Help please :)

[clidefr0g]

Hi, Im new here, Im trying to find out the steps involved in painting a model of which i will post a picture. I am capable of the steps I just dont know what they were to achieve the paint scheme or the colours used. I have an airbrush as well. The more detailed in steps the more awesome I think you will be! hehe

Oh also, these were painted by les bursley at least i think thats his name, he is an awesome painter but seemingly impossible to get a hold of for questioning.

Thanks in advance.

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[clidefr0g]

Anyone know?

 

[freakinacage]

Nope, no idea

 

[QuietiManes]

Reminds me of the kit with complete instructions that anyone can follow, for all ages, to carve a wooden sail ship. You open the box and it contains a knife, large solid block of wood and a note on a picture of a sail ship that reads "cut away all the wood that doesn't look like this boat".

Is there a specific part of the models you're having trouble with? ^^ Otherwise, prime it and paint it one colour at a time, until it's done. ^^

 

[clidefr0g]

I duno what colours he used, or how he applied them, or in what order. :/ Im not good enough in that area, all i know how to do is apply paint

 

[Dragonsreach]

Well who is Les Bursley?
Does he have an account on coolmini?
Does he have a website and if so can you contact him directly throught it?

Cos without being nasty your questions are almost impossible to answer without us being Les Bursley.

Having looked at the minis in those pictures to be honest they are OK as "Cookie Cutter" Dark Eldar and look to me to have been 'block painted' via airbrush especially with the Blue on the bases.

 

[uglybug]

I just guessing here but using GW paints i would use enchanted blue as a base, regal blue as a deep shadow like under the cape. And highlight with ice blue then add white to the ice blue as a second highlight. The capes fur, the skulls and the loincloth look like graveyard earth. The faces look odd but I think he just mixed a wash of devlan mud and asurmen blue maybe a touch of thraka green? The guns look like dwarf bronze with a black or mud wash, I think a green and mud wash would be better if you put the green into the face wash. The only thing I really like is the back of the cape I think they were white he did a light blue wash at the top and a soft spray of the graveyard earth near the bottom then I think he added a semi gloss to the capes. The seem to give off a bit of a shine.
Good luck I hope that lets you to get started and then fine tune it as you see fit.

 

[The Imperial Painter]

Maybe try the reaper ultramarine blue triad and then push the highlights by mixing in some white? Don't really know about the rest of the model.

Tom

 

[Cpwilson]

The guy ( Les ) has a u-tube channel, awsomepaintjob, there's a lot of tutorials on there and a link to his web page where if you troll through you'l ind out the info you need

cheers

 

[Gepzo]

I believe it is Reaper that has a program that will take a graphics file and tell you the paint color that matches it most closely, but you'll be buying Reaper paints, or converting from there to GW paints, etc.