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Quick and easy, because I'm not a patient man at all.

I'm not a huge fan of the current fireprism model but you've done it justice. I like your painting technique. Gives me a "dark gritty comic book" feel to it. Very unique.

Snazzy. Looks a bit worn and scarred.

I like it! Looks really nice and stylish.

Absolutely love it! Would love to hear your technique on how you achieved this style, it looks like it'd be a lot of fun to try out.

It actually a very crude technique to gain as much time as possible.

First a layer of a dark redalmost everywhere, without caring about anything else than getting the correct parts in red. Quick and dirty.
Then a thick drybrush of brighter red in the same manner.
Secondary colour : first layer of greys and then dry brush of brighter grey.
Then - after correcting mistakes - heavy shading using black ink. (put a lot of it, until you feel you're over the top)
I spread it and wait a bit, then wipe some of it with my finger or a cloth to achieve a gritty look.

At this point everything is darkened, so I do another, more careful dry brush of both lighter colours.
Then, still preparing the brush as if I was going to dry brush everything, I go towards big patches of orange,
then I mix orange with yellow and make smaller patches within or around the orange patches and then a final one with just yellow.
Albeit with a smaller brush which I also used on the edges (still, everything uses the dry brush technique).

Same goes for the blue patches, deep blue then blue, light blue and finally light blue+white, still covering less and less space. |
Last is white for the stars.

It's basically a dry-brush version of a nebula tutorial.

I spent maybe six hours on the model in total.


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This other model uses the same pattern but more thoroughly.

Love it. I'm a big fan of "cheats and tricks" to paint a good looking force to put on the table. I can't be bothered with 12 hours of per figure or spending three hours painting a shield.

Get it on the table. There are lots of ways to do that nicely and effectively and you've nailed it. I like the result.

It's stunning!

The secondary gray color - did you get that brushed metal effect by wiping the wash off the model as the wash was drying?

Love it. I'm a big fan of "cheats and tricks" to paint a good looking force to put on the table. I can't be bothered with 12 hours of per figure or spending three hours painting a shield.

Get it on the table. There are lots of ways to do that nicely and effectively and you've nailed it. I like the result.

Thank you! It's exactly my state of mind when I'm painting, and even with that on my mind, I invariably fall behind schedule

 Bocete wrote:
It's stunning!

The secondary gray color - did you get that brushed metal effect by wiping the wash off the model as the wash was drying?

Yes and then, a final brushing, very very dry, almost no paint on the brush, of a very clear grey to bring out some contrast.