The first of my aircraft, a Lightning Strike Flight.




Any suggestions?

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I like the engine afterburners!

I'd paint a darker gray or brownish colour in the recesses of the wings and wash the metals with a badab black or devlan mud style colour.

Looking good.


Try feathering the window pane light blue highlights rather than applying them as block colours?

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Gotta figure out a way to to that that I can get consistent. I'll give it another shot.

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One way that can work on small areas is to start with the lighter of the colours (light blue) and then apply the darker as a sort of washy-tint pulled across with a wet brush, rather than going dark-to-light.

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I'll give that a shot when I wake up.

Right now it looks like the kid is going back to sleep. Hooray!

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Not that hard - I use 2 methods. Either:
1) light blue as a base and then wash the top bottom with a dark blue (I use asurmen blue wash, GW)
or
2) medium blue as a base coat, followed by a bunch of diagonal small dabs in a lighter blue and a second highlight in a lighter one still), like the airplanes in my 2010 orks

So much for sleeping.


Thoughts?

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very nice, much smoother effect

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Indeed!

Lack of sleep produces nice results!

Ugh! They're worth it, but blending tose canopies is a pain!

A Marauder Bomber, not part of my 3k list.



I'm realizing a couple things as I see these pics at full resolution: I need to go over the wash again, and the primer I used on these (I finally ran dry of GW) sucks. Very grainy surface. It's not too bad in the spots I've gone over it with a coat of paint, though. I think I'll do a light coat of Codex and rewash the whole thing like I did with the Lightnings. Yay, redo. As long as I can keep the glass and engines intact it's not too much of a setback, though.

Black/Green Recon Squadron. Done except for basing.

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Very nice! The surface on that marauder does look a bit strange, and I don't know if the picture is very accurate, but I think the buggies would be nice with an Ogryn Flesh or Sepia wash

Sigh. They've got a Sepia wash. Probably need another though, especially around the rocket pods. That's why I'm posting them, other's eye's see things mine don't always.

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You did pull off a very very cool windowed surface on all of these, though. On the Sepia, if it looks good off camera, that should be enough!

you know, who ever suggested blue for the canopies was a forward thinking genius

I don't know if the planes are a work in progress, but a little highlighting on the panels and sharp edges would work wonders. It's hard to rely on washes alone for creating an illusion of depth and even a couple of only slightly lighter highlights would make a big difference.