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Does anyone have any methods for painting a model that has a heavy amount of white in its finished look. I'm after some blending with different shades down to a dark purple of sorts to white.

Ideal model to reference would be like painting a biel tan guardian. I can't for the life of me find any good videos or professional looking painting tutorials for this kind of thing :<

Start with a grey and layer up to white, it's the best way. For a purplish tinge you can then glaze down the shade. Invest in some glaze medium (I use Vallejo glaze medium) for the glazing. Liche purple will probably do the job.

The only problems I've had with working up is often that the paint looks crusty or thick and uneven @.@ I want to try and keep everything smooth looking.

I haven't used a glaze medium before though I might have to try it out.

Sasa0mg wrote:The only problems I've had with working up is often that the paint looks crusty or thick and uneven @.@ I want to try and keep everything smooth looking.

I haven't used a glaze medium before though I might have to try it out.

Layers, Watery Layers.

I usually thin the white down to a wash consistency.

what winterdyne said, start with a light grey so you can still highlight to white and glaze the grey down to a purple color you like... Vallejo's glaze medium is really good but i bought a pot of acrylic glaze medium for the same amount of money and it was like 8 times as much at a local art store

I find when it gets watered down though the consistency of the paint can go on a little blotchy but I will keep this all in mind fairly excited about this for my dark eldar scheme!

That's what the glaze medium is for. It cuts the opacity without thinning the consistency so much.

As others have said, thin layers of white and water. Between each, wash with your preferred choice. I use shade black, moving up to pale grey, from Vallejo. On a biel tan guardian, Id highly recommend throwing a wee bit of metal medium, also from Vallejo, into your white/water mix. It will help the colour catch more quickly, requiring less coats for the same effect. On the last two coats or so, you can skip the metal medium. Add more or less metal medium depending on the look that you want to achieve.

http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2011/12/white-scars-and-how-to-paint-white.html

1. Always start with a white base coat. Use a can not brush.

2. Thin the white paint and use it as a gloss over the based white.

3. While brushing, smooth out the paint streaks and any other bubbles or thin spots with long directional brush strokes.

Vasarto wrote:1. Always start with a white base coat. Use a can not brush.

2. Thin the white paint and use it as a gloss over the based white.

3. While brushing, smooth out the paint streaks and any other bubbles or thin spots with long directional brush strokes.

kind of agree but not fully...
#1 you can use brush on white primer if you use something like vallejo's, it shrinks on your model and goes on really smooth
#2 gloss?? dont you mean glaze? and i think your missing the step where the OP wants shading... that should go on first
#3 blowing on airbubbles helps to break them up

Maybe mix some gloss varnish or even a drop of PVA in to give it a smooth surface and then paint over that again in thinned white?