Painting Big Trouble in Little China
Lords of Final Details
This is some of the final steps for my Lords of Death. I wanted to represent their jackets as being made of black leather. I don’t remember if that was the case in the movie but I found it fitting. So I first made a highlight pass using P3 Exile Blue. I then added P3 Morrow White to that in roughly 1 part Exile Blue 3 parts Morrow White. In other words, almost white but with a little blue in it still. I then further highlighted the areas where I added Exile Blue. The goal was to create a kind of shiny reflections for the jacket’s leather. However, I think I did it too much. You’ll see on later minis that less is more in that case.
The skin was done with a basecoat of P3 Menoth White Highlight. I tried to achieve the same effect as Citadel’s Wraithbone spray. I did only one layer of this thinking that it was enough. In retrospect it wasn’t the case. The darker coats underneath still show through. Anyway, I wanted to use Contrast Paint for the skin but instead ended up using Ecoline pink ink. The wet effect seemed perfect. However, it dried a really muted tone. I find the effect is ok for «asian» skin, but I had to add an outline of Citadel’s Reikland Fleshade to make it more lifelike. Those are not zombies afterall.
The rest was simply small easy details like the red bandanas etc. I won’t dwell on the techniques here as they are quite basic.
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