Author Topic: Painted armour (Read 2081 times)

laribold · « **on:** April 13, 2010, 11:27:54 AM »

Now obviously all the miniatures are painted, what I’m on about here is making the miniature look like their armour has been painted over the top of the steel.

I’m putting together an army based around the Knights Encarmine knightly order and the fluff states that:
Each member of the order maintains a brilliant suit of red armour topped by tricolour plumage of green, white, and red. As the paint coating the armour chips away easily, the suit must be constantly repainted in order to maintain appearances.

Now the painted example on the GW website in the Knightly Orders article just looks weird to my eyes. It almost looks like a red/bronze statue in a strange way. I think it’s the one complete colour that I don’t like.

Has anyone been down the route of painted armour before?
Any tips or hints on a good way to achieve this look (and also to not end up looking like a vampire counts blood knight or knight of khorne).

Cheers

Uryens de Crux · « **Reply #1 on:** April 13, 2010, 11:31:47 AM »

As in all things, look at real world examples is my advice.

In this case, the solid colours are a problem, when armour was painted in real life like that it was done with a lot of decoration and embelishment, with prayers, icons and other devices included in the job.

Immovable Object · « **Reply #2 on:** April 13, 2010, 11:37:03 AM »

I'd suggest painting the armour as you would a suit of Space Marine power armour and then adding mettalic chips and flecks. CMDante does a tutorial about this here -

http://cmdante.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-to-paint-chipped-armour-tutorial.html

And a slightly easier method here -

http://www.miniwargaming.com/content/52PAX22IKSmA

White Knight · « **Reply #3 on:** April 13, 2010, 06:09:57 PM »

I'd go with the chipped paint look too.

They're not imperial knights (well, not the same empire), but I think you could do something similar to what I did with this Weird War II Japanese walkers I converted. Basically you paint as normal in your non-metallic colour and then you add chips on the edges and scratches from combat and the like with a metallic colour (I used bolt gun metal on these):