Space Hulk Librarian: Painting (I)

          Well, here we are at last on the painting stage... but beware, because this will not be a typical miniature!. When Mr. Killian Doyle selected this mini for me to paint, it did it with evilness on his hearth, because he wanted me to do a light source effect. I. The one who painted an Stegadon Pink, and still keeps her that way. That´s the kind of friends i have.

         Still, it was what he selected, and it was an interesting challenge, so ... let´s go! First, documentantion (eh, don´t look at me that way, i alwa-sometimes look for examples and tutorials): i had seen a lot of Source Light effects on minis around the internet, so i thought it will be easy to find one that could help me, maybe even the same mini...

              Wrong.

          After spending a lot of time (well... half an hour... or something...) I didn´t find anything usefull, so i went for my own selection of pictures on my computer. This is what i found: 

One of the best that i have

Fire effect on the wings

Green light effect

      
             
                 And the most useful for what i wanted:

"The night is dark..."

             Still, i had one problem. I really like the mini of the terminator, so going for a "complete black and only a little light" seemed like wasting a really good mini. The other option, painting the mini with dark colors and go brighter the closer to the source light was way more complicated and i wasn´t sure of how to do it.

                 Obviously, that was the option i choose.

              I had other worries, like the fact that, being a Librarian mainly blue, a white light source could end poorly (not like the first picture above, where the "yellow" light source it´s great compared to the grey of the mini who's being fried. A blue light on a blue armour...). Anyway, i will worry about that when i´m there. That´s how i am :P.

                  Then, looking at the mini trying to figure out how the ligth source should look like, i decided to try a really simple but useful idea that i have seen somewhere on the internet. I picked the mini and, with only a slight push, primed them from the direction where the light should come from (the axe). It´s not at all perfect, because light doesn´t work like a spray (the intensity and other stuff) but to give you an idea its fine. Then, took some pictures to have for reference. Here they are:

Light should be better here

But not here

This was really helpful, specially on the shoulder pad

This will be mostly dark (but not black, i think)

The shadow of the termi on the floor promises to be tricky

This side, mostly dark

                After this i primed all the mini correctly and... started painting. And since the title says "painting" and not "preparations" here is what i have done so far. The axe is blue just to show the main light source.

Basic blue, barely higlighted

You can see the first stages of the light effect

Bac, of the termi. Still not convinced, too... "black"

From Avove. See how the shoulder is fully painted only where the lights "hits".

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               Hora de comenzar el pintado!. Ah, pero queridos camaradas esta no será una mini estándar, sino una en la que probaré prácticamente por primera vez el llamado "efecto de luz direccional". A decir verdad intentarlo por primera vez con un termi, del Space Hulk (con lo que molan) y hasta con peana escénica, es echarle moral, pero uno es así de... chulo. Las primeras fotos que ven son de ejemplos que encontré por interné de ese efecto. Es curioso que de este termi o de termis en general no encontrase prácticamente nada que me valiese de referencia... el guglés es así, si no pones las palabras clave puedes encontrar cualquier cosa, menos la que quieras....

                En fin, otra cosa que probé fue a darle una imprimación direccional leve desde el punto de origen de la luz, para sacarle fotos y tener así de "referencia" al ser la mini roja es bien fácil ver dónde acaba el gris de la imprimación, y si bien la luz no funciona como un spray (que mayormente es igual de intenso en cualquier punto en la mini, mientras que la luz se va "difuminando") al menos para dar unas ideas valió. Luego, acabar de imprimar y al tajo con la pintura. Las fotos son de las primeras etapas, con apenas los colores básicos pero ya una idea de por dónde van las iluminaciones.


            Bien, espero que os guste, pronto más, espero! :D