Hi all
I'm not a BFG player and for now I only painted Sorylians for Firestorm Armada.
I detailed all my painting steps on the Spartan forum, and I supposed you could be interested to read that for the painting tips, even if it's not for Battlefleet.
I'ts also a way to have something to participate to this forum, as I'm thankfull for the Gothicomp.
Here are more pics of my Swordbreaker class Battleship
My whole method :I begin with
the yellow- The yellow is a base of Tausept ocre, and I paint some sunburst yellow after to make it... more bright yellow
- I work some shades with dilued washes of Snakebite leather, a quite tricky step
- then I put some color variations in the plates doing some mixes on my wet palette, some darker, some brighter, some more grey...
- highlight every plates one by one on the fore and the top borders
- put some diluted brown in the grooves
The red is quite the same
- Dark flesh then many drybrushes of mephiston red, red + orange Macharius, and some red glazes to correct the color.
- variations on the plates
- highlights
- grooves
The metal is damn simple as we don't look much at it when it's all finished
- Boltgun
- one or two generous washes of Agrax earthshade
- some metal highlights if brave enough
The white marks are made with masking tape and pure white, 2 or 3 coats I guess
The damages follow different techniques :
- With blister foam, I create patches of dark green (Catachan like, but brown could do the job), and then some Codex grey, mostly at the same spots
- Mainly on the fore, I draw some wide streaks with Snakebite+black, then darker and thinner streaks in the middle of the wide ones. At some other places I do bright grey ones
- I stain some places with very diluted dark green like Catachan green
You can see the red is darker and stained at some places on the above pics
For the turquoise light effects :- either with a brush (as on the gunship bays) or with an airbrush (side of the battleship), I painted some large surface with old Scally green.
- then I put pure white, in the holes and their borders. That's for having a bright shinny blue after.
- I put some turquoise (Sotek green) on the borders of the bay, and some diluted one ine the holes
- I finish with a little touch of pure white again in the holes, but not every holes at the same brightness to make it more reallistic and alive.
Near to the glowing engines, on the sides, I put a very diluted glaze of Scally green on the red, that does a very dark green by itself.
For the
purple lights its mostly the same with purple, pink and white, whith maybe more steps and difficulty to get some variations.
And for the Kurak symbol : diluted white, good-shaped brush, and a firm hand
I think all is said !
Cheers,
Karun
