Quick, Easy, And Great Looking Fists, my method

[Rogal Dorn]

go to your local automotive store and by a can of canary yellow spray paint. after spraying apply 1-2 coats of thinned golden or sunburst yellow, your choice depending on how bright you want them. realise this will be very glossy at first! after the coat of citadel yellow(only citadel makes this look good, P3 and vallejo do not come out well) ink the crevices carefully with watered down flesh wash, but add 5 drops of vallejo matte varnish(as it works best, and comes in a dropper). the matte varnish will get rid of most of the shine and stop the ink from pooling. fill in the details and parts not yellow. and apply a coat of straight up matte varnish. slather this on but be even with it! for highlights us a mix of 1:1.5 of the yellow you chose and bleached bone.

heres some pics of the step by step, this one used sunburst

after spray


http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s275/Zo...07/Fists017.jpg

after sunburst coat and flesh
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s275/Zo...07/Fists018.jpg

finished product
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s275/Zo...07/Fists019.jpg




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now this marine was done with sunburst yellow, hence the brightness. but they can be done with golden or even bad moon.

some C&C on the method would be apreciated


edited the title and removed the email as you are all probobly right about the method



pics to links they are too large. Nothing larger than 700x700

This post has been edited by Rogal Dorn on Apr 8 2008, 10:13 PM

[alextheartist]

Something doesnt sound/look right there. Either your "source" at eavy' metal is lying or you didnt follow the instructions right. Also, haveing spoken to eavy' metal members on various occations, it doesnt sound like something they would do for painting minis. If you look at how thickly the motor spraypaint has coated the mini and how thin the layers are on thier minis, it seems much more likly that they used and airbrush or something of that sort.

just my 2 cents
Alex

[morfangdakka]

I am going to have to agree with Aliex on this one. THis doesn't sound like any memeber of the Aevy metal team that I have talked to either. THe thing that has me questioning it is the use of another companies product. The Aevy metal team uses only GW products primers, paints and finishes especially if it is going to be published on a GW webiste or in White dwarf.

I don't think that email was from member of the team. Why would they use yellow spray paint? When they have yellow foundation paint or other GW yellow paints that they can just take their time and add thin layer after thin layer to build up the yellow. This way GW can say buy our yellow paint and try to copy our style.

[Brother Weasel]

agreed, if they are painting them in studio they only use GW stuff...

[jais]

I will have to agree with the other dudes here...

[Rogal Dorn]

your most likely right, however since i did not send this email i cannot say whether or not its true.

but this method still gives a great effect and looks stunning when done right, so if you want to play Fists but cower from painting yellow give this method a shot

[Brother Weasel]

as for how it looks, it's hrm, ok? it gets a bright yellow, but i don't like the shadow being as brown as that. course i also wound't paint up an army of them, so my methods of yellow arn't for making lots of yellow things... seams effective for making lots of minis i guess...

[Rogal Dorn]

that was using sunburst yellow. golden yellow gives a nicer, much darker shade....ill post pics of one of my golden yellow minis later

[Brother Weasel]

sure sure, do so, like to see a good yellow, it's one of theose hard to do colors for most people:)

[Rogal Dorn]

well heres a good model to show the shade, i have more, just not already in photobucket

golden yellow model

[Brother Weasel]

tha's a bright yellow (liek the mini too, ceptthe mould lines on the rocket:))


i tend to go a bit darker (though it actualy got to dark, he has since been stripped waiting for me to repaint him) http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j233/Bro...Fist/ifist2.jpg

[Rogal Dorn]

very nice mini

but this method is by far the fastest, and still gives a very nice effect

[Brother Weasel]

i know my way isn't fast, i dont' do fast:) (i also don't do yellow, he's the oly yellow mini i have, hate the color personaly)

[alextheartist]

and ive never even bothered painting a yellow mini =)

[Rogal Dorn]

well theres somthing demoralizing about being killed by bumblebee assault marines

[Brother Weasel]

rather be killed by bumble bees then space elves:) least bumble bees jsut need a good paintjob to make them cool:)

[Grand Master Eden]

It does make you wonder what was going through the Emperor's head when he picked the colours of the SM legions, 'you shall be the finest warriors the galaxy has even known bla bla bla, and you will wear yellow armour, and you guys get pink'' etc, guess thats what happens when a games system/background is designed on drugs.