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Hi im looking into starting an Imperial Fist army and was wondering if anyone could answer some questions for me.

-What Colors do i need (GW only)
-Is there any good online tutorials?
-Im trying to gain new techniques right now all i do is spray/paint on colors/and bathe in a wash looks okay but i have heard yellow is a B****...

Thanks!

Yellow spray primer will do you wonders. Army Painter sells their own expensive version, although it's very temperamental and can cause awful fuzz if not used correctly. Krylon makes a decent yellow primer, and any hardware store would have something akin to it. Buy that and some Ogryn Flesh to wash the entire models with and you can get some decent looking Imperial Fists without too much effort.

Alternately, you can get more control over your scheme if you prime white and work up to Sunburst Yellow or whatever yellow you want. I'd still recommend the wash for the recesses though.

Scorched brown base, over a black prime.

Layer of Khemri brown, leaving scorched brown in the recesses.
-great recess

Iyanden Darksun layer, two thinnish ones right over the khemri, leaving scorched recesses.

Iyanden Darksun + White for highlights.

half water half sepia wash. comes out awesome. lot of work though.


btw, the regular line of citadel paints, the yellows are awful.

I did a full Imperial Fists army.

For example:



That's actually a sorta crap picture, they look nicer in person.

Anyway, one big help is to spray them with the desired basecoat color. I used Tamiya acrylics through an airbrush. Did some mixing to get the desired color, made a big bottle of it so I could keep a consistent color for all the models.

The nice thing about yellow is also the bad thing about yellow. It's very translucent... That's good when you're trying to do feathering/layering/blending, bad when you're trying to basecoat. So get the basecoat on with something that works, either a spray can or an airbrush.

From there you can paint/wash in the lowlights and highlight with the usual GW colors. I did a first stage with GW Golden Yellow and the next with Vallejo Sunblast Yellow.

I should take some more flattering pictures at some point...

here is my technique from above.





Sorry the pics aren't so good.

wow i love that yellow Orinoco! thanks for the help guys!


Orinoco i love it and would like to do that but i dont know if i have the skill set. but any help getting me there would be awesome!

I use the reaper paints personally, I like them a bit better than the citadel stuff and especially with the yellows.

For vehicles I have a standard Testor Spray enamel that I like as a nice starter. But for the SM themselves I use 2 coats of palomino gold and 2 coats of sunlight yellow, And I'm done. It takes time still to do a single trooper but it looks real nice when it's finished.

Here are a few links to see;
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_9QsdAwL6JEc/TPHK8YmM5MI/AAAAAAAAABs/8JR9S6bq8XU/s912/IMAG0238.jpg

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_9QsdAwL6JEc/TPHKsOSGbNI/AAAAAAAAABo/MkXWdgmmSZY/s912/IMAG0239.jpg

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_9QsdAwL6JEc/TPHQ6Zf-YrI/AAAAAAAAAB8/POVUYiW04dg/s912/IMAG0235.jpg

Cool thanks for the links ill check them out tomorrow! its a bit late now thanks for the post!

Phryxis wrote:I did a full Imperial Fists army.

For example:



That's actually a sorta crap picture, they look nicer in person.

Anyway, one big help is to spray them with the desired basecoat color. I used Tamiya acrylics through an airbrush. Did some mixing to get the desired color, made a big bottle of it so I could keep a consistent color for all the models.

The nice thing about yellow is also the bad thing about yellow. It's very translucent... That's good when you're trying to do feathering/layering/blending, bad when you're trying to basecoat. So get the basecoat on with something that works, either a spray can or an airbrush.

From there you can paint/wash in the lowlights and highlight with the usual GW colors. I did a first stage with GW Golden Yellow and the next with Vallejo Sunblast Yellow.

I should take some more flattering pictures at some point...

One of the inspirations for my chapter choice

Hiya Blastemplate,

It's dead easy, it just requires a lot of patience Let me expand on my prep

Scorched brown base, over a black prime.
--For this stage I use the vallejo scorched brown (the game colour line is designed to specifically emulate the GW range and they cover better, flow better, have better bottles are cheaper, neal has them at the warstore for cheap).

Layer of Khemri brown, leaving scorched brown in the recesses.
-great recess, the khemri is used as an intermediate layer, don't go all the way to the border of the brown.

Iyanden Darksun layer, two thinnish ones right over the khemri, leaving scorched in recesses.

Iyanden Darksun + White for highlights. this is usually a fifty fifty mix depending on your taste, experiment a bit or do two progressively lighter ones.

half water half sepia wash. comes out awesome. Be sure to watch so it doesn't settle weirdly. you can get an odd dark brown watermark. Still trying to figure this out totally.

If you like the look of these, let me know i will pm you a step by step tutorial. all done with gw paints to.

I absolutely recomend a tute from Bullyboy! they are some very amazing mini's you can learn a lot from him!

Orinoco's look great too! depends what style you like better i suppose?

Love the Imperial Fists.

If I had SM's, they would be the ones for me.

One way of getting the yellow is by priming white, then using a number of yellow washes (such as sepia wash) to yellow and darken the original white to give a more "realistic", earthy yellow.

Has the added advantage that it shades and so on the model at the same time

I think Phryxis's color scheme is cool thanks for the idea.

But i really like the more earthy not so in your face yellow of Orinoco and bullyboy.
I will try both your color schemes out both look awesome! great job guys.
I would love that tutorial Bullboy that would be great and its perfect that you only use GW because thats the only paints i am able to get locally!

Thanks guys!

Mate i've just pm'd you with the steps and all the colours you will need. pm me if you get stuck.

For Yellow using GW paints I've gone with this...

White undercoat

Iyanden Darksun Base

Highlight 1:1 Bleached Bone and Iyanden Darksun

Wash with Ogryn Flesh

Wash With Gryphonne Sepia

Highlight 1:1 Bleached Bone and Iyanden Darksun

More Bleached Bone as necessary

I know he isn't an Imperial Fist but just to give you an idea of the yellow colour.



Peter

Thats a really nice yellow ill try that out too! thanks!

yo PDH, where you get that model?

IHEARTLARGEBLASTTEMPLATES - Thanks, Cool.

Formosa - The model is my favourite space marine and it came straight off the shelf (technically website)....

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440272a&prodId=prod1060046

Peter

Bullyboy, those termies are awesomeness incarnate.