This guide is taking awfully long to complete but I‘ve come one step closer to a finished building and I thought I’d share my progress.
Repainting everything black
When I did my previous step of drybrushing on this building I got it all over the place because I drybrush pretty hard. So I needed to paint black on all areas that shouldn't have been brushed in the first place. This was very boring but in the end it will save me a lot of time and make the rest of the model more fun to paint.
Drybrushing stone
After I had done the ground work with the black, it was a sweet deal to drybrush the stone parts of the building. I started with Charadon Granite and then Dheneb Stone. Both Citadel Foundation colors. And both a bit warmer in color than Adaptus Battlegrey and Astronomican Grey. I also base coated the bricks with Scorched Brown.
How-to paint tarnished copper
I made the questionable decision to ask Totte for his opinion on how I should paint the doors and he came up with the great idea that they could be copper plated doors.
I thought, well why not, and started looking for a reference picture which you can see part of below.
Tarnished copper isn't that copperish
As you can see for yourself, old copper plated doors don‘t have that copperish feel to them. They’re actually mostly turquoise and not that shiny. So I decided that I would only use copper and brass colors for small areas of the doors and decided to base coat the doors with a blend of Vallejo Grey Green and Vallejo Falcon Turquoise. Probably a 50/50 blend, don't really remember exactly.
I then added black to my mixed color and darkened the lower parts of the door with normal drybrushing technique, checking the reference picture for guidance along the way.
The door on the right shows the door after a base coat and the door on the left the first step of added wear and tear.
I continued with a mix of Vallejo Brassy Brass(the Hammered Copper is too red in my opinion), Green Grey and Black (can't remember if I also had some Turquoise in the mix…) – drybrushing it on carefully and again, looking at the reference picture for guidance.
Vallejo Grey Green, Vallejo Falcon Turquoise, Vallejo Brassy Brass.
Highlighting the doors
I used a mix of my base coat with more of the Falcon Turquoise and drybrushed it on in streaks along the door. Mostly on the upper parts. I added Vallejo Electric Blue to make it brighter and more saturated. For the last layer I added a bit of Vallejo Sky Blue for an even brighter color.
The tarnished copper doors completed
This is the final result(except that the hinges needs a wash). I must say I‘m pleased with my first attempt at creating this effect. I would love to see if any of you readers have painted any tarnished copper and how you’ve done it, please comment as always. And if you think my effort looks like shit, please do tell ;)
Shot in daylight.
Shot with artificial light.
Previous parts of this guide can be found here:
STEP 2: The Citadel Fortified Manor Painting Guide Part II
STEP 1: Oh my, that's a very yellow house
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scenery, drybrush, doors, tarnished copper, vallejo, fortified manor, mordheim, citadel
This is how it looked when I started.
You can find the first part of this guide filed under Oh my, that's a very yellow house.
From Yellow to Crème Caramel
A very simple step. All you need is a lot of wash. I use Vallejo‘s washes for buildings because it is so much cheaper than Citadel’s. On Relish Models it costs approximately 6€. If I would buy seventeen Citadel washes (which would be the same amount as in the big Vallejo wash) it would add up to 60€! GW sure knows how to squeeze the last little pennies out of their minions.
Grab your brush and start washing
It will probably never get more uncomplicated to paint than this. Dip your brush and paint over all the Iyanden Darksun areas. Try to put more wash around window edges for example, but the wash will probably end up in those places anyway. After you‘re done it needs to dry for quite some time. At least if you use Vallejo washes, they take a lot longer to dry than Citadel’s.
The result will look a bit like Crème Caramel …
When it's dry – drybrush
Take out your big ugly looking drybrush and load it up with a sand color. I use Vallejo Iraqui Sand on this building but it will work with any pale sand color.
Remove the excess paint by brushing it off on tissue paper. You will need more paint left on the brush if you compare to how much you would leave on for drybrushing armor on a small miniature. Here we still need some paint to cover a lot of the “Caramel” so don't brush all of it off on the paper.
Drybrush on more and more sand color while doing random motions with your wrist and you will end up with something like this:
A closeup of the result from the drybrushing.
I hope to see you back for Part III.
Etiketter:
scenery, drybrush, vallejo, fortified manor, mordheim, citadel, wash