Painting water?

[SundayTaco]

Hello there, im relatively new to this site, but I'Ve seen the good advice that is doled out on a daily basis so i figured that i would drag my problem here and try to get some helpful input. . First of all i have been working on a demon pronce conversion for a little bit of time. With the new plastic kit for daemons, they give you enough parts for 1.5 demon princes. the second demon prince comes missing a back and legs, which i figured i could sculpt.
-End of story is that i have finished converting this model. If people care enough ill post a pic, but here's my description
...Since i don't like how GW decides to make such un-dynamic models, i decided to model my legs as if my prince were in mid stride. I modeled my prince after http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRGZzVEkMGLVPbQ7fWJWOqwBc19expWFeVQu6N5rPkl4zGHwzb_nQ . i have his legs looking liek a large CSM and i have him sprinting through what i tried to make look liek water splashing. i did my best with white plastic putty epoxy. I have the base and the model finished but now i don't know how to paint this water so it looks as realistic as possible , because i tried really hard sculpting this, and i want the paint job to reflect my pride in this mini.

 

[Einion]

If there's any water on the base that's relatively undisturbed it's probably best to paint this the colour of the wet sand/gravel beneath the surface, rather than trying to use blue.

For the splashy bits obviously you'll have to use lots of white, for the shadowing on that I would use some subtle greys myself but many people would go with light blues. Might be a good idea to test-paint something off to one side, see which colouration you think looks best.

Howard Terpning has done many paintings of horses splashing through water that I think should help, here are two I could find online:
http://www.firstpeople.us/pictures/HowardTerpning/ls/Howard-Terpning-Crossing-Badger-Creek.html
http://www.firstpeople.us/pictures/HowardTerpning/ls/Howard-Terpning-Bad-Medicine-Crossing.html

Einion

 

[freakinacage]

i'd use the sea greys from vmc for the shading. i tried a similar effect once with sealant for fish tanks worked fairly well. no pics though, don;t have the model

 

[Tercha]

View attachment 5118
Something like this?
pait the "water" to look like the bottom of the stream, add a thin layer of "GW water effect" mixing in some brown behind the figures to show disturbed mud and pick out the splashes with white

 

[freakinacage]

pait the "water" to look like the bottom of the stream, add a thin layer of "GW water effect" mixing in some brown behind the figures to show disturbed mud and pick out the splashes with white

aye that. but wouldn't use gw. waaaaaaaay overpriced. you could get a decent look with gloss yacht varnish. it has a slight brown tinge which looks great

 

[SundayTaco]

alrighty as always good tips, ill get started painting it and repost wip picss....if i can get a hold of a camera..

 

[freakinacage]

alrighty as always good tips..

hehe you don't know if they'll work yet!!

 

[SundayTaco]

i trust you guys , lol you have more experience with this stuff then i do so yea... the only problem i see maybe happening is having made the water from epoxy puddy so i don;'t know how ill achieve the opacity...

 

[freakinacage]

you won't. the only way to get that is to re start. or you can paint it like river bottom and add varnish

 

[SundayTaco]

i have varnish, o well, i can live with no opacity.

 

[SundayTaco]

Well, thank you all for the advice, i ended up just doin blue, cause brown looked weird non-opaque. the mini is epic (in my opinion) expect a pic of in some other thread DDD

 

[Einion]

Transparency, you already have it opaque

Personally I think browns, tans, ochres and olive greens look best for this kind of thing - blue doesn't 'make sense' (deep water).

Einion