How to paint stone?

[Ninja]

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.

[Thargor]

Is this for flagstones, stone walls, an occasional stone on bases, or rock faces?  What kind of stone?  Sandstone, granite, chalk, slate?

[FramFramson]

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.

[dampfpanzerwagon]

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;



Details can be found on my Blog or go to Orcs in the Webbe for something of a taster.

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/

[Ninja]

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.

 

[dampfpanzerwagon]

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

[Ninja]

Ok so my next question, would you drybrush, wash or ink to gain different color variations?

[Germy]

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

[dampfpanzerwagon]

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

[nic-e]

surface colour, dark wash, drybrush, second thinner brown wash (very thin) and second drybrush is how i do it.

[matthais-mouse]

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

[Relic]

http://www.necrotales.com/necroTutorials/tut_base_rock01.php

Good one

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

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

[Ninja]

Okay so I have a few ideas to try but please keep links and personal recipes coming!

[cianty]

The simple answer is ALL THREE over and over again.

Tony

Absolutely!