Lutra Enterprises
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Hi all, as part of my redone bullettes I\'d like to make one whose shell resembles mother-of-pearl, or the inside of an abalone shell. Any advice?
mother-of-pearl/abalone
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vincegamer
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I might be able to suggest something if I knew what a bullette was.
\"landshark\" Kind of a shark with armour and legs. No tailfin. It commes from the (A)D&D games.
Can\'t find the pic of the Ral Partha one. Here is a plastic toy version. http://www.toyarchive.com/DungeonsDragonsPrototypes.html
@lutra enterprises? Hey, is that you Eve? Nice to see you on this forum. We recently mailed about that barbarian in balldress I made.
as to painting mother of pearl, well, apart from the medium there are als pre-coloured ones. You dould drop by a craft stores and ask them to show you examples of work. Then you can see if that\'s what you want.
Braveheart712
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Try Reaper
Reaper has a line of paints called silks that are pearlized. Here is a link...
Reaper Silk Paints
Hope this helps!
Reaper has a line of paints called silks that are pearlized. Here is a link...
Reaper Silk Paints
Hope this helps!
Lutra Enterprises
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Hi Minimaker! Yep it\'s me! Back in the grind again. 
Well, so far I seem to be getting closest with the Interference paints; they allow the \'off/on\" color flashes I\'m looking for, but getting the right random-rainbow look and keeping it looking overall \'menacing\' is tricky. I\'ll post when done.
I haven\'t gotten to the craft store yet, but I know they make kits for marbelizing and stuff... maybe they make one to mimic m-o-p? I\'ll hope..
Well, so far I seem to be getting closest with the Interference paints; they allow the \'off/on\" color flashes I\'m looking for, but getting the right random-rainbow look and keeping it looking overall \'menacing\' is tricky. I\'ll post when done.
I haven\'t gotten to the craft store yet, but I know they make kits for marbelizing and stuff... maybe they make one to mimic m-o-p? I\'ll hope..
Braveheart712
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Try this link
Not sure why the link wont work, I tried repairing it, no luck.
Anyways here is a link to their home page, hopefully this will work...
Reaper Home Page
Follow the links to ProPaints, then Paints, then Silks and Satins. I have used them at a paint and take and they are pretty nice, check them out.
Not sure why the link wont work, I tried repairing it, no luck.
Anyways here is a link to their home page, hopefully this will work...
Reaper Home Page
Follow the links to ProPaints, then Paints, then Silks and Satins. I have used them at a paint and take and they are pretty nice, check them out.
Valander
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Hmm... Vallejo\'s got a Metallic Medium that might be helpful. Their site also suggests that you can use it as a final coat, without adding it to any pigment, to get a metallic sheen. I\'ve only used it a couple of times, mixed with other paint, so I don\'t know if it will give you exactly what you\'re looking for.
But it\'s neat stuff to have around!
But it\'s neat stuff to have around!
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Orchid_Noir
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I would go with createx metallic airbrush colors, they have strong colors with bright metallic effects in them. I would follow that with a light coat of blue or turquise ink (personally I would use thinned glass colors, but hey).
My 2 cents, anyway.........:flip:
My 2 cents, anyway.........:flip:
Lutra Enterprises
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My attempt
Here\'s my finished first attempt. I\'m sorry about the bad picture, I hope to have some better ones soon if I can get my friend who did the others to take the pictures.
He is #66816 also.
m.o.p. Bulette
Here\'s my finished first attempt. I\'m sorry about the bad picture, I hope to have some better ones soon if I can get my friend who did the others to take the pictures.
He is #66816 also.
m.o.p. Bulette
Lutra Enterprises
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Here\'s what I did:
First, primed white; but looking back I think black would have been just as good.
Then, got a big soft brush and loaded it with Folkart metallic black on half and Folkart Silver on the other half, and went down each scale in one-way strokes, kind of wiggling the brush a little to make ripply streaks of black and silver along the shell. I let that dry; the paint was pretty thick because I was trying to make streaks. You\'ll want to do your own favorite technique for making a mottled random mix of black and silver on a model with more fine detail. Then I washed with Metallic Black to darken it up.
Then I started with the interference colors. These are acrylic art paints made by both Liquitex and Golden; the Golden are better. They are basically a colorless medium which contains micro-fine shiney dust which reflects a particular color; they\'re different from regular metallics in that you can mix them with white and they won\'t change the white to a color, but the white will take on a faint shine and the shine itself will be the new color. In this way, you can mix interference blue with red paint, and you will have red paint which will seem to have metallic blue highlights when the light hits it just right.
