Painting White

richred_uk · Post by **richred_uk** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:18 am

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

Norse · Post by **Norse** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:25 am

sorry dude, no guide, but I start with codex grey, then elf grey, then skull white (oversized pic below

) alternatively if you want an ivory look you could shade up through bone, but that may look a little too bridal..

Norse · Post by **Norse** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:26 am

Jesus my pics are actually getting BIGGER!

Orinoco · Post by **Orinoco** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:27 am

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

Redfang · Post by **Redfang** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:37 am

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

philpill · Post by **philpill** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:08 pm

the finish looks very 'rough' to me ... ? do you water your paints down ? or is that just because the pic's been uber-magnified ?

Norse · Post by **Norse** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:32 am

Rough?!?

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

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

traveller · Post by **traveller** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:26 pm

the finish looks very 'rough' to me ...

.... 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

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

hoomin_erra · Post by **hoomin_erra** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:33 pm

Dunno about the mini, but his sig is prolly as tall as he is now!!

Norse · Post by **Norse** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:58 pm

Nope, taller...

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

Musta Surma · Post by **Musta Surma** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 2:28 pm

Have a look at this homepage
http://www.paintingclinic.com/clinic/clinic.htm
Under painting white, red and black.

longfang · Post by **longfang** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 5:05 pm

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 ?

philpill · Post by **philpill** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:10 pm

did I say something stupid ?

Norse · Post by **Norse** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:24 am

philpill wrote:did I say something stupid ?

depends on whether you want any of your posts to be deleted or not..

nice to see Del so happy though...

Norse · Post by **Norse** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:47 am

are these too "rough" as well?