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Well, here is Brother Deino, painted up to match Sergeant Lorenzo (all of Squad Lorenzo at least will match- I haven't decided exactly how to approach Squad Gideon).

Overall, I'm very happy with how he turned out. I think the darker colors really help bring out the details on the sculpt.

I've also posted him up on Coolmini for everyone who cares to vote.

I really envy your skills. That red is amazing.

Very nice OGS... that deep red to white gradient really generates a striking figure. The gradients on the crux just kill me... nice.

Wow! I really need to work harder on learning that technique!

sluggaslugga wrote:Wow! I really need to work harder on learning that technique!

Hm... I'm trying to decide exactly what to tell you that will help out. Most of what I was going for on him was a very high contrast between the darkest and lightest parts of the blending (like he's under harsh lighting, or his armor is a bit shiny).

With reds in particular, it is a bit tricky. Highlighting to a high highlight colors can turn your red into an orange or pink very quickly. The red that I chose is very magenta, and the top highlight color is a very bluish off white. To keep it from getting out of hand, I kept the higher highlighting and blending down to smaller areas, so that the majority of the mini is a deep magenta.

By the way, it doesn't show up too much, but the shading color is actually a green. I've found that I really like shading with complimentary colors, even when it doesn't show in the finished work.

Nice painting! I love the red

wow

Thanks for the tip
Btw... Green as a shading colour is a bit bold, but it actually works pretty well.

you might wanna drill a bit bigger holes in his stormbolter, right now it looks like a stormwatergun lol, nice paint though!

sluggaslugga wrote:Thanks for the tip
Btw... Green as a shading colour is a bit bold, but it actually works pretty well.

Green over Red combines to create brown- and that takes the edge off of it quite a bit. The opposite works rather well too (red shading on a green base color).

I've been doing a lot of experimenting with this type of shading, and it has been working rather well for me.