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Miniatures Adventure => Post-Apocalyptic Tales => Topic started by: Commander Vyper on 10 November 2007, 08:00:00 PM

Title: Painting Zombies....my take.
Post by: Commander Vyper on 10 November 2007, 08:00:00 PM

Gluteus Maximus was asking about how I do my zombie flesh:

Dead flesh:

Catachan Green/Vaj us army olive green.
highlighted up with light grey and Catchan green,
washed with purple/black.
Teeth/eyes Vaj ivory

(http://shutter01.pictures.aol.com/data/pictures/06/006/5F/6E/94/5A/ZHZifQejUsoQAtTw1asbZLaOsIqAjapS027D.jpg)

Freshly munched:

elf flesh, overwashed with black/purple/red wash 1:2:1 mix
highlighted with elf flesh, rotting flesh mix.

Grey/rotting flesh, inked black/purple/red

Another freshly muched combo:

Purple ink over grey primer, then drybrush up with elf flesh/rotting flesh. gives a nice recently munched finish.

(http://shutter05.pictures.aol.com/data/pictures/12/001/7D/BB/32/01/V-Pp1frBnz7g2t0IyrxuW-xrwfzgqo1801A5.jpg)

(http://shutter11.pictures.aol.com/data/pictures/08/004/1F/1F/69/74/f1OydY5ROgIcV3+1J-95wtRyItfBe6n80300.jpg)

More purity seal to be added.

Hope this helps all you budding necromancer's out there!

Vyper

Title: Painting Zombies....my take.
Post by: Gluteus Maximus on 10 November 2007, 11:33:49 PM

Thanks very much!

I see it's almost all in the washes, then.

You use combinations I'd never have thought of. Happily, though I'm not much of a painter, I do have all the shades of paint & ink you use.

Now I just need to discover how to get another couple of hours into a day, to give me time to practice  :lol:

Cheers,
Ian

Title: Painting Zombies....my take.
Post by: KeyanSark on 11 November 2007, 09:49:11 AM

It is curious... I also use Purple wash over a Flesh basecoat for my zombies... I then add red and green touches here and there to simulate gore and dirt.

I think the effect is very good.

Here are some Copplestone Zombie Troopers followed by a GW-based one

(http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/16/zombies2xp5.jpg)

And more GW-based here
(http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/121/zombies8cb.jpg)

If they'd were not so oversized, I'd bought many GW zombie boxes for my zombie games...

Title: Painting Zombies....my take.
Post by: Gluteus Maximus on 11 November 2007, 11:56:02 AM

I agree KS, very good-looking corpses you have there!

Title: Painting Zombies....my take.
Post by: audrey on 12 November 2007, 07:36:41 PM

Nice paint job. I appreciate the break down of colors used. I haven't tried purple inking before. It is also interesting to see that someone else combined the old 1st gen Imperial Guard plastics with the later WFB zombies.

Title: Painting Zombies....my take.
Post by: Gluteus Maximus on 13 November 2007, 08:29:19 AM

Quote from: "audrey"

Nice paint job. I appreciate the break down of colors used. I haven't tried purple inking before. It is also interesting to see that someone else combined the old 1st gen Imperial Guard plastics with the later WFB zombies.

Agreed - the old figures are a lot better than the current ones - if only because the weapons are a more realistic size and they do combine very well with the newer zombies.

another idea to steal  :lol: