Author Topic: Suber's HeroQuest (Read 13193 times)

henerius · « **Reply #45 on:** 16 June 2016, 02:43:44 AM »

superb painting, very nice project. enjoyed the whole thread from beginning till end. Made me go through my own HQ stuff yesterday

Loving it!

Suber · « **Reply #46 on:** 20 June 2016, 09:32:58 AM »

I've got another dungeon dweller, Hasslefree again. I was looking for some Chaos Warriors to provide some company to my HQ ones. I saw this one and fell in love. I first tried some colour on. Nothing too risky, classic red:

Buuuut... Honestly, I didn't see it. This is my nemesis, one of those things you see other people achieve gorgeously, but each time I try, I fail. Miserably. I simply cannot make colours work on this kind of armour.
Then I tried a totally different approach. Brass!

Not any wonder, but at least this allows me to sleep

. Transitions look smoother in hand. They really do

http://oldschoolworkshop.blogspot.com.es/2016/06/shiny-lord-of-chaos.html

I'm aware there's quite a difference between this sculpt and the original HeroQuest Chaos Warriors, but nevertheless I hope it can work. When I get my Pantheon of Chaos Warriors I'll get another chance to try colours again...

Malebolgia · « **Reply #47 on:** 20 June 2016, 09:39:01 AM »

Both look nice! For the red I recommend getting deeper shades...much deeper. You can use brown tones to shade the red, that always works well. And for more oomph for the red, you can take P3 Coal Black (one of my favorite paints) to glaze the deepest shades. That adds a more interesting hue to the red than pure brown or black.
For higlighting it works well if you approach it like NMM, so highlight it in the way you would highlight metal with bright tones to make them pop. Here's an example of what I mean:

http://paintoholic.nl/images/vlad2.jpg

So adding more contrast will really help out with the red. It helps it pop and stand out more. Deeper shades and stronger highlights. But doing red armour is a bit of a b*tch, so you're not making it easy for yourself

Daeothar · « **Reply #48 on:** 20 June 2016, 11:18:08 AM »

Try shading your deepest red with a blue hue, like purple or even straight dark blue (mixed in with your base colour obviously). But keep it very little, or things will start looking weird. (which may be a good thing, when considering Chaos Warrriors of course

)

The purple will really make the red pop, especially when you then highlight towards orange.

I do like the red version better than the brass one, so keep at it.

(but trust me on the purple...)

Hobgoblin · « **Reply #49 on:** 20 June 2016, 11:50:27 AM »

Quote from: Daeothar on 20 June 2016, 11:18:08 AM

Try shading your deepest red with a blue hue, like purple or even straight dark blue (mixed in with your base colour obviously). But keep it very little, or things will start looking weird. (which may be a good thing, when considering Chaos Warrriors of course )

The purple will really make the red pop, especially when you then highlight towards orange.

I do like the red version better than the brass one, so keep at it.

(but trust me on the purple...)

I reckon that's very sound advice. One thing I like for red armour is a very thin, translucent coat of a bright red over a white undercoat (pre-shaded or otherwise), then a wash of purple ink/wash for the shading and a wash of yellow to pick out the highlights and enrich the red.

Suber · « **Reply #50 on:** 07 August 2017, 10:23:44 PM »

A year with no updates

Need a remedy for that!

As you all may know, one does not simply walk into Hasslefree's web and leave without getting anything

. Some time ago I just did that and, as I was browsing, I knew I had a new project in hands. I got female minis of the heroes so I can indistinctly use them. This is what I mean:

The Barbarian