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Hi, I'm currently making a piece of scenery and I want it to include a large piece of smooth marble.
Does anybody know any techniques to paint marble, or of any existing tutorials?
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Ry
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Will Hayes used the Spray Gun to basecoat his Wave Serpent with Bleached Bone. He achieved the marble effect by painting on thin lines of watered-down Scorched brown. He then painted a very thin coat of Skull White over the top of them and used Purity Seal to blend it together.
I don't see any marble effect on that Wave Serpent at all. Maybe it's the picture, but it just looks like smudged Bleached Bone to me. There's no clear striation evident in that paint job at all.
On the first post I tried making a checkered floor with white and black marble. Doesn't look quite good in the photo, but it's just basically flat black paint and you paint white lines over it. When varnished it looked more than decent.
I'm not a fan of crackle myself, but I really like this approach to marble:
This can be done with spray paint as well if you don't have an airbrush. And I can imagine it would work fairly well if you sponge-brushed the paint onto the surface if you prefer a color from the paint-pot.
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fenrir1997 wrote:I'm not a fan of crackle myself, but I really like this approach to marble:
This can be done with spray paint as well if you don't have an airbrush. And I can imagine it would work fairly well if you sponge-brushed the paint onto the surface if you prefer a color from the paint-pot.
This wouldnt work too well with brushed or sponged on paint, it only works well because the silver is transparrent (tranpsarent base medium) and the layer sprayed on is really thin. Also the paints he uses are custom automotive paints, not waterbased. This may or may not work with acrylics, but definatly do not just assume it will work the same
This wouldnt work too well with brushed or sponged on paint, it only works well because the silver is transparrent (tranpsarent base medium) and the layer sprayed on is really thin. Also the paints he uses are custom automotive paints, not waterbased. This may or may not work with acrylics, but definatly do not just assume it will work the same
Not entirely true, good sir. I can't find the link at the moment (stupid phone), but a gentleman here on dakka used acrylics to this effect on his eldar. I agree, the sponge idea was a bit of a stretch, but as long as the 1st layer down is a gloss finish, acrylics work wonders.
Sorry 'bout the hijack, just letting anyone interested know.
Why is it that only those who have never fought in a battle are so eager to be in one?
This wouldnt work too well with brushed or sponged on paint, it only works well because the silver is transparrent (tranpsarent base medium) and the layer sprayed on is really thin. Also the paints he uses are custom automotive paints, not waterbased. This may or may not work with acrylics, but definatly do not just assume it will work the same
Not entirely true, good sir. I can't find the link at the moment (stupid phone), but a gentleman here on dakka used acrylics to this effect on his eldar. I agree, the sponge idea was a bit of a stretch, but as long as the 1st layer down is a gloss finish, acrylics work wonders.
Sorry 'bout the hijack, just letting anyone interested know.
I am guessing you are referring to me;
Used the "crinkle" method to create this effect, followed up by a little brush work. Also, this was not my Eldar it was a commission for a guy on the forums. It takes timing and a little skill to pull it off, but looks great when it is done.
@Fenrir, yes he is using certain type of paint. But, you can achieve virtually any effect still with acrylic, just have to be willing to experiment and make some mistakes.
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