The Orc Blood Bowl team that I'm painting at the moment is going to have a deep red armour, with black cloth and some tainted metal decoration. Apart from the flesh, which I always prefer to do last, red is the most prominant colour on the Orcs, so I decided to start with that...
I started three days ago.
Don't get me wrong, it's all going very well, but large areas of red are fairly new to me - small details, Space Marine auspexes, Orc/k eyes, yeah - I can do them very comfortably. But to get a strong red takes me a lot of work...
And the work is still on-going:
With a bit of luck, all that remains in a final hard-edge highlight of Vomit Brown, but here's how I got to where I'm at now:
- Two thin coats of Mechrite Red were followed by...
- A wash of Asurmen Blue into the recesses of the armour...
- Then a highlight using a 1:1 mix of Mechrite Red and Blazing Orange...
- And a highlight of pure Blazing Orange after that.
- Then came a highlight of 1:1 Blazing Orange and Vomit Brown...
- And finally, two coats of Baal Red Wash.
Goodnight for now!
I would have got blood red in there mate, gives it a redder colour to the plates and is a good mid tone between mecrite red and your highlights
ReplyDeleteA fair point, it was very tempting. If once the final highlight is on it still seems a little bit too deep, I'l probably blend the armour back a bit with Blood Red - but we'll have to wait and see! Fingers crossed...
ReplyDeleteCheers mate! Bit of a compromise, I gave them a Blood Red glaze instead after the Vomit Brown highlight. Looking very nice so far, I just need to re-touch the VB on the very edges.
ReplyDeleteMy mission is to finish the reds tonight.
At. Any. Cost.
£1.49
ReplyDeletecool mate I can not wait to see how they look