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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: Ninja on 29 July 2014, 07:33:00 AM
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I am looking for the best samples of painting stone and any step by steps used to do it. Any pointers or links would be useful.
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Is this for flagstones, stone walls, an occasional stone on bases, or rock faces? What kind of stone? Sandstone, granite, chalk, slate?
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The lazy way, which works pretty well for most basic applications is to pick out a stone colour, the drybrush lightly with a significantly lighter shade of the same colour. You may also apply a thin glaze or wash afterwards. Larger stones and stone walls are more complex, as increased colour variation becomes more important.
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OK, Maybe not what you want to hear, but - Both on my books on Building Wargame Terrain have articles on painting stone. Here is an example of what I mean;
(http://www.orcsinthewebbe.co.uk/images/terrain/stone-storehouse/stone-storehouse.png)
Details can be found on my Blog or go to Orcs in the Webbe for something of a taster.
http://www.orcsinthewebbe.co.uk/ (http://www.orcsinthewebbe.co.uk/)
Also try browsing Massive Voodoo - I'm sure they have some tutorials that would be of use.
Tony
http://dampfpanzerwagon.blogspot.co.uk/ (http://dampfpanzerwagon.blogspot.co.uk/)
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Thanks so far! I am looking to paint my tabletop world buildings and my dwarven forge stuff. I looked at a lot of thei table top world competition pieces and really like the stone colors used by those artists. A lot of them look fairly similar and so I was wondering if there where some more popular methods that do not cause it to be mono color etc.
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I've found this;
http://mageknightkevin.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/step-by-step-building-and-painting.html
and this;
http://mageknightkevin.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/tabletop-world-croatia-guard-tower.html
and this;
http://cianty-tabletop.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/work-in-progress-townhouse-by.html
Tony
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Ok so my next question, would you drybrush, wash or ink to gain different color variations?
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I wanted to avoid boring grey for my dungeon project and discovered a good tutorial
which unfortunately has disappeared from the web :-[
But I put together a rough guide to how I followed the technique here:
Dungeon Painting (http://www.germy.co.uk/paintingthedungeon.html)
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Ok so my next question, would you drybrush, wash or ink to gain different color variations?
The simple answer is ALL THREE over and over again.
Tony
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surface colour, dark wash, drybrush, second thinner brown wash (very thin) and second drybrush is how i do it.
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The simple answer is ALL THREE over and over again.
Tony
I can certainly second this and...
surface colour, dark wash, drybrush, second thinner brown wash (very thin) and second drybrush is how i do it.
I start with adeptus battlegrey, drybrush codex grey and than wash with black ink. Once this has dried I drybrush codex grey again, a light drybrush of fortress grey and a very thin wash of any of the browns that I have (ever changing)
The colours are all GW but some have new names as I still have the old ones (which I find better haha)
I am currently putting together a tutorial for the way I do bases which will involve rock so if you keep an eye on my work bench over the next week it should be up and may help :)
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http://www.necrotales.com/necroTutorials/tut_base_rock01.php
Good one
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I generally follow the following steps. If it is a large scenery project, I sometimes start with a small bowl of black craft paint and add white progressively to get dark grey, mid grey, pale grey etc.
1. Undercoat with GW Chaos Black spray (or similar matt black), making sure that all nooks and crannies are black.
2. Damp brush (like dry-brushing with more paint) with any dark grey so that most of the raised surface is covered.
3. Add white or pale grey to the paint to get a mid grey tone and damp-brush again, this time covering less than the first coat.
4. Sometimes I then pick out some rocks or bricks in brown or cream.
5. Dry brush heavily with pale grey.
6. To finish - dry brush lightly with white or cream.
7. If something goes wrong wash the problem area with dilute black paint and repeat steps 2 to 6 as required.
Mick
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Okay so I have a few ideas to try but please keep links and personal recipes coming!
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The simple answer is ALL THREE over and over again.
Tony
Absolutely!
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for this one, white undercoat, black wash, grey layer, white light drybrush, black wash, grey dreybrush and then light grey drybrush.
(http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p771/Nic-e2/_MG_0891_zpsd356ae86.jpg)
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I looked at a lot of thei table top world competition pieces and really like the stone colors used by those artists. A lot of them look fairly similar and so I was wondering if there where some more popular methods that do not cause it to be mono color etc.
Any examples of the look you're trying to achieve?
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Go for a warm sandstone if you want to avoid monotone... ;)
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=30667.15
(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j478/themason73/260611024.jpg)
Replace the colours with just Yellow Ochre and White, slowly adding more white to the Ochre as you go.
All on top of a chocolate brown basecoat.
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If I did one or two buildings in sandstone do you think that would stand out in a bad way with the more "traditional color stone".
Any examples of the look you're trying to achieve?
No not specifically, really any of the top finishers!!
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If I did one or two buildings in sandstone do you think that would stand out in a bad way with the more "traditional color stone".
Depends where you live or the buildings is located as to what is traditional.
Look at pictures of any of the 'old' cities and you will see a mixture of tones and materials.
Do whatever feels 'right' to you is what I always say.
;)
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Depends where you live or the buildings is located as to what is traditional.
Look at pictures of any of the 'old' cities and you will see a mixture of tones and materials.
Do whatever feels 'right' to you is what I always say.
;)
It also very much depends on how the stonemason has cut the stone, for example in a poor fellow's cottage the stone might not be dressed. On a Cathedral it most definitely would be.
Also the type of rock, whether it be igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary.
Basically, the best way of tackling the subject would be to get out there and take some pictures :).
Darrell.
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It also very much depends on how the stonemason has cut the stone, for example in a poor fellow's cottage the stone might not be dressed. On a Cathedral it most definitely would be.
Also the type of rock, whether it be igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary.
Basically, the best way of tackling the subject would be to get out there and take some pictures :).
Darrell.
Will do. I am painting up somethings this week!
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Bruce does some time excellent tutorials on the hirstarts website, should be very useful to you due to the similarities between his tiles and the dwarven forge stuff.