Lloyd's Varangians / Kevin Rus' Army Build
Painting Up the Warlord's Mighty Steed - TAKE 1
I’ve moved on to getting my Warlord’s horse painted up, I’ll come back to the man himself later.
Tried a New Painting Technique
As I’ve not really painted a horse before I went in search of tips on how to do it. It just so happens Gerry is also painting horses and pointed me in the direction of using oil paint on top off the standard acrylic base coat.
The idea being that the oil paint works a bit like a wash but sticker so it shades more area and not just the deepest recesses it manages to cling to.
Rather than me trying to explain it have a watch of theses videos and if you know of other video tutorials about this method I’d love to here from you in the comments.
Painting Horses With Oils
Ultimately I Messed it Up
I gave the Technique a try but ultimately screwed it up in the following ways:
- Used too many different oil paints. I tried to have lots of shades but they just mix together.
- Used too much paint. Related to the above as I had way to much oil paint on the model as I used more than one colour, 3 if I remember right. This showed up the brush strokes mentioned in one of the videos above.
- Didn’t want to wait 2 day’s for it to dry.
I’m going to revisit this technique in the future with a more simplified approach using just one colour over a base coat that is the main colour I want.
Here’s some pics of how it played out.
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