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Title: Can anyone help with painting rawhide suede and buff leather please.
Post by: Johnny Boy on April 12, 2021, 07:40:01 PM

Help! I'm really struggling with painting leather especially with the lighter buff leathers and rawhide such as Cowboy chaps and FIW leggings. Anyone out there got suggestions? I usually use Vallejo Model Colour and Panzer Aces. Many thanks in advance
JB

Title: Re: Can anyone help with painting rawhide suede and buff leather please.
Post by: SteveBurt on April 13, 2021, 10:24:59 AM

A mid brown (or a sandy colour for buff) followed by a wash of Sepia ink works for me.

Title: Re: Can anyone help with painting rawhide suede and buff leather please.
Post by: modelwarrior on April 13, 2021, 10:35:26 AM

I use the follwing guide for leather if it helps:

https://www.heresybrush.com/en/2020/how-to-paint-leather/ (https://www.heresybrush.com/en/2020/how-to-paint-leather/)

The dark brown guide is my favourite.

Title: Re: Can anyone help with painting rawhide suede and buff leather please.
Post by: Bravo Six on April 13, 2021, 05:47:30 PM

That's a great link modelwarrior. Thanks for sharing. LOADS of good tutorials there.

Title: Re: Can anyone help with painting rawhide suede and buff leather please.
Post by: Rogerc on April 13, 2021, 06:57:59 PM

I use Colour Party paints for preference and they have both a leather brown and an ECW Buff, depending on what I am going for I tend to use these two in combination. The left two figures below had their gambesons painted using this.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/1920/31793152048_a27d858699_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/QrsdrW)IMG_20181101_140759 (https://flic.kr/p/QrsdrW) by Roger Castle (https://www.flickr.com/photos/152172226@N06/), on Flickr


For lighter buff I use ECW buff as a basecoat then paint the basic buff over it as a highlight as below on the waistcoat, gloves etc.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51025425117_2b00c7297e_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kJWDbV)swede5 (https://flic.kr/p/2kJWDbV) by Roger Castle (https://www.flickr.com/photos/152172226@N06/), on Flickr

Title: Re: Can anyone help with painting rawhide suede and buff leather please.
Post by: Johnny Boy on April 15, 2021, 07:05:26 PM

Many thanks for the advice chaps, never used Colour Party but it has the kind of shades I had in mind. How do they compare to Vallejo MC? The link is really useful as well.

Title: Re: Can anyone help with painting rawhide suede and buff leather please.
Post by: Rogerc on April 16, 2021, 08:33:00 PM

vwey different to Valejo, in old fashioned pots rather than squeeze bottles, generally much thicker paint so covers well.

Title: Re: Can anyone help with painting rawhide suede and buff leather please.
Post by: Johnny Boy on April 18, 2021, 06:49:37 PM

Many thanks Roger. I might invest in some of those. I'm not adverse to mixing but if I can get away with a triad so much the better.
Thanks again
JB

Title: Re: Can anyone help with painting rawhide suede and buff leather please.
Post by: The Grim Mariner on April 29, 2021, 08:56:27 AM

I use Vallejo Green Ochre as a base and then highlight with Iraqi Sand for clothing or Dark Sand for straps.

For natural leather straps and belts then I use Beasty Brown highlighted with thin stripes of ochre.