Painting marble
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The closest you could probably get would be to use Mickc22\'s Woodgrain article, and alter it to make it into Marble, just using marble colours with the wood grain effect would be doing it really, except the streaks would be a bit more extrovert rather than uniform like the woodgrain.
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darkartminiatures
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Whooaa this is soooo freaky. I just did a search on marbling before seeing this thread. Very handy indeed.
that is indeed a handy tute - though i came up with my own method (impatience you see!) last night qhich was very similar.
1) blac basecoat
2) stippled DA green (never used this technique before, wiped some of the excess of my brush then \'stabbed\' at the area.
3) DA green and white lines, then a further bit of white to highlight.
looks ok - hoping for it to look even better glossed.
1) blac basecoat
2) stippled DA green (never used this technique before, wiped some of the excess of my brush then \'stabbed\' at the area.
3) DA green and white lines, then a further bit of white to highlight.
looks ok - hoping for it to look even better glossed.
Torn blue sky
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Supervike, thats a fantastic link! So simple so effective 
I need to try this for myself hehe.
@Penguin lollol Fantastic animation on your sig!!!
I need to try this for myself hehe.
@Penguin lollol Fantastic animation on your sig!!!
demonherald
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looks good like the look of marble always been a favourite of mine.
Remember, marble needn\'t be simply shades of green!
Being a metamorphic rock, it can almost any combination of colours...
But to keep things simple I\'d recommend just using 2 colours at a time.
A particularly prized marble is Italian marble, which varies from almost pure whites to deep, rich pinks.
Being a metamorphic rock, it can almost any combination of colours...
But to keep things simple I\'d recommend just using 2 colours at a time.
A particularly prized marble is Italian marble, which varies from almost pure whites to deep, rich pinks.
demonherald
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I had to paint over a crack in marble after filling for a restoration in a pub. The amount of different shades is truly mind boggling. Generally it\'s best to keep it simple on models but the 6 days of painting over that joint taught me a lot about the complexities of marble.
It\'s basically made up of a patchwork of crystalline stones of different colours within the base colour broken up by veins of contrasting colours.
The veins are generally greens whites Reds or black....(somebody could probably tell you a scientific reason for this.)
To this end any dark base colour will work with a lighter stippling highlight applied and veins added in.
good ones are redand black base red stipples green/white veins
tan and bone base bone and white stipple Red and black veins
Green and black base Green and yellow stipple Red or white veins
anything goes.
The use of a feather gives some really interesting vein effects but using a long bristled brush and rolling occasionally can give the same effect.
I find a coat of varnish helps to finishes the effect quite nicely.
It\'s basically made up of a patchwork of crystalline stones of different colours within the base colour broken up by veins of contrasting colours.
The veins are generally greens whites Reds or black....(somebody could probably tell you a scientific reason for this.)
To this end any dark base colour will work with a lighter stippling highlight applied and veins added in.
good ones are redand black base red stipples green/white veins
tan and bone base bone and white stipple Red and black veins
Green and black base Green and yellow stipple Red or white veins
anything goes.
The use of a feather gives some really interesting vein effects but using a long bristled brush and rolling occasionally can give the same effect.
I find a coat of varnish helps to finishes the effect quite nicely.
I think you might be getting a bit too obsessed with that mini Bill. Not that it isn\'t good of course.Originally posted by Penguin
Here\'s a mini with that effect:
I think it would have been a black basecoat, and while that was still wet, dappled heavily with watered down Dark Angels Green. After that has dried, thin lines of DAG/white for the veins of lighter mineral.
darkartminiatures
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A google search on marble brings up a shed load (lots) of resource images. I\'m doing something at the moment with a green marble and a red one. The red one is really hard to get right....I\'m still not happy with it. I think this is because the red marbles aren\'t really that red...maybe i should just make it up as i go along
I followed the Hot Lead tutorial myself when I did the crozius on this Chaplain. It doesn\'t show up great in this picture and the painted on reflection was ill judgement on my part (gloss varnish would be better) but it\'s a good technique, although I made a slight modification because the size of his weapon was too small to use a sponge on effectively. I painted the marble texture before i did anything else on the mini and instead of using the sponge i just completely ruined the bristles on an already dodgey brush and very lightly stippled on the colour in multiple layers.
demonherald
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looks sweet
Torn blue sky
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Lono, that marble looks awesome, save the impro sheen. Like to see the \"fixed\" version
And Darkart, use rusty browns for the red marble effect. I haven\'t actually done it but it\'s what I would use (Just a personal opinion)
And Darkart, use rusty browns for the red marble effect. I haven\'t actually done it but it\'s what I would use
(Just a personal opinion)demonherald
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I find GW colours work well
scab red and black basecoat with vomit brown mixed in for the highlight.
Only a little touch of black is needed it is mainly there to kill the pink red always try to go when you lighten it.
scab red and black basecoat with vomit brown mixed in for the highlight.
Only a little touch of black is needed it is mainly there to kill the pink red always try to go when you lighten it.
