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Yea, normally I'm a pretty good painter... but I've started my skaven army and i just painted my first night runner and it may just be the ugliest model ive ever painted since my very first Khorne Berzerker...

I'm thinking I need some help as to how to make the fur to look good like what colors to use and the skin(tail included) and perhaps the leather wraps on the night runners...

<!--emo&<img src='http://www.dakkadakka.com/DesktopModules/NTForums/images/emoticons/biggrin.gif'>--><!--endemo-->it may have just been a bad first model cuz i remember when i started eldar i was terrible at em at first but then got better but it's really pretty darn ugly  and not in a skaven way...

btw im making an eshin army, i still use clanrats and stuff but ill have one army specialized so i can use Under Cover of Darkness n' whatnot. also, for my clanrats what should i do to give the armor a metallic yet black look?

thanks a lot!

I use scorched brown as a basecoat for the Fur and the leather.
Then, as you like it, you brush the Fur with another brown like bestial brown or vermin fur(obvious, maybe too obvious). The Leather looks pretty good if you brush it with graveyard earth.
For the skin:
I use a basecoat of bleached bone (looks strange at the beginning) then a watered down Brown ink. Darkens the skin andgives good deepth (sp?)

That's my style with the Skaven. I wouldn't consider myself a por painter per se, but i increased my skaven painting quality over the years so consider this feedback as some kind of pass over from what I've learned. Hope that helps.

Any Pro painter is welcomed to give better ideas and suggestions...

Greets
Schepp himself

On warseer is a Skaven army diary, which includes information on modeling, painting and playing
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15034
maybe this is of help.

i do flash wash or bubonic dry brush over cho black

The only skaven i've ever painted I did with normal fleshtones, and grey/black fur.  For the wrap/bracelet i painted it snakebite leather and highlighted from there to a 50/50ish snakebite/white.

Picture  of said model:
home.hot.rr.com/aprovost/paintingcorps/assassin3.jpg