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I've been away from the game for almost 5 years, and wanted to get back to painting my crypt horrors.


So I'm trying to get a gore red base to slowly fade into a skull white highlight.
I've tried basing the models gore red and drybrushing them with whites (see attached pictures), but it doesn't look very good.


Is there a way to base the model white and then do a gore red wash, and then drybrushing a little to get highlights?
I've heard of such tecniques, but never tried them. Video links would be appriciated.

Depends how good you want the fade to be, there's a really good post a few down from yours on blending which is worth looking through.

I think what you are after could be achieved by using really thin paint over a zenithal grey/white primer, or over white primer washed with black. Or maybe contrast paint but I don't have much experience with these.

It's unlikely to result in a true fade though and it's tricky with red as it has a tendency to go pink when applied very thin to white.