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Painting White

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:18 am
by richred_uk
Can anyone point me to a guide to shading white? I want to use white in the uniforms of my DE team, but am unsure about how to shade it.

Thanks in advance

Richard Davies

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:25 am
by Norse
sorry dude, no guide, but I start with codex grey, then elf grey, then skull white (oversized pic below :roll: ) alternatively if you want an ivory look you could shade up through bone, but that may look a little too bridal.. 8)
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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:26 am
by Norse
Jesus my pics are actually getting BIGGER! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:27 am
by Orinoco
I get good results by starting with a Space Wolves Gray base coat, and then just highlight up to white. If you want the shadow to be darker, just start by darkening the SW Grey with a touch of Shadow Grey. This gives a blueish shade. Alternately, to get a yellowy shade, start with Desert Yellow. It really depens upon what other colours you are using to what shade of white you want

Orinoco

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:37 am
by Redfang
Wow, Norse, those gems look great!!!
And the eyes are really good too (assuming the 2nd is like the 1st)

A nice big picture on how to do gems for once; haleluah

R

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:08 pm
by philpill
the finish looks very 'rough' to me ... ? do you water your paints down ? or is that just because the pic's been uber-magnified ?

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:32 am
by Norse
Rough?!? :o :evil: :evil: :lol:

yes, I water my paints down, so I guess it is the fact that the picture is 50 times bigger than the model is... :roll:

got any pics of your own work I can objectively critique? :wink:

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:26 pm
by traveller
the finish looks very 'rough' to me ...
:o
:lol:


.... come on, Norse, you really can do better than this ... this mini, as everybody knew, is about 35 cm high !!! So, very rough style here indeed :roll:


:wink:

Traveller <desperately trying to finish his " mini " in time >

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:33 pm
by hoomin_erra
Dunno about the mini, but his sig is prolly as tall as he is now!!

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:58 pm
by Norse
Nope, taller... :wink:

and Trav is right, after scratch building a 35cm player I really should have spent more time painting it, right? :roll:

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 2:28 pm
by Musta Surma
Have a look at this homepage
http://www.paintingclinic.com/clinic/clinic.htm
Under painting white, red and black.

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 5:05 pm
by longfang
philpill wrote:the finish looks very 'rough' to me ... ? do you water your paints down ? or is that just because the pic's been uber-magnified ?

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:10 pm
by philpill
did I say something stupid ? :o :wink:

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:24 am
by Norse
philpill wrote:did I say something stupid ? :o :wink:
depends on whether you want any of your posts to be deleted or not.. :D

nice to see Del so happy though... :roll: :lol:

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:47 am
by Norse
are these too "rough" as well? :cry:

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