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I've used my search-fu to no avail. I've never been happy with the look of most methods of painting fresh and dried blood on miniatures. Does anyone in the Hive Mind here have a dependable and good-looking recipe for fresh and/or dried blood?

Hot glue can be used and stretched to give a fresh, oozing, bleeding look. here is a link to someone i suggested the same thing to and how it came out.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/299046.page

I wonder if cutting myself and mixing my blood with varnish would work. Probably, I assume.

Tamiya Clear Red is the best way to go...

Put some on a ceramic plate, add tiny bit of way watered down chaos black, and let it sit....the top layer will form a skin and when you pint it on it will look like the blood is coagulated.....

hit me up if you need more help

For red/still fresh blood, tamiya clear red is great.

For coagulated/old blood, 2 parts tamiya clear red to one part tamiya smoke (IIRC, fairly certain that was the suggested ratio) is unbelievable

I want to echo the recommendation for Tamiya Clear Red.

Here's a nice tutorial with pictures of the results.

Thanks very much...TCR it is then!