Hi guys, So I've been hanging around this forum for a few days now, and I decided I want to share my painting ideas and results with you guys. My name is Mark and I have recently made a comeback to warhammer with my brother. I am working on a 1000 points army. My old miniatures are mostly unpainted; the saurus are now finished and I am thinking about a cool colour scheme for my skinks. I'd like to show you guys pictures of my first results, but I am a complete noob when it comes to posting pictures on forums. If anyone could give me some tips, that would be great! For my saurus warriors I used (will be more clear once I figure out how to post pics!) Temple guard blue (skin) Sotek green (scales) Drakenhoff nightshade (shading for skin and scales) Now I am trying to ''design'' a coherent painting scheme for skinks (and kroxigors) which is consistent with the dark, green/blue-ish colours of the saurus, but still has its own flavour. In this scheme I want the skinks to be a bit lighter and the kroxigor a bit darker than the ''baseline'' (the saurus) For the skinks, I am planning on using: Sotek green or temple guard blue (skin) Kabalite green (scales) Coelia greenshade (shading for skin and scales) And for the kroxigor I was thinking of: Caliban green (skin) Stegadon scale green (scales) Coelia green shade/drakenhoff nightshade (shading for skin and scales) Kabalite green (highlights for the skin) What do you guys think? I hope I can get the pictures posted!
Welcome to the forum. To post pictures, you will need to use a picture hosting site (I use photobucket). Then, once you have loaded your pictures there, use the pic button above the text box to put the /pic tags on the link to the picture. That is it. If you use the Img button, you will probably get an error (image too big). Hope this helps.
Thanks for the tips! I got photobucket, lets give it a shot! These are my newly painted saurus (the other 10 were painted 9 years ago and don't fit into my planned colour scheme) And also some close-ups. Musician: Champion: Standard bearer: What do you guys think?
Welcome to the forums! Sounds like your theme is similar to mine. Just to give you an idea of how my models (not including my avatar) are painted; Skinks Light green skin Dark green scales Green wash over select areas Saurus Light green skin Dark green scales Black wash Kroxigor Dark green skin Black scales with light eggshell colored highlights Black wash As for your pics, make sure you are copying the regular image URL. Or copy the one that says and change the img to pic when you paste it on our forums. I know photobucket gives you some other photo options for forums and stuff, so that might be the issue. Models look good from what I can see!
That really worked! Thanks so much! I edited the original picture post You really got me thinking here. I will use coelia greenshade for sure. But I am very much doubtfull on the scales and skin... I did some quick testing on a skink that was painted sotek green (skin) a long time ago. 1-Temple guard blue (skin) + Kabalite green (scales) 2-Warboss green (skin) + Kabalite green (scales) 3-Kabalite green (skin) + Caliban green (scales) I didn't like 1 (high contrast between colours). 2 is okay but the warboss green skin still doesn't seem right (they look like charmeleon skinks from GW). I think 3 is good but I am having trouble imagining the colour of the shields in this case ( I was planning on using the GW examples for shield: caliban green with a highlight). Anyone got a nice shield colour for a green skink?
I'm usually not a fan of plain bases, but your models are painted so well that they can stand on their own. Depending on the effect you're going for, you could possibly thin your silver paint when doing the highlighting on the gold. I actually like it the way it is, but just a thought.
Great start with the saurus! They have a really nice paint job. Basing them would take them to another level though and is really worth doing. As for your skinks, what about skink blue with a coelia greenshade wash over it? It'd look pretty snazzy.
You guys are right; the bases really need some attention. I never actually based something, but I've seen some relatively easy procedures that I will try out sometime soon. Maybe if I'm feeling ambitious I'll purchuase the lustrian basing kit from GW. The silver highlight (runefang steel) was actually just an experiment. At first I didn't really like it, but then I started drybrushing it over the gold and it gave a really nice look. Maybe I overdid it a little but it was good practice for future gold painting nonetheless! I actually considered skink blue at the store a while ago. But I read that it's a drybrush paint; won't that give me trouble if I'm using it as a layer? Thanks for all the comments guys!
It's thicker straight out of the pot than the layer paints but add a little water to it and it covers just as good. It's a case of horses for courses!
Bumb! After a whole afternoon of experiments... my first skink! It didn't turn out exactly as I planned but I'm still happy with it. The scales (sotek greek + temple guard blue drybrush) are the only ''resemblance'' the skink shows to saurus, which is my major concern. The skink was painted with kabalite green, followed by coelia greenshade and finished with kabalite green + warboss green highlights. I think the green looks pretty okay on my skink and it also fits with my plans for kroxigor painting (scales: stegadon scale green, skin: even darker than this little guy). What do you guys think? Is it okay? Can it co-exist with my saurus?
Ooh, beautiful work! I really like your crisp and clean style. And your gold looks great! You said you use silver for highlights but can you share the rest of the process? Thanks in advance and good luck with the painting!
Thanks! It took me like 2 days to ''accept'' the colour of the skink, but I am happy about it now As for my gold (after spraying chaos black): 1) Balthasar Gold (cover everything) 2) Seraphim Sephia shading (shade everything, allowing it to ''sink'' into holes and overall decrease the ''shiny'' effect of the gold) 3) Gehennas Gold highlight --> highlight just about anything you think is not shaded. Avoid holes and parts of the gold that should be ''in the shadow'' when you shine light from above on your miniature. 4) Auric Armour Gold highlight --> Drybrush. Try to apply this highlight only over parts of the gold that were previously highlighted with gehennas gold. Also, dont cover that entire area but only a parts of it. 5) Runefang Steel highlight --> Drybrush. Same as step 4 but now try to cover even less surface. You want your gold to get a shiny look but not to look like its steel instead of gold. For example: on a gold sword you want to use this highlight on the edge of the blade because this would logically ''shine'' a bit. This explanation is very precise and I make mistakes at many points.. 1) very easy to apply your gold way too thick, decreasing detail. 2) Don't use too much ink at once. It's better to apply 2 or 3 times gently instead of one huge spot. 3 + 4 + 5) I tend to highlight more than I originally intend to. Drybrush with 4 + 5 also makes it sometimes hard to predict but it looks much better than ''regular'' painting. I hope this helps you out a bit! But as you can see, I am not that great on gold myself Thanks again for the feedback I am going for a paint session tonight with my bro, lets hope I can get some more skinks ready!
Wow, tons of thanks, that is a huge help! I'm definitely going to try that at some point. I think I'm ok at painting metallics, but feel that they often don't... pop enough. Maybe with this I'm able to reach that level. Have fun at your painting night!
Yea he's progressing alot better than he did 7 years ago Here some examples of gold (the way he does it now) from the guy who taught him that.. (his big bro) Now off to painting some skinks and chaos warhounds ^^ p.s. these were all painted 7 years ago
So after painting a few skinks I got bored and wanted to paint my kroxigor! I wanted to give the scales running along the spine a ''bone'' like look (drybrush screaming skull). I am doubting whether I want to highlight the scales with screaming skull too or just leave it like this. What do you guys think?
I think an extra highlight, just a light drybrush of white. Will you be highlighting the other scales?
Depends how old you want to make him. Looks quite nice at the moment, but if you want more white, just say he is a older, battle toughened vet. (Isn't that what the fluff says about white scales after all?)
Definitely. I deliberately painted each lizarmen unit in my brother's army a different colour scheme. My Skins are yellow, the Saurus are deep red, the Temple Guard are a olive green colour, the cavalry are black with yellow stripes and the Stegadon is a really vibrant red, almost orange colour.