Yoritomo Jiriki
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I am a newbie mini painter and I need help painting feathers on arrows and as adornments on helmets. Any advice or step-by-step instructions (as a reply to this post or online somewhere)?
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HELP! Painting Feathers
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battle_mountain_mini
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Hi,
I found that base coating the feathers white and then washing assorted individual feathers with different color inks works really well ie..orange, green, yellow ,blue etc. then a quick very light dry brush with either white or black really brings them out. Or, you can also pick out certian feathers and draw thin lines of black or browns on them for the more earthy look do them in \"v\" shape heading away from the quill. I hope this gave you some ideas..Good luck on your project
I found that base coating the feathers white and then washing assorted individual feathers with different color inks works really well ie..orange, green, yellow ,blue etc. then a quick very light dry brush with either white or black really brings them out. Or, you can also pick out certian feathers and draw thin lines of black or browns on them for the more earthy look do them in \"v\" shape heading away from the quill. I hope this gave you some ideas..Good luck on your project
Cerridwyn1st
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While we are on the subject of feathers
While we are talking about feathers, does anyone have a good way to paint the hawk that is used repeatedly on Reaper miniatures? I haven\'t been able to come up with a good way to paint this. I have basecoated with Beastal Brown and washed with thinned down Burnt umber, but it never looks quite right.
While we are talking about feathers, does anyone have a good way to paint the hawk that is used repeatedly on Reaper miniatures? I haven\'t been able to come up with a good way to paint this. I have basecoated with Beastal Brown and washed with thinned down Burnt umber, but it never looks quite right.
Painting feathers...
well, i normally drybrush them...too much trouble to pick them out one by one to highlight...okie editing it to add details:
(1) basecoat with bestial brown
2 types of feathers for me:
(a) color-tipped feathers
(b) outward coloring
For type (a), i drybrush with bubonic brown and then at the tip of the feather, i apply bleached bone (any colors will do)
For type (b), i drybrush with snakebite leather, then highlight the edges with bubonic brown or bleached bone
(3) Then I pick out the \"stem\" of the feather with scorched brown.
(4) Optional: if the drybrushing makes the feather looks \"clumpy\", then glaze over with either glazing paint from vallejo or thin bestial brown and glaaaaaze over it.
well, i normally drybrush them...too much trouble to pick them out one by one to highlight...okie editing it to add details:
(1) basecoat with bestial brown
2 types of feathers for me:
(a) color-tipped feathers
(b) outward coloring
For type (a), i drybrush with bubonic brown and then at the tip of the feather, i apply bleached bone (any colors will do)
For type (b), i drybrush with snakebite leather, then highlight the edges with bubonic brown or bleached bone
(3) Then I pick out the \"stem\" of the feather with scorched brown.
(4) Optional: if the drybrushing makes the feather looks \"clumpy\", then glaze over with either glazing paint from vallejo or thin bestial brown and glaaaaaze over it.
sivousplay
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Also, depending on how well sculpted they are and how much patience you have, I have a couple standard techniques I use (both techniques presume white primed figs):
1). Wet blend - Take two complimentary colors and create thinned versions of the paints ... with a clean brush for each end, put a bit of one color at one end of the feather ... put a bit of the other color at the other end and finally with a clean brush dab between the two colors to blend them a bit. Sort of a watercolor technique as applied to minis. This works well on feathered creatures but is especially nice on \"decorative\" feathers that a character may have.
2). Graded Washes - With very thin paint and very careful control about how much paint you apply, pick 3 colors for your feathers ... light, medium, dark. Do a wash of the light color over the entire feathered area. When this is dry, do a wash of the medium color over \"bottom\" 2/3 of the feather. When this is dry, do a wash of the dark color of the \"bottom\" 1/3 of the feather.
(\"bottom\" is correct is you are shading top lightest to bottom darkest). Now it\'s time to pick out some highlights ... use the light color w/ white 50/50 and carefully pick out the details in the top 1/3 of the feathers (if you drybrush be very careful or you\'ll get clunky, chunky paint and ruin the fine finish the washes have left) ... now use the light color as the higlight for the mid 1/3 and finally use the mid color and the light color 50/50 to highlight the bottom 1/3. This technique is time consuming as you can see, but creates a very soft, full bodied feathery surface. I used this technique on my most recent submission ...
http://www.coolminiornot.com/index.php?id=38090&c=All&m=All&nm=none
http://www.coolminiornot.com/index.php?id=38091&c=All&m=All&nm=none
I hope this helps.
jim
1). Wet blend - Take two complimentary colors and create thinned versions of the paints ... with a clean brush for each end, put a bit of one color at one end of the feather ... put a bit of the other color at the other end and finally with a clean brush dab between the two colors to blend them a bit. Sort of a watercolor technique as applied to minis. This works well on feathered creatures but is especially nice on \"decorative\" feathers that a character may have.
2). Graded Washes - With very thin paint and very careful control about how much paint you apply, pick 3 colors for your feathers ... light, medium, dark. Do a wash of the light color over the entire feathered area. When this is dry, do a wash of the medium color over \"bottom\" 2/3 of the feather. When this is dry, do a wash of the dark color of the \"bottom\" 1/3 of the feather.
(\"bottom\" is correct is you are shading top lightest to bottom darkest). Now it\'s time to pick out some highlights ... use the light color w/ white 50/50 and carefully pick out the details in the top 1/3 of the feathers (if you drybrush be very careful or you\'ll get clunky, chunky paint and ruin the fine finish the washes have left) ... now use the light color as the higlight for the mid 1/3 and finally use the mid color and the light color 50/50 to highlight the bottom 1/3. This technique is time consuming as you can see, but creates a very soft, full bodied feathery surface. I used this technique on my most recent submission ...
http://www.coolminiornot.com/index.php?id=38090&c=All&m=All&nm=none
http://www.coolminiornot.com/index.php?id=38091&c=All&m=All&nm=none
I hope this helps.
jim
