Painting Technique Help Needed

[freak_unleashed]

Howdy all.
I have been looking around the guild and some online forums for a style of painting to apply to some figures I have coming in shortly. After checking a ton of worklogs and picture posts I have found one style that really stands out to me but have not seen any how-to's to achieve this finished product.
The painting I am referring to is that done by the guys at Rackham Store:

Some examples:



http://www.rackham-store.com/boutique_us/images_produits/ZZDIVERS-26_1.jpg
http://www.rackham-store.com/boutique_us/images_produits/ZZDIVERS-27_1.jpg

They just seem so bright. I'll be working with some dwarves and goblins and think this will work well.

Does anyone know of any painting tutorials online that show techniques to achieve this type of look? Any help would be greatly appreciated smile  

[Darkweaver66]

right, well the armour and sword are painted in NMM (non-mettalic metal)(aka, where you paint something that looks like metal with only shades of non-metalic colours, like greys instead of silver) so you could try looking for a tutorial in NNM  

[freak_unleashed]

Ok thanks. The skin looks like the highlight is just blended/feathered into the main color and instead uses a more pronounced shadow.
Will look for some info on this NMM technique thanks.  

[LadyEren]

The style you're asking about is the "french style"!
French painters usually use this "colorful" and "catoon-ish" style!
NMM is surely one of the tecniques you should look on, than have a look to the miniatures of the French GD 2008, you'll find more and more examples of their stunning style!
As far as "tutorials" are concerned... I'm afraid you'll find only french ones for this kind of style and, sincerely, I don't even know where you could find them! ^^

well...

Good luck! 3nodding  

[Daughn]

The key to achieving that sort of look is to hilight organic materials towards orange and to include blue in the metalics. The orange should be very yellow and the blue should lean towards purple. Citadel colour will probably not oblige you on either.  

[nikkigurlie]

This looks to me like a heavy application of blending. Sort of like in the Citidel mini paint guide, where they talk about the layers required to give it the shadow. But this looks like it required more mixing of personal colors, and for blending bright colors i have found starting in a mid tone, then using a heavily watered down shadow color, and the standard highlight color with a slightly damp brush works well. I use it on the Cockpits of my battle tech meks. Looks pretty good