Guardians; black + teal scheme

[ultrasimon]

Heyas

Im new here. Ive been watchin a lot of the stuff going on round here for a while now (couple of months i beleive), so finally decided/found something to post for you guys.
Here are 2 guardians; both are about 2 years old now, so the paint has wore off a little (camera is too good >< it pics it all up cant notice when u look at it in person >< ), and the first one I never highlighted the blue with the final highlight, but it shows the armour highlights much better; thus why I put it with the original.

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PS: How do I make these pics show on here without them blooming up to like 1250x1000 aka make them smaller?

Now I've been trying to replicate this now (decided to start up my army again; been painting for about 6 years now, but Im always on and off) since I love the way it has turned out after 2 years of.... fading or whatever it has done. I went back to a thread I put on 40konline about it 2 years ago, and copied the tutorial I put down.

The results weren't cool The reason I stoped painting these dudes, I remembered, was because the teal colour wasn't very 'nice'. It was/is flat, and doesnt look appealing...and the final highlight SHOULD have been white rather then bleach bone, but thats fixed easaly and isnt an issue, the teal is. So for the last 2 months, Ive been searching around for a method in which I can paint teal; 1 that I can apply to an army that will look good, but wont take forever, and one that doesnt require a white undercoat :x I did use a white undercoat for this model(s), but applying white prima to the heads and weapons, and then black to the armour is really annoying and becomes too difficult in mass production.

Does anyone know any good tealish builds I can use? Dark or light, not fussed; as long as I can expand on it for painting my heroes up to a much higher standard. Keep in mind, all my products are GW at this stage; being I live in Melbourne, getting anything else is the ultimate pain... *sigh*

Thanks heaps.
-Simon

[jabberwocky]

Welcome to the forums, Ultrasimon! Glad to have you here. Tim and Dennis would offer some good advice, but if you want some good ideas, you may want to check the Reaper forums. Jen Hailey posts not infrequently there and I have heard (jokingly, but based in fact) that she uses quite a bit of teal. There is another staff painter that goes by Fieldarchy that works a lot with pastel colors and might be able to give a tip or two if you ask.

[ultrasimon]

I had a look; she doesn't have much on her forum/gallery :x It also seems like its a white base coat... I might email her and at least try and ask, but does anyone else know any good teal schemes w/ black base? Or anything in respects to my teal scheme ie: If ur going for that kind of thing, try this followed by this followed by etc...

Thanks for the help, much appreciated!
-Simon

[Tim C]

First off welcome to the forums I hope you like it here. Hmmm teal is not a colour that I have ever used and am not really sure even what it really looks like. I am assuming that it is a lightish beige colour in which case it is going to be difficult to get it to cover a black undercoat solidly. Humbrol paints actually made a teal coloured paint I think but I may be wrong. Sorry not alot of help I am afraid.

[dogfacedboyuk1]

Regarding your question on the photo resizing you should have an option in your paint program to resize the image. Depending on the program it may allow you to drag handles on a box around your image to resize it or you may have to manually type in a pixel width (around 500 pixels should be good, i usually use 300-400 for my web images). Make sure if you have a constrain check box anywhere that it is checked as this will keep the proportions. In adobe photoshop go to image>image size. Other programs should have fairly obvious resizing options although MS Paint seemed to be rubbish for resizing an image. Or maybe it was just me. Hope this helps.

[ultrasimon]

Well I got GW hawk turquoise and ice blue; which are greeny, bluey paints, but the ice blue is very flat, hawk is dark, and nothing in between

I think ill just pick another colour *doh*

-Simon