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Offline Steel fist

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Samurai painting tutorial
« on: 10 May 2016, 10:11:00 PM »
I have been meaning to write a series of articles on how I paint samurai to replace the tutorial that was on my blog, and as the blog is not working well I thought I would put it here.

I will be painting a series of figures going into all my techniques and explaining how to paint the relevant parts, so please don't expect each tutorial to be comprehensive as I will be adding other tutorials to this thread.
Of course I'm not saying my method is best but as I designed the figures I hope people find my tips helpful.

So I'm going to start with

RED ARMOUR.

The figure is prepped and primed with red car primer as it provides a good base for my method, if your going to paint lots of red samurai I recommend buying some.

Once dry paint in your ground colours with as much neatness as possible, for the horse I have opted for black.
Also at this point I also put the shade on the red armour, my method for this is to use GW black wash on the armour as it will go into all the recesses and give the deepest shade, this way the base red becomes the middle colour. It is a very effective way of shading high detail figures like samurai.
I have also put the base colours for the metal and put bright red on the horse furniture as I'm going for a full red scheme on this figure.

The next step is to highlight the armour I use scarlet as it is a thin paint that shows some translucency and gives the impression of laccur. To do this I leave some of the base red showing through but I build up the scarlet on the high points.
The next pictures shows the horses head
The red for the horse furniture now has a black wash and then I wait till its dry then I dry brush over with the red again.

The black on the horse is lightly highlighted withe grey to catch the definition of the muscles, I'm still learning this and it's worth studying horse anatomy to understand it better.

Next I'm going to discuss the sword.
As you can see the handle needs some intricate work. For the blade I put a GW black wash over the metal the once dry I edge the blade with pure silver.
The gold on the figure is done by putting brown wash over dry gold then once the wash is dry highlighting the edges in bright gold.

Finally the finished figure, I could add a white highlight on the red but for now I'm happy with it
« Last Edit: 10 May 2016, 10:24:43 PM by Steel fist »

Offline Burnin Coal

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Re: Samurai painting tutorial
« Reply #1 on: 11 May 2016, 12:58:47 AM »
Lovely figure(s) and thankyou for a very helpful tutorial  8)...I am already hoping you will do a tutorial for black armour
Figures painted 2020 : 100

Offline OSHIROmodels

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Re: Samurai painting tutorial
« Reply #2 on: 11 May 2016, 07:03:02 AM »
Splendid work and thank you for posting  :)

cheers

James

Offline olyreed

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Re: Samurai painting tutorial
« Reply #3 on: 11 May 2016, 10:18:40 AM »
great tips on painting, and lovely figure, I think its definitely time to make another purchase with you in a couple of weeks

Offline Steel fist

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Re: Samurai painting tutorial
« Reply #4 on: 11 May 2016, 07:36:22 PM »
Thanks glad people find it useful. I will do black armour soon!

Offline carabus03

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Re: Samurai painting tutorial
« Reply #5 on: 12 May 2016, 01:03:10 PM »
Thanks for the tutorial Oliver, I have added it to our blog to spread the word.

https://telfordwargames.wordpress.com/2016/05/12/samurai-painting-tutorial-by-steel-fist/

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Offline mdauben

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Re: Samurai painting tutorial
« Reply #6 on: 31 May 2016, 07:35:25 PM »
Nice tutorial!  I never thought of using red primer for a red armored figure.  Going to try that on my Ronin Bushi Buntai figures, and maybe my Warmahords Skorne, too!
Mike

Offline jambo1

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Re: Samurai painting tutorial
« Reply #7 on: 01 June 2016, 05:47:29 PM »
Great tips there, I have a good few unpainted Samurai so this will be great for me!! :)

 

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