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February 8, 2011 by dais

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beerogre

15 years ago

Cracking stuff! 😀

BoW Andy

dais

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Reply to beerogre

15 years ago

Thanks, I painted before the tron craze but since that movie people have been going nuts for my jacks.

nathorofthehillpeople

15 years ago

This is so nice. Great work

manpug

15 years ago

They say imitation is the greatest form of flatery. Im going to use your style as a foundation for my warjacks. Any tips will be great.

dais

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15 years ago

I will try to describe my heat effect as well as i can and at least list the paints i used. I started with a black primed model and made a wash of p3 morrow white to wash all the areas that would be hot. I took normal painting constancy morrow white and got into the inner shoulders as much as humanly possible, a little black in a shadow can kill the effect. it looked very messy afterward.
Next i used a heavy glaze of reaper phoenix red, this is actually a reddish orange. i glazed twice so no white showed in the deepest parts.
At this point i took a mix of reaper clear red and some darker gw red, i think scab red. the original color was nearly neon so i got it down to a ruby red color, i will refer to this as ‘red’ from now on. i used a 2/1 mix of this and matte medium and thinned it to normal painting consistency and painted next to the orange try hard to get a good blend.
i blended some p3 sanguine base over the red in the same way and tried to blend into the black basecoat. next i took some pure black and a touch of some oop gw midnight blue to recover my black. i dont know what it is about midnight blue but it is not just blue+black like most dark blues, it has some high pigment concentration or dye added or something. The added blue helps contrast the black from the orange and that particular blue makes black look even darker. I took my black mix and just painted over the large open areas then after it all dried added matte medium to glaze over the edge of the dark red and help blend it.
The brightest oranges are based on reaper orange highlight and p3 menoth white highlight. I first just painted the pure orange on then made a wash of the two and went into the deepest cervices where i wanted it to pop or where it would be the hottest.
After that i just went back to tidy things up with glazes. I made it a point to never add yellow to keep the effect looking hot, but not on fire.

elromanozo

Reply to dais

15 years ago

Lovely ! Your colors are wonderful…

To answer your question, partly, the midnight blue is a very cold blue that tends towards purple… One must realise that shadows are never black, in reality.

The color blue is perceived by the human eye as “cold”, and it’s the color of faraway objects (mountains, the sky, the sea…) because of earth’s atmosphere. It is perceived as “deep”. Generally, a cold blue or green is used by painters as a shadow for flesh, or for warm reddish tones… A cold shadow sets off a warm highlight, just like a warm shadow sets off a cold blue or white lighting on a miniature.

Hope this helps… I know I paint better miniatures since I apply proper color theory.

dais

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15 years ago

@elromanozo thank you. I have noticed some of your work here and I am very impressed.
I try to keep color theory in mind when I paint but sometimes it can be difficult to process what a color looks like to the eye vs. what it is. Black iron for instance seems dead black(technically dark gray but hey, I have to make that glow look lit up) but with the blue sky overhead it dose take that cool blue hue just a bit.