How to paint an icey weapon?

[Hawks58]

How would you go about painting a weapon to look like its made of Ice?

I figure an extremly light blue, with pure white on all the hard edges, and it should show some of whats behind it right?

The Axe on this guy is in about the same postion as the one I\'m trying to do.

 

[Hawks58]

so noone has any ideas on how to do it? or do I need to be clearer in what I mean?

 

[DennisMech]

Umm, well, you mean like a spacewolf frostblade type of thing? Well that\'s been done a lot, it\'s basicly a light blue to begin with, then highlited with an almost white blue. You can do a neat criss cross effect where you streak it like drybrushing to make it look all icey. I dont know if this helps...

 

[lumpy]

I tried it with this guy:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/index.php?id=31168

I used a series of thin whites and greys to form the shading and used several layers of a blue wash to achieve the end result

 

[Jericho]

I don\'t think the transparent thing would work on a figure like this since the blade is held so far from the body. The icy effect you\'re thinking of would work better if the sword was held against the chest, a leg, in front of a banner, etc. Then you could actually have specific stuff to try and paint from the other side, whereas in this one there\'s nothing to try and copy.

 

[Dedwrekka]

I suggest you wait for chrispy to put in his two cents (he always does). In the meantime check out THIS MINI of his.

 

[Chrispy]

I went over this in my Precious stones article:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/go.php?go=articlephp&aid=200&page=2&orderby=&levels=

it\'s towards the bottom of the page. Basically, you make white edges (or if it\'s colored, a white+color mix) and paint the inside blue, if it\'s totally clear, or colored with the objects being shown slighty lighter than in real life. Angela also has a good example on that page, too.

 

[Justin[AsG]]

Chrispy if I paid you money could I come and study under you.

I can cover the rent and food while im there as well.

Thats some really amazing stuff man!

 

[Kith]

Originally posted by Justin[AsG]
Chrispy if I paid you money could I come and study under you.

I can cover the rent and food while im there as well.

Thats some really amazing stuff man!

*zones out*

Zen and the art of painting, I can see Chrispy (Vash the Stampede) as a wizened sensei presiding over his painting classes...

:flip:

I really do appreciate all of the advice and articles Chrispy.