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I've been working through my rank and file Rohan Riders with a simple base colour and wash method which is looking really nice.

For my character Erkenbrand I want to do his horse white as it should be, what's a simple and effective way to do whites on a horse? This is a dry run really for my ultimate goal of painting Gandalf the White and his horse Shadowfax

Thanks

You can start off with a light grey primer, use a darker grey for the shading and the drybrush/highlight up to white.

as He said, start of grey, then mix your paint lighter each layer, adding blends up to pure white for the final highlights, most white horses have grey skin I believe(they are called grey), so this will probably look quite realistic.

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

Also try looking for a horse book (I got mine from the Works shop for about £5).

It has loads of pics of different horses and is a great resource for doing realistic paint schemes.

Or try looking up 'horse grey' on google (as white horses are called greys for some reason!)

other colours include - roan, chestnut, bay & black

bubber wrote:other colours include - roan, chestnut, bay & black

Appaloosa, Buckskin, Palamino... Paints, Piebalds, Dapples...

Best bet is prolly something like starting out with a GW's lighter foundation grey, and then drybrushing spacewolf grey, and then skull white, hooves should be a slightly darker grey, a lil touch of elf flesh on the nose wouldn't hurt.

Hypothetically you could also go desert yellow, bleached bone, white for a more golden white..

Just to be more helpfull..
Appaloosa, (spotted, clustering to the rump)
Buckskin (mustard yellowish, with black legs mane, tail)
Palamino (golden with white mane and tail)
Dun (like buckskin, but with a shoulder cross and stripes on the legs)

Paints, Piebalds, Dapples...

http://www.amazon.com/Horse-Eyewitness-Books-Juliet-Clutton-Brock/dp/0756637759/

To the specific problem at hand..

Best bet is prolly something like starting out with a GW's lighter foundation grey, and then drybrushing spacewolf grey, and then skull white, hooves should be a slightly darker grey, a lil touch of elf flesh on the nose wouldn't hurt.

Hypothetically you could also go desert yellow, bleached bone, white for a more golden white..

Awsome info, thanks everyone

It would help if you were more specific. What colour do you want to paint this white horse?

Triggerbaby wrote:It would help if you were more specific. What colour do you want to paint this white horse?

That's a joke right?

Did you get the Pm I sent you and was it helpful at all?

Deff Dread red Edition wrote:Did you get the Pm I sent you and was it helpful at all?

Just checked & it was helpful thanks, sorry for the delay I didn't check my PM's

You can do a blond-white horse by starting out with Snakebite Leather mixed with white. Highlight up with several layers (minimum three) by adding more and more white to the Snakebite Leather. This gives you a warm, organic looking white.