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Nice reference, especially since I'm painting slugga boyz at the moment.

Thanks Arctik

Any luck on the camera repairs?

No
unless you dont mind phone photo's...

corpsesarefun wrote:I would love to alazahr but my camera is sadly broken
and i dont actually own shining gold, its the only metallic i dont own.
once my camera is fixed ill buy some asap and do the tests for you though
i will also post the ork skin metallic tests i did for alpharius (burnished gold, dwarf bronze and tin bitz with 3 washes of thrakka green).
And in a new thread ill post my gore tutorial that i have typed up but still need to take photo's for (once more, damn my camera!)

I can't wait to see that Gore Tutorial. Camera phone pictures would be fine in this case I suspect. Wouldn't hurt I'd think.

-J.

you would be surprised on how gak my phone is.
no macro function so anything small is out of focus and the colours are REALLY off. ill take some when i get home from school anyway though

At this point, I'm on the verge of starting one of two 'big' projects:

1) My Ork Blood Axe/Bad Moon horde
2) My all "MK8" Marine Army

It is still up in the air, pending a few final decisions...

(hint, hint)

Sorry Alpharius but my phone seems to take photographs of black fuzzy blobs instead of ork arms
i wonder if there are any other digital camera's around the house... ill go look

Great tutorial on washes...okay, we have seen the sample of washes used individually but does any one have samples of blended washes other than what has already been mentioned? Meaning, has anyone layered Asurman Blue over Leviathan Purple or Ogryn Flesh over Thrakka Green? How would this look like? I ask for samples as I want to see the effect before I spend the cash to purchase all the washes for blending. Post pics if any...THANKS!

corpsesarefun wrote:Sorry Alpharius but my phone seems to take photographs of black fuzzy blobs instead of ork arms
i wonder if there are any other digital camera's around the house... ill go look

Hey! No pressure!

You're doing the community in general, and me in particular, quite a favor!

Warlord Imp wrote:Great tutorial on washes...okay, we have seen the sample of washes used individually but does any one have samples of blended washes other than what has already been mentioned? Meaning, has anyone layered Asurman Blue over Leviathan Purple or Ogryn Flesh over Thrakka Green? How would this look like? I ask for samples as I want to see the effect before I spend the cash to purchase all the washes for blending. Post pics if any...THANKS!

*Adds to list of things to do any photograph once camera is back*

*offers prayers to the omnisiah for your camera to work again*

I'm quite interested in your attempts for ork flesh, as I'm still in the building phase for my boyz, I'm still thinking about a paint scheme and new ways to do flesh colors is a good reference. Many thanks for posting this! The green and reds are just what my friend was looking for his Tau army.

Great post. I saw someone on another forum paint his Crimson Fist using an undercoat of Mythril Silver and then washes of the blue and red. Looked good for a metallic look to the armor.

It's given me some food for thought on an Eldar project I'm seriously considering.

It's neat to see this tutorial. The new washes have given new life to my painting. It's become easier to get speed and quality into an army.

I wonder how they would look over non-metallic metals?
I can't say as I do not know how to paint them.

Breaker wrote:*offers prayers to the omnisiah for your camera to work again*

I'm quite interested in your attempts for ork flesh, as I'm still in the building phase for my boyz, I'm still thinking about a paint scheme and new ways to do flesh colors is a good reference. Many thanks for posting this! The green and reds are just what my friend was looking for his Tau army.

the ork flesh trials were a failure although once the camera is fixed ill post colours anyway

cdog80 wrote:Great post. I saw someone on another forum paint his Crimson Fist using an undercoat of Mythril Silver and then washes of the blue and red. Looked good for a metallic look to the armor.

I saw that, it was one of my inspirations for doing this test. CMON wasn't it ?

Sarigar wrote:It's given me some food for thought on an Eldar project I'm seriously considering.

It's neat to see this tutorial. The new washes have given new life to my painting. It's become easier to get speed and quality into an army.

i know what you mean, washes make starting from a lighter basecoat alot easier and in my opinion a more valid option than black

Krellnus wrote:I wonder how they would look over non-metallic metals?
I can't say as I do not know how to paint them.

ok so i need to learn how to do NMM, get good at it then do some tests then take photo's of them will do

EDIT: on second thoughts i wouldnt wash NMM, it would ruin the gentle blending.
although a watered down (around 3:1) version of a complementay colour (ogryn flesh for copper, devlan mud for bronze, asurman blue for chrome, gryphonne sepia for golds and a badab black for steel) i think might help pull colours together and help with the gentle shading.
EDIT AGAIN: 3 parts water and 1 part wash does work rather well for helping to finish off NMM.

corpsesarefun wrote:

ok so i need to learn how to do NMM, get good at it then do some tests then take photo's of them will do

EDIT: on second thoughts i wouldnt wash NMM, it would ruin the gentle blending.
although a watered down (around 3:1) version of a complementay colour (ogryn flesh for copper, devlan mud for bronze, asurman blue for chrome, gryphonne sepia for golds and a badab black for steel) i think might help pull colours together and help with the gentle shading.
EDIT AGAIN: 3 parts water and 1 part wash does work rather well for helping to finish off NMM.

So, you're saying you DID get good at NMM then?

Seriously - is your camera working yet???

Not GOOD, but i understand the concept and did a few practises.
just need to work on my blending.

Excellent reference - I love washes and use 3-4 layers of badab black over boltgun for a 'cast-iron look' on my chaos space marines. I found straight black paint boring, so paint mine Boltgun, then darken the heck out of it, and I think it looks good .

This Havoc probably has the best example.


I also use Devlan Mud straight on top of gold, and then highlight that with a gold/silver mix and then straight silver.


Finally, I used blue and green very very sparingly on certain areas of my raptors (painted in brass, so I wanted to add a very small amount of oxidation - you need to zoom in, but you can see it around the 'bolts/rivets' on the left guy's armour.


Great work on this tutorial - very useful!

I'm not sure what I'd like to see more...

An update on the wash trials or...

...an update about corpsesarefun's camera!

(Though I guess we're going to need that before anything else...)

Hmmm I wonder if I could apply this tutorial with my P3 washes...

+1. I think a lot of people will find this thread very helpful.

did we really need to bump this after almost 2 years?

Sure, why not?

I think many people WILL find it helpful - and as I'm about to start something similar, I know the 'reminder' is good for me!

Uuuh deep necromancy - but without it, I would not have seen this thread.

Very good information here and good pictures, thank you.

See?

Threadnomancy FTW!

Plus, I'd love to see MORE examples of this.

In fact, I'll be adding some of my own... soon!

I Would like to know if the camara ever got fixed

I've been looking for a different way to paint my Dark Eldar, and I kind of like the idea of washes over the metal color. I'll have to give it a try and see how a full model looks with this.

I bought a new camera as people who have seen my zorks will know, what tests would people like to see?

Ah ha!

I knew there was a GOOD reason to resurrect this thread!

I would LOVE to see white primed marines hit with:

1) multiple coats of ASURMEN blue
2) multiple coats of THRAKKA green

And you too are know the man!

(You know... IF!)