Imperial Knights - Bringing chivalry back to 40k
Smoke...
So, I’ve seen a few people use this technique before but never had a go myself. I’ve mainly seen it used for explosions but thought it would work quite well for this.
Essentially I want to have smoke billowing out of the Warglaives exhausts, this will also continue on with the other knights when I get to them.
Step 1: To start you need to get two wires and bend them to shape, grab your clump foliage and your superglue. Now, I will warn you, expect to get this stuck everywhere, you need to try to be careful not to touch the foliage once you added superglue and it will stuck to your hand straight away. It does however harden really fast so you can nock these up quite quickly.
Step 2: Slowly build up the foliage until nearly the whole wire is covered, remember to leave a bit to go into the exhausts.
Step 3: Once you're happy with the coverage and it's nice and dry spray the whole thing with a black rattlecan.
Step 4: Paint the base of the smoke with a bright yellow, I used Flash Gitz Yellow.
Step 5: Paint over the top of the yellow and also a little higher with an orange, I used Troll Slayer Orange for this.
Step 6: Drybrush over the top of all the areas painted with a black, ideally the same colour you sprayed with so it matches. Try not to go to heavy with this as you don't want to cover up to much of the fire being kicked out by the millennia old engines.
Step 7: Drybrush the whole smoke stack grey, I used Dawnstone, concentrate more toward the top of the stack
Step 8: Place into the top of the model, the metal wires should be enough to hold them in place, even in the most deadliest of battles, you can them remove them for transit.
Finished! Very happy with how it's gone. Few lessons learnt, mainly take your time with the initial gluing and it doesn't need to be perfect, smoke never is. The next step is the transfers.
that’s a cool effect 🙂
Very cool! I had wondered how people were doing this sort of thing, thanks for sharing the process.
Really nice effect, now I just need a suitable model to try the technique on!