Space Wolf Painting Tutorial

[lunchb0x]

you do your highlights with banding. cool. Simple and effective. Try wet blending more.

[Kaan]

Very nicely done, thank you for sharing!

[littlbitz]

I will definately do that Lunch, I really love the way your models look. You are a level or two above my own paint skill, but I'm working on it.

 

And that seems to be the next logical step in my painting, I just need to sit down and commit myself to trying it.

 

Oh, and Greyshift, I do paint my Vehicles the same way. It is a bit time consuming though, I really want to try some Air-brushing but haven't taken the plunge yet...

[Sigismund Himself]

We will have to save this to the librarium when this is all done. :)

Indeed :P I'll see if I can round up a Lexicanium to help add it. *whistles*

[Hrathnar Flintfang]

I really like your style, I think it looks very clean and pops quite well. I do have to ask though how you get your yellow to adhear to the paldron with the base coat. I have attempted using various shades of brown to no effect, and at this point the only thing that seems to work is drybrushing white, then layring on yellow until its solid and covering the trim up with some grey on the end of a toothpick. Does it have to do with the quality/consistency of the base coat? or is it simply a matter of very heavy layering?

[littlbitz]

With the yellow Flint, these days its all about the Foundation paint.

 

For me, I found the trick with the yellow is not to water it down as much as you would a deeper color, I do keep my brush damp, but I paint yellow "right from the pot" so to speak. (of course I wipe excess off the brush first, Im not putting it on in blobs, just not watered down so much)

[Lord Ragnarok]

Yeah, I messed up two of my WG I'm working on because I watered down the Iyanden F.Paint too much. I'll know for next time. :P

[Hrathnar Flintfang]

With the yellow Flint, these days its all about the Foundation paint.

 

For me, I found the trick with the yellow is not to water it down as much as you would a deeper color, I do keep my brush damp, but I paint yellow "right from the pot" so to speak. (of course I wipe excess off the brush first, Im not putting it on in blobs, just not watered down so much)

 

Thats how I use ALL my paints, because I can't figure out how to water them down (again, at least a decade of trying on and off without anyone really showing me) and both the Citidel and Folkart paints I've tried for yellow have failed me. I think I may try to get some of that foundation paint and see if it works better than what I have.

[Lord Ragnarok]

I use a mix of water, acrylic flow release, and slow dri medium for my cocktail of slow dry and watering down paints.

 

I used this tutorial by Reaper.

 

http://www.reapermini.com/TheCraft/15

[Hrathnar Flintfang]

Hmmm, well for those of us who never really developed any brush control anyways thinning paint might just do the trick! It makes me wonder why a thread like this has not gone up sooner.

[lunchb0x]

I will definately do that Lunch, I really love the way your models look. You are a level or two above my own paint skill, but I'm working on it.

 

And that seems to be the next logical step in my painting, I just need to sit down and commit myself to trying it.

 

 

Thanks homie. Maybe i should post up a tutorial on how I paint my wolves...it really is very easy and very fast.

[Bay]

Superb tutorial.