Shading Khorne Red

[Emperor's Furor]

I was just wondering whether I could get some tips on shading Khorne red.

 

I tried airbrushing Tamiya Flat red today and I dunno what happened but I'm a novice at using it and the outcome wasn't very good, it pooled around the recesses, I think I may of added to much thinner or my airbrush was acting up. Anyway I ended up cleaning the airbrush and then went over the red with Khorne red airbrush and it came out a lot better. Now I'm thinking on how to shade and highlight it. I was thinking Agrax earth shade, but only in the recesses, but I haven't a clue what to highlight it with, my original intention was to have a moderately bright red (like Mephiston red) and then highlight up to orange using the guide in the white dwarf, but since I used Khorne red I'm at a lost on what the next step is.

[Bryan Blaire]

You can actually use a green to shade red to get a "warmer" shade. Agrax is a good choice as well, but I haven't felt that Carroburg Crimson does all that great a job on the already deep Khorne Red, Agrax gets a better gradient and depth. For a cooler shade,you can actually use a blue or purple as well.

 

For the red on my Space Wolves, I believe I used a Khorne base, Agrax shading, and highlighted with Wazdakka Red, then a thinner layer of highlight with Evil Sunz Scarlet.

[Emperor's Furor]

You can actually use a green to shade red to get a "warmer" shade. Agrax is a good choice as well, but I haven't felt that Carroburg Crimson does all that great a job on the already deep Khorne Red, Agrax gets a better gradient and depth. For a cooler shade,you can actually use a blue or purple as well.

 

For the red on my Space Wolves, I believe I used a Khorne base, Agrax shading, and highlighted with Wazdakka Red, then a thinner layer of highlight with Evil Sunz Scarlet.

Do you go completely over the Khorne red with Wazdakka? When ever I think of highlighting I think of just doing the edges, but is it going over the entire surface but leaving the bits around the crevices darker?

[Bryan Blaire]

Nah, I leave all the Khorne Red showing, and only do edge/line highlighting with the Wazdakka. I haven't gotten that confident to start doing full blend highlighting across the entire surface. On the Space Wolves, all I really did around the crevices was go back and clean up those areas were the Shade got away from me and onto the pad too much.

 

However, for robes, I would definitely consider learning to fully layer colors or wet-blending, it will definitely give you better results than just line highlighting. I do a mixed bag of this for the robes for my Stoneburners, with an attempt at layered blending for the base coat up to the mid-levels, recess washes with the Shades for the darker portions, and line highlighting for the highest points of the robes.

[Dom_]

Agrax earth-shade or nuln oil will work just fine for shading the recesses. For highlighting, the 'traditional' way is to edge highlight with wazdaka, with quite a thick line, then do a very fine edge highlight of wild rider. 

[GrandMagnus]

I use drakenhoff nightshade if I want a dark crimson red. Blue is a natural shade for red, especially if you want a cold/dark red. Otherwise you could also use carrouburg crimson, but I feel it melts too much with the dark reds, such as khorne red.

[Bung]

I would mix my own shade using Khorne Red mixed with Vallejo Dark Sea Blue.

That will give you a strong shadow with the color of your armour.

For highlighting red is a tricky color so how far would you highlight, on step or 2 or till white?

Lighten your color with some yellow and then go Vallejo Icy Yellow before doing last step with white.

 

Either that or going the FW Masterclass route.

You prime black.

Then do the highlights of the amrourplates with white (use your airbrush) 

Then spray the whole miniature with Tamiya clear red (airbrush).

 

That gives you the red of the FW Reaver Titan.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Titans/CHAOS-REAVER-TITAN-BODY-ONLY.html

 

Or you can do the red of the brass scorpion, but than you need to work with metallics in your airbrush.

 

Edit:

To your first post, it sounds to me you used to much thinner and sprayed way to much color for the first layer.

If you work with an airbrush i recomment you do more layers, 3 or more thin layers are way better than one especially if you work with with Tamiya colors, they are based on alcohol and act a bit different than Vallejo or GW paints.

My other tip is, get a hair dryer.

[Adra'Melek]

The Bloodthirsters video painting tutorials (part 1) covers painting the red skin. Edit: I was expecting a link to the video rather than have in the post. Is that ok? If not I'll edit it.

[Tenebris]

http://shrani.si/f/3C/eT/5TzqRyJ/2015-04-06-133158.jpg

 

Khorne Red base (2 layers), Nuln Oil shade, Wazdakka Red "highlights". 

 

The scheme is simple but more appropriate for the likes of the Flesh Tearers, the Word Bearers do indeed have a darker shade of red but not so dark, or at least not so dimmed. I think that I will be doing the following. Keep the basecoat in Khorne Red (2 layers for a good cover), still apply Nuln Oil (which also shades the Leadbelcher parts and the leather "Rhinox Hide" parts) but instead of using the infamous "neon" highlights practiced by GW I will simply apply an additional layer of Khorne Red, careful enough to avoid the edges and the recesses. In this way I will build the "carmine" hue of the red typical for the Word Bearers and the result will be a much cleaner look for the miniature. 

 

I will experiment in the following days. Will post pictures so you can see for yourself what I am aiming to achieve.