Painting your Dark Angels, how do you get a DARK green Options

[Lord Dacius]

Happy weekend all!

Im looking at the galleries and I see the varrying degrees of "Dark Angel" green, but few of them are what I see in my mind for what I want my Greenwing to look like. What I am looking for is a way to make marines that at a glance look black, but then if you look closely or focus on one, you will see that it is indeed a very deep dark green.

[Grand Master Bel...]

ODM has a recipe that sounds much like the one you are looking for, except it is black highlighted with DA green.
ODM Returns

[HsojVvad]

You stold my idea. That is what I do. What I did was paint them Dark Angels Green and use a blach ink. For others I have painted them black and use a DA Green Ink on it. Now onto reading what ODB has said .

Someone said to paint them DA Green and used a Badab (I think that is the name, it is black) wash instead of black ink.

[DAG42]

What I do to get a really, really black green look, is prime coat black, then use a heavily watered down DA green. I'll high light up from that but it usually is in that almost black after first 2 layers.

This post has been edited by DAG42: Aug 1 2010, 12:33 AM

[HsojVvad]

I am glad that my idea, other people have thought of it too, and it is a good idea. I love the idea of them looking black from far away, but when up close, you see them as green.

[Lord Dacius]

Excellent! im glad that im not alone in my idea! I feel that Dark Angels that are a forest green look so much less menacing and or unimposing than ones that are near black.

[Cloud Runner]

My green recipe is as follows:


Paint DA Green
Highlight with a 1:1 mix of DAG and Kommando Khaki


Give a liberal wash with the following mix:

1 part Klear floor varnish(glossy)
2 parts Vallejo Dark Green ink
4-5 parts water.

The varnish helps it to run across the whole surface and really darkens it down.

Hit with a coat of matt varnish after to lose the shine, and it#'s nice and dark.

Hope that helps

[Gillyfish]

I usually use a black undercoat, DA green basecoat and then wash liberally with black ink. I suspect that one or two coats of Badab black would have much the same effect.

To achieve the effect you're looking for you probably want some very crisp edge highlights rather than a gradual layered approach - but that's really up to you!

[Vodunius]

I'm in the black drybrushed with DA green camp: thats how GW originally did them.

[HsojVvad]

Here is my attempt what I did a few months ago. It's not that great, but eh, I am learning. Here you can see, "Beaky" seems black abit.



Here you see "Beaky" is green.



Another angle of the "Beaky" and his companion.



It sort of works for me, now I have to learn how to paint better and not use so thick paint.

[Tomevans]

For a first attempt those are pretty decent mate, I shouldn't worry too much, getting better is all abour getting good brush control so you can work at more intricate detail and thinning paints is a must. You seem to be pretty neat though, so the signs are good. If I put my first painting attempt up, a Warrior of Minas Tirith, I would be thrown out of these forums like a flash

[Isiah]

If I put my first painting attempt up, a Warrior of Minas Tirith, I would be thrown out of these forums like a flash

you would indeed as it isn't 40K.

HsojVvad the blacker the better as far as I'm concerned.

The issue with inky black over green is the risk of uneven 'blackness' especially over the larger surface areas of vehicles. Far better mix up a big pot of DA Green and Codex Black to taste and then use that as you would any other colour. Personally a thin DA Green over black basecoat, with black ink or Babad wash into recesses, is probably 'black' enough for most people. Though I've found that the DA Green goes on 'dark' but dries disappointingly lighter.

For the 'dark' preference I never highlight my greenwing models – and certainly would never use Snot Green as the highlight colour as GW used to recommend – drags the whole thing to the light end of the scale for my taste.

Cheers
I

[Tomevans]

For the 'dark' preference I never highlight my greenwing models – and certainly would never use Snot Green as the highlight colour as GW used to recommend – drags the whole thing to the light end of the scale for my taste.

Cheers
I

I highlight all the way up to Scorpian Green for my Greenwing, but then I bring the colour back down with many consective DA green washes. If you want extreme highlights but don't want garish colour you can do this and then wash all the colour out of the mini whilst still maintaining the colour gradient.