Friday, June 24, 2011

Relic's Pyrrhus - WIP +2

This is my first attempt to paint a leopard skin on 28mm. I couldn't find any tutorials online so just went ahead with a fairly easy method that hopefully looks okay. The first step was to give the skin a basecoat of a dark yellow. Any combination should work for this, as there are many different shades in real life. The edges of the skin were highlighted with white.
Next, small blotches of black mixed with a little brown were added here and there on the basecoat.
Finally, a dark yellow (slightly darker than the basecoat) was added within the black spots. This is actually an irregular pattern; and the black rings aren't closed.
It looks okay, and only took a few minutes to do; figure once Pyrrhus is added and the rest of the horse furniture is painted it will not look too bad.
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9 comments:

  1. rhingleyJune 24, 2011 at 11:56 AM

    I am tempted to dig out my Macedonians. Perhaps in July when I have time off from classes.

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  2. The Angry LurkerJune 24, 2011 at 1:15 PM

    It looks really good.

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  3. DeanMJune 24, 2011 at 1:18 PM

    Appreciate the comments, Thanks, Dean

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  4. RodgerJune 24, 2011 at 2:28 PM

    You have made it look easy. Well done.

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  5. KevinJune 24, 2011 at 3:00 PM

    Nicely done Dean.

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  6. CyrusJune 24, 2011 at 4:59 PM

    Looks good Dean. There is a really good tutorial by Andrew Taylor on Painting Animal Skins (leopard, tiger and lion)in the Foundry Painting and Modelling Guide pp.128-132.

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  7. Captain Richard's miniature Civil WarJune 24, 2011 at 7:51 PM

    Lookin good, Dean

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  8. JMJune 24, 2011 at 9:02 PM

    Simple, but effective. It looks great!

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  9. IGWARGJune 26, 2011 at 11:24 AM

    Good job on that. Simple and effective. Thanks for sharing, Dean

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