Painting a polar bear?

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**imark789**

So I'm working on a Kislevite warband for mordheim and have a bear model all stripped and ready to paint for the third time now. I can never get the white fur to look decent, anybody have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance, my wise dakkanaut friends.

**scarletsquig**

Painting a polar bear?

Try not to wake it up.

**an00bis**

Fortress grey and then drybrush the heck out of it with white. That should give it a nice look

**starsdawn**

Prime white.
Wash with 50/50 Asurmen Blue and Badab Black. Make sure it is watered down.
Overbrush with Fortress grey.
Drybrush with Skull White.

**imark789**

an00bis wrote:Fortress grey and then drybrush the heck out of it with white. That should give it a nice look

I think I already tried that, but it might have been codex gray.

**A Black Ram**

A very light blue washed on the fur won't look accurate, but it will enforce the ''cold'' look of the model.

**poda_t**

I would say base white with the ffffaaaaaaaaaintest touch of gray. dry bursh white, and then drybrush white with the ffffaaaiiiintest toush of bright blue.

**Grimtuff**

Some very odd suggestions here, the bears are not pure white, they have a certain "creamy" colour to their fur. Here's how I painted some for my SW (these were made before TWC even existed baby!)

Dheneb Stone basecoat
Bleached Bone drybrush
Final drybrush of Skull White
Done!

Turns out like this:

Hope thet helps.

**SilverMK2**

Prime white, wash with a very watery bleached bone, wash with a very light blue wash.

**Kilkrazy**

Grimtuff wrote:Some very odd suggestions here, the bears are not pure white, they have a certain "creamy" colour to their fur. Here's how I painted some for my SW (these were made before TWC even existed baby!)

Dheneb Stone basecoat
Bleached Bone drybrush
Final drybrush of Skull White
Done!

Turns out like this:
...

Hope thet helps.

I agree with Grimtuff. I you look at photos of real polar bears, they often have almost a yellowish colour to their fur.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=polar+bear&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=rusFTtKHJ8qKhQfSmaG0DQ&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1251&bih=703

**Bloodhorror**

Sorry.

Casual Polar Bear.

Amused

**imark789**

Grimtuff wrote:Some very odd suggestions here, the bears are not pure white, they have a certain "creamy" colour to their fur. Here's how I painted some for my SW (these were made before TWC even existed baby!)

Dheneb Stone basecoat
Bleached Bone drybrush
Final drybrush of Skull White
Done!

Turns out like this:

Hope thet helps.

Yeah that is the model I have, except without the SM riding it and with GS over the top so it doesn't look like anything's riding it. And yeah, I've had lots of people suggest blue washes/undercoats but I knew it wouldn't look realistic...thanks for the advice!