Banichi said:
Those are beautifully painted ships dude. How did you achieve that aged look, its great. It looks like you got the ships from an antique shop, its that convincing.
Hey, thanks! It´s not at all difficult; I´ve come upt with it when painting Undead miniatures (a LOT of them).
I´ve used GW paints, but any acrylic paints will do.
First, a black basecoat. Then, I´ve used Scaly Green (though any dark green or blue-green will do) and painted that over the ships, concentrating on the lower areas between the plates.
Next, I painted Tin Bits onto the raised areas. You could use any very dark metallic paint, but Tin Bits already has a brownish tone to it.
The next metallic colour has been Brazen Brass - again, any brown metallic coulor will work (using a copper colour instead also gives you a nice final result). I´ve given the whole ship a thorough drybrush with the brass, carefull not to paint over too much of the green, and also leaving the tin bits looking through in places.
The next step is with a gold colour - here´s where you really decide how bright you want your ship to be. I´ve used the dark GW gold (I think it was Shining Gold), and carefully brushed that onto the raised areas, concentrating on the edges. Gold usually leaves a lot of colour looking through, so you might want to do this twice.
Now, almost finished, I brushed some Mitrhil Silver onto the edges. It´s important not to use too much silver, because it would really stand off the rest of the ship in the end. A darker silver colour on the other hand probably won´t work, because the whole ship will get toned down in the next step.
And that step is giving the ship 2 washes with thinned-down black ink. You could also replace the first of these washes with thinned down brown ink to give it more of a rusty look, but I prefer two black washes because it increases the contrast of the different colours.
Et voilá, one aged ship. With only a little practice, this technique is also extremly fast, taking more time for the colours to dry than actually painting them on.
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