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I played 40k Orks and I was pretty decent painter at those, I just followed some guides and experimented with my own ideas and they turned out well.

I cannot find a guide on how to paint trolls.

I was curious what colors people use to do the skin? From bottom layer up to top highlight areas. I know you want the caved in muscle areas darker then the higher areas, what colors do people use or if you know a good guide that gives me some ideas this will give me an idea of what paints I need to buy.

Thank you much!

Bohle

Here's one from TTGN:

http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/2006/04/20/1337

Welcome,brush thralls to the rescue lol.I hope this helps,by the way just as a disclaimer,this is not my tutorial.

http://blog.brushthralls.com/?page_id=4015

Hrm, I like your find better.

LOL,thanks Malf.

I like these kinda was looking for something that tells me skin in a black and white manner: example when I painted orks it was:

Start black
Paint dark angel green
drybrush over muscles goblin green
then snot green


something to that nature, this gives me the colors i need to buy.

The brush troll is nice but the skin it just says start trollblood base, hammerfall khaki, shade(is this the drybrushing tech?) with bloodtracker brown and thats pretty much all it says.

Sorry for the confusion. I just was really happy with the way the orks turned out, and with skin being the most visible aspect normally I like to get that down and I am pretty good with leather/metal already.

Thanks again!

The colours in the BrushThralls article are the names of Privateer Press' own P3 paint range.

You can see what each colour looks like in a store that sells them online like this one:

http://defiantgaming.com/shop/hobby-modelling-and-gaming/paint/formula-p3/cat_54.html

And you can find a helpful, general guide to highlighting with P3 colours online too:

http://www.battlegroup.dk/P3-painting-chart.pdf

And then you can match that to your existing GW/Citadel paints.

wow thanks, that chart is amazing! I think that could really help me!

Now I will find what blue or grey scheme I think I like the best and use that for my skin.

Thank you again! Great find!

you could always make your trolls green, i've seen it done somewhere or other and it didn't look to shabby

Or check out the red trollbloods, painted by Russ Wakelin from the D6 Generation:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Redback_Kriel_Trollbloods

Thanks, I am still not really finding a guide that tells me what paints are a good scheme.

I think for the skin I am going to use.

1st:Trollblood Highlight
2nd:Trollblood Base
3rd: Underbelly Blue (maybe some blue ink wash)
4th: Midlurd Flesh

What you think for the skin?

Thanks!

Hi Bohle,

I'm no pro-painter like the brushthralls, but I dug up an old post from my blog that talks about how I do my skin.

http://datrollcave.blogspot.com/2007/02/painting-maulerbegin.html

I've since sped up the process though to cut out the regal blue and electric blue steps. I now base with GW electric blue (also available as the same color in Vallejo) and mix in more and more space wolf grey as I highlight/blend up.

Usually around 3 steps for infantry, and probably about 6 steps for beasts. I'll then sometimes do a very very watery wash of electric blue again in the crevices only (i.e. use your fine detail brush and get a very watered down electric blue droplet).

Here's some recent infantry I did much more quickly than some of my early beasts.

http://datrollcave.blogspot.com/2009/05/champions-fully-painted.html

It' not a very pro level process, but it works for me. Hope that helps and good luck!

wow thanks! I think this will help me tremendously!


Thanks again!

I should have my trolls by Thurs and I will give it a go!

A style i use is to dry brush human color on the skin it look very beastial