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Title: How to paint orangutans?
Post by: ErikB on 25 September 2019, 06:39:39 PM
Does anyone have a recipe for painting orangutans?

I am thinking of two shades of orange with a burnt umber (delvan mud) wash, all over a white primer so the color is lighter.

Does anyone have any ideas for this?

I am trying to paint up Lucid Eye's Red Simians.  They're great figures but man, that orange color... I have no idea how to approach it!
Title: Re: How to paint orangutans?
Post by: Cubs on 25 September 2019, 06:52:12 PM
I went for a red leather mixed with orange tone.

(https://myalbum.com/photo/lEgpsql8X1yX/1k0.jpg)
Title: Re: How to paint orangutans?
Post by: Sir_Theo on 25 September 2019, 07:02:11 PM
Carefully!

Ba dum tish.
Title: Re: How to paint orangutans?
Post by: ErikB on 25 September 2019, 07:42:29 PM
Ha ha ha, that's funny.

What brands red and orange did you use?  That mini looks great!

And what about that gray skin?
Title: Re: How to paint orangutans?
Post by: Cubs on 25 September 2019, 08:50:59 PM
Ha ha ha, that's funny.

What brands red and orange did you use?  That mini looks great!

And what about that gray skin?

Pass, I blend my own colours, so who knows what brands went into them. But it was just a deep red-brown base, with drybrush highlights of red leather and orange in progressively lighter tones. the final drybrush highlight was a very subtle bit of bright yellow, just to pick out the fur texture. As for the grey skin … urm, just grey really.
Title: Re: How to paint orangutans?
Post by: ragbones on 25 September 2019, 08:58:39 PM
That’s a beautiful figure. Well done.
Title: Re: How to paint orangutans?
Post by: Brandlin on 26 September 2019, 03:45:33 PM
I think cubs has it spot on.

It's more of a russet/burnt orange colour than anything vibrant.

Unhelpfully I was going to suggest that you took a long look at how GW paint the hair on  dwarf slayers - and then utterly ignore it because it's crap.
Title: Re: How to paint orangutans?
Post by: Andrew_McGuire on 26 September 2019, 06:10:18 PM
I would have suggested sedating them first, but in effect that pointless joke has already been made. Shame, really.
Title: Re: How to paint orangutans?
Post by: ErikB on 26 September 2019, 07:04:56 PM
I would have suggested sedating them first, but in effect that pointless joke has already been made. Shame, really.
Still funny.  :-)
Title: Re: How to paint orangutans?
Post by: Andrew_McGuire on 27 September 2019, 06:11:26 PM
Thank you. I might also add  - with all due humility - that it comes closer to answering the question, which was for a recipe rather than technique, so my response is undoubtedly objectively superior, and consequently my earlier diffidence was quite unwarranted.