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While I’ve only achieved mid table terror status at events, I have won multiple best painted awards. I won’t claim to have what it takes to win a golden demon, but I do understand what it takes to paint an army that’s striking on the table and done in a way that’s sustainable to prevent burn out. I’m going to walk you through how to paint a big centerpiece model (winged hive tyrant) and hopefully inspire you to bring some of the techniques I use to your own army. At the end of all this, the tyrant is going to look like this: Hive Tyrant Photo Credit: Mike https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/123eaf29-f8fd-43b8-a9cd-f7b7cb64b155/ColorWheelMike2.png Articles - Mike Paints Tyranids: Stat Check Community Spotlight - Before I can talk about picking colors I need to talk about color theory. Color theory is a deep topic, I’m just going to give it a superficial explanation. If you’re not familiar with a color wheel: colors opposite on the wheel are complimentary, and tend to balance one another out in a color scheme. However when you directly mix complementary colors it pulls the result towards the middle of the wheel, which ends up looking like mud. There are many different methods picking complimentary colors, you can read more about them here: Photo Credit: Oberlo https://www.oberlo.com/blog/color-combinations-cheat-sheet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/6955a334-b5e1-4ef4-9c6b-6851fb551174/ColorWheelMike3.png Articles - Mike Paints Tyranids: Stat Check Community Spotlight - For the tyrant I want my main color to be turquoise. Why turquoise? I find it to be a very versatile color and suitably alien looking for Tyranid skin. You can blend with it blue, green, and violet pretty easily to create some very interesting transitions, and opposite on the wheel is orange, one of my favorite warm colors to work with. Turquoise also mixes easily with yellow for creating highlights. The chitin will be purple for a couple of reasons. The most important of which purple just looks really good with turquoise, and is an analogous color to turquoise. I’m also using purple as the shadows on the skin, using the same color on the chin will bring harmony to the model. Photo Credit: Oberlo https://www.oberlo.com/blog/color-combinations-cheat-sheet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/0b0923d4-2755-4f69-9676-c7c9104a0b73/Mike4.jpeg Articles - Mike Paints Tyranids: Stat Check Community Spotlight - VJMC Violet + Dioxazine Ink through the airbrush. Airbrushing has a tendency to desaturate colors a little bit, adding the ink brings the vibrancy back. This is going to form the shadows of the skin. Base Coat Photo Credit: Mike https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/ca14b840-5bbb-46fe-8d90-fedbbe84cf7c/Mike5.jpeg Articles - Mike Paints Tyranids: Stat Check Community Spotlight - VJGC Turquoise through the airbrush. Here I’m doing a zenithal with the turquoise leaving some shadow obviously visible. In big flat areas like the tail I’m trying to create visual interest by introducing artificial areas of light and dark. 1st Highlight Photo Credit: Mike https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/1c1f6063-fa97-46af-b130-85240a5e15a8/Mike6.jpeg Articles - Mike Paints Tyranids: Stat Check Community Spotlight - The same idea as the previous highlight, but using VJMC blue-green and covering a slightly smaller area. Don’t worry about overspray. 2nd Highlight Photo Credit: Mike https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/349a16f3-33f3-43f3-8274-f50c13a6fd06/Mike7.jpeg Articles - Mike Paints Tyranids: Stat Check Community Spotlight - Here I’m using VJMC ice yellow, and deciding where my points of interest are going to be. I picked his face, “hands”, biceps, and spots on the tail. At this point my tyrant looks like a clown, but that will get fixed in the next step. 3rd Highlight Photo Credit: Mike https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/7c2b09a3-96a6-4b7e-8403-d73e132c4eb9/Mike8.jpeg Articles - Mike Paints Tyranids: Stat Check Community Spotlight - Now I apply an oil wash made of mixing Gamblin Pthalo turquoise with thinner. There’s no perfect ratio here. Basically the thicker the wash the more it will stain the underlying paint. The thickness I use is roughly that of milk. If the wash just instantly goes into all the crevices it’s too thin and it’s better to err on the side of too thick to get the desired effect. Oil Wash Photo Credit: Mike https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/f9c92022-dc10-4664-8e62-1dda8ae53398/Mike9.jpeg Articles - Mike Paints Tyranids: Stat Check Community Spotlight - I let it dry for about half an hour, then wipe off all the oil paints with cut up makeup sponges. If you are doing this process you will want to wear gloves for this as it's fairly messy. You want to pull the sponge down towards the shadows, leaving the