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This is my first attempt at Blue grey armor for my infinity models





I would like some comments and criticisms before I continue on.

And before anyone says it I tried using Angel Ghiraldez recipe but it did not work for me.

Are you going for a NMM grey with blue hint? I know a good way to do it with a metalic and a wash.

 SheSpits wrote:
Are you going for a NMM grey with blue hint? I know a good way to do it with a metalic and a wash.

I was trying to get something close to this:


In general I want blue grey armour but using a layering and highlighting. I am not that good enough for NMM.

Yours looks pretty close. I know GW has a paint color that is pretty close its named after the space wolves. Starts with a F-grey.

The tricky part in trying to match that sort of a look isn't the color recipe, but the application - it's not easy pushing the contrast on small sections of a tiny model that far, especially while maintaining smooth transitions. Glazing, more than layering, is what will get you there. Might be easiest to start with a relatively pale grey (cool, as opposed to warm, but it needn't be distinctly blue-grey), then glaze down with muted blues before returning for extreme highlights.

Honestly, though, that's a pretty big jump to make, stylistically, if you're accustomed to layering with mostly opaque paints. You aren't in a bad place, right now, so I might just push the highlights a bit further and call it a day. Really depends on how far you want to push yourself on this model and how closely you want to emulate the example. If you're just after a solid paintjob that approximates the studio scheme, keep doin' what you're doin'.

Yours looks pretty close. I know GW has a paint color that is pretty close its named after the space wolves. Starts with a F-grey.

Fenrisian Grey, I believe. (had to double check!!)