Third Eye Nuke and Sigur are kings of gore on Tale of Painters with their Black Legion and Heresy World Eaters respectively, but they have inspired me to experiment with mixing Tamiya Clear Red with Badab Black wash. I started by just slapping it on to my Black Orc’s axe and didn’t really give it much thought, in hindsight I’m thinking streaking blood lines instead of pooling blood would be better on the blade. The shield I did try and put some logic behind it. It has pooling where it has been used as a blunt instrument and some spattering where it has shielded the boss from his victim being hacked by the axe. Also looking at the picture now, I’m thinking the face mask would benefit from some specks of spatter as well. Painting gore is not as easy as I thought it would be. Any thoughts?
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I think I basecoated the yellow areas white first. It's the only real way of getting the brightest yellow. I would have shaded the yellow with a watered down XV-88 (snakebite leather), but seraphim sepia would work nicely.
Plenty of white highlighting will give the impression of something being shiny and reflective.
I think the rivets are the left over layers of warplock bronze then washed with black.
Hmmm maybe I need to find a brighter yellow… Are you basing the yellow with a brown? Or using a brown wash it kinda looks like snake bite or beastial brown around the base of the horns and rivets.sorry to ask so many questions. Its just I have orc skin down really good but I have trouble with making metal look anything but a lump of silver. 2 horns at the front are awesome I have to practice my hand at highlighting layers like that to get horns right.
Mine is dark green. Perfectly acceptable in the fluff to be dark green. He is much darker then my Orc boys. My big unz are even a shade of green between my black orcs and my boyz. AND I paint my gobbos lighter then any of my orcs. I'm all about the fluff.
How do you get the yellow to look so metalic? when ever i use yellow it looks so flat? and the rivets on the axe are you using a black ink wash around them? awesome model love wish i could get my whole army to look half that good!!!
But…he's not black. I remember the days when Black Orcs had very dark dark dark green skin, was awesome. No one does that anymore…
Blow it is a brilliant idea! Thank you Solmar. I knew it would be worth asking the experts!
Don´t paint it, blow it! 😉 Hold the brush between your mouth and the mini and blow the paint off the brush. cover the areas, that shopuld not receive the splatter. looks more real.
I used this technique on my Helldorado mini. Look at the Rocks/the Face.
http://www.coolminiornot.com/308925?browseid=3211166
You don't want it to be too runny on the blade though. As it is still getting sunk shaft deep in stuffs squishy bits. So perhaps a few trickles but still needs some thick staining in there too.