Hi Guys!!! I'm an old Lizardmen player (I've been playing them for a long time, but I'm not old in the personal age sense) and I have about 3,200 points of Lizards. I have just stripped the paint off my Slann and am going to re-paint him. I wan't to paint him like a poison arrow frog. Do you guys have any idea how I could paint the black so he looks shiny! Also do any of you have any idea how to paint Tapina, I think that's how you spell it!, you know the corroded rust like effect on copper! Any help would be good. Cheers Bez. P.S. If any of you could tell me how to add pictures to a post I'll attach some photos of the frog he will be based on.
If you us chaos black spray is very shinny, that might work.I have a gw cropper not sure if they are still doing it.Have a look on other site.
I made a nice rust color using snakebite leather then dry brushing it silver. To make it look a little more corroded you can glue some sand to it first.
I don't know about the rust affect but if you painted the black "chaos black" then gave it a layer of gloss varnish it looks properly shiny.
the technique I learned for great rust is to: - basecoat with the metal color you want - lightly stipple on reddish brown, just touching the metal with the very tip of the brush that has been wiped on a towel or something to knock off the excess paint (a chalky green would work for copper) - drybrush your metal color back over top of the stipple lightly until you have the effect you want
Ok here are a few photos of the Frogs my Slann should based on! http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3188/243 ... 5a6af0.jpg http://www.columbia.edu/itc/cerc/danoff ... uratus.jpg
quick and effective rust, base coat Scorched brown, drybrush boltgun+ tin bitz mix on lighlty brown wash, drybrush boltgun metal, then use chainmail to create some sharpness works is quick and looks good on table top, not worth doing for a painting comp or display though
A good technique I use is Macharius Solar Orange basecoat, then drybrush Calthan Brown and add flecks of Boltgun Metal or Mithril Silver on the egdes (predominantly on the ones which would be used most ie. blade edge and such). It makes a nice heavily corroded effect, as I used them on my Plague Monks. Also, I think the word you're looking for is 'patina'
do you mean the light green/blue corrosion that you get on copper? if so then paint your copper all shiny and new then do a thin wash of hawk turquoise over it then highlight up your copper again.
Here's how I made my patinated gold look: Basecoat with Dwarven Bronze Drybrush with Shining Gold Wash of Devlan Mud Was of watered-down Gretchin Green Highlight with Shining Gold
mine isn't that style of frog specifcally but I did do a poison dart frog I'll try and get a picture later but my phone makes them to big. basically his arms and feet were blue his body red um I think enchanted and blood to be precise then I took chaos black and my old frayed brush taht I use to dry brush and stippled to make his body look spotted at the time i never used varnish though so he isn't shiney
you could use the varnish, or you could even try the water effects gel that they sell in GW. Not tried it yet, might give that shiny and moist texture the frog in the pic has