Topic: Leather 'n Cloths

[RazorElder]

Hey folks. I just wanted to know how ya guys painted the metal and cloth areas of your boyz

Thats it.

 

[Silverthorn]

Metal:

-Base coat black
-Heavy drybrush with bolt gun metal
-add a thin coat of diluted flesh wash ink (for rust effect)
-dab a few blotches of bolt gun metal, using an old brush, here and there. Don't cover the flesh wash color where rust could be. Cover approx. 50% of the metal with bolt gun metal, leaving 50% with a rusty color.
-highlight edges, details and such with chainmail.

Cloth: still practicing it and deciding what colors I will use.

[Ranger Astheria]

Odd, I do the metal the exact same way, I just use a 45/45/10 mixture of brown ink, black ink, and blue ink.  But yeah, it looks good!

As for cloth I don't know what color you want but I follow the same basic steps:

-Darkest possible color of that color, scorched brown, scab red, etc.

-50/50 mix of next color or shade a step up

-75/25 mix of same

-100 color next shade up

~Repeat the above for the next two colors

-Wash with a thinned down brown ink

-Drybush middle most color

I highlight by hand, drybrushing isn't really my style, takes forever but the results are great!  I do use that last drybrush though to "Ork" it up.

Hope this helps!

[WarOrks15]

well as for cloth i really have not found any thing that looks that good. but for metal i have.  boltgun over a white base, then dry brush a blood red. then over that take blcak and drybrush that but do it with almost no paint on the brush at all. it really stands out.  then i dry brush with boltgun or mitheral to get the edge a metal color to make it look like it has been worn off some.  then some times i will put a chest nut ink over that to give it a rusty look.  it takes some time but ends up looking vary worn and dirty in the end.

[Frgsinwntr]

i try to use a set color pattern per squad, usually its a camo patter of some kind for the shirts.  all of their pants are city camo : P

[AceV53]

My regular boyz only have leather for their pants. The upper body I just drybrush boltgun metal and tin bitz. The legs get just a drybrush of Snakebite leather. For my Nobs and Warboss, all the what are supposed to be leather areas are painted leather. I apply a coat of snakebite leather and then apply a mix of 80/20 Mix of Snakebite leather and Blood Red for a more vibrant color.