CreganTur
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I've been holding onto my AoBR box for a long time now- the Dread's been the only thing out of it I've completed, and that was over a year ago. After watching the Speed Painting tutorial from Miniature Mentor I decided to try out a variation of Thomas David's techniques on my own Ultramarines.
Keeping in style with the Dread means that I'll be painting these guys in a pant scheme inspired by Chris Clayton's unbelievable Ultramarine. I mixed up the armor colors for my airbrush based on Chris' recipes and applied them. I feel like I overapplied the highlight layers, so I wnet back to try to clean them up with a brush which has been a challenge all on its own. The transitions are uneven in the photograph because it's zoomed in so much- they're not nearly as noticable in person. Here's my finished proof of concept piece from the tactical squad:
I used a number of the techniques and recipes from Thomas David to finish up this guy- specifically for the metallics. You can see some of the zenithal highlighting on him, but not to the same extent as Thomas' work. The main reson for that is because I applied the armor color straight onto the figure instead of creating a Zenithal highlight layer and then painting over that.
I'm pretty happy with this guy- he only took 3 - 4 hours to complete. I'll be painting up the rest of the squad next exactly the same way as this guy. I'm not going to make any changes to my proces until I get to the Terminators and the Captain- I'll b much more sparing with the highlights which will hopefully make them look better. I also feel more confident with my airbrush after this, which is very good because I'mgoing to try Thomas David's exact process on a commission of Black Orcs I just got in.
Keeping in style with the Dread means that I'll be painting these guys in a pant scheme inspired by Chris Clayton's unbelievable Ultramarine. I mixed up the armor colors for my airbrush based on Chris' recipes and applied them. I feel like I overapplied the highlight layers, so I wnet back to try to clean them up with a brush which has been a challenge all on its own. The transitions are uneven in the photograph because it's zoomed in so much- they're not nearly as noticable in person. Here's my finished proof of concept piece from the tactical squad:
I used a number of the techniques and recipes from Thomas David to finish up this guy- specifically for the metallics. You can see some of the zenithal highlighting on him, but not to the same extent as Thomas' work. The main reson for that is because I applied the armor color straight onto the figure instead of creating a Zenithal highlight layer and then painting over that.
I'm pretty happy with this guy- he only took 3 - 4 hours to complete. I'll be painting up the rest of the squad next exactly the same way as this guy. I'm not going to make any changes to my proces until I get to the Terminators and the Captain- I'll b much more sparing with the highlights which will hopefully make them look better. I also feel more confident with my airbrush after this, which is very good because I'mgoing to try Thomas David's exact process on a commission of Black Orcs I just got in.
