Sunday, June 21, 2009

Terminators

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).

4 comments:

  1. looking good, you have motivated me to try to paint my one wellow marine

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  2. Only 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 :)

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  3. I think i will make a try on a terminator Liberian, hmm the secondary color will be blue to enhance the yellow color

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  4. Ah 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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