Kitbashing & Conversions

A glowing weapon, eye lenses or rune can be the perfect focal point for a conversion, drawing the eye to the parts you've swapped in. Brushstroke breaks it into a dead simple plan: decide where the light comes from and how far it spreads, paint those sources solid white, make sure the nearby edges are highlighted, then tint the lot with a thinned contrast or glaze paint before adding white back in the centre. He shows it on a Necron in blue, green and red, so you can see how changing one glaze changes the whole glow.

Have you ever added a glow to a converted model? What did you light up, and what colour did you go for?

The quickest way to make a kitbash look like it was always meant to be one model is often the paint, not the parts. In this one, Trovarion shows how working from a limited palette (picking a handful of colours from the colour wheel with a "gamut map" and mixing everything else from them) makes a miniature look far more harmonious. He paints a whole figure from a single themed set and keeps a single saturated blue as the star. It's a brilliant mindset for conversions: when the arms, heads and bits all come from different kits, or you've mixed plastic parts with the 32mm minis we print here at Nebulous Models, a tight shared palette ties the lot together.

Do you plan a colour scheme before you start a kitbash, or work it out once it's built? How many colours do you usually allow yourself?