Quicky: Archaon on foot

[ramonlaan]

Hi all, this is my newest mini on which I practiced some more with Tamiya clear inks. I have used no gold paints on this model, only chainmail, boltgun metal and mithril silver. Hope you like it:

archaon

More pictures can be found on my website: www.miez.nl/putty-n-paint in the gallery (in any minute I wil upload them )

Ramon

 

[No Such Agency]

Interesting effect. I\'ve tried something similar before, but with different metallic paints available I never bothered to do it like this. /lazy

 

[Avicenna]

Hey Ramon! I am loving the goldwork! People keep surprising me today with stuff that sounds a little dubious but when you see if actually done it works bloody well!

There is a lovely depth to your golds that you dont usually get just using the gold paints! Very nice!

-Peter

 

[ramonlaan]

Thanks!

Yup, I also like the effect.... I am still \'perfecting it \' though... I have just scratched the surface here. I also like the depth you get with this effect. In more detail for those who would want to try something similar: basecoat black, then layering of Boltgun metal, chainmail and in the end Mithril silver. Get this on smooth and you have the best basis and best effects. Then I \'reverse-layer\" (by which I mean I \'work in\' the shading from the highlight end, and I progresively add more layers towards the shaded area\'s). For gold I use Tamiya Clear Smoke as deep shade, and I use it undilluted form the pot in the heaviest shaded area\'s. I do use it thinned over the lightest area\'s. Then I use Tamiya Clear orange in exactly the way as for smoke, but not quite towards the lighter area\'s. Lastly I use Tamiya Clear Yellow in again he same way, but here i do go all the way to the highlights (thinned).

Still experimenting

Ramon

 

[Avicenna]

Thats a really interesting technique, and reminds me of \'underpainting\' i think its called... I seem to remember reading an article where someone painted a rackham minotaur in greyscale and then used inks to wash colour over the model. It worked really well as it meant that all the shadows went to black, and it gave it a lot of contrast.

Very cool!