Nurgle army!

[BanJo]

hey all! after many years of messing around with lotr, i thought it was time to start a warhammer army. i have chosen a Chaos Nurgle army(mortal). I absolutely love the way Jacob Neilsen paints the armour on his figs(especialy the award winning knight regiment), but the colours are a little to bright for a nurgle army(IMO). would the same thecnique work, using tin bitz as a basecoat instead, and highlight with Boltgun metal instead of mithril silver? or other suggestions? please help!

the turtorial and thecnique that i am aiming to can be found on Jacob\'s site at

http://www.jrn-works.dk/

also, do anyone know what Jacob used on his knights?

 

[Ritual]

I have successfully used Tin Bitz as base colour for steel, so I\'d say it works! I suggest doing as you said using Boltgun after that, but also use mithril to pick out the sharpest edges and stuff. Very little, just enough to give sharp edges facing upwards a bit of extra definition. That wouldn\'t make the armour look much brighter, only more crisp and well defined. If you make it too dark it would make a quite uniform blur and you wouldn\'t see the details very well.

Also, you could use some coloured washes over the steel, like green or brown to give the steel a bit of a sick colour tone.

 

[BanJo]

Thanks Anders! so, a tin bitz basecoat, then boltgun, and maybe a green/brown wash and then mithril on the edges?

 

[Legacy Account]

Jakob\'s technique obviously aint too bright for the GD judges......

Tin Bitz is cool as a dark steel basecoat. Lots of dirty washes of dark green and brown.

 

[Ritual]

Originally posted by BanJo
Thanks Anders! so, a tin bitz basecoat, then boltgun, and maybe a green/brown wash and then mithril on the edges?

Yep!! Actually I didn\'t mention it, but applying the mithril after the green/brown wash is the way to go to make it have the desired effect. Much like with NMM where the last thing you do is apply the pure white highlights (after doing weathering etc.).

 

[BanJo]

i love jacob\'s way, but i do not know how he did the nurgle knights.

 

[monolith]

I\'ve been painting a lot of crusty steel at the moment, I\'ve been working on a berzerker warjack from privateer press. I\'ve been using tin bitz as a basecoat, then wet blending my highlight layers back into it. It gives you a dirty steel look in the recesses, but in high wear areas, where rust and whatnot wouldn\'t form, you still have the bright, shiny highlights.

Then you can go back with inks and whatnot, and go to work if you think things need to look even more weathered. I\'d also reccomend the articles section here, check out the nurgle trolls article, and the metal oxidation article. Both translated by frenchkid, they\'re both originally written by I think, a french golden demon winner. (Jump up and down on me if I\'m wrong.)

 

[dave3555]

Jakob used the same techniques as found on his chaos warrior tutorial here:

http://www.jrnworks.dk/tutorials/chaoswarrior/stepByStep.html

The only difference being is that he used more shadeing washes to get the knights looking more dirty and nurgly.

Dave