Byronic's 40k painting blog

[Byron]

awesome!

I really like the sharp highlights on the whole model.
Thumbs up for the OSL on the lord!

By the way, did you airbursh the basecoat? it really looks smooth

Thanks Meraklis.

The lord was just brush over a black undercoat, the barge was an airbursh basecoat over halfords grey primer, concentrating more on the recesses for 'natural' shadows - I thought as the machine parts are eant to be a bit more organic with the necrons I'd do something which wasn't completely flat.

The mix was Dark angels Green:Chaos black 4/5:1 ish.

Byron

[New Cult King]

Gah, that's all just amazing, The Lord is... perfect

[Byron]

Gah, that's all just amazing, The Lord is... perfect

Cheers bud, he's here if you'd like him ^_^:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/byronorde/...&_trksid=p3686


Seriously if anyone wants to know recipes on any part of anything I do just ask; I've got to claw back some credibility for the shameless self-plugging that this thread will sometimes involve!

The Ark is built and I've got to say it wasn't the most enjoyable experience; don't get me wrong the kit is brilliant, but it just took forever! I don't think this is particularly surprising given the general shape of necron architecture etc, but it took me 4hours + to assemble it and remove the seal lines.

I'll get some pictures up soon. I've got some death copany I finished a while back as well.

Cheers,

Byron

[Jimmy Ellwood]

great edge highlighting, also loving the green direct lighting glow effect. Look forward to seeing more.

[IceWind]

That lord is awesome! Btw how'd you paint the glow?

[Byron]

great edge highlighting, also loving the green direct lighting glow effect. Look forward to seeing more.

Cheers bud, someone's asked for a monolith commission so that'll be in the works, for now it's just the ark below that I'm doing.

That lord is awesome! Btw how'd you paint the glow?

Cheers bud, for me the biggest difference is starting with a white basecoat for the object you're meant to have the light cast from, so things look soewhat more natural, then the source lighting isn't quite as bright, which is how things should be.

Whether you're using an airbrush or a normal brush the best way is to do plenty of thin glazes, blowing between layers, you're much better of doing thin ones and it taking 2x as long rather than using something too thick and having to start again/ruining it. I'd also recommend using a thinner or something, the glazes will evaporate super fast between layers and it actually saves you a considerable amount of time!

I Started from a dheneb stone basecoat, then skull white to make things as bright as possible, then I worked backwards through the layers getting darker from one end to the other with the airbrush and the normal brush glazes;

Skull White +Scorpion green
Scorpion green+ Sunburst yellow
Scorpion Green
Scorpion Green: Dark Angels Green 2:1
Dark Andgels Green: Scorpion 2:1
Dark Angels
Dark angels:chaos black 1:1

Couple of pictures of the ark I'm working on, slightly different scheme from the last lot,





Byron

[Zywus]

Looks awesome! Those airbrushes can really produce gorgeus results in the right hands. Speaking of hands, I'm pleased to see I'm not the only one using my own hands as a medium to test paint-consistency and colour.

I think i've spotted a mini-mouldline on the right and center exhaustpipes on the Annihilation barge. Would be a shame to let that mar an otherwise great model right?

[Byron]

Looks awesome! Those airbrushes can really produce gorgeus results in the right hands. Speaking of hands, I'm pleased to see I'm not the only one using my own hands as a medium to test paint-consistency and colour.

I think i've spotted a mini-mouldline on the right and center exhaustpipes on the Annihilation barge. Would be a shame to let that mar an otherwise great model right?

Well noticed bud!

Haha, tell me about it, I know how the right consistency goes in the creases of my skin! I'll never change.

[Byron]

Lmk your thoughts guys, the photos came out pretty badly, it's such a big model!

Byron

[Byron]

Some slightly better pictures:



That's it for the necrons for now until a Monolith arrives which I'm painting in the GW alternate (turquoise) scheme for a client, back to square bases for a bit!

Cheers for looking all, if you like it the Ark's on eBay.

Byron

[Meraklis]

hope you get a good price for this! It really looks good!

Looking forward to seeing more of your work!

[AtmanAbecedarian]

Oh wow. These are some lovely Crons. So cleanly painted. And your glow effect is just superb.
Waiting for more of you fine work

[Byron]

hope you get a good price for this! It really looks good!

Looking forward to seeing more of your work!

Oh wow. These are some lovely Crons. So cleanly painted. And your glow effect is just superb.
Waiting for more of you fine work

Cheers guys, a monolith is on its way, still in the fairly boring looking prepping stages unfortunately, it'll be something different fro mthe last lot - going for the turquoise alternate GW scheme, pictures in the next few days.

Byron

[Scarecrow808]

hey, i just saw this on whats new today, on GW.
sweet looking dooksday ark (i think thats the right name)

Scarecrow

[Tzarinchilla]

Congrats on the what's new pics. Really looking nice up on there. Can now officially put a 'as seen on GW's what's new today page' statement in your auctions lol.

