Arctica's WiPs

Dragyn · Post by **Dragyn** » 21 May 2009, o 17:08

Looks very kewl to me. Like the whole atmosphere of the mini!

damnedfist · Post by **damnedfist** » 22 May 2009, o 15:21

Well done! Very nice flesh tones and a great atmosphere overall.

shakes · Post by **shakes** » 23 Jun 2009, o 21:53

have just looked over your dread and love it, i was wondering if you could possibly give out the pallet that you use for your NMM gold.

arctica · Post by **arctica** » 23 Jun 2009, o 23:59

The NMM gold is the simple one that GW used to use actually, which is just scorched brown base, snakebite leather and white highlights

nothing to it really.

shakes · Post by **shakes** » 24 Jun 2009, o 03:13

no bubonic or bleached bone in between? thats awesome, great effect. one other question, are you layering or glazing your colors, mix of both, or something totally different. the gold has seamless transition.

arctica · Post by **arctica** » 24 Jun 2009, o 12:08

I generally use thin layering with a couple of glazes between stages to help smooth out the colour. Im still trying to get a smooth effect overall. It's been an uphill struggle but im still trying to iron out my style. Still thanks for the nice comments

but it's not as smooth as you say i could probably do better still.

As for the gold nmm, it was just purely 3 different colours and i have found when adding white to snakebite leather that you can quite easily control how yellow the colour comes out. I have been tempted to add a spot of yellow to the mix to give it a bit more colour.

arctica · Post by **arctica** » 5 Sep 2009, o 00:12

Well it's been a while since i updated this blog. Since i got space hulk i have caved in and started to paint one of the minis, the detail is so good on these models and so far i've had alot of fun painting the mini. Anyway i wanted to try mixing metallics with nmm (after seeing Bohun's awesome work). I think i didn't add enough metallic paint but the addition of shining gold gave snake bite leather a much brighter colour which i really like actually. Anyway i'll keep trying and my focus is all on space hulk at the moment !

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LittleDave · Post by **LittleDave** » 5 Sep 2009, o 12:15

That gold looks great. What was the layering process for that?

Post by **Demi_morgana** » 5 Sep 2009, o 13:33

damn nice so far mr bohun#2

Le6n · Post by **Le6n** » 7 Sep 2009, o 09:24

Great piece!!! Love it from the beginning

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