I've painted one out of five Space Marine Terminators now. I am still playing around with different ways of getting yellow to not look awful, and I ended up with a way to bleak looking terminator. So I gave it some more wash and then drybrushed a bunch of yellow on it and gave it some slightly more pronounced edge highlights. I am not too fond of the look you get from it though, and I don't particularly like the idea of layering like crazy (nor the idea of painting smaller and smaller areas as I get lighter and lighter colors). I am still sold on the idea of wet blending. Tried it a bit on the cloth of the sergeant of the tactical squad earlier. Maybe I'll go nuts and use it much more on the Captain :)
Here's the Terminator! I'd love some opinions! I will paint the other four with similar highlighted edges (i.e. painted on instead of drybrushing, with the exception of the helmet).
looking good, you have motivated me to try to paint my one wellow marine
ReplyDeleteOnly one? Try an army of the buggers :) I look forward to seeing what you do with it. What kind of marine is it? What will you use for "secondary" color? As you can see I used black for my squad (5th company I think). I've seen red used quite a bit on the net and it looks quite cool. But I've played with the idea of making a squad with blues instead. I've got one more squad to paint and it's nice to give yourself some variation when you have to paint 10 of the buggers. I am starting to wonder if it was sane to consider an Ork army :)
ReplyDeleteI think i will make a try on a terminator Liberian, hmm the secondary color will be blue to enhance the yellow color
ReplyDeleteAh good old Blue. I can do blue, painted a bunch of Cygnar :) I look forward to see how yours turns out. I found Space Marines to be harder to paint than I thought, although it could have something to do with the color :)
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