illuminated parts of the model the brightest. This is what it looks like after wiping off the wash, I love the color at this stage. I wait for the wash to fully dry before moving on, 24 hours should be enough. Oil Wash 2 Photo Credit: Mike https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/870daec0-3aac-4114-81ce-07e7ae31c76c/Mike10.jpeg Articles - Mike Paints Tyranids: Stat Check Community Spotlight - For the wings I use a very similar process to the skin, except I go harder into actual painting than just using an oil wash. The first step is to prepare the area of the skin. I’m going to be building a dark to light fade, so I want the base of the wing skin to be light and I’ll use oil paints to darken it. I use an off white acrylic paint as a base coat, the specific color doesn’t really matter. GW wraithbone or VJMC light sand work fine. I apply a few thin coats with a brush until there’s good coverage, it doesn’t need to be perfect. Wings Photo Credit: Mike https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/b17148c4-7c85-498b-acbd-887376112994/Mike11.jpeg Articles - Mike Paints Tyranids: Stat Check Community Spotlight - Next I take Permanent alizarin crimson and apply it all over the wings. I let it dry for about 30 minutes and then wipe it off with a makeup sponge. I spend more time removing paint from the bright parts of the wings and basically ignore the deepest shadows. If you are trying to do something similar and you’re less comfortable with oils I think it’s completely fine to leave it at this stage, it still looks pretty good. Wings 2 Photo Credit: Mike https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/6845469a-a902-4bbb-9b8f-477e7e987cf6/Mike12.jpeg Articles - Mike Paints Tyranids: Stat Check Community Spotlight - To really take the gradient to the next level I’m going to mix in some more oil paints to really make the wings stand out. As I work through the steps below I’m not especially concerned with how smooth the transitions are, it’s a sketch that we’re going to fix at the end using the full power of oil paints. The paint I apply are as follows: Quinacridone red + naples yellow light, cover most of the wing area leaving dark shadows as alizarin crimson. Add more naples yellow light, cover less area making a highlight for the wing. Mix Ultramarine + Quinacridone red to make a purple and put it in the recesses of the wing creating a deep shadow. The reason I chose ultramarine is that it is a red-biased blue, meaning it will mix happily with quinacridone red, a blue-biased red. Finally, I put a little bit of pure Naples yellow light in the highest areas. Adding Definition to the Wings Photo Credit: Mike https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/fc6abf09-3c1c-41e6-b7e9-c7abdd7cb5f8/Mike13.jpeg Articles - Mike Paints Tyranids: Stat Check Community Spotlight - Now comes the fun part, blending. I take a brush with soft bristles and is relatively big, like size 4+. I hold it very lightly, and kind of stipple it into the oil paint. This has the effect of mixing the paint on the surface and blends the two colors together. As this happens the brush will accumulate some paint, so I make sure to wipe it off on a paper tower occasionally. I go through all the color boundaries and smooth them all out. This is an iterative process and requires going back and adding paint to the surface of the wing to get the effect that I want. Because oil paints stay dry for hours, sometimes days, you don’t have to get it right the first time. I try to keep mixes on the palette so I can add it to the appropriate part of the wing as needed. Adding Definition to the Wings 2 Photo Credit: Mike https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/c68a7107-a52a-4df2-a8f2-ae210d9f0bcf/Mike14.jpeg Articles - Mike Paints Tyranids: Stat Check Community Spotlight - I want the carapace to match the shadows of the skin, so I use a paint with the same pigment as the ink that was used in the airbrushing stage. Just because I like the color, I mix Dioxazine Purple with some Quinacrindone Magenta and a small amount of titanium white to give it some opacity (otherwise both those paints are very transparent). This stage is basic oil painting. I take a decent sized brush (2+) with stiff bristles and put some paint on the brush. I remove most of it on a piece of palette paper, I know I have the right amount of paint when I can hear the bristles scraping against the paper. Applying the paint to the carapace is like dry brushing, but it gets way better coverage. I keep going until all the chitin is covered in the purple mixture. Carapce Photo Credit: Mike https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/f597f22e-d7a6-450b-a8b6-9c8392ca06c2/Mike15.jpeg Articles - Mike Paints Tyranids: Stat Check Community Spotlight - I want the sword and the whip to be points of interest, and the eye is naturally drawn to warm colors. So here I want to make both have points of orange. I sketch