'Eavy Metal paints blue with Warhammer Tone Pro: layering tones 1 to 5
An article has appeared on the German Warhammer Community site in which the 'Eavy Metal team shows how to build different blues with the new Tone Pro paints. It is part of a small series: after yellow and green, blue is up now. The paints can be pre-ordered within a few days, and the new range will be available from Saturday.
The principle behind Tone Pro is a numbered system. Each colour has five tones, with 1 the darkest and 5 the lightest. The painters use exactly this as a classic layering approach: a dark base, shading, and several lightened steps.
Three models are shown. The armour of an Ultramarines Intercessor is painted with Ultramar Blue: tone 2 as the base, tone 1 for shadows, and tones 3, 4 and 5 for lightening. Carthalos Skin is used for the shadows of the golden areas, and Blackstone Void for the metals. On a Liberator of the Stormforged Eternals, Blue Gorkshroom 1 serves as the dark tone, and tones 3, 4 and 5 set the highlights. The Liberator of the Celestial Defenders combines Green Morkshroom 3 with Craventhrone Cloak 4 and 5 to get a bluer surface.
What I like is that the article names concrete tones and their order instead of only showing result photos. There are no direct quotes from the painters; it is purely about technique. According to the article, the paints can be tested in Warhammer stores.
Source: Warhammer Community
The principle behind Tone Pro is a numbered system. Each colour has five tones, with 1 the darkest and 5 the lightest. The painters use exactly this as a classic layering approach: a dark base, shading, and several lightened steps.
Three models are shown. The armour of an Ultramarines Intercessor is painted with Ultramar Blue: tone 2 as the base, tone 1 for shadows, and tones 3, 4 and 5 for lightening. Carthalos Skin is used for the shadows of the golden areas, and Blackstone Void for the metals. On a Liberator of the Stormforged Eternals, Blue Gorkshroom 1 serves as the dark tone, and tones 3, 4 and 5 set the highlights. The Liberator of the Celestial Defenders combines Green Morkshroom 3 with Craventhrone Cloak 4 and 5 to get a bluer surface.
What I like is that the article names concrete tones and their order instead of only showing result photos. There are no direct quotes from the painters; it is purely about technique. According to the article, the paints can be tested in Warhammer stores.
Source: Warhammer Community
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