The blade has been based Boltgun Metal (I left the blade portion unwashed, unlike the rest of the haft).
Step 1: Skull White
What you see above is the result of two to three light drybrushes of white. I'm going for a frosted look, due to the name of the weapon, so the drybrushes are very light.I do want there to be a bluish hue, despite that I know that frosted metal doesn't necessarily take on a blue color in real life.
Step 2: Asurmen Blue
Unlike with the method I use in standard power weapons, I do not dowse/flood the blade. The application is light; enough to make it blue and fill in cracks/crevices.Step 3: Skull White
To finish off, I apply one or two more light drybrushes of white. This should be even lighter than the first step, like "dusting" the blade. I normally don't drybrush after a wash, as it tends to look grainy, but in this case I want that grainy look.Tell me what you think. Do you have a method you like to depict Frostblades? Toss it in the comments, and I might post a link to it. :)
That's one of the best-looking frostblades I've seen around the internets. And the method is wicked easy! Great job!
ReplyDeleteI do frostblades by basecoating shadow grey, then use a dry brush of space wolves grey that lightens up to skull white; I leave the runes in shadow grey (you can use a wash of this color to fill in the runes if they get covered). I don't have any pictures but it produces a nice gradient effect from the darker blue color of shadow grey to the white.
ReplyDeleteThat's... excellent. If I add any frost blades, I'll be sure to check back here. ;)
ReplyDeleteDude I like it! Consider it stolen! :)
ReplyDeleteI'd steal this one for my future sons of Russ:) Only thing I'd do different would be the two "cables" going out on the blade. I'd want them to have more blue or more metal or something that would make them not look so ice covered.
ReplyDeleteThe other would be to "light up" the runes by coloring them in some bright bluish color (turquise perhaps) to make them glow. And maybe add a little light.
Appart from those two it looks awesome. Makes me want to go try it out now:)
It sounds like the overall effect would be similar, though less grainy than mine. You should snap a pic and send me a link. I'll throw it up in the post. :)
ReplyDeleteI want it to look ice covered. I want it to look like the blade itself is refrigerated and has collected a lot of frost.
ReplyDeleteAs for the runes, that would look interesting, I'll play around with that a bit in other weapons, though I do use the glowing runes thing for Runepriest weapons, albeit badly lol.
Oh but I do want the blade to look frosty, but like the blade is frosting itself from some arcane power rather than having been in a freezer. Which is why I would try to make the two lines look more unaffected. Don't know if it makes any sense. I will just have to try in the future. One goal of my wolves would be to have faster techniques so I can paint faster:)
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