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Spectacular!
May i ask for details regarding the difference in the armor color?
And which decals do you use? The forge world sheet is oop and the ones on the vehicles i dont even recognize 🙂
Thank you in advance!
Hi there, thanks!
I used different paints on the armour for a more desaturated look. Black undercoat, Vallejo Model Air US Olive Drab base, Hemp and Sand highlights.
The Raptor head decals are from chaptercustomizer.com
I was also wondering about the decals, However, my question is, how do you get the people at chaptercustomizer.com to actually ship your order?
Sorry, I can’t help you there! My own decals usually ship in 1-2 working days!
Happy New Year, Luther. Love the look of these Reivers. Did you spray a shadow colour and if so, which did you use?
Hi David, thanks! I just built up from black on these. So Black undercoat, Vallejo Model Air US Olive Drab (zenithal highlight), Hemp (spot highlight), Ivory (very selective highlight). Then Nuln Oil wash, then Camoshade. Both washes were thinned 1:1 with Lahmian Medium.
That’s really helpful. Thanks a lot.
Hi again, Luther. I’m trying this scheme on my Reivers. I didn’t notice much of a contrast between the olive drab and hemp so I’m wondering if I did something wrong. What colour did you use for the edge highlights? Thanks in advance.
Hi David,
The Hemp is a ‘medium’ highlight, so not super contrasting, but you should definitely be able to see a difference! These are the colours, just to confirm:
As you can see, the Sand (Ivory) is the most contrasting colour.
For edge highlights I use the same as on my standard Raptors scheme, Andrea Color White Paint Set 1 (Base).
Hi Luther,
Love these models. Your work always amazes me.
Quick question about the paints you listed above though if you don’t mind. Do they actually appear close to what those swatches above look like when dry or are they actually greener in real life? Only reason I ask is that when I looked up examples of them besides the Olive Drab they don’t actually look very green to me at all. So I’m curious if the green color on these Reivers comes more from the Athonian Camoshade wash or is it actually the paints?
Thanks in advance,
-Joe
Hi Joe,
You are correct – the green comes mostly from the Athonian Camoshade. The base colours are more brown, with just a hint of green. I wanted to achieve a subtle shade with this armour – difficult to describe but almost ‘grey-green’. I wanted to use Athonian Camoshade so they would tie in tonally with the rest of the army, so the other colours were chosen to compensate, knowing I was going to do that step afterwards.
Cheers,
Luther
Hello! Could you give me any lead on a slightly greener-bluer version of this for a very twisted Dark Angels scheme? 🙂
I’m new to the hobby, and don’t want to buy all 15 dark green shades in the model-modelair lineup to try 😛
I’m thinkin’ about something like swapping US Olive drab with IJN Black Green / IJN Deep Dark Green / Luftwaffe Camo Green.
Hi Eugenax,
How about this? https://www.themightybrush.com/product/how-to-paint-dark-angels-pdf-painting-guide/
Already bought that, but I’d like to merge the two somehow, or worst case I’ll be the dirty-as-hell dark angels 🙂
You could try:
71.322
71.014
71.305
It depends how “green” you want them.
If you plan to do an all-over wash as I did on the Raptors, you could either go straight Nuln Oil to darken it and make it more muted, or Nuln Oil + Biel-Tan Green if you want it more green.