrote:Red is not a complimentary colour to green, thus its place on the direct opposite side of the colour wheel.

That makes it a complementary colour.

http://painting.about.com/od/artglossaryc/g/defcompcolours.htm

@grey_death: Looking at it again, the asymmetry looks alright. The bolter kind of balances out the black on the armour.

SoG

What is this foam sponge technique you speak of? Do you have a link to a tutorial?

I know, I know! It's been FAR too long since I've updated with ANY progress for this project! But for good reason. I quickly realized painting this color of green by hand was going to burst the little bubble that I call sanity in a matter of a few models if I didn't find a better method! So I decided it was time to find a proper spray! And boy did I ever hit the gold mine!!

PS-8 Light Green Spray from Tamiya works WONDERFULLY as a basecoat for the Sons of Medusa!

Here are my results after applying it over a white primer and giving it a wash of Thraka Green:

Clthomps - here is a write up I posted on my site about the sponge painting technique.

grey_death wrote:I know, I know! It's been FAR too long since I've updated with ANY progress for this project! But for good reason. I quickly realized painting this color of green by hand was going to burst the little bubble that I call sanity in a matter of a few models if I didn't find a better method! So I decided it was time to find a proper spray! And boy did I ever hit the gold mine!!

PS-8 Light Green Spray from Tamiya works WONDERFULLY as a basecoat for the Sons of Medusa!

Here are my results after applying it over a white primer and giving it a wash of Thraka Green:

It would also work well for a Salamander army as well...

Yeah, Valhallan is correct. It does seem perfect for Salamanders since theyre are fairly dark shade of green anyways. How much work do you reckon it will be to get it back "up" to the light green on your initial marine?

Like I said, atm, it looks more like a Salamander, though I think its a good start.

Flachzange wrote:Yeah, Valhallan is correct. It does seem perfect for Salamanders since theyre are fairly dark shade of green anyways. How much work do you reckon it will be to get it back "up" to the light green on your initial marine?

Like I said, atm, it looks more like a Salamander, though I think its a good start.

This isn't the initial color out of the can though, it's washed heavily with Thraka Green. I don't see it being all that much harder than my original wash clean up from before ^_^.

i like the green looks very good

grey_death wrote:

Flachzange wrote:Yeah, Valhallan is correct. It does seem perfect for Salamanders since theyre are fairly dark shade of green anyways. How much work do you reckon it will be to get it back "up" to the light green on your initial marine?

Like I said, atm, it looks more like a Salamander, though I think its a good start.

This isn't the initial color out of the can though, it's washed heavily with Thraka Green. I don't see it being all that much harder than my original wash clean up from before ^_^.

Ah, okay. I seem to have missed that tidbit lol
Looking forward to seeing the guy finished

grey_death wrote:I know, I know! It's been FAR too long since I've updated with ANY progress for this project! But for good reason. I quickly realized painting this color of green by hand was going to burst the little bubble that I call sanity in a matter of a few models if I didn't find a better method! So I decided it was time to find a proper spray! And boy did I ever hit the gold mine!!

PS-8 Light Green Spray from Tamiya works WONDERFULLY as a basecoat for the Sons of Medusa!

Here are my results after applying it over a white primer and giving it a wash of Thraka Green:

Say, this looks very, very nice indeed!

I'm tempted to use Tamiya 86006 Color Spray PS-6 Yellow as the basis of my (in progress) Marines Malevolent force.

What would you suggest using as a wash for shading after that?

Thanks!

look vary good they do.

Sorry for the thread hijack, but I certainly do admire grey_death's painting skills and I'm looking to emulate the overall look you've achieved with the Tamiya Light Green spray and Thraka Green wash.

Do you think the Tamiya Yellow and then a Gryphonne Sepia wash would do the trick?

Heya all, thanks for the comments, and Alph, don't worry about asking questions!

I think that could work out nicely honestly. The sepia wash isn't too heavy either so it will give you the depth color while still being easy to clean up ^_^. You just need to make sure you pick up the flat spray, it'll still seem like it's got a bit of a sheen to it, but a quick hit of matt varnish at the end should dull it down nicely!

grey_death wrote:Heya all, thanks for the comments, and Alph, don't worry about asking questions!

I think that could work out nicely honestly. The sepia wash isn't too heavy either so it will give you the depth color while still being easy to clean up ^_^. You just need to make sure you pick up the flat spray, it'll still seem like it's got a bit of a sheen to it, but a quick hit of matt varnish at the end should dull it down nicely!

woo thats cool! i have some Tamiya spray but they seem to be enamel ish not sure if i can paint over mine

grey_death wrote:Heya all, thanks for the comments, and Alph, don't worry about asking questions!

