Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Total Tutorial

This is what we're going for.
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The bone color of Deathwing, or similar colored items.

The process is spray black/white. My white sucks, so I use black.
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Then I use a coat of Dheneb Stone (GW Foundation paint).
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Let that completely dry

Then I give it a wash of (GW) Red ink, Brown ink, Yellow ink, Flesh Wash, and the new Brown ink (don't know the name). It was just something I poured all my warm-toned inks into, and added the Brown ink to get more volume.
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LET THAT COMPLETELY DRY. OVER NIGHT or 1+ hours.

So I guess its about 6 layers. I opted to not use the same model, as the sergeant was the one I was going to paint next, but the tutorial needed something without the brown. But they're all the same right? Just use thin layers, and all will be well.
1st layer.
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2nd layer.
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4th layer.
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6th layer.
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The paint I used was VMC Pale Sand (007) and VMC Dark Sand (123). I mixed them in a 3 oz. container, and added some water. My first few layers (original test model, not this one) came out with streaks, so I added more water. I'm quite happy with the results I achieve now. I haven't started highlighting this or the test model, so that will have to be another part of the tutorial, but I plan on using VMC Pale Sand (007) for it.

For highlighting, I went on doing something semi-experimental. It is very hard to see in the pictures, but you should be able to get the idea.
I used VMC Pale Sand (007) for the first highlight. I put some at the top-most part, and just slowly pulled down. It was semi-drying already, so it spread nicely.
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I then used VMC Ivory (005) for the second. I did it the same way, except I didn't pull down as far.
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And thats how I get the bone shade in my Deathwing.

4 comments:

  1. And this is why you don't see many Deathwing armies. I know from experience that painting a single guy 6 times or more can be incredibly time consuming.

    Looks great though, nice work and thanks for the step by step with pics.

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  2. Good lord! 6 layers to get that shade of bone! You got some patience there Chris. You're gonna have a real nice looking Deathwing army once they're done. :) Can't wait to see the LRE completed.

    Dude! You sure got lotsa stuff on them there shelves!!! :D

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  3. You, sir, are a champ for sticking in there and painting all those layers.

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