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I have a power weapon painting tutorial now here it is:


Brushes: the top brush is GW's fine detail brush, the bottom one is my finest brush for ultra detail.


The blade is base coated black


A mix of black and hawk turquoise is layered on where the lightning effect will roughly go.


More hawk turquoise is added to the mix and applied with the fine detail brush.


Pure Hawk turquoise is then carefully layered on, some ice blue can also be added to the mix.


A mix of ice blue and hawk turquoise is added with a very fine brush.


Raw ice blue is used to patchily highlight the previous shade.


A highlight of ice blue and white is added


Add very small patches of skull white.


A blue wash is applied to dull the colour.


The lightning is carefully re-highlighted with the ice blue-white mix.


The blade is finally painted with gloss varnish to bring out the contrast and protect from wear and tear.

And there you have it. How to paint power weapons

Cheers, SoO

Nice tutorial

Hm, I can't seem to find the like button for this, lol. Very nice though.

I like this.

Very Cool, i have never been able to find a good way of doing these. Do you find it works better over the base coat or have you tried it over a metal color?

Very nice painting and tutorial. For personal preference I preferred the look during the forth picture, so if/when I try this I'd stop at that point for my swords as I think it looks much better.

Again, personal preference but I think the varnish finish ruins the look a lot. Other than that its really good and will be trying this when I get to my IC 's that I have waiting to be done.

Gonna use this on my HQ's LC's - hope it works. might be hard getting around the LC's but will just take time. Excillent idea, Excillent Tutorial.

Interesting way of doing it, personally I prefer the blending scheme but this looks good

Yeah, that. looks really good, awesome tutorial. I'm sure i can transfer this over to my eldar witchblades and the like. And i always like it when someone does a painting tutorial using paints i've already got

I would SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO do that if I had all the paints!!!!!!!

I need to try this. 100% better than my way

Looks very nice, I assume it could also be done with other blues?

pure awesome. your painting has really inspired me to dirty my stuff up a bit more. thanks!

very nice way to paint power weapons.

Very cool, planning on giveing this a try.

I too will certainly try this one out.

Looks good, I like to do mine on a metallic basecoat though

thanks again for more good stuff! dude I don't know when you find time to sleep with all your modelling! (miniatures not underwear modelling!)

This tutorial really helped thnx

Its great it's helped you all. just had a crack at a different style blade on an eldar farseer seen in the pic below




SoO

that was impressive, I got to attempt this now!

Sweeet but i only have nurgle swords :(

That lightning is magnificent, I wish I was that good.

these look amazing man thankyou dor this tutorial its going to be a lot of help in y pre heresy army

Amazing!

i want to know how that eldar is done, it very pretty!

I am officially a mong! I tried the technique above and screwed it up. However i stubbled across an interesting technique. Water down some ice blue 3:1 ratio and paint the bottom of the sword then mix some skull white with a tiny amount of ice blue then water it down to 3:1 and paint the opposite end of the weapon. Draw the white gently down the weapon, as you brush touches the darker blue at the bottom, the colours run past each other and form crazy patterns. Do not mix these colours, allow them to dry and they will form an interesting and quite beguiling pattern on your Power Sword its not an exact science but mine turned out well. Will post a Photo ASAP.

That looks really good! I cant seem to pull it off though

Hrm, You should've stopped right before the varnish, otherwise it looks amazing and I just wish I had the eyes and steady hand to do such fine lines.

Not only is that an AWSOME power sword, the sanguinary guard is painty pretty well to