Thanks for checking in,
vode.
Sep, I'm planning on a heavy build. My desire since my first day on the forum was to have a Force Hunter Brigade-worthy kit. So I'm going as heavy as possible...without building a metal kit.
6mm sintra for the base, pretty much everywhere, then trauma plates, flank plates, bicep plates, nearly completely enclosed thighs and calves, the works.
What program did you use to "paint" that bucket? My colors never look right and I can't get the metallic to look metallic.
I used Photoshop. Figuring it out was a little on the tricky side, and I have zero doubt at all that there are easier ways to change the colors and make something look vaguely metallic rather than the way I do it. But I'll give it a whirl. And for simplicity's sake, I'll use a bit of line art for my guinea pig.
So I'm wanting to change that to a metallic bronze, right? I'd get some images of bronze and pick the one I like the best.
In this case I'll pick photo 4 and, using the eyedropper, I'll sample different spots on the sword until I get the color I like the most. Then use the paint bucket to get this:
Next I use the magic wand tool to select just the armor, then I go to "Filter," select "Noise," then "Add noise..." Under the Add Noise pop up box, I choose "Amount 5% and select the "Gaussian" option. Then, still with all the armor parts selected, I choose "Filter>Blur>Blur." Next up is "Filter>Stylize>Wind..." In the pop up box I choose "Wind" and, typically, "From the left." All that gives me this:
For the helmet, specifically, it was a little more complex. I had to use the pencil tool and outline specific areas, so that when I used the Magic Wand tool, it would grab
only the particular areas I wanted. Had to zoom waaaaaaaay in and draw basically a pixel wide. Pretty frustrating at times. But...when I got the Magic Wand tool to select the area or areas I wanted, I then went to "Image>Adjustments>Color Balance...." Then I fiddled with the RGB sliders until I got the color I wanted and copied down the numbers. For the bronze, it wound up being "+37 -36 -78." Then I chose "Image>Adjustments>Brightness/Contrast" and set that to "-17 +19."
Once I had the color pretty much where I wanted it, I did the Gauss, Blur, Wind thing to make it look metallic. And voila!
As I said, I'm sure there are far less cumbersome, or at least more effective, ways to doing this, but that's what worked for me.
I hope that helped, Rogue.
And...I got inspired to fiddle around and came up with this:
