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Help with a colour decision?

Postby Vetinari » Sun Apr 02, 2017 8:50 pm

Currently mid-way through a bit of a colour experiment on a cheapo Iron Man: the base coat colours are more or less finished, various dark gunmetal / metallic blue shades.

The figure looks somewhat reminiscent of Warmachine's colourways at the moment actually, though I'm vaguely aiming for my own take on a Stealth armour.

Having a bit of an indecisive moment about the next step - after the detail work and a layer of flat clear to even everything out should I go for clear blue or clear red for the top coat?

Couple of rubbish phone photos:

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Natural light


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Re: Help with a colour decision?

Postby ShortNCuddlyAm » Mon Apr 03, 2017 1:28 pm

Think I'd probably go with the blue
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Re: Help with a colour decision?

Postby Vetinari » Mon Apr 03, 2017 4:20 pm

Thanks yeah the initial plan was blue over greys/blacks. But then I had a bit of an inkling of how sinister red over black could look and got all indecisive about it; but the base colours were all geared towards using blue later so you're probably right.
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Re: Help with a colour decision?

Postby Jobee » Wed Apr 05, 2017 4:49 pm

I agree on the blue. Good luck! Can't wait to see it done!
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Re: Help with a colour decision?

Postby Vetinari » Fri Apr 07, 2017 1:21 am

Thanks! Yeah blue it is. I'll definitely put up photos of the result - of course sods law means that the particular brand of transparent blue appears to be out of stock at absolutely all of my usual hobbyist haunts, with one lone overpriced can available on Amazon at the moment :roll: but given that I've already done the time-consuming bit I'm determined to finish this guy and see how the blue interacts with the darker undercoats.
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Re: Help with a colour decision?

Postby victoriavictrix » Fri Apr 07, 2017 2:12 am

I've been seeing this t-shirt pop up at cons lately.

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Re: Help with a colour decision?

Postby Vetinari » Sat Apr 08, 2017 5:27 am

Ooh that design is pretty cool - if I didn't have far too many t-shirts (so many :lol: ) I'd be tempted to go to a con and see if I could find it, love that the arc-reactor seems to be part of the anvil
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Re: Help with a colour decision?

Postby Vetinari » Sun May 07, 2017 8:16 am

Blue! So much blue! My take on a stealth version of the mk43:

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He's far far bluer IRL - but the camera doesn't seem to want to pick up the darker shades even under direct sunlight. Still, you get the idea. (A few things went horribly wrong on this repaint in a way that I've not had happen in years but after much swearing and a bit of a rescue emergency wipe/repaint here he is in his slightly crude glory.)

He's no where near as polished as the professional jobs, but he doesn't look bad for an amateur repaint of a bootleg.

And a better representation of the colours:
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I'll definitely be picking up a decent face-plate at some point down the line, it was the one part of this cheapo figure that looked really cruddy - hence the extra experimental textural stuff going on!
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