Layering is a fundamental strategy for applying highlights to a model that are each a lot more precise and cleaner looking than your standard drybrushing. Even though drybrushing definitely has its rewards, when applied to an complete model it provides the model a dirty look and is hard to manage specifically where you want the paint to go. With layering, you choose exactly where the highlights will be. Some basic factors to remember prior to you go ahead and start out painting them:
1) Establish each the beginning colour and the final colour that you want to aim for.
Don’t be upset if the final colour comes out a bit distinctive even so, that is standard. Picking the colours you want to start out and finish with will help with selecting highlight colours.
2) Ascertain where your light source is coming from.
This sounds like a silly thing to worry about but it is basically very essential. A model that is lit by noontime sun will be highlighted substantially unique than one particular that is lit by the sun from behind at dusk. Personally, I like to do my layering as if lit by the sun from directly above as it is less complicated 🙂
three) Determine on just how a lot of layers you want.
For miniature painting supplies on models you just want to appear decent on the table, 2 is sufficient (not which includes the base colour) but for models that you Genuinely want to appear impressive, you are going to need to have far much more. I have a tendency to paint all the things with at least 4+ layers but that is just me.
For the Steel Blue
50/50 FolkArt Metallic Sequin Black/DecoArt Metallic Ice Blue
three-4 layers of Metallic Ice Blue mixed with growing amounts of Mithril Silver
For the Gold
Tin bitz base
50/50 Tin Bitz/Shining Gold
Shining Gold
50/50 Shining Gold/Mithril Silver for the extreme highlights
Cloth
Vermin Brown
three-four coats of vermin Brown with growing amounts of Bleached Bone
50/50 Bleached Bone/Skull White
Skull White (extreme highlights only. Will look fine devoid of this step as effectively)
The design on the tabbard is carried out in pure Ultramarines blue iirc
Hoses and gun clip/fundamental metal parts
Boltgun Metal
Black Ink wash (no water added, straight Ink)
Eyes
FolkArt Lime Yellow
50/50 Lime Yellow/Skull White
Gems
Blood Red
Blazing Orange
Skull White (dot)
Barbed Wire
Vermin Brown base
Boltgun Metal heavy drybrush coat. just shy of a wet coat truly
In order to paint with layers, you simply commence with a darker colour of what you want to finish up with and add far more and extra of a lighter highlight colour to the mix in order to continue the progression from dark to light. Each time you go a step lighter you paint a smaller sized location inside the prior one particular. Depending on how numerous coats you want to do and how smooth you wish the transition from dark to light to be, you can paint successive layers either pretty close to the outside edge of the preceding colour or you can go smaller sized and leave a fair bit of the preceding colour showing. Going relatively close to the edge of the final colour will result in a smoother searching blend of colours but takes a lot much more layers than leaving a larger amount of the earlier colour. Nonetheless, leaving bigger layers is excellent for tabletop quality minis and calls for much much less time. Appears like a ton of operate but it seriously is not as more often than not, you are going to be adding just a bit additional of the lighter colour and undertaking yet another coat quickly right after the initially so it goes relatively rapid. I will use the methods for the Steel Blue as the basis for this write-up.
In this case I use a 50/50 mix of Metallic Sequin Black/Metallic Ice Blue to achieve the initial colour. This is then painted on the entirety of the surfaces you wish to be the colour you are going for. Never be afraid to get paint on other surfaces at this point as you can simply clean up these ares with your black/white bascoat when you are performed. Keeping the paint you have just utilized, add a smaller amount of Mithril Silver to the mix and paint the subsequent stage in a slightly smaller region than the final coat. Repeat this step three or four far more occasions, adding in extra Mithril Silver as you go until you attain the preferred impact. A superior spot in the pic here to see the separate layers is on the loincloth. You can see the dark first layer and the subsequent handful of layers inside each and every other pretty clearly. This system can be applied to any mini with any colour and once you get the hang of it is incredibly easy to do.