Paint and colours

When considering the army, of course I knew it would be largely black, but I had to think of the shades and what colour they would be.  I’ve after thought that Codex Grey was to light to be a direct highlight to black so have often darkened it down somewhat.  Also, after painting my Space Wolves, I like the shading of the shadow grey and space wolves grey, it has a nice blue tint.  So, I had two things to bare in mind.  I wanted to add a blue tint to my black highlighting, and I wanted some darker shades to highlight from black before shadow grey.

After reading the net I came across a nice article that covered just that.  Here it is:  http://www.minivault.com/PaintingBT.htm

So that was it.  I liked how this sounded and decided to base my colours on this.  Id empty a white pot and fill it with chaos black to get the first highlight for the black.  Id also mix a pot of 50/50 black and white to get my next highlight.  From this I would use Shadow Grey (probably two stages) and finally very small spots of space wolves grey.  The reason I wanted to make the pots up is to get some consistency across the colours of the army rather than remixing each time.  Here they are:

~ by JawD on May 5, 2008.