Thx for your replies ! I'm pretty happy on how it turned out for my whole army ! But nothing stops your from showing some of the stuff you just painted then wait for all your army to get painted! I've decided to go with some purple because I just can't paint with red ! :S scottdsp748 I'd like to know how you painted the red on your Fire prism ! Your minis are amazing ! And for the others I want to see even more pictures here ! GO GO GO !
- Keiv
The red starts with a Mechrite Red basecoat over white primer, 2 thin coats. Next is a thin coat of 50/50 Blood Red/Red Gore over the whole thing to complete the basecoat. The highlighting starts with pure Blood Red over probably 90% of the model, just leaving the naturally shadowed areas. Then following the same pattern, but covering much less area, 2 layers mixing in first 25% then 75-ish% Blazing Orange into the Blood Red, Followed by pure Blazing orange. The final highlights are Firey Orange, then Golden Yellow, Sunburst Yellow, Sunburst+White, and a tiny highlight of pure White at the most intense points.
After this is all done, a Blood red glaze goes over the whole thing, to make it, put a tiny bit of Blood Red on a palette and add a drop of Future floor wax (clear acrylic) and water it down alot. You should be able to drag it over a spot of white paint and have the red show up faintly and the glaze should coat evenly. If the color breaks up and doesnt coat evenly, it needs less water and more Future. Coat all the Reds with a thin coat of this mixture. It will dry with a semi-patchy gloss look to it, don't panic, thats the floor wax. Hit it with some Testors Dullcote or other matte varnish and it will look normal. The purpose of the glaze is to both make the colors more intense, and tie the blends together...it makes a huge difference.
Note that throughout this process, especially the darker red stages I thin my paints with a combination of a little water and Future to get smoother coats that are slightly transparent. If you are in the US, Future is easy to find under that name, if you aren't, just Google it and there's several pages that list the international equivalents.