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Just wanted to know your opinions about how could this be painted. It's the main Skulltakers (WE warband) color scheme, from GW. Many thanks! ^^

Looks Luke a bronze with red added as a base then a dark brown wash .

CURNOW wrote:Looks Luke a bronze with red added as a base then a dark brown wash .

Yep. Spray red, do the details in bronze and bone then wash with devlan mud (or whatever).

lessthan1337 wrote:

CURNOW wrote:Looks Luke a bronze with red added as a base then a dark brown wash .

Yep. Spray red, do the details in bronze and bone then wash with devlan mud (or whatever).

Ok. I just wondered how did they got that metallic, blood red. Thank you! ^^

Metallic red could have been done by painting the whole thing Mithril Silver, then washing repeatedly with red washes - it looks fairly dark so they'd probably have had to custom make a wash from Red Gore or something. Alternately, just mixing Mithril with Red Gore or what have you could provide a similar effect.

You could also do this with red + a diluted metallic ink, no?

There's also a very small amount of teal wash in the metal, to give the tarnished bronze look in the corners.

Brother SRM wrote:Metallic red could have been done by painting the whole thing Mithril Silver, then washing repeatedly with red washes - it looks fairly dark so they'd probably have had to custom make a wash from Red Gore or something. Alternately, just mixing Mithril with Red Gore or what have you could provide a similar effect.

Or just buying metallic red paint...

You can also muy metallic additives that you can add to regular paints to make them metallic.


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Hard to tell on my work monitor, but the posted pic actually looks like the whole thing has been painted gold and then the red parts washed with a few coats of red ink.

insaniak wrote:Or just buying metallic red paint...

You can also muy metallic additives that you can add to regular paints to make them metallic.

Sigh, there USED to be a place across from my job that was an R/C car specialty place. They carried a ton of testors model master spray cans, all sorts of metallic colors. I wish they were still around, they had all sorts of neat stuff that would havw worked well for this sort of application.

That being said, as Insaniak said, there is a stationary store near me that also sells both metallic and pearlescent pigment powder you just add to the paint. They are like $3USD apiece.

Liquitex, as well as valejo, makes a metallic medium. Just mix it with whatever colour you want and you are good to go.

As a side note, you can paint that miniature with a brush 8P

Liquitex Iridescent medium:
http://www.dickblick.com/products/liquitex-acrylic-mediums/

An 8oz bottle should be more than enough for an entire army.

Vallejo metal medium:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vallejo-Metal-Medium-70-521-17ml-/170614491825

May need two or three bottles depending on how much you are painting.

Okay my 2 pennies worth. I would uses washes over a metallic base, I have recently moved away from GW Washes and have started buying Liquitex Acrylic Paints in Tubes. (£4 per tube makes about a litre of Wash!)

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/The_Secret_Ingredient:_Paynes_Grey_%28by_Iffy%29 Here is a good tutorial on making your own Liquitex Paynes grey wash, i followed it to the letter and it worked really well. I now have Burnt Umber (A Red/Brown tone) they work out cheaper, but you need Distilled water and Flow Enhancer (Or Glaze Medium) to make your own Washes. I bought 10x 50ml Bottles off ebay for £3. I make my own washes in batches.



With this I went to Les Bursleys site Awesome Paint Job, and followed his instructions to make Ink based Washes. Now I am loving painting like never before, mixing up batches of paint, experimenting with Retarder, Glaze Medium, flow enhancer etc (all from the Vallejo Range).

I would spray him a coloured primer and paint him with Tin Bitz (if you still have some!) otherwise something like Chainmail or Boltgun / Gun metal. Then wash him repeatedly with a Red Wash (Make it thin) and do it alot, I mean alot. I use a Daylight bulb on mine, it dry's quickly so be careful, I can put on 2/3 washes an Hour using this technique.

Background says these CSM have the obssesion of polishing their armors with dust from their enemys's bones, so it would have a metallic red like that. The borders of the plates can be both in brass or simple metallic silver.
Well, I'll try the two theories: red ink washes over metallic/bronze or custom meatallic red wash. I'll also try Vallejo paints. The thing is that I would like to paint some chaos termies (and could be even Zhufor) with this scheme, and I don't have many spare figures for trying apart from some loyalist SM :S
Well, many thanks to you all! ^^ If you have more advices, always welcome!