Power and Force weaopns

Roger Bunting

New member
For the life of me I just can\'t come up with something that I totally like for force and power weapons. I\'m new to this painting game (well, I painted a handful over a decade ago in school) so I\'m still learning, but anything I try or I\'ve seen just doesn\'t look quite right somehow...

Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.
 

green stuff

Active member
Some articles :

http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/450
http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/385

And some top knotch paint jobs :

http://www.coolminiornot.com/52489
http://www.coolminiornot.com/13697
http://www.coolminiornot.com/78905
http://www.coolminiornot.com/77162
http://www.coolminiornot.com/84210
http://www.coolminiornot.com/59551
http://www.coolminiornot.com/71269
 

DaN

New member
I favour different colours etc depending on who is using them :p

For example, marines I might use green to blue tints (Depending on rank)

And I tend to differentiate between power and force weapons (ie. only using lightning/spark effects on one type)

This also allows you to better remember if a character has a force or power weapon.
 

Roger Bunting

New member
Thanks for the input, people. Indeed those are some fine minis. Useful articles, too.

This first group of minis I\'m painting are grey knights...nothing original in colour shemes I\'m afaid, but hey, I\'m learning to just apply the paint correctly...:rolleyes:

Yeah, I was thinking of differentiating the power from the force weapons...ie, when I get around to painting the grandmaster, his nemesis weapon will look a bit different. That lightning on the Aurora chapter terminator looks cool, actually the first lightning effect on a sword that makes me think of the energy charging and collecting at the point, sending sparks back down the blade...they often look simply like a design on the blade. Maybe for the normal nemesis weapons I\'ll do a simple charged weapon look, like the soul warden or the moulten look on funnymouth\'s terminator ( I mean simple as in no lightning, not as in easy ;) ). I did paint one grey knight already from start to finish as a test piece but I reckon I\'ll be redoing the blade. Unfortunately I don\'t have a camera that can do closeups of a mini so I can\'t upload to get your feedback. Oh well.

Thanks again and keep any ideas coming if anyone has a different idea.

Edit: Come to think of it, the normal grey knights nemesis weapons aren\'t power weapons, so I\'ll maybe just paint them with a hint of energy about them, the justicar\'s and terminators with a fully charged blade and the grandmaster\'s force weapons with something more elaborate maybe.
 
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