[Byron]

hey, i just saw this on whats new today, on GW.
sweet looking dooksday ark (i think thats the right name)

Scarecrow

Thanks Scarecrow, it must be a common thing to get confused about; I myself only realised when I was listing the auction that I wasn't quite sure of the name of the model i'd spent the past 2 days painting...

Congrats on the what's new pics. Really looking nice up on there. Can now officially put a 'as seen on GW's what's new today page' statement in your auctions lol.

Thanks bud, you're spot on the money there, when I got over the kiddy-joy of seeing them that was my first thought!

I'm spending this afternoon on the monolith, very strange to be painting something this large I must say, hopefully I'll have something worthy of taking a picture of by this evening!

Byron

[Swoosh]

Very impressive, fantastic painting? Would love you to post your step by step on how you paint both including the lord.

[Meraklis]

great work on the ghost ark! Looking forward to the turquoise scheme. What colours are you planning to use?

[Byron]

Very impressive, fantastic painting? Would love you to post your step by step on how you paint both including the lord.

Sorry I took a while to get back to you on this mate, hopefully this is in depth enough for you

Necron Lord

I started from a black base-coat, metallics were done exactly the same as the barge, but with a second edge-highlight of 50/50 chainmail/mithril. The glowing sections were done in the same was as the tubes on the turret-gun as well. The gold sections on his shoulder/head were based with dwarf bronze/calthan brown 50/50, to get a good base, then dwarf bronze/shining gold (all over). Next straight fro the pot badab black, trying to copy the shaded areas on the box as a guide. The edges/areas to catch the light were then highlighted with pure shining gold, thinned doown in a couple of layers, and a final edge-highlight of shining gold/mithril silver 50/50.

The cloak of was such an important and beautiful part of the model (my favourite part bit actually) that I wanted to make sure it really caught the eye, I left the black base-coat in the recesses to give it some nice contrast. I based it with tin bitz and scorched brown for coverage, and then covered all of this with pure tin bits. When it doubt with metallics in terms of highlighting I find it's helpful to do the base colour and then hold it directly under a desk lamp to see which parts catch the light, and keep things natural, I used this tip on the cloak, as I'd have no idea otherwise! I used dwarf bronze on all of the scales to catch the light, and then dwarf bronze and shining gold on the bits of those which caught the light the most. The last stage was a dwarf bronze/chainmail highlight on all of the edes.

Barge:
As far as painting the barge goes I worked from a fortress grey base, which works well for me as firstly if I miss anything it won't show through to the same extent as white, and secondly it means I can shade down the recesses/joins when doing the base-coat with the airbrush, rather than highlighting the in an additional stage, which is more time consuming. Most of the detail in the model is in the highlighting with the brush, this just gives a slightly more organic look to the green, rather than just being a flat colour, which I thought fitted with Necrons.

After the base-coat of 4:1 Dark Angels Green:Chaos black (concentrating more on the recesses, joins and undersides of the model I highlighted all edges with a Dark angels Green and Scorpion Green 3:1, then, concentrating more on the corners with each successive layer. The next layer was pure scorpion green, then I added a touch of sunburst yellow, and for the final 'dot' a little skull white. The metallics were done with a 50/50 Boltgun/chainmail base, on top of a black base-coat, then one layer of straight from the pot badab black all over. the glowing cracks in the sections of the barrel were painted skull white, then watered down scorpion green painted inside, no need to be neat, the next stage is to paint black on the barrels where the silver/green has poked over.

At this stage I baseed the glowing tubes of the gun skull white (best way to keep things bright), then used the airbrush to spray scorpion green in the mid-section, and dark angels green to the outside, with a final touch of scorpion green/sunburst yellow to the middle. The etallic edges were highlighted with chainmail.

great work on the ghost ark! Looking forward to the turquoise scheme. What colours are you planning to use?

Hawk turquoise by the bucket-load! (my favourite in GW's entire range actually )Basically I shaded the joints with a 3:1 Black/Hawk Turquoise base, then put HT all over, although the pre-shade may have been a complete waste..definitely in pictures, and it's a bit (too) subtle in real life I think. Highlighting is HT+Skull white, then I went back into the recesses with badab black and gryphonne sepia.

I should have a proper picture of it tomorrow, it's basically a three colour scheme, and as it's to be a high quality job for a client I'm putting some depth in them with wash, highlight colour, wash, highlight colour again, hopefully he'll like it: I think it's come out fairly well.

Again once the pics are up just ask if you'd like some real in-depth responses!

Byron

[Byron]

Hi all, apart from a unit of 10 warriors which I may paint up if I get tie this is going to be the last necron update for a while, enjoy!






Let me know your thoughts, I enjoying working with Hawk Turquoise so much I must say