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I am trying to paint a few infinity models and I was wondering how do you paint the blue armor on those panoceania models?

Example:

The painter has a blog, sometimes he tells people what paints he used. This one's from the hospitaller:

Angel Giraldez wrote:basecoat: prussian blue + field blue + hull red
light 1: field blue
light 2. dark sand
light 3: white
shadow: prussian blue dark, black

I'm assuming the red is applied as a sort of super-thin glaze.

 Dheneb wrote:
The painter has a blog, sometimes he tells people what paints he used. This one's from the hospitaller:

Angel Giraldez wrote:basecoat: prussian blue + field blue + hull red
light 1: field blue
light 2. dark sand
light 3: white
shadow: prussian blue dark, black

I'm assuming the red is applied as a sort of super-thin glaze.

I have trouble understanding how you highlight using dark sand and white.

 MRPYM wrote:

 Dheneb wrote:
The painter has a blog, sometimes he tells people what paints he used. This one's from the hospitaller:

Angel Giraldez wrote:basecoat: prussian blue + field blue + hull red
light 1: field blue
light 2. dark sand
light 3: white
shadow: prussian blue dark, black

I'm assuming the red is applied as a sort of super-thin glaze.

I have trouble understanding how you highlight using dark sand and white.

When he talks about highlighting, each color represents the terminating point for that layer of highlight. For example, when doing highlight 1, he mixes the basecoat with field blue and gradually blends up to pure field blue. Then he does the same for highlight 2, but with the final color being dark sand. And again, the same thing for the 3rd highlight.

And for anyone wondering, all the colors he lists for the basecoat are mixed together into one color. I really wish he gave the ratios.

~Tim?

It's weird, I don't have many problems with 40K scale models, I'm a long way from a Slayer Sword, but I can turn out decent to high quality tabletop, and every so often, when the planets align, I can turn out something that makes me think I could get good at this with a few more years of practice under my belt.

Put an Infinity scale mini in front of me, at the slightly smaller, more proportionate scale, and I turn back into a near novice again!

Doesn't help that the fether who paints the studio minis is so irritatingly good at it too!

 Some_Call_Me_Tim? wrote:

 MRPYM wrote:

 Dheneb wrote:
The painter has a blog, sometimes he tells people what paints he used. This one's from the hospitaller:

Angel Giraldez wrote:basecoat: prussian blue + field blue + hull red
light 1: field blue
light 2. dark sand
light 3: white
shadow: prussian blue dark, black

I'm assuming the red is applied as a sort of super-thin glaze.

I have trouble understanding how you highlight using dark sand and white.

When he talks about highlighting, each color represents the terminating point for that layer of highlight. For example, when doing highlight 1, he mixes the basecoat with field blue and gradually blends up to pure field blue. Then he does the same for highlight 2, but with the final color being dark sand. And again, the same thing for the 3rd highlight.

And for anyone wondering, all the colors he lists for the basecoat are mixed together into one color. I really wish he gave the ratios.

~Tim?

I guess its useless for me to try this then, I am not good at blending colors. I thought I could just layer the paints and highlight them but it sounds like it would look terrible.

 MRPYM wrote:

 Some_Call_Me_Tim? wrote:

 MRPYM wrote:

 Dheneb wrote:
The painter has a blog, sometimes he tells people what paints he used. This one's from the hospitaller:

Angel Giraldez wrote:basecoat: prussian blue + field blue + hull red
light 1: field blue
light 2. dark sand
light 3: white
shadow: prussian blue dark, black

I'm assuming the red is applied as a sort of super-thin glaze.

I have trouble understanding how you highlight using dark sand and white.

When he talks about highlighting, each color represents the terminating point for that layer of highlight. For example, when doing highlight 1, he mixes the basecoat with field blue and gradually blends up to pure field blue. Then he does the same for highlight 2, but with the final color being dark sand. And again, the same thing for the 3rd highlight.

And for anyone wondering, all the colors he lists for the basecoat are mixed together into one color. I really wish he gave the ratios.

~Tim?

I guess its useless for me to try this then, I am not good at blending colors. I thought I could just layer the paints and highlight them but it sounds like it would look terrible.

Hey, you only get better through trying! I say you should do it and use it as a learning experience.

~Tim?

 Some_Call_Me_Tim? wrote:

 MRPYM wrote:

 Some_Call_Me_Tim? wrote:

 MRPYM wrote:

 Dheneb wrote:
The painter has a blog, sometimes he tells people what paints he used. This one's from the hospitaller:

Angel Giraldez wrote:basecoat: prussian blue + field blue + hull red
light 1: field blue
light 2. dark sand
light 3: white
shadow: prussian blue dark, black

I'm assuming the red is applied as a sort of super-thin glaze.

I have trouble understanding how you highlight using dark sand and white.

When he talks about highlighting, each color represents the terminating point for that layer of highlight. For example, when doing highlight 1, he mixes the basecoat with field blue and gradually blends up to pure field blue. Then he does the same for highlight 2, but with the final color being dark sand. And again, the same thing for the 3rd highlight.

And for anyone wondering, all the colors he lists for the basecoat are mixed together into one color. I really wish he gave the ratios.

~Tim?

I guess its useless for me to try this then, I am not good at blending colors. I thought I could just layer the paints and highlight them but it sounds like it would look terrible.

Hey, you only get better through trying! I say you should do it and use it as a learning experience.

~Tim?

A hundred times this. Practice, practice and practice.

And if you don't like the result, strip it down and do it again!