Imperial fist tutorial part 2;

Step 5;



Put down all your basic colours, gold and black in my case. Then wash it with a 50/30/20 mix of water, black and brown.

step 6;



Use a sponge to apply a dark brown damage pattern. 50/50 black brown should get a nice colour, but this can vary with taste of the painter.

step 7;



Apply silver highlights. mithril's best

Step 8;



Use the rest of the mixture for the dark brown damage to make a wash, and apply over the damage to get a nice tone to it all.

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Step 10;



This is the last step of 'Decay' the second phase of painting. Here you start highlight and toning down the armour's damage with a nice golden yellow, since it's thin (at least the old stuff is) you can apply it without much worry. if your using a thicker paint, water it down and apply it very carefully.

Step 11;



Now it's time for restoration phase. This is where you paint the rest of it at you normally would, in this case gold highlight, purity seals ect.

Step 12;



Tamya clear red is a must. i was annoyed when i found i was fresh out if it, it adds so much more to the lens effect you cannot imagine.

Step 13;



Highlights once more, and touch ups where you want them. You've now got your basic scheme.

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Now i've been asked for a tutorial for this about 9000 times, so here it is.... very easy. You'll need Vallejo air light sea blue and white... and an airbrush. there's other ways out there, but if your serious about your hobby i'd advise getting one, it just opens so many doors for painting. Start by applying the sea blue;


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next up is the white. Spray it pretty thin to achieve the highlights.

Total paint time; 2hrs.

There's a warning hear, the clever amidst you will have noticed the issues with the painting; it's peeled off. Metal mini's are hard to do this with, because they peel. However, take a look at the resin/plastic models in my army for a clue on how they would react on the mini's GW currently do.

I hope this is useful to someone, in the mean time i'm going to finish painting and basing this guy. This tutorial is just the quick and dirty approach to making Grimdark Imperial fists, you can take a little more care and time to do this, this is just me hammering it through to completion.


NBD

Imperial Fist Tutorial - Part 1

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Part 1 of the tutorial time for the imperial fist as promised. Part 1; get a white base coat on your mini;

 

Step 2; I use a mixture of XV-88/Snakebite and Golden yellow (or a similar colour) to produce a yellow base. It doesn't matter if you do this by paint brush or by hand. I use an airbrush because i have one and it's amazing.

Step 3; Golden yellow and Sunburst/bad moon yellow highlight. Paint on the main surface of the armour, leaving it on the dark yellow recesses is optional, but i do it.

 Step 4; i use a mixture of sunburst and white for this, nothing to heavy, a 60:40 max. It's about getting a nice bright colour on the plainer segments of armour a head of part 2.

Next up in part 2; actually moving past having a bright yellow custard marine!