RE: Borgnine's Log: GG and BK WIP Wow! Welcome to the forums Muerto! I'm quite flattered by this and I will show what I can.
But before this I'll show my progress on those wights.
After yesterday I experimented and experimented and was severly dissapointed with most of the results. In the end, stippling and washing [I'll describe in detail below] gave me this effect:
Now the patina is not so heavy and it's only in creases of the armor - and the greyish, metalic colour is still visible and it's awesome - in my opinion, of course xD And tricks with stippling gave this worn out and unclean look.
Units as of now:
And now, tutorial time!
WARNING: The updated version with pictures is
HERE :)
Verdigris Patina Tutorial
I'm not really able to provide photos for each stage and it's totally unoptimized, because I was just going along and the effect just happened one time - but I will describe what I did. And I use old paints so if it's unavailable - use
THIS CONVERSION CHART First - I mixed paints you see below, with TinBitz:Gunmetal ratio being about 2,5:1 or maybe 2:1 - i don't really know - but the effect was as pictured:
Not too watery consistency - single coat was thick to paint it all and watery enough to make it thin. Next I made some turquoise - I don't really have turquoise paint so I mixed it - as you see below.
DarkAngels+RegalBlue was 1:1 and GoblinGreen+EnchantedBlue was 1:1 - with a bit of white added to second one to get the colour pictured:
This time I tried to make it kinda watery - I don't know how much I added, but the final consistency was kinda like milk - it needs to flow but also be able to stay in some place when needed. I added some Vallejo Glaze Medium to both mixes to make it flow and dry better - and I don't really know how it'll turn out without it, but it should be fine - now it's not time to be completely clean ;] I was putting both colours on the minis, light on larger surfaces and edges and dark in the creases - both of them mixing while still wet. When this dried I painted them once again - this time with light turquoise only and putting it rather on raised surfaces and edges - and being untidy and quick with it - it doesn't need to be neat and clean. When this dried I tried stippling it - with this brush:
So I generally used some drybrush, drying the brush almost completely and then - rather than brushing - I poked the mini vertically with this brush. It leaves little, untidy points which makes it look quite weathered :)
And this is how I made minis on the yesterday post.
After this I went through some experiments and this is how the right one went. I took Tin Bitz [pictured earlier] and stiplled the mini with this - only this time the brush wasn't completely dry. It was leaving large spots and the brush 'hits' was leaving a rough texture on the mini, as well as colour. I left creases and dents in armor, and most was TinBitzed - roughly and unitidy. After this I stiplled it again - using white and really dry, the same as earlier. This left on the mini a mix of points in turquoise, tin bitz and white - with turquoise in the creases, tinbitz on raised surfaces and edges and white dots as little accents.
And finally - I used the light turquoise paint and watered it down little more - it need's to be more flowy. And using this, I washed whole armor parts completely. And this was the point when stippling turned out to be a great discovery! You see, all this stippling left a rough texture on the mini - and wash rather than just flowing into the creases, was also leaving it's mark on the surfaces, making clots and spots - all of them quite random and very weathered. And this is how the minis on the top picture came out to be. I was surprised and very pleased with the result :)
Sorry for the long rant, brevity in writing is not my strong point :rolleyes: I think that when doing it later, one can just paint mini turquoise and leave the firt step with the TinBitz mix, but I'm just assuming. I don't have photos, but I could really make a good tutorial next time - after all I'll someday want to have 40GG and 10BK, not half of it like now ;]
I hope all my writing will help someone :) In the meanwhile - I'm going back to study for the exam :'(