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I've watched the simple tutorial from GW (just google painting warscythe/[/youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clWZUwAN_zc[youtube]) and I'm quite happy with how that looks but I wish to do it with blue instead of green. I've experimented with several blues but can't get it quite right. Could someone help with which blues to use as there doesn't seem to be a direct colour chart that I could translate off of (hopefully that last bit makes sense).

What blues have you used? And what don't you like about them?

I've tried, in no order, Kantor, Macragge, Sotek, Temple Guard and Lothern. There's no melding of colours, they don't fade together and the step with lahmian medium requires one coat for it to stand out vividly. I grant I'm not an overly skilled painter but I can follow instructions well enough. Perhaps I'm not using enough lahmian, I don't know.

 MLJB wrote:
I've tried, in no order, Kantor, Macragge, Sotek, Temple Guard and Lothern. There's no melding of colours, they don't fade together and the step with lahmian medium requires one coat for it to stand out vividly. I grant I'm not an overly skilled painter but I can follow instructions well enough. Perhaps I'm not using enough lahmian, I don't know.

All the blues you have tried are slightly different shades, so they aren't going to blend to well unless you spend a bit of time mixing custom colours.

Perhaps have a look at the left side of this colour chart for a triad that you like http://i.imgur.com/PqKmYyU.jpg. For example, if you wanted to start with Kantor blue, you would layer with Alaitoc Blue and then Hoeth Blue.

Your other option is to pick a medium blue, like Macragge and then lighten it with white.

In all instances, I would expect your final highlight will be pure white.

Winter wrote:

 MLJB wrote:
I've tried, in no order, Kantor, Macragge, Sotek, Temple Guard and Lothern. There's no melding of colours, they don't fade together and the step with lahmian medium requires one coat for it to stand out vividly. I grant I'm not an overly skilled painter but I can follow instructions well enough. Perhaps I'm not using enough lahmian, I don't know.

All the blues you have tried are slightly different shades, so they aren't going to blend to well unless you spend a bit of time mixing custom colours.

Perhaps have a look at the left side of this colour chart for a triad that you like http://i.imgur.com/PqKmYyU.jpg. For example, if you wanted to start with Kantor blue, you would layer with Alaitoc Blue and then Hoeth Blue.

Your other option is to pick a medium blue, like Macragge and then lighten it with white.

In all instances, I would expect your final highlight will be pure white.

A PDF of that chart can be found here...

https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/PDF/Downloads/CitadelPaintingSystem.pdf

Much obliged Winter and Ghaz, I shall try those, I have several from that chart already so will have a crack tonight and see how that goes. Thanks again.