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Rating: 9.94 Votes: 53
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By: alexgrunt
Category: Painting Subcategory: TechniquesDate: 2004-09-02 03:53:25
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tmuscle
19 January 08
Rating: 10
wow! just what i needed

int
01 December 07
Rating: 10
always wonted to know how that was done

Patrick Kyitha
04 August 07
Rating: 10
Superb. I'm still in shock after this tutorial

BuzZin
27 June 07
Rating: 10
very good ya !

Bignastyshark
28 February 07
Rating: 10
im so having a go at this when i get in!!!!!!

ravenswood
02 February 07
Rating: 10
Fantastic!!!!!

The Uruk
16 November 06
Rating: 10
Wonderful

Scimitar
08 October 06
Rating: 10
Brilliant article, I`m gonna try it out emediatly. Thanks a lot!

xerofis
28 September 06
Rating: 10
waaaaaah thats nuts dude!!!!!

yack
28 August 06
Rating: 10
I think that I have just swallowed my tongue!
Holy McMoly that is amazing I have already found a spare helmet to try this on...

dickie dick
17 March 06
Rating: 10
This is awsome good painting and cristal clear explaned!!! I wish every article is like this. My compliments

archangelq
25 January 06
Rating: 10
Very nice guide to these effects. I've seen work like this done elsewhere, but I've never seen a good explaination. Thanks!

manikmunky
21 November 05
Rating: 10
45 mins... FORTY FIVE...

nice tutorial, hope I can implement this one day!

XD11
01 September 05
Rating: 10
W@W!! Taht is teh COOLL!!!1 u R teh pwnage with de 7337 skizillage --- lol, good job =]

darkartminiatures
05 July 05
Rating: 10
Sorry, what i meant was, would it work on a different coloured helmet red,blue etc..

darkartminiatures
04 July 05
Rating: 10
Would this theory work on a darker coloured helmet? Great article!

triqui
21 December 04
Rating: 10
Woooow
Just wondering how much time would cost to paint like this 2500 pts of Marines ... .

Broke n English
16 October 04
Rating: 10
bloody hell!!(Don one-Solo mafia)

SilAx
30 September 04
Rating: 10
Nice but was the scars and scratches painted or modeled then painted?

schoon
30 September 04
Rating: 10
I had wondered about the "scratch" effect, and lighting lesson is just an added bonus!

Mengu
08 September 04
Rating: 10
I would never have guessed the scratches were painted by looking at it. The glowing eyes are indeed very eye catchy (no pun intended). Not to be confused with source lighting, this effect is more of ambient lighting. Imagine a focused light shining through a small hole. There will be a dark area immediately around the light, but then there will be a lit circle around that dark area. I believe this is what's simulated. Perhaps not true to physics, but we never are when painting miniatures. I like this stylized effect.

Eimerich
08 September 04
Rating: 10
I've always liked the way you paint your models (the examples here and on the net are several), but when I read that you have spent about 45min on the single helmet, I've understand why your minis looks so "real". Excellent and inspiranting. Thanks for sharing this technique.

tagron
07 September 04
Rating: 10
Ive seen ALLOT of techniques and most of them i will just look over and go "ok i see what they are doing, i bet i could have figured that out if id looked at the model long enough" or i might say "yeah ive done that before just not in that way" But this is compleatlly beyond anything ive ever done or seen, how the heck did you ever come up with that? Amazing

spike 92
06 September 04
Rating: 10
those scratches r guiness and i love that glowing effect!!!! supurb!

david waeselynck
05 September 04
Rating: 10
10 bien sur ca c est un véritable article de peinture, trés bien fait, ca m a bcp appris et c est d ailleurs avec cet article que j ai réalisé le casque du space marine de mon dio !!! et donc juste pour ca, Merci Cyril...

Micha
04 September 04
Rating: 10
fantastic work, thank you very much for this insight into your work; you´re atrue master and it´s a shame I didn´t have the opportunity to meet you at the German GD. micha

subversive
03 September 04
Rating: 8
Although it looks cool, I don't feel this technique gives a realistic look. The eyes in the helmet are recessed. Therefore, a glow eminating from them would actually cast the raised plates around them in shadow, not reflect light onto them. Think about it this way: turn on a flashlight. Is the outside of the flashlight lit up by the bulb? It's a more extreme example, but it's the same principle.

The rest is absolutely amazing, though.

Calavera
03 September 04
Rating: 10
Beautiful helmet ! And a great tutorial, I've been trying out painting scratches like you do but it's nowhere near your quality ! Thanks for the article and thanks to alexgrunt for translation

Setting aside a helmet to try to replicate this one

LavronYor
03 September 04
Rating: 10
Excellent article. Very helpful. and thanks to the transformer, er I mean translater.

Astonia
03 September 04
Rating: 10
omg those scratches are PAINTED??! I thought you had scratched the actual model before painting it...

Mantra
03 September 04
Rating: 10
Amazing!!

lumpy
02 September 04
Rating: 10
Excellent article, very precise and well presented. It's a great effect that I'm probably going to try sometime soon. Thanks!

Nelson
02 September 04
Rating: 10
Amazing article, quite inspiring, but also quite frustrating...his work goes from a few rough washes, a bit rough, to god-like in one picture on page 2.

Turelio
02 September 04
Rating: 10
This is incredible. I love the effect around the eyes, but i also love the damage on the helmet, plus an new way to do white (compared to what i have seen). This article is great. There are so many useful ideas and techniques in here.

khaibar igor
02 September 04
Rating: 10
J'ai éssayé, ta technique pour les yeux mais n'est pas Mr Cyril qui veut... il y aura bientôt des photos et tu verras qu'il ya encore du boulot... Mais bon comme d'hab un tuto de Cyril, c'est un tuto de Cyril, du vrai pas à pas et qui te donne l'impression que c'est super simple. Donc 10/10

Minhiriath
02 September 04
Rating: 10
Very nice article. Good job!

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