Eternal Paint Log

[Mr Saturday]

The woods looks great. You can get the giant sprue bits on bitsbox individually, as well as a load of other kits.

 

[Never Eternal]

Mmm bitsbox, yes... we approve :konrad:

Sooo... not a huge update. I have been ABSOLUTELY stumped with how to paint the zombies on my Corpse Cart. The vast majority of my time has been spent experimenting with schemes, trying to find something I like.

I want a kind of purply-grey pale flesh tone.

I think I'm slowly... slowly getting close to something I want. In the mean time I've painted most of the driver

The woods are getting closer to completion, also:

Things got a little crazy when I mixed this random colour up and thought "I wonder what this would look like as a highlight for the bark..." and I put it on and I didn't like it. I began to panic. Eventually I mixed a colour that is approximately equivalent to Rotting Flesh and went over what I had already done to get a really ghostly look to the trees. It's brighter than I originally intended for the bark, but I still like it.

I've started working on the leaves... I can't wait to finally add them on. Their orange-yellow goodness will tie everything together (I hope).

 

[Vladimir the bloody]

Nice Eternal, and for the zombies I can say that almost any wash colour looks awesome for rot. If you want It purple, then mix purple paint with water and give it a wash.

 

[Never Eternal]

Ah I see. That's quite close to what I've been experimenting with. I've been mixing Purple Ink with Devlan Mud and it's coming out pretty close. Just need to tweak the ratios, I think.

Cheers for the info

On another note: I'm really tempted to order some leaf scatter after seeing them in a couple of other threads... could really tie the woods together! I'll have to see how rich I'm feeling...

 

[Mr Saturday]

Woods are looking great. Hudson & Allen do nice leaf scatter & wood debris.

http://www.hudsonandallen.com/

 

[Boo]

It is shaping up nicely!

And leaf scatter would definitely be worthwhile!

 

[veiled]

those wolves are looking awesome, along with your bone tones looks really well done

 

[The Dark Lord Mr Fluffy]

Really digging the skin colours. Makes your work come to life (excuse the terrible joke)

 

[Dogmar]

Great work so far. I'm really liking the dead look of the forest. Your work on it really makes me want to paint mine... or the remainders of mine to be precise... I built a Treeman Ancient out of most of the kit!

Keep us updated. And Happy Holidays!

Cheers,

Dogmar

 

[Never Eternal]

Thank you everyone.

I've been trying to get back to the wolves and finish them up. I think I've finally, finally figured out the colour scheme I want for the muscles. I'm excited to get those done.

Still working on some touches for the woods, mainly moss on the trunks and gluing on the leaves.

Shall have some photos after the holiday period.

 

[datalink7]

How are you painting your ghouls? Same colors as the wolves?

Also, how are you doing your aged look on your weapons? My skeletons are coming out satisfactorily for me, except I'm not sure what to do with the weapons.

Great job so far

 

[Never Eternal]

The weapons were painted thus:

-Primed Chaos Black
-Coat of Boltgun Metal
-Wash of Brown Ink (Devlan Mud is preferred)
-Drybrushed edges with Mithril Silver
-Added scratches with Mithril Silver

You can also do something similar to how I did all the armour (which is probably what I will try for future Skeleton models), which is just:

-Primed Chaos Black
-Coat of Scorched Brown
-Drybrushed with Boltgun Metal
-Add scratches with Mithril Silver

And yes, the Ghouls use the same scheme as the wolves, but with only 4 layers instead of 5 (IIRC). The darkest layer is the same and the brightest layer the same, but there are only 2 intermediate layers instead of 3, is what I mean. Saves time.