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Hi everyone,

I've been painting up some of my Hell Divers, and I decided to do a "Gem" effect on the visor.

Here is an example of two painted visors:





I start with a dark blue, almost black as the base (mixing the base blue and black):



Then, highlighting from "bottom to top" I paint the base blue in the bottom and left corners:



An example of what my palette looks like:



Next, I add a bit of white, and then do a thin line (about half of the base blue width) along the left edge. If you do too much, you can black line it, or use a wash (like Army Painter Dark Tone) to get the black outline around the visor again.



What my palette looks like after adding white:



Adding a bit more white gives me a very light blue color, and I add that as thin as I can to the lower left edge:



After that, I add two dots of white to the upper right part. This usually takes me two or three tries to get it nice and round and where I want. If you need to go over it just mix a bit of your base with black to get the color back so you can try the white dot again:



After that I will add a gloss coat to make it even shinier, since in 15mm I find that it really helps add a focal point to the face.

And here is a picture from the side:



I originally tried red, but it made them look a bit too like evil henchmen (Cobra!!), so I'm very happy with the blue, works well with the khaki scheme too.

Thanks!

More on my blog: http://clearhorizonsalvage.blogspot.com/2013/10/gem-effect-tutorial-painting-15mm.html

Good tutorial! Great for doing visors and same ideas can be applied to gems and stones too!

Whats with the bottom picture though looks like the guys gun was slathered in white glue lol

Haha, thanks!

I think that last one, I had JUST applied matte varnish, so it looked a little weird, sorry!

Nice, well done tut. I'll probably implement that sometime.