Hello Ian with Creator hobbies again for another week of technical Tuesday. First off I apologise for the delay yesterday was a little rough thought I going to have had a baby last night. This week I wanted to talk a little bit about paint schemes, and how to make everything tie into your chosen force. If you pay attention to a few key things you two have a well organized, good looking, cohesive, and attractive model sets to show off on the table.
If you're working on a particular chapter or army yeah you have less flexibility when it comes to the colors your painting. However generally speaking unless you're going to copy every single little detail, your going to get to choose the colors that you will paint your grenade, pouches, pistols, and stuff like that. If you all the sudden decided to paint your grenades and yours pistol pink when he's already blue and yellow it's going to look funny no way around it. So here's some quick tips when considering how to get your paint to suit your force.
If you're working on a particular chapter or army yeah you have less flexibility when it comes to the colors your painting. However generally speaking unless you're going to copy every single little detail, your going to get to choose the colors that you will paint your grenade, pouches, pistols, and stuff like that. If you all the sudden decided to paint your grenades and yours pistol pink when he's already blue and yellow it's going to look funny no way around it. So here's some quick tips when considering how to get your paint to suit your force.
1 get it least some what familiar with the color wheel, particularly the complementary colors and knowing of course what other colors mix to make those colors. Primary colors are combinations of colors such is red and green that complement or match with each other. purple and yellow and orange and blue are the other two. Each of these groupings will match
up nicely and the color of the paint can be offset with darker at lighter hues. Now this is only a basic look at how primary colors work. There is a near endless amount of knowledge regarding the subject different findings and pros and cons for using the color wheel and complementary colors. For more info on the subject I would suggest checking out Wikipedia and any of the how to paint miniatures guides. Most of the books will teach you not only about the complementary colors but how to use the knowledge on your miniatures. Now that we have briefly covered complementary colors we should discuss how to paint them to the miniature.
Once you have decided on the particular color combinations. You need to put them on the model. Most tournaments require you to have at least three colors in your models and most painters at a competitive level will tell you that having three different "main" colors on the model will help to tie the model together. Generally speaking is your flesh tones mixed in with another couple colors, but in the case of my Space Wolves I've gone with brass red and grey.
As you can see with its red shoulder pads and bolter housing and brass bolter asembily and chest plates, as well as the grey amour break up the model into sectoins that all draw the eyes to it but as well define what is what. Your eyes as well will be directed to each of these "breakup sections" allowing them to better pick up details and fully admire your paint job.
As you can see with its red shoulder pads and bolter housing and brass bolter asembily and chest plates, as well as the grey amour break up the model into sectoins that all draw the eyes to it but as well define what is what. Your eyes as well will be directed to each of these "breakup sections" allowing them to better pick up details and fully admire your paint job.
well everybody again sorry for the delay and hope that you found a somewhat helpful if you have any further questions on the subject feel free to email us at viewers@kreatorhobbies.com please attention all questions with Tech Tuesday in the subject box. thank you again for your time and as always Inspirata Ex Ingne.
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