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Does anyone happen to remember (or still have) an issue of White Dwarf which had a LotR painting guide for the "main cast" which included a really good technique for painting red? Specifically, it was around the time things like Mines of Moria/Battle for Weathertop came out, and the issue of WD had a Balrog on the cover. My GF's looking for it for painting her Sisters of Battle, specifically their tabards. Alternatively, does anyone know if it was collected or reprinted anywhere? A bit of a longshot, but I'm sure someone on Dakka has an encyclopaedic collection of WD issues and a memory to match.

Sorry, don't know which it was in... but if it's what I think then it could well be where I picked up my red, it's more 'earthy' than blood red as most people try.

Base - Scorched brown, highlight Red Gore - successive highlights add dwarf flesh to the red gore, for extreme highlights add a bit of bleached bone in too.

Awesome, that sounds right and helps a lot, thankyou. If you happen to dig up the issue number, that'd be even better.

1: paint black
2: red gore base lighting
3: blood red highlight
4: badab wash
5: red gore thin highlight
6: blood red highlight
7: 70/30 blood red/blazing orange final highlight


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Edit: this isnt the way done in the tut.
But this is just a simple way i use for a stand out type of red as it goes from both extreme colours, and looks pretty good.

It might be around US WD#264

That issue has the hobbits painting tut, and the only red is for pippin's cloak. An issue earlier or later is the tut for Aragorn and Boromir.

I seem to remember a better tut, but can't find it off-hand. The only two issues I have with the Balrog on the cover are #265, and #283 (Shadow and Flame)

JD21290 wrote:1: paint black
2: red gore base lighting
3: blood red highlight
4: badab wash
5: red gore thin highlight
6: blood red highlight
7: 70/30 blood red/blazing orange final highlight


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Edit: this isnt the way done in the tut.
But this is just a simple way i use for a stand out type of red as it goes from both extreme colours, and looks pretty good.

This is what i use all the time

Also a quick handy tip: If you're going to go into orange for your final highlights (which you should, or you'll go pink), you can bring it back to a richer red by glazing it with thinned Baal Red wash.

Found it, thanks a lot guys.