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Hey guys. I'm just wondering if any of you have an experience, or even a guide, on painting snow camo designes for space marine scouts.

I'm planning on painting their camo cloaks with the snow design, so i need it to work on quite a large area, with quite a bit of "flat" areas.

I've tried searching for it, but not really hit anything helpful =/

So any advice you have would be -greatly- appreciated

Hetel

Have you tryed doing a mottled effect using white and a very light grey for shadow while both colours are wet to give it a slight blend ? Never painted snow before but that's the 1st thing to come to mind

Have anything particular in mind? Even a quick, generalized Google image search for "arctic camo" or "winter camo" will yield a few different types of patterns, just within the first page. The most common pattern I've seen is essentially classic woodland camo with a simple palette swap, focusing on cool greys instead of browns and greens. Other patterns have thin, jagged lines of black or grey over a predominantly white background. Alternatively, you could go for a mottled approach, although I'd suggest simple stippling over wet-blending (it's printed cloth, after all - the material would have distinct separation of colors, even if the pattern is random and disruptive).

oadie wrote:Have anything particular in mind? Even a quick, generalized Google image search for "arctic camo" or "winter camo" will yield a few different types of patterns, just within the first page. The most common pattern I've seen is essentially classic woodland camo with a simple palette swap, focusing on cool greys instead of browns and greens. Other patterns have thin, jagged lines of black or grey over a predominantly white background. Alternatively, you could go for a mottled approach, although I'd suggest simple stippling over wet-blending (it's printed cloth, after all - the material would have distinct separation of colors, even if the pattern is random and disruptive).

This was my first idea. I looked up various designs, but was more wandering if people had experience trying them. I'm only really learning to understand layering atm, i think wet blending may be a little too advanced for me to try atm, though i'll keep it in mind. I've also had a look at a jungle camo theme done on a tau vehicle, in the painting advice page, and it was very useful.

My initial idea was to paint the cloak white, and to add various triangles of black and grey, but i'm not sure if the finish will work out, or be too artificial.

I should have been more clear - I meant "over" in the comparative sense, not "on top of." I don't think wet-blending is the way to go for this effect, especially for a new painter (if you wanted to smoothly shade the underlying cloak, perhaps, but it'd still be something difficult to work towards). Stippling, however, would be an easy way to get a mottled effect, like a simplified version of a sprayed or digital camo design, scaled down.

Not sure how triangles would look, honestly. If you want something simpler to paint than the grey blobs/winterized woodland camo, you could try:

Jagged grey lines across a white cloak, like the left side of this image (may want to rotate it and have them run horizontally).


Or something more like this, which you could paint by stippling or sponging on the grey patches, possibly adding fine lines to the edges (in which case armor chipping painting articles, surprisingly, will be of the greatest help - just scale it up a bit and change colors).

oadie wrote:I should have been more clear - I meant "over" in the comparative sense, not "on top of." I don't think wet-blending is the way to go for this effect, especially for a new painter (if you wanted to smoothly shade the underlying cloak, perhaps, but it'd still be something difficult to work towards). Stippling, however, would be an easy way to get a mottled effect, like a simplified version of a sprayed or digital camo design, scaled down.

Not sure how triangles would look, honestly. If you want something simpler to paint than the grey blobs/winterized woodland camo, you could try:

Jagged grey lines across a white cloak, like the left side of this image (may want to rotate it and have them run horizontally).


Or something more like this, which you could paint by stippling or sponging on the grey patches, possibly adding fine lines to the edges (in which case armor chipping painting articles, surprisingly, will be of the greatest help - just scale it up a bit and change colors).

Rockin'

I have the stencil you posted, and it's quite nice. I used it for winter camo on my Rhinos and Razorbacks. Dropped jaws at my flgs.

I also agree with the 2nd suggestion. Paint chipping article specifically aiming at winter themed colors.

Also:
http://blog.brushthralls.com/?page_id=3719

oadie wrote:
Jagged grey lines across a white cloak, like the left side of this image (may want to rotate it and have them run horizontally).


Or something more like this, which you could paint by stippling or sponging on the grey patches, possibly adding fine lines to the edges (in which case armor chipping painting articles, surprisingly, will be of the greatest help - just scale it up a bit and change colors).

where did you find those images?