varnish, a question (pics)

[The Hive Norn Queen]

hi,

a question.

would this look better with a coat of shiny varnish or won't it ?







and I mean the carapace



cheers,
TNHQ

[The Hive Norn Queen]

P.S.

this is the color scheme:

The exoskeleton and the joints.
start off with a skull white base coat
followed by a second coat of bleached bone.
Then apply a layer of watered down Liche purple and warlock purple.
And then refresh the exoskeleton with bleached bone.
Then ad a layer of skull white and done.

The teeth.
Base coat the teeth whit scorched brown.
Then paint on a layer of bleached bone.
Followed by a layer of skull white.

The other skin parts (glands/tubes etc. )
Base coat the pipes with midnight blue.
Followed by a layer of enchanted blue on the higher parts
Then highlight the enchanted blue with ice blue.
Then apply an watered down purple ink to finish it off.

The carapaces.
Paint the lower areas of the carapaces liche purple.
Then paint the carapaces with warlock purple.
Highlight it with tentacle pink in a striping way.
Now the pink is to bright so give the whole carapace a layer of watered down warlock purple.
?? And as a finishing touch give the whole carapaces a layer of varnish. ??

The eyes.
Base coat the eyes with a layer of golden yellow.
And add a line of chaos black.

The bone parts.
Begin with a coat of Chaos Black.
Then paint the edges of the bone parts with liche Purple so you can still See a little black.
To finish off, highlight the edges with warlock purple so you can still see a little leech purple.



cheers,
TNHQ

[arwarman]

I've also been toying with this idea, thinking about Gloss Varnishing all my carapaces...

[J.Dogg]

Gloss is better for thet sheem
(feeling orky AGAIN for some reason)

[The Hive Norn Queen]

hi,

hmmm. still not sure about it. I will post a pic ASAP but I don't know when that's gonna be.

cheers,
TNHQ

[shiro]

Maybe test the colour scheme + varnish on a gaunt or ripper first, that way if it turns out wrong it isn't at the cost of a larger model

[wolffang]

spray gloss it then if you dont like it you can simply spray a few coats of matte to take the shine off after the gloss has dried.... or to dull the shine a bit and give it a more true bug like appearance

[some1hooeatshumans]

the rib cage would look better with gloss varnish. the carapace looks really good the way it is

[Trygon]

Your best bet would be a test on a minor gaunt or ripper.