I think that could work out nicely honestly. The sepia wash isn't too heavy either so it will give you the depth color while still being easy to clean up ^_^. You just need to make sure you pick up the flat spray, it'll still seem like it's got a bit of a sheen to it, but a quick hit of matt varnish at the end should dull it down nicely!

How heavy a wash did you apply to get the look of the model above?

Almost "dip" level thick, or a bit more selectively applied?

It's a selective application, but heavy where I needed it. Plenty of original color left after I was done.

OK, sounds about what I thought it would/should be.

I've got the Tamiya Yellow on order, and the Sepia wash ready to go.

I'll try it out on a test model...

Thanks for the help!

Well after a day or so of work, I've saved myself 50 bucks ^_-.

A long while back, a friend of mine handed over his entire army, tanks and all. I never did much with them, but yesterday I decided it was high time I did! So I started salvage work! It took a while to get everything to working order and in the configuration that I wanted it all, but it's good to go now!

The 'big' project for this was an automated multimelta turret which is built from an attack bike metal bit and a HK launcher bit. All in all I'm VERY happy with how it came out. Expect an updated 'Green' for this one ^_-.

Since Chrysaor is the name of the Son of Medusa, this thread definetly caught my eye.

Very nice painting you've got going on here. Too bad so many people want to do a Sons of Medusa SM army, or this thread might've inspired me to.

Perhaps you could make a character (chapter master or some such thing) with the name Chrysaor.

EDIT: For idiocy.

Impressive green...

One quick question:do you find it easy to get in all the nooks and crannies on a model with the Tamiya spray? The GW one never seems to get everywhere, which makes me pretty relucant to use spray can for basecoating; if I have to touch up anyway I'd rather do it by hand, mos of the time.

The multimelta turret is pretty impressive; are the lascannons magnetized so you can swith to a LR Crusader? Or do you have something else in mind with the turret?

love the converted multi melta.

how did you do it?

Some quick replies:

Chrysaor, You never know what named characters will end up in the army ^_-...

CommissarKhaine, For nooks and crannies I really don't worry too much. I end up washing them with Thraka green to add the shading I need, so getting into every little spot on the model is honestly unnecessary. The turret is for the Land Raider, it's just one of the hatches. The lascannons aren't magnetized, I don't have any other weapons for this bad boy anyways ^_-....

jamunition, the multi melta was just a chop and glue job. I used an attack bike multi melta and cut the mount at the pivot point and filed everything down to fit. It takes some doing to get it all fitting correctly and is honestly a bit of a pain to get right. Once it was attached to the mount again, I used the targeter from the hunter killer missle and glued that to the side after filing down some rivets. If you can get your hands on some plastic bits that are similar, I'd suggest using those instead as the entire process will be faster and a bit easier. There is just something about converting metal minis that I really enjoy ^_^.

Beautiful work.

Can you explain how you do your weathering?
Keep it up!

Looking great, do you think the new washes are worth it, i am considering getting some and i am not to sure if i should.

And just out of curiosity, how long have you been collecting?, you seem to be a very good painter and am just wondering how long it took to get to that level

Sirath - for these guys I used This Technique.

Kormas - I really think the washes are a very good addition to any paint set. Some newer painters tend to overuse them as the end all be all in 'how to paint' and I've even seen a lot of folks here giving advice that pretty much ends up being 'WASH EVARYTHANG WITH BAdAB BLAK!1', while not entirely wrong, isn't exactly the method I subscribe to ^_-. Selective use is the key to the new washes, use them as an additional layer to build upon. As for how long I've been at this, just about a Decade now ^_^...God I'm old.

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It's GREEN!

That is good advice, but I'm betting that Oscar there is going to need quite a bit of washing!

Thanks for the advice, i think i might go out soon and buy some of those inks, a decade, wow, no wonder you aresuch a good painter

That land raider seems to glow, good foundation for the paint job.

CommissarKhaine, For nooks and crannies I really don't worry too much. I end up washing them with Thraka green to add the shading I need, so getting into every little spot on the model is honestly unnecessary. The turret is for the Land Raider, it's just one of the hatches. The lascannons aren't magnetized, I don't have any other weapons for this bad boy anyways ^_-....

Thanks. Guess I'm too obsessed with al the little bits sometimes... Didn't know a normal land raider could have a multimelta.

he green is... vibrant... Looking forward to seeing it finished!

It's a key lime land raider.