Emita Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Hiya! Whats the best way to paint DAs? (From experience). Like what do you use to highlight DAs, Im using Snot Green and even Goblin Green and I think it's a bit too bright. A bit cautious to mix paints as it'll be too thick. I want my Angels to be really dark and like menancing, maybe I'm just having an artists block. Apologies for the n00bie Q, I'm just a little frustrated. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexusnight Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 A simple and quick way is to base in Chaos Black, Paint the whole thing in DA green, Then use a thracka green wash mixed with a bit of black. Then I mixed a DA green with a tad of goblin green to brighten up the areas I wanted brighter and then to highlight I mixed DA green with scorpion green. You can adjust brightness by adding more or less scorpion green. I personally like a bit brighter highlight. Shoulder pads and stuff as normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexusnight Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 just remember to add adequate water when mixing paint or even just using a straight colour. It keeps the paint going on smooth. Sorry about the crappy pics but hopefully they give the right idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gillyfish Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 If you scroll down to the bottom of this thread, you'll see some links to DA painting tutorials - hope they help! Â http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.p...p;#entry1787719 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Irwin Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Here is one hell of a schexshy way to paint Dark Angel Marines. I myself use this scheme, and it really is quite the best around!!  http://fortressofunforgiven.homestead.com/...2MoF_009_A.html  Have fun!  Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Iron Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Jawaballs on youtube did a 4 videos on painting DA. I used it and am vary happy with how they turned out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterdyne Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 This is the method I use. It's fast and dirty.  First a black undercoat. The base is drybrushed with raw umber, and the metallic joints etc of the armour with boltgun metal, no need to worry too much about neatness: http://www.winterdyne.co.uk/maz/images/da_marine_step1.jpg  Next, the eyes are picked out - no need to worry about being neat. Scab red, with a vallejo flat red caustic and skull white dot: http://www.winterdyne.co.uk/maz/images/da_marine_step2.jpg  Then the armour panels are neatly painted with DA green and a highlight line (no blending yet) with snot green. The next step will be to blend this in using a 50-50 mid tone. Badab black washes here help to tidy up the rough drybrush work. http://www.winterdyne.co.uk/maz/images/da_marine_step3.jpg  Doing the whole squad gets a bit boring, but helps production line things out. This whole 10 man squad was done in around 8 hours total, over a couple of nights. http://www.winterdyne.co.uk/maz/images/da_squad_step3.jpg  Step - 4 the blending done - this is a glaze technique, coupled with touching up by applying either DA green or snot green to tidy up. http://www.winterdyne.co.uk/maz/images/da_marine_step4.jpg  Finished - Gold done in vallejo bronze/ old gold, simple drybrush job (with a couple of brown and black washes in there) on the bolter and freehand insignia. The base is finished by adding yellow ochre and titanium white in stages to the raw umber and drybrushing, then some dabs of static grass. http://www.winterdyne.co.uk/maz/images/da_marine_done.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Caine Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 I prime my angels in black then do a basecoat of orkhide shade. From there I use dark angels green/snot green/scorpion green and follow with a veryfine highlight of skull white. If you make sure to leave the bands of darker paint bold and wide and the lighter ones super thin your good as gold. I also found that mine tend to look darker due to the fact that I paint only the trim of my shoulderpads DA green and leave the rest black. I also use silver metallics for all of the iconography as opposed to the more common gold I think that lends to a darker overall miniature. And never forget that brightness also relitave! ( if your basing is brighter, your marines should appear darker!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
commander alexander Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 If you want really Dark Angles use a pre-heresy style for the paint. after priming it white, Wash the model with a dark green wash or wateredDA green, wherever there isn't green, paint it black or a black and green mix, highlight as you like. :sweat: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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