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anyone know of any tutorials I might be able to find for painting marble? I'd like to do it kind of like a white marble with gray bands through it.. or maybe kind of that cream colored white marble might work too...

http://www.raginggaijin.com/marbletutorial.html <--- For itty bitty marble.

This tutorial is great, but it's on a larger scale and it might be hard to do the sponging on a model.. It sure looks great, though.

This one was meant for canvas, but I'm sure it would work on models as well.

I've found a lot of stuff online saying there was a tutorial in WD for marble painting around when Dark Eldar were released, but I am unfortunately uncertain of the issue number.

What are you planning to marble anyway? Bases? Hope it turns out well, in any case ^_^

Cool thanks for those links, gives me some ideas

The marble is for my tanks for my new chaos army. They're called the Krypt Keepers and I'm giving them a boney color scheme and I thought it might be cool to represent the whole crypt thing as making their tanks look sort of like rolling mausoleums or something. So I'll be doing some conversions and I wanted to paint the bodies of the tanks to look like big sheets of marble instead of metal/armor. I was also thinking about trying to make the sides of the bases look like black marble but that might be harder to pull off and not look dumb.

That sounds really cool, and with such a large surface as a tank you might even be able to pull off the whole sponge-painting thing, which to me was the best looking out of everything I'd seen. Hope you post some pics when they're done!

yeah it should be cool. I'm going to file off all the rivets and use some greenstuff or plasticard to make all the edges come to a point instead of being rounded. I was even thinking of trying to photoshop up some custom decals for stained glass but I'm afraid that will be too over the top.

But it'll be a little while till I get to the tanks. I'm doing all the people first to get them out of the way. Then I'll have a defiler, land raider and 3 vindicators

For anyone interested too, someone over on WIP gave me this marble link

I think all they do is use thin washes of paint and build up the marbley areas with a lot of layers.

http://www.chestofcolors.com/cofc-postnuke/index.php?name=Sections&req=viewarticle&artid=45&page=1

Hm, this looks like the very easy stuff and after 4 hours you think "No, that's not like in the picture."

yeah, I think I'm just gonna have to go to home depot and buy a little piece or marble tile or 2 for reference and then just try to copy it.

Or maybe I can just scan it and make it into a great big custom printout decal and stick that whole thing on the model