paint Tartan

[duhamel]

I need help with paint Tartan please 

[Remgain]

Hello, duhamel!

have a look here:

http://www.angelfire.com/tx/ToySoldier/tartan.htm#cam

Marco

[duhamel]

thank you it helps a little, but I seek something more simple and faster, while remaining efficient.
I have a lot of miniature painting

[Svennn]

I used the painting guide above as the basis for these highlanders but simplified it into just stripes of the various colours - not worrying too much about different widths although I did dot in a different colour where the lines crossed.

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=17963.15

I am going to do the next batch more like this (not painted by me)

[Furt]

A blog I follow is attempting the same task with Highlanders.  http://wabcorner.blogspot.com/2010/06/victrix-highlanders-wip-4.html

Might be some help.

[Aaron]

duhamel,

I painted this fellow and about 20 comrades very simply. I started by painting the whole area a light green (Vallejo US uniform I think). Then I painted the horizontal and vertical stripes in a darker green (Vallejo military green). Finally where the stripes intersect I painted squares of vallejo prussian blue. With this first test model I added the fine black lines with a pen, but I dispensed with that step for the rest. It only shows up ib very close-up views.

Edit: I just realized that I only adopted the above method after trying something completely different and more complicated with this one.  I don't have any pictures of the results of the simplified method, but it looks almost identical.

[duhamel]

I still have difficulty expressing myself. I'm looking for a tartan rather Pictish or Celtic (something simple visual level)

[Aaron]

Ah, my apologies. I suppose the same basic tecnique could work with different colors. Those fine-line pens come in many colors so you could use them also for the patterns with thin stripes.

[Emir of Askaristan]

Anything mentioned above  for Tartans holds equally well for Celtic or Pictish cloth too.

Samples of material from the Hallstat saltmines in Europe or the remarkably similar textiles recovered from the Taklamakan mummies are very similar to tartans. Take a look on the internet.

Having painted Celts and Highlanders in kilts and trews the best advice I can give it paint what you can see, not what you know to be there. Get a picture of someone wearing the material you like, reduce the picture down to 28mm high and you will see what I mean. Keep it simple and natural, a background colour (eg dark blue) with a (dark green) check down and across.

Good luck
 

[former user]

voila, an example



keep in mind that green, although associated with gaels, is a colour difficult to dye with natural colours

[nervisfr]

I still have difficulty expressing myself. I'm looking for a tartan rather Pictish or Celtic (something simple visual level)

Salut man,
Je vais te faire un topo mais en français, sur des effets tartans que j'utilise pour le 15mm et qui marche pour le 25mm aussi.

Hello man,
i have a painting system for tartan that i use for 15mm and working for 28 mm too. But i'll do it by PM in french for you and later in english at this place for our LAF fellows.

Eric

[Luthaaren Von Tegale]

didn't someone realease a range of tartan paints a few years back - I'm sure I saw a review in one of the mags!


vT

[duhamel]

basically, this is the schematic of painting that I like. this is just the beginning but it takes a long time and as I am always in a hurry ...

[nervisfr]

a small pic of your work with my ad-on on the middle one made by computer to be more visual than a long text about:



Just cross over your first checked pattern (thin stripes) with an another one from a different color close to the background color (large stripes). I made a black highlight on the large checked pattern (in this case, the green one).
with the photoshop, i have to made the opposite on this example but normaly you must see the white over the green stripes and you 'll get a tartan looking
it's fast and looking great on 15mm and 28mm. From close to far view !

hope that could help you.

[nervisfr]

i have founded a sample of my woodmen with checked shirt