A new project (style)

Ever since I saw "Rogue Planet" , a wargame inspired by Pascal Blanche's "Derelict Planet" art book, I  have loved the colour and style.

So my goal has been to paint something in that direction. I had a bit of success using quite bright greens and , yellows and dry oranges on skaven.

Mr Pascal Blanche's work

I knew I wanted to do Phobos Marines in that style.

I spoke to Kenneth from Art Kolective and a few others, and they suggested florescence and inks. I bought some from Art-Friend

With a little hesitation I assaulted a test model with garish colours... and I think it worked. It WILL require some refinement, but the colours are right.

The recipe is as follows- zandri dust undercoat spayed from the bottom, white sprayed from the top (sort of heavy zenithal highlight)

Phthalo Green Ink. One coat.
Then mix Phthalo Green with Leviadon Blue and do a "undershadow"- probably quite thin and with 2 coats. 

Drybrush or top highlight a mix of Phthalo Green and Titanium white ink

Wash cadmium orange and Gryphound into the "upper recesses"- so places where you get water pooling if it was static. You want a colour to "shade" the green, but not make it darker.

Cadmium yellow- probably  2 coats.

The pin wash thinned down Phthalo Green.

Wash  very thin cadmium orange and contrast medium into the "upper recesses"

Dry brush a mix of Cadmium yellow and a hint of white. If you need to correct, use grey seer  with a  bit of Cadmium yellow in it (for neutral coverage)

The Gun (and all the comms gear that will be on the phobos marines) is Gryphound, with Runefang dry brush washed with a little black templar contrast.  Then the upper areas and large panels picked out again with Cadmium Orange, as a highlight.

Not sure what I will do with purity seals, maybe orange wax and almost white paper?

Happy enough to try it on something other than a throw-away test model (sorry mr pushfit intercessor)