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I need some help whit my painting,i have Dire Avengers(not evryone done yet) and Jetbikes in Ulthwe style but i have still about painting,like wash,what is that!?
(I now that i am a noob but don,t judge me )

put some pictures up so we can see what you got so far
andy

I'd agree with acullen.

Give us some pics and we could advise you further.

A wash is a kind of paint of a darker colour that what you are using that flows into recesses in the model, creating natural shading.

You probably wont need it for ulthwe, being mainly black, you should probably think about codex grey highlights on extreme edges.

What colour are your weapons? The eldar codex ulthwe scheme used bleached bone, easily attained by dheneb stone foundation, bleached bone, devlan mud wash.

OK i will soon have some pictures.

Sorry for the late update but i will have pictures tomorrow because my parents has separate and it,s very hard to take between.

Thats my Jetbike

Hello can some whan give me some tips

For Ulthwe, you need some bone.

To do this I do Bleached bone the a gryphon sepia wash over the bone, then highlight back up using bleached bone again!

To see some examples check out my blog

http://www.modelsnottoys.co.uk

Here is a quick example of my bone and black wit highlights.

Sure.

Firstly, your black paint looks VERY thick. Two ways to avoid that would be
a) thin your paint with a little water or
b) use spraypaint / an airbrush.

If I was painting large areas of black I'd go for spray.

Highlighting here would be good. See in the photo how the light picks out the edges and the bevels on the canopy of the jetbike?
Try recreating that with some greys. Get some hard edge highlights with a lighter grey.
You could alwasy go for a very light drybrush in grey too.

An easy way to shade the red is with a black, brown or even blue wash. you can then highlight with a red, then a reddy orange.

There's plenty of tutorials for painting gems out there.
Simply put:
*Paint black.
*Leaving top 1/3 Black, paint 2/3 dark (Scab) Red.
*Paint bottom 1/3 lighter (Blood) Red.
*Paint thin highlight on bottom of gem (Blazing) Orange
*Paint small white dot at top of gem.

If you're thinking of painting anything bone, i'd do this:
*basecoat: Foundation Dheneb Stone
*wash: Gryphonne Sepia, Devlan Mud (lightly)
*highlight/drybrush): Dheneb Stone, then Bleached Bone
*final highlight: Skull White (very fine, alone edges)

1xx700007117 wrote:...and Jetbikes in Ulthwe style.

Yet you've given your jetbikes the Alaitoc craftworld rune. Is this intentional?

Hammerziet wrote:

1xx700007117 wrote:...and Jetbikes in Ulthwe style.

Yet you've given your jetbikes the Alaitoc craftworld rune. Is this intentional?

Yeah i now but my army is the rest of a allied version of many Craftworlds


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Grandmaster wrote:For Ulthwe, you need some bone.

To do this I do Bleached bone the a gryphon sepia wash over the bone, then highlight back up using bleached bone again!

To see some examples check out my blog

http://www.modelsnottoys.co.uk

Here is a quick example of my bone and black wit highlights.

No you don,t in the codex they say that i Ulthwe is using Black as basee colour an Whithe,Red or Gold as trim!!!

Well, in order for Ulthwe to look good, you need to use bone....

Try and get your hands on a eye of terror codex as that is the codex where Ulthwe got their real identity!

It has some great examples and how to paint tips.

Oh yeah and its all about the bone baby!

1xx700007117 wrote:

Hammerziet wrote:

1xx700007117 wrote:...and Jetbikes in Ulthwe style.

Yet you've given your jetbikes the Alaitoc craftworld rune. Is this intentional?

Yeah i now but my army is the rest of a allied version of many Craftworlds


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Grandmaster wrote:For Ulthwe, you need some bone.

To do this I do Bleached bone the a gryphon sepia wash over the bone, then highlight back up using bleached bone again!

To see some examples check out my blog

http://www.modelsnottoys.co.uk

Here is a quick example of my bone and black wit highlights.

No you don,t in the codex they say that i Ulthwe is using Black as basee colour an Whithe,Red or Gold as trim!!!

You ask for tips and when people give them to you, you contradict them...


Ghidorah

You can take a horse to water.............

1) you might not want to paint the mouth piece red to me it looks like hes coughin up blood

2) if you want help dont contradict them or call them a loser and you painted it silver not white or gold

Oh yeah BTW, current Eldar codex, color section.

Craftworld Uthwe colours, Chaos Black and Bleached Bone!

I don't mean to b picky but I know my Ulthwe!