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so on this image, you can still see some black through the red coat and that looks super sick
how could I replicate that effect?
thanks

Either super thin coats of red until they got the effect they wanted or a black wash over the top of the red once it was painted.

I agree though, does look good

Looks like black under thin coats of red, to me. Just based on the fact that there seems to be more red near crevices than the convex panels-the red is pooling towards crevices and away from surfaces which are curving outwards.

Looks very much like airbrushing to me. As above, probably thin coats of red airbrushed over a black base.

Interesting, in some areas the black showing through looks like a mistake, in other areas it looks really well done and obviously intentional Like if you look around the back of the cockpit it almost looks a bit messy, or the root of the central most tail looks like red paint has pooled in the crevices.... while if you look at the trailing edge (before the black flaps) the way the edge highlight of the red blends out is really nicely done, an effect you wouldn't be able to achieve with an airbrush.

I'm gonna say a relatively dull red painted over black, probably airbrushed but it could also just be rattle canned for all I know.

Then I'm going to say oil washes of blacks (and maybe dark reds). If you look at the areas around the nodules they look oil washed to me. Followed by some edge highlighting, maybe with a fleshtone followed by something very close to white.

Looks like he pre-shaded with an airbrush.

I achieved a similar effect on my Wraith units when painting with khorne red ove a black undercoat.

I'm not fully sure if he used a similar process since the whole painting seems very even.

I suggest try it with very thin very and very mixed with water of khorne red to see if you can achieve a similar effect.

Airbrush 100%.

It's been preshaded with an airbrush, but I don't think it's black. I think the artist used a centuries-old technique called complimentary preshading. Colors look more natural if they're shaded with their compliments (colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel). Want to shade yellow? Use purple. Want to shade red? Use green. You get the idea. As for the highlight, the natural red color was probably created by layering the red over yellow. Red + white = pink (because pink is a tone of red), and the red on this model doesn't appear pink.

Here's how I would go about airbrushing this model. Some experimentation and fine tuning would be probably be needed, but it's a good starting point.

White primer / base coat.
Shade with forest green (probably the same color that you see on the wings).
Yellow glaze over the remaining white areas (maybe orange, but probably yellow).
Very thin red airbrush paint over both the green & yellow.

It's fairly similar to this one (not by me!)

http://eyeoferror.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/airbrushing-deux-razorwings-tutorial.html?m=1

You guys all seem to be seeing way more airbrushing than me.

I have been experimenting with painting with airbrush paints, using a brush. And it takes multiple coats to get any color. But it leaves residual color showing through as you paint it up.

You can do a similar effect using drybrushing over a dark base. It would also give a grainy type gradient similar to how this looks.

 Nodri wrote:
It's been preshaded with an airbrush, but I don't think it's black. I think the artist used a centuries-old technique called complimentary preshading. Colors look more natural if they're shaded with their compliments (colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel). Want to shade yellow? Use purple. Want to shade red? Use green. You get the idea. As for the highlight, the natural red color was probably created by layering the red over yellow. Red + white = pink (because pink is a tone of red), and the red on this model doesn't appear pink.

Here's how I would go about airbrushing this model. Some experimentation and fine tuning would be probably be needed, but it's a good starting point.

White primer / base coat.
Shade with forest green (probably the same color that you see on the wings).
Yellow glaze over the remaining white areas (maybe orange, but probably yellow).
Very thin red airbrush paint over both the green & yellow.

Hmm reminds in a way the preshading technique I'm following(how succesfully is another thing) with blood angels. Start with reddish brown(seems mostly to ensure if some nook is left uncovered and it's also primer colour). Put in bluish grey to recess areas, highlight with white. Then layer or two yellow to make future red more rich in colour. This also has side effect that especially on larger areas the blue-grey turns into green(I swear my rhino/predator looked like swedish army at this stage ) followed by red.

tneva82 wrote:

 Nodri wrote:
It's been preshaded with an airbrush, but I don't think it's black. I think the artist used a centuries-old technique called complimentary preshading. Colors look more natural if they're shaded with their compliments (colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel). Want to shade yellow? Use purple. Want to shade red? Use green. You get the idea. As for the highlight, the natural red color was probably created by layering the red over yellow. Red + white = pink (because pink is a tone of red), and the red on this model doesn't appear pink.

Here's how I would go about airbrushing this model. Some experimentation and fine tuning would be probably be needed, but it's a good starting point.

White primer / base coat.
Shade with forest green (probably the same color that you see on the wings).
Yellow glaze over the remaining white areas (maybe orange, but probably yellow).
Very thin red airbrush paint over both the green & yellow.

Hmm reminds in a way the preshading technique I'm following(how succesfully is another thing) with blood angels. Start with reddish brown(seems mostly to ensure if some nook is left uncovered and it's also primer colour). Put in bluish grey to recess areas, highlight with white. Then layer or two yellow to make future red more rich in colour. This also has side effect that especially on larger areas the blue-grey turns into green(I swear my rhino/predator looked like swedish army at this stage ) followed by red.

It actually looks like black pre-shading to me. But the red is pretty desaturated, so it's harder to tell.
If I had to do this paintjob, I would prime with a light grey, pre-shade the areas I want in black, come back with a brush to clean the gems (I see the a black haze around the gems, but not on them), then airbrush the red. The edge highlight seem to be some kind of pink, and I think AllSeeingSkink nailed it for the flesh->white highlight on the black.