Thursday, January 23, 2014

Retained Knight/Space Marine Test model

As a step forward for my RT 40K project last night I quickly worked up a paint scheme on one of my Retained Knight models to see if I was happy with it.  I'm looking for a fairly "realistic" military color for their power armor...I'm trying to avoid the bold primary colors that we so commonly associate with Space Marines.  To this end I pawed through paint stock and pulled out all the Vallejo Model Color greens, grays, and brown. By mixing a couple I came up with a color I was happy with...I think it looks realistically "military" but will also stand out fairly well against the gray background colors of the Battle Systems Terrain.  Using one color for almost all of the figure will also allow for significant time savings through the use of the bilk painting techniques I practiced with on the Brets over the last summer.

I will certainly be adding some kind of motif or unit number to this guys shoulder pads...I'll have to start shopping around for decals...

...anyway...what do you think?

 
I'm not really sure how to deal with his rifle...black?  Metallic?  ...I'll have to think on that for a bit...

Cheers for now!

Blue

14 comments:

  1. Excellent looking, nice green.
    You could paint the rifle a dark green colour rather than flat black?

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  2. Honestly never seen those particular models look so good.

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  3. Looking great Mr Blue. Never liked those figures but you made him look stunning

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  4. Many thanks all! From the pictures it looks like I could smooth out some of my highlight transitions! Now if I can just decide what kind of Shoulder pad decoration to give them...

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  5. Maybe have a couple of pieces on the rifle have some colour? The bayonet is silvered, maybe colourize the end peices/reinforcement bands of the scope and barrel? I'd go for something muted, but enough to lighten up what might be a black hole of a weapon.

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    1. Thanks Dave...yeah thats what I've been leaning towards today myself...I'll play around with it a bit this weekend.

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  6. What do you make of the Gold rim around the Shoulder pads? Good idea? or should it be another color?

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    1. I rather like it actually. I think the limited palette of colours makes it pop quite nicely. One of the reasons you'd want to go for something muted on the rifle is you don't want to overwhelm the gold and/or expand the colours too much.

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  7. May be just me, but I think a warm grey would look nice on the rifles. And maybe some kind of old school freehand for the shoulders, but muted down to a monochrome to match the military drabs.

    It's looking great. Makes me kind of want to pick some of those guys up myself...

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    1. I like a very light dry brush of grey on black for gunmetal. I'm not a fan of heavy metallic colours.

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