the colors on both first with an airbrush and then go with a brush after to add emphasis. You can get amazing orange colors by mixing magenta and yellow. I start with AK Laser Magenta as a base. I progressively add more ScaleColor Golden Yellow to the cup in the airbrush and work towards the bright points. It’s worth mentioning that I had to have a very light touch when doing the whip so that I didn’t get overspray on the rest of the model. If you are a more careful person than I am, you could wrap the rest of the model in saran wrap to protect it while you do this. Sword and Whip Photo Credit: Mike https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/122e1954-4030-48d3-a4c1-a07a7e2849ed/Mike16.jpeg Articles - Mike Paints Tyranids: Stat Check Community Spotlight - When doing gradients with a brush, I like to mix the complete gradient on my wet palette and work from that. That way I can work on any part of the transition without having to mix paint again. I added definition to the sword and whip along the gradient using paint from my palette. When you’re painting over airbrush work it’s very important to thin your paints, and make sure that you haven’t overloaded your brush. Wipe off excess on a paper towel. This stage is a matter of taking the mix from my wet palette and matching it to the sword. I added some yellow and orange edge highlights for another point of interest. Sword and Whip 2 Photo Credit: Mike https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/0179334b-de00-44fd-b486-cdb44d0915c9/Mike17.jpeg Articles - Mike Paints Tyranids: Stat Check Community Spotlight - Laser Magenta + Golden Yellow on the left, Golden yellow + ice yellow on the right. Sword and Whip 3 Photo Credit: Mike https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/de1055bb-e09c-4f0a-a882-bdd504b42e9e/Mike18.jpeg Articles - Mike Paints Tyranids: Stat Check Community Spotlight - The bone parts & teeth are done using acrylics using the following steps Mix a gradient of ScaleColor deep red, ScaleColor iroko, and ScaleColor birch on your wet palette. Apply a base coat of ScaleColor deep red. Apply a mix of deep red and iroko covering less area Add more iroko and cover a smaller area Towards the tip apply a mixture of iroko and birch Bone Bits Photo Credit: Mike https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/33afadb4-902e-4154-a3a5-3e03fd237ff5/Mike19.jpeg Articles - Mike Paints Tyranids: Stat Check Community Spotlight - For the glands I used the same color transition I did for the sword and whip. Apply a base coat of laser magenta Mix in some ScaleColor golden yellow and cover about half the area Mix in even more yellow and cover a small area Add even more yellow and make a small highlight Glands Photo Credit: Mike https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/94c917c2-c17a-447d-8804-9a3967520fca/Mike20.jpeg Articles - Mike Paints Tyranids: Stat Check Community Spotlight - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/3c9bac52-7dd6-451a-ad79-0c2e7855b9ad/Mike21.jpeg Articles - Mike Paints Tyranids: Stat Check Community Spotlight - As a final test, let's look at the tyrant in greyscale. This lets me validate that I’ve done enough value variation to emphasize the points of interest I talked about in the beginning. I think that’s pretty much perfect for points of interest. If I’m going to nitpick I think I could still do more work on the carapace and maybe a bit more work on the sword, this guy’s definitely ready for the table though. Wrapping Up Photo Credit: Mike https://www.stat-check.com/blog/76ejx4jgcutmbsmpq190l45dawlohs monthly 0.5 2023-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/796cd746-a048-4840-978a-b94a350b24a8/teaamExpectations.PNG Articles - How to prepare for team tournaments - Make it stand out Estimations of the meta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/dacc7396-d233-4237-b621-31f34d837de4/vsParis.PNG Articles - How to prepare for team tournaments - Make it stand out Estimations vs Paris United https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/a2155a06-6930-420a-b901-1ae55cd02d44/vsPoland.PNG Articles - How to prepare for team tournaments - Make it stand out Estimations vs Poland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/6c08b548-e79d-479e-af26-74b71a6b060d/vsParis.PNG Articles - How to prepare for team tournaments - Make it stand out Estimations vs Paris United https://www.stat-check.com/blog/dan-j-paints-yellow-stat-check-community-spotlight monthly 0.5 2023-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/dbef5860-22ce-4016-a880-f9a8bf2e9b42/Dan1.jpeg Articles - Dan J Paints Yellow: Stat Check Community Spotlight - This is the first in a series of articles I hope to write over the next few months. In each article I'm going to focus on a recipe for a single colour, a technique or concept. My hope is to demystify painting a little and give you the confidence to give it a go. In this article I'm going