For the mother-of-pearl look I used Interference Violet, Interference Green, and interference Blue. The violet is kind of pinky-purple and is the brightest, so I used it sparingly. I started using a brush, making random splotches of violet, then blue, then green, then violet again, let it dry, do some more, adding some more green or blue if it was getting too pink or touching up an area with violet if I wanted a flashy spot there. After a couple layers I did another wash of Metallic Black which toned it down a bit again, and then did some more careful mottling with the interference colors. Any area that got too black got a touch up of silver and interference colors; if it got too bright it got a wash of metallic black. In this way the variety of color built up. I had to be careful not to get each blob of interference too thick; if too thick, it dried milky. If too thin, it vanished into the background of previous faint colors. You can fool around with colors and layers and such to get the effect you want; I went for pretty dark with the bulette because I didn\'t want him to look too \"pretty\".
Then I gave the shell a coat of brush-on clear gloss, then painted the body and sprayed that part matte, then glossed the shell again where the matte had dulled it. The toenails were done in a simplified version of the shell; streak of black and silver, quick dappling of interference colors, and then a wash of metallic sequin black, and glossed.
First, primed white; but looking back I think black would have been just as good.
Then, got a big soft brush and loaded it with Folkart metallic black on half and Folkart Silver on the other half, and went down each scale in one-way strokes, kind of wiggling the brush a little to make ripply streaks of black and silver along the shell. I let that dry; the paint was pretty thick because I was trying to make streaks. You\'ll want to do your own favorite technique for making a mottled random mix of black and silver on a model with more fine detail. Then I washed with Metallic Black to darken it up.
Then I started with the interference colors. These are acrylic art paints made by both Liquitex and Golden; the Golden are better. They are basically a colorless medium which contains micro-fine shiney dust which reflects a particular color; they\'re different from regular metallics in that you can mix them with white and they won\'t change the white to a color, but the white will take on a faint shine and the shine itself will be the new color. In this way, you can mix interference blue with red paint, and you will have red paint which will seem to have metallic blue highlights when the light hits it just right.
For the mother-of-pearl look I used Interference Violet, Interference Green, and interference Blue. The violet is kind of pinky-purple and is the brightest, so I used it sparingly. I started using a brush, making random splotches of violet, then blue, then green, then violet again, let it dry, do some more, adding some more green or blue if it was getting too pink or touching up an area with violet if I wanted a flashy spot there. After a couple layers I did another wash of Metallic Black which toned it down a bit again, and then did some more careful mottling with the interference colors. Any area that got too black got a touch up of silver and interference colors; if it got too bright it got a wash of metallic black. In this way the variety of color built up. I had to be careful not to get each blob of interference too thick; if too thick, it dried milky. If too thin, it vanished into the background of previous faint colors. You can fool around with colors and layers and such to get the effect you want; I went for pretty dark with the bulette because I didn\'t want him to look too \"pretty\".
Then I gave the shell a coat of brush-on clear gloss, then painted the body and sprayed that part matte, then glossed the shell again where the matte had dulled it. The toenails were done in a simplified version of the shell; streak of black and silver, quick dappling of interference colors, and then a wash of metallic sequin black, and glossed.
Legacy Account
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Interesting stuff. The mini looks good, but could you post a larger picture or a close-up? I\'ve been looking for some images using those interference paints. They sound as though you can do some mad things with them!
Lutra Enterprises
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I\'ll post a larger picture as soon as I can get one!
The interference paints are also used in painting model (Breyer) horses and resins; mostly interference gold, but blue is used in some of the grey dun formulas.
The interference paints are also used in painting model (Breyer) horses and resins; mostly interference gold, but blue is used in some of the grey dun formulas.
Lutra Enterprises
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heh, real simple I would imagine... just get a picture that looks pearlescent, and, well, copy it onto your mini. If you have the Monster Manual you\'ll see the image of the bulette in there is pearlescent but done without metallics, of course... so, shades of greyish-pinkish brown with highlights and faint soft areas of other color. Not as sharp \'reflections\' as NMM and yet more shiney and colorful than the grey-shaded weapons in the Rackham line.
That said, I was trying with the bullette more to make it look like a real little palm-sized animal, rather than a representation of a big animal. That\'s also why I took them off the bases... so you can turn them upside down and tickle their wittle woogy tummy!
That said, I was trying with the bullette more to make it look like a real little palm-sized animal, rather than a representation of a big animal. That\'s also why I took them off the bases... so you can turn them upside down and tickle their wittle woogy tummy!
Lutra Enterprises
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new pic
http://www.coolminiornot.com/pics/pics7/img414b9b4dafca8.jpg
http://www.coolminiornot.com/pics/pics7/img414b9b4dafca8.jpg
