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Flint's Tiny Tutes; How to Paint Ensorcelled Weapons the Lazy Girl Way
Topic Started: May 30 2014, 09:43 AM (462 Views)
Flint13
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Evening folks! I've gotten a lot of recent questions on my technique for painting the ensorcelled weapons for my Chaos Knights and Skull Crushers, so I thought I'd go the whole eight yards and make a little tutorial for those interested.

I'm not going to lie, I "perfected" this technique because I'm lazy, but I wanted something that would look good. This doesn't require a ton of paints, any difficult techniques, or super neatness. In fact, I get better results when I'm a little more sloppy. I used pretty much the same deal for power weapons in 30k as well. Anyone who has spent any time checking out my l'il plog knows I have an ice and winter theme (obsession) going on, thus the chipped ice look. But this can just as easily be adapted for red, purple, yellow, green. Anywho, less chatty, more painty.

Step 1: Assemble!
- This is all I use. Just like anything, you can sub paint brands and colors. Just think dark, med, light and you'll be fine. The only item you may not have around is Vallejo fluorescent, but I've gotten pretty similar results using the Tamiya "clear" colors (red, blue and purple so far).
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Step 2: (post primer) Base coat in your darkest color. Don't bother being neat. I certainly didn't.

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Step 3: Broad highlights with your medium color. Again, my neatness is negligible. Just get it in the general area.

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Step 4: Slimmer highlights in your lightest color. Follow this with a few dashes pulled down towards the bottom edge of the blade. Try not to make them uniform, it looks kinda weird if all the dashes are the same size and thickness.

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Step 5: Hit the blade with a thin-ish coat of fluorescent (or clear) blue. Let it dry.

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Step 6: Slim feathered edge highlight with your lightest color.

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Step 7: Feather a very light few dashes of your lightest color over the flat blade.

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Step 8: Hit it with some matte coat. I use Testor's dullcote. Not a huge difference, but it pulls the shine out.

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Step 9:

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LIquid_Squid
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Thanks for this Flint, now I'll see if I can do it or an easier version. So there might be one or two random mooks with wonky swords until I get the technique down. Or I pull it off with amazing results (yeah right).

ps: The name of this post had me so confused and laughing at the same time
Edited by LIquid_Squid, May 30 2014, 09:55 AM.
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Spoiled_Bounty
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The Ruiner
Step 9 is the best!! Thanks Flint!
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R3do
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The Warptongue
Thanks from this Flint!
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