Space Marine Color Schemes
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or so) that aren't painted. This may seem like nothing to most people, but
it takes me forever to paint 1 man. Unless I go to great detail, it looks
like crap. I paint my own Chapter, but I need a little help on the color
scheme. The main color is a like the same orange as a tiger, i mixed equal
amounts of blood red and Blood Angels Red to get this deep sort of rich
orange. The only problem i'm having is with highlighting. I don't like the
color the Blood Angels orange turns out, it's to pale, but I can't make a
darker red that looks nice. If anyone has any suggestions, post a reply
please or mail me. Also, how do you mix paint for just a little bit of one
color? Mine keep drying out before I get finished with what I am painting
then I need to mix again. thanks.
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Blakmoor1
>color the Blood Angels orange turns out, it's to pale, but I can't make a
>darker red that looks nice.
I dunno if you have tried it yet or not, but use your base color and add some
BAd Moon Yellow to it to lighten it until you get a shade you like. Just
remember that it will dry a bit darker.
>Also, how do you mix paint for just a little bit of one
>color? Mine keep drying out before I get finished with what I am
painting
>then I need to mix again.
Try using a plastic paint pallette that can be purchased at most craft stores
for a few dollars. They are a circle with small indentations in them. If worse
comes to worse, keep adding a small amount of clean water to the paint to keep
it thinned down. Remember what Bob Ross says "Thin paint adheres to thick
paint easier." . Well that and the "happy little trees" thing too..... but I
won't go there.
Jim
We are not creatures of Shadow
but it serves us well.
Dark Angel
with either red or purple wash. spray the BA Red over a black primer coat.
Chuck
Jake Staines wrote:
> <tit...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:7ebltj$oup$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com...
> > I'm kind of new to Warhammer 40K. I have tons of Space Marines, (around
> 40
> > or so) that aren't painted. This may seem like nothing to most people,
> but
> > it takes me forever to paint 1 man.
>
> No, 40 marines is a lot to anybody. (Except those that just prime their
> figures, or don't bother painting them at all...)
>
> > Unless I go to great detail, it looks
> > like crap. I paint my own Chapter, but I need a little help on the color
> > scheme. The main color is a like the same orange as a tiger, i mixed equal
> > amounts of blood red and Blood Angels Red to get this deep sort of rich
> > orange. The only problem i'm having is with highlighting. I don't like
> the
> > color the Blood Angels orange turns out, it's to pale, but I can't make a
> > darker red that looks nice.
>
> I would try painting the first coat with scab red, then another with blood
> red and then start your orange highlights - all the reds/yellows in the
> citadel range are a little watery, so you often need to do more than one or
> two coats.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions, post a reply
> > please or mail me. Also, how do you mix paint for just a little bit of
> one
> > color? Mine keep drying out before I get finished with what I am painting
> > then I need to mix again. thanks.
>
> Sounds like one of two things;
> One: you're painting quite slowly, which is OK, you'll either speed up with
> practice or you'll start painting better and better figs each time ;-)
> Two: you're mixing your paint on something that absorbs the water out of the
> paint, making it dry quicker - you mustn't mix your paint on paper, card,
> wood, or anything absorbent. The best things are plastics and glazed
> ceramics. (Of course, paint itself doesn't absorb water too wel, so if your
> paper/card mixing palette is caked with paint already, this won't do much.
>
> The solutions are as follows:
> o Practice until you paint faster
> o Mix your paints on something non-absorbent like a ceramic tile
> o water your paints down every so slightly when you put them out onto the
> mixing palette. This may seme stupid, but one half-brushload of water per
> two brushloads of paint really stops it drying too fast, and doesn't water
> the paint down so far that it's not worth using.
>
> --
> Jake
>
> If you take all the rulebooks and sourcebooks from an average gamer, and lay
> the pages out end to end, then he tries to kill you.