It\'s looking good so far!
First, I have no idea how Kiril (Yellow one) thought when he did the pattern so my analysis of it might be completely off mark. But hopefully it will help you to simplify it and be able to mimic it better.
When I see the pattern I think electronic circuits and almost like the inner workings of the Nightwing sketched on the outside. It also has an organic approach though as well, which suits well with the feeling of extraterrestial or non-human technology. It has an elegance to it, an estetic beauty not only functionality.
When you do the patterns, it is in different levels. It\'s like a circuit board getting harshly lit by a flashlight. which means a a curled cable that is facing upwards will have the segments brightest and biggest on top and as it goes into the nightwish the light catches the segments less and less
The first pattern is the segmented shapes. A suggestion would to think a bit of electronic wires or cables getting connected and faded in and faded out.
The second pattern is some kind of translucent capsule containing the cables. The capsule itselfs seem to have tiny semitranslucent wires in it which when it becomes larger instead look like a bone structure. The bonestructure is less translucent then the re In the joints, where the \"bones\" or \"wires\" meet, the pattern overlaps each other and and therefor looks like dots of light.
Then there are the faded eldar glyphs and the rest of the ship is basically painted with edging technique. Lines around plates, brighter on the corners. Use the side of the brush at all times, and wipe off the excess paint of the brush on a piece of cloth or your thumb. The gems are painted like they usually are but with two reflecting points directly above each other. The NMM is awesome..
You can try to analyse how he does it by looking at the pictures, but the keyword is contrast. For a gaming army you can use regular metallic paint as well. Those are also easily tinted with the greens and blues that are necessary for a coherent colourscheme
If I\'d do the colours I would do it with black, grey and white first. And then use glazes of very diluted paint to tint the surfaces a bit. He\'s used blue and greens it looks. Hard to say which exact shades, especially since it depends much on photos as well. But you can experiment with colours (GW) like regal blue, hawk turquoise, scaly green, dark angels green and snot green in different mixes.
First sketch the patterns in a colour close to black so you can fix the mistakes easily and then when you\'ve done. fill them in and gradually build up the pattern by mixing brighter greys. Save white for the brightest spots, where the pattern is most intricate.
Hope anything helps!
Now, get painting and show us some wips!
