As you may remember, I talked a lot about my scheme in the past, but never showed some pictures. That changes now, because I just finished my first practice session. I used that old 1:35 howitzer I talked about, primed it with the new vallejo primer and then applied two shades of violet today.
I used VMC blue violet and VMC royal purple. Thinned them in a 1:1:1 ratio (paint:distilled water:vallejo thinner) and stored them in empty eye dropper bottles. Tossed a agitator metal ball into each bottle, screwed the lid&cap back on and gave them a good shake, before filling them in my airbrush gun.
I started with the royal purple (the darker color) and fooled around a bit with the air:paint mixture using the double action feature of my airbrush. Moving downwards from the top I applied some layers, until I ended up with an opaque coat at the top section and a slightly transparent coat at the bottom. I then cleaned the airbrush, swapped the purple for blue violet and repeated the steps, now starting from the bottom.
I'm satisfied with the colors themselves, thinking that together with black as the secondary color and emerald for some details, it will end up with a unique yet somehow sinister look. Using a lot of darker colors should help underlining the corsair theme, while the violet itself isn't a color you see a lot around here.
What I also learned is that I still need some more practice, until I can start with the eldar tanks themselves. The airbrush gun chocked up more than once, so I need to find out the source for that. Could be that I didn't dilute the colors enough (unlikely), but my bet is on the pigments being to thick for the small needle I used. So before I start fooling around with the dilution ratio, I will do a second run with the 0,4 needle. Getting thin coats, which allow that transparent look, leading to a transition effect from blue violet to royal purple and from royal purple to pure black, also needs more practice. I rather end up priming and repainting that 1:35 tank ten times in a row, resulting in all details being lost, than do a bad job on a serpent. I don't need that tank anymore, so who cares? After all I got it for a steal some years ago.
2 comments:
damm mate looks pretty damm good all ready!!
It looks that way because the mobile phone camera is crap. ^^
I'm still far away from getting a smooth transition. Same goes for working out which needle to use and how to thin down the paints enough. With the 0.2mm needle and the VMC violet tones I got some serious problems, with the needle clogging up. I neither had that problem with the VMA colors (did a test with VMA grey), not using the 0,4mm needle and applying the new vallejo primer.
But I got a topic running at CMON, where I got some really good advice in a rather short amount of time.
At least I now know that I like the color selection, which is rather important. ^^
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