What's up troops, welcome back.
I'm here live, it's not... I'm not a cat.
Then we go that way, to the lake!
Blelelelle ah ah ah!
In this video we'll be looking at how to create these pretty sick fade away ork checks.
sail away sail away sail away
Here, was that Enya? I beep hate enya!
how can you be upset with enya? Really. it's just silence coloured in.
It doesn't even work! She says sail away no fade away, ya spanner!
Yeah, that's fair enough actually , what about this?
rerecord not fade away
That doesn't work either you wallpaper!
Look just leave the jokes to me pal and you stick to the painting, right?
Right, sure. Anyway, to do this you're going to want to start
off with a black base coat and then grab yourself a blue grey colour.
This here is Scale colour Graphene grey
because that's how I roll but you can use any similar colour.
GW Eshin Grey is a pretty good equivalent.
Mix a little black into the grey to darken it down slightly. I like to make this a subtle effect,
almost like a hidden detail but if you want a more obvious result just use a more contrasting colour.
Moving on, we'll sketch in a simple checkerboard grid over our black.
And you're going to do this by painting a row of vertical lines roughly evenly spaced.
Luckily this is a very small surface
so we only need to do a couple to get the whole thing covered.
Then paint on a series of horizontal lines, again making them roughly equal in size.
This leaves you with a grid of small boxes.
Which you're now going to fill in so that they form a checkerboard pattern.
Just filling in the boxes with your grey colour.
When you finish that. If you find the boxes are a little messy you can clean up the edges by
painting over any mistakes with some black.
So you're really just trying to make things a bit neater.
If you'd prefer a messier look you can just skip this step.
Once you're happy with how it look take some of your black and thin it
down to a glaze consistency with a bit of water.
When you're using glazes you don't want to have too much liquid on the bristles,
one of the best ways to get rid of the excess is to
simply tap the tip of the brush against a paper towel, holding it there for a couple seconds.
This leaves you with a very small amount of the glaze on the bristles, but that's what you want.
Test it on your thumbnail to make sure it's not leaving any big blobs of watery paint.
You want to see a nice, thin, even coating, without any pools forming on the surface.
If you still have too much on the brush, just tap it against the paper towel again
and then retest it until you're happy.
To make the checks fade out. Gently and smoothly draw the side of your brush
along and over the checks in whatever direction you want to create the fade.
So, In my case I want it to fade out towards the outside edges.
And you're going to have to apply this over several layers,
letting each one dry before applying a new one.
If you want you can speed things by using a quick blast of a hairdryer between each layer.
Just be sure to use it on the model and not your actual hair.
After a few applications of the glaze you'll start to get this really cool
effect where the checks appear to be disappearing into the black.
It's subtle but highly effective.
When you finish that you can also paint some free hand over the top of it.
So this is just a kill count I'm adding in with an off white colour.
Alright troops, I hope you found this useful.
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