Circa April 2004. I believe this is the only Blood Angel Space Marine that I have ever painted. I fondly remember doing this as an experiment around the time when light sourcing was just really taking off on miniatures, and seemed to be the cool thing to do. Well I think its still a cool thing to do.
I borrowed the so-called NMM techniques that I used on my beastmen in 2003 and the red scheme. I also used a bit more subtle highlight scheme from Cerulean Templar Spacemarine army.
Back then I really struggled with bone colors in painting.
The pick below I think is really cool. The green glow effect that I did back then was a series of drybrushes from dark to light green.
Another angle. If I remember right, I did go back and paint in some sharper green highlights.
Red and green always work well in my opinion. This was a cool experiment. The miniature is no longer in my collection as I sold it years ago.
Please dude, how do you take that red? Really nice work! Thank you so much.
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DeleteExcuse me sir, i meant "get". I'm so sorry.
DeleteAh.... With my reds to get that depth, I always start with a black prime and build gradually with reddish browns, such as scorched brown or whatever GW now calls the color or a deep brick red like Vallejo Hull Red. I then like to work to a pure red such as Vallejo Model Color Red. From their for blood angels do a 50/50 red with Blood Red and then pure Blood Red which has a more orange haze to it.
DeleteI know, it's interesting the use of reddish browns. Thank you so much for the explanation, i will try it.
ReplyDeleteReds take a lot of blending and slow transitions, but you do that you will achieve a depth. Sometimes just a few extra steps are really what is needed and the payoff in look is very good.
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