to share a recipe for getting a really rich, deep yellow. Yellow is one of those colours that can be a bit intimidating but hopefully this recipe will break it down a little. I've used a Fire Dragon model but you could use this recipe for any model you want. Whether you're painting something with hard surfaces like an Imperial Fist or with more organic volumes like Mechanicus robes- the steps and principles are the same. Fire Dragon Exarch Photo Credit: Dan J https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/ca1bde84-7bcf-435a-a821-fd30681b05bf/Dan3.jpeg Articles - Dan J Paints Yellow: Stat Check Community Spotlight - I thinned Vallejo warlord purple and gave the models 2-3 thin coats. It's important to use thin layers and let them dry between coats. Some people use a hairdryer for this. Based Photo Credit: Dan J https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/f6c8413a-e32e-44cd-ac8b-a345776d5c8e/Dan4.jpeg Articles - Dan J Paints Yellow: Stat Check Community Spotlight - I wanted to prepare a good base for the yellow so I used the airbrush to zenithal highlight white, leaving warlord purple in the recesses and shadows. You can also use a rattle can or brush for this step. Zenithal Photo Credit : Dan J https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/6cebdb4e-4dac-41b1-8e81-1a14bc023b7a/Dan5.jpeg Articles - Dan J Paints Yellow: Stat Check Community Spotlight - I carefully built up layers using Iyanden Yellow contrast paint. Do this to taste, I think I did 3-4 careful coats- focusing on the shaded areas in the last couple of coats. A note on contrast paints: I've never really used contrast paints for their intended use (as a one stop shop for colour and shade with a brush over a flat primer) but I love using them as glazes or through an airbrush. The density of pigment in the more colourful contrast paints brings incredible saturation - making these super vibrant, rich colours. N.b. If you are using contrast paints with a brush, make sure it's not your best kolinsky sable brush because they tend to kill non-synthetic brushes. Contrast Layers Photo Credit: Dan J https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/f2793429-9edd-41ca-8b98-787794314d2e/Dan6.jpeg Articles - Dan J Paints Yellow: Stat Check Community Spotlight - I thinned Vallejo red ink down (roughly 1:1 with water) and carefully used it as a glaze to shade the shadows with an airbrush. Careful with this - it's really easy to cover all that nice yellow from the previous step. Make sure you’re shooting the airbrush from below the model to the get into the shadows rather than from above (as in previous steps) Shading Photo Credit: Dan J https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/90220109-5311-44f3-bb5c-db95a0a92cc4/Dan7.jpeg Articles - Dan J Paints Yellow: Stat Check Community Spotlight - I decided I had gone a little too far with the previous step; I really wanted this to be a yellow and not an orange! So I thinned down a little yriel yellow (roughly 1:1 with water and a few drops of Vallejo thinner) and hit the places which would get light - helmet, hands, knee pads etc with the airbrush. Again, you can do all this with a brush! I wanted to note here that I was essentially fixing a mistake in this step- everyone makes them. It's ok to go back and forth until you get the results you want.. the absolute worst case scenario in miniature painting is you just strip the model and start again, so don't be afraid to get it wrong. Yellow Volumes Photo Credit: Dan J https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/5708ce2f-e907-40b5-8fed-56d34a11cbaa/Dan9.jpeg Articles - Dan J Paints Yellow: Stat Check Community Spotlight - At this point I do two things: I black in some of the details of the model (I used Vallejo Model Colour Black). You don't have to do this here, but it helps define the model and also helps me feel a sense of progress. It's really important to do this with a brush with a good point (I used an Artis Opus size 3) and to take your time. I cannot stress this enough- it's really hard to paint yellow over black so be careful! I thin down Warlord Purple (roughly 1:2 with water) and pin wash around the armour panels and all the little Eldar blips. I also do a little light glazing - pulling the brush towards the shadows. At this point you could skip the edge highlight stages below, move on to painting the other parts of the model and get on with your life! Blacking In and Recess Wash Photo Credit: Dan J https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4a96d909c007e86c1000d/3c44e2cc-6d73-48d8-972f-52e4571a339f/Dan10.jpeg Articles - Dan J Paints Yellow: Stat Check Community Spotlight - I apply three sets of edge highlights (you don't need to do all 3): Yriel yellow 50:50 yriel yellow and ice yellow - focusing on the raised edges. I pick out a few bright points with pure Ice yellow. Less is more with this step! 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