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I'm returning to the hobby after a about a year of a break. I had my Khorne army mostly stolen a few months ago, and as I returned to the hobby I decided to do a tzeentch themed army instead this time. Thousand Sons are always fun, but I don't like the wound it leaves in my wallet for GW thousand sons. So using my limited modelling experience I started modelling my own onto some DV marines. I've turned them into my own little legion and need some input on how to go about furthering their paint scheme.

The issue I'm having right now is how I'm going to go about painting ice, or doing ice effects directly onto the model. I like the thought that they spend so much time in the warp that they come back frozen each time they return. Anyway, has anyone done ice before? or maybe have some examples? I've considered using triangles of melted plastic for ice, and maybe lots of gloss on some parts I paint frozen. I'll upload a few of my modelling pictures as well to see if anyone has input.

Note: none of my modelling has been with green stuff yet. I've used mostly plumbers epoxy I had saved from an old sculpture I did ( I made a chaos cultist as a Halloween decoration and as a college project) before. I plan on getting some green stuff once it's used up, but for what I'm doing right now the epoxy works great. It's rough and leaves lots of texture so it works great for gross bits and fleshy parts. [img]

If the foam under the prince was a light blue it would already look like ice hehe
I´m not shure on this, but you could try very fine white glitter for ice on the armor and use watered down shades to give it the hue of the armor it covers.
Also pipe-cleaner wire has lot of uses : unscrew the two wires holding the cotton parts at the top of one, let it lick a flame to get a smoothed transition and you have a nice pincer-claw on a tentacle.
Or a mutated foot/leg.
I´m currently working on wings made out of this stuff, but am not happy with the stability atm.