My main blog

So I have decided to condense my blogs into one main blog to manage. I do many different types of work, LEGO, miniature painting, cosplay, and other random creations. As such, they are all in one blog at:

http://ryushicreations.blogspot.com

 Please head there for all updates on my creations

thank you

Technique and paints used

By request, I am going to explain my steps for the fire prism and how I got the tron light effect.

Colors I used: citadel chaos black, and citadel ice blue (I have the old colors, pre-gw redoing the line)
primer: any white primer

I took the entire model and primed it as white as I could make it, so no grey was showing. I primed in pieces as well, and did very little assembly before painting (this makes crevasses easier to paint)

watered down the ice blue and filled every line with it. Key here is to water it down so there is a gradient within the line, and some of the white can show through. Don't worry about missing for this part.

Once the blue is done take a detail brush and do the edge of each black area you want painted. Then go back and fill in the center of each black area with a bigger brush as you go along.

If you get black in the line, paint over it in white foundation paint, then redo the water down blue. The black takes the longest, but I found that hand painting the black was easier than trying to tape and airbrush the model.

If you want highlights on the black parts, do a very thin dark grey highlight on a few of the edges. Never dry brush the model, as the flecks get into the blue crevasses.

For the evil red/orange dark eldar models: I use vellejo orange red instead of ice blue, the the technique is the same

hope this helps for anyone who wants to duplicate the tron effect

Finished fire prism

So for the last few weeks, I finished painting the top (took less than a day) and all the people. After that, took more watered down ice blue (till almost clear) and washed it over the highlighted sections to give a bit more of the glow effect. Assembled today, and here is the final pictures.

The bottom and start of the pilot

The already top done, with a picture of the inside, now fully painted. The bottom part of the tank is also painted, with blue picked to look like energy barrels for some of it. I also did the light blue parts on the engines for the circuits going to the box, but not the box itself. Next to is to get the paint for the pilot  fully painted in the black, and lined with the right lines for his outfit. I also need to make his skin color and hair color more "realistic" to the theme.

Surprisingly, I didn't work on this while I had no school due to the blizzard in chicago.

Also for those who don't know, I am going as a farseer for games-day (hopefully) and will either start a new blog on it's progress, or just add it to this one.

main top finished black

Finished the black on the main part, onto the rest of the tank later in the week hopefully

More black to fire prism

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More progression. Quicker way to add the black  is to outline the edges after a quick dry brush, then add the black in the middle. The top is starting to look like new tron:legacy versus the old tron  with the blue on white.

Also new Cthulhu is the pictures I got as a early birthday present

the start of the back

Pictures of the black work I did today. the blue is ice blue watered down and then washed over the indents for the color. Then am going back and painting black the entire top surface. Dry brushing extensively does not work due to getting into the blue lines, losing the effect