Zenithal Airbrushing, OSL and Snow and Ice Tutorial, subject - Grey Knight - Articles - DakkaDakka | Ask not what Dakka can do for you... Alright boys, this is a pretty broad article on a few different techniques I wanted to try out. Things specifically covered will be: 1. Zenithal Airbrushing 2. OSL (object source lighting), both with airbrush and by hand 3. 2 different ways to apply snow 4. How to make quick and easy Icicles using a hot glue gun. This will be all wrapped into the same piece, one of the new Grey Knight Terminators (kindly donated to for this tutorial by the very generous btemple0). Originally, my intent was do do a darker more gunmetal version of a Greyknight, with less red used in order to keep the darker look. Zenithal Lighting - What does that mean? Zenithal highlighting is one of the newer techniques in the hobby world, at least with minis (most people would be quite surprised how advanced the military modelling scene is compared to ours!).
The airbrush is the best way to achieve this, as it allows you a lot of fine control over the fading of colors. Let's see it in action! Step 1: Prime Black Links. From the Warp: How I paint Ultramarines dark and very fast. Ultramarines are the iconic Space Marine chapter out there. Like most other colors and armies, there are a million different formulas for painting them as well. Fortunately, blue is one of those colors that is fairly easy to get nice results with. In this case, I wanted somethign dark and fast. Very fast. I wanted this guy to be done in no time at all and still look decent in the end. This is what I came up with. The idea for this technique comes from my previous post where I went over painting Eldar Dire Avengers. Painting the armour The model started out primed black. Once I had him primed black, I figured it was simply too much work to paint his armour blue.
I'd spray from the top down with a couple of short bursts and call it a day. I tried it on two models before getting something I figured would work. Adding the details From this point on, I cut in with black paint on the areas that were going to be metallic or black in the end. The most work went into his helmet and chest eagle. Doctor Faust's Painting Clinic. The Painting Corps. You don't have the right craft tool for that.