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Video: How to paint Crystal Blades/ Powerswords

🕑 Added 2024-03-17 09:00:06 +0000 UTC

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Tom Bell

Hi Dave. Amazing video - thanks for sharing and showing the patience required for even such a relatively small piece. Would be great to see you approach to the rest of an Eldar model, the armour, gemstones, faces etc. These short videos are great though Thanks for sharing!

Jonathan Harman

Cheers Dave, that's helps a lot. These shorter videos covering some more universal materials are great

Infernal Brush

Hey Darran it is from an Eldar/Aeldari Storm Guardian

Infernal Brush

Hey Jonathan that's a tricky one I would probably use something a bit more muted for the highlights, a slightly orange flesh colour perhaps like Cadian Fleshtone instead of pure white. You could then add white into that for the furthest highlights. It's quite tricky to highlight red with a strong value contrast without it dipping into pink but adding a touch of orange or yellow brings some saturation back in without it looking too orange. Hope that helps

Darran

Hello Dave, nice video, thanks, May I ask what model the blade is from?

Jonathan Harman

Fantastic video again, thank you so much Dave. I wonder if you were going to do a red power blade what colours you would go for and how far would you push that highlight to avoid pink? Thinking about trying it out on a Space Marine power blade for a bit of nostalgia

Tom Catchesides

Stunning work: thank you!

Infernal Brush

Hey Giuseppe. He s holding the sword fairly flat on the final pose so I would probably invert the shading and highlights and then apply some secondary reflections in a similar way. I would also push the top side of the blade slightly brighter as it's going to be reflecting more light than the underside. I hope this helps. I still need to finish the rendering on the other side as I've been busy with other projects but when it's finished I will post some reference shots, in the meantime the box art version is a good reference for this although sadly there is no 360 shots on the website currently.

Jacob

I’d watch that for sure

Giuseppe Nicola Ancona

Great tutorial, really inspiring as all your videos! May I ask how we should deal with the other side of the sword? I mean, light and shadow position remains the same or we need to invert it (light spot on side A = dark spot on side B) ? For double edge sword I guess we go exactly as in this tutorial where the flat part counts as the second edge. Hope I will never find a double edged sword with a center flat panel… 😅

Alexandre Benyahia

Another great video, thank you !

David Hardy

Thanks for the reply. I use the the same V1 version but I find the paper provided isn’t very good. Seeing your set up, how you thin paints and loading your brush would be so helpful.

Infernal Brush

Thank you dude!

Infernal Brush

I just use one of the smaller Red Grass wet palettes but I use baking parchment instead of the paper that comes with it. I should make a video on this!

Roktul

Just awesome! Thank you for the Guide.

Jacob

Righto! I always found them uncomfortable or sweaty. Used them for years at work when I was a body piercer. Maybe I should try some that don’t become so sweaty. If there’s such a type.

David Hardy

Thanks for this, these shorter videos are fantastic. Do you use a home made wet pallet or an off the shelf one?

Bourru 63

Good idea ! I can imagine that this feature is complicated to set up because most automatic translators are proprietary. Actually the basic feature is already better today. Like always thanks for your quick response. ;)

SHOGUN40k

Just magnificent 😁🔥

Infernal Brush

Hello, yeah I understand that the Patreon player is far from perfect at the moment I hope they continue to improve it as it's only a feature they added last year and I think its still in development. I would suggest reaching out to Patreon and letting them know there are issues with it.

Bourru 63

Hi Dave ! It's a shame that the Patreon player does not offer automatic translation of subtitles. For non-native speakers like me, this is a very important feature of Youtube, especially when you speak very quickly like at the beginning of the video. Furthermore, the subtitle system offered by Patreon is very difficult to read and makes a lot of timing and superposition errors. I really miss the time when your videos were also available on the Youtube player...

A.S. Miniatures

I love this sword ! Thanks for the great content ! :)

Anthony O'Donnell

Enjoying these shorter in depth videos on various topics, thank you :)

Infernal Brush

Thank you Tim! Yeah I think it's important to show the as much of that as possible and the patience required for glazing.

Infernal Brush

Hey Jacob. Yeah there's a couple of reasons why I personally like to wear gloves. It protects the parts when handling them ensuring I don't accidentally rub off any highlights and secondly I paint on my hand quite a lot to remove the excess paint and test consistency before applying the brush to the miniature, so it just keeps my hands clean from paint.

Jacob

Mr Brush. Is there a particular reason why you paint wearing gloves?

VVenture

Awesome video dude, honestly felt like a really great tutorial for glazing/blending with how much it was used and how gently it had to be used to get the right effect.

timofthestars

Ghostly music to match an ethereal blade? Very appropriate! I liked the emphasis on being patient, controlling the amount of paint used in each layer and need for subtlety. These videos just keep getting better and better :D