Shading/highlighting and painting in batches...

[Corvus]

I\'m having a small problem here... the skin color of my second batch of Kroot Carnivores (WH40k) looks totally different from the first one... This is because I used Camo Green as the base color and created shading and highlighting effects by adding black and rotting flesh/white. But of course, it impossible to create the same shades when you are painting a second batch a few weeks later .

I know these different skin tones may add some realism (humans also have several different skin tones), but as being one army I\'d like to give them almost exactly the same colors.

Any tips on achieving this???

 

[Flashman14]

I don\'t know what you can do to fix THAT. But going forward, if you know you have a mixture that is good, then bottle it - make enough to fill half an emty bottle somewhere. So everythime you need it you\'ll have it.
Any good?

 

[No Such Agency]

My advice - don\'t worry about it. If they\'re one squad, mix them up, they\'ll look like a natural mix of colours. If they\'re two squads, looking different is a good thing. Maybe they\'re from different tribes. As long as they all look good, who cares? But yeah, try and find a spare bottle somewhere

 

[Corvus]

OK, NSA, this can be great with skin tones (with my kroot for example). But imagine the armour of space marines for example. These should be identical I think...

But anyway, after I posted my question I saw this new article on CMON about storing your own paint blends. Could be useful .

Thanks.

 

[vincegamer]

The first marine I painted in my chapter colors was painted around 3 years before the second, using totally different paints (artist acryilics from a tube, Howard Hues from a jar later). They aren\'t exactly alike of course, but I don\'t care. You can always add fluff to explain clear differences. I mean, come on, this armor was made thousands of years ago. Maybe it needed a new paint job at some point in that time. Close but not identical works for me.

 

[Impernouncable]

Take notes.
It sounds silly but it works. Practice taking notes on the particular color mixes you use for different parts and layers. You will probably find that you don\'t need to reference your notes very often, the very act of writing them down will re-enforce the memory of what you have done.

 

[ahrimon]

Another good Idea is to make a mixing chart of the colors that you used on the first squad. Save this and you will have a recipe for the same colors next time. Little time consuming but it can help quite a bit.

 

[supervike]

You could try to paint ALL the batches in one go!!lollollol

Taking notes is a good idea though. I try to take mental notes, but somewhere along the line, they end up in my \'mental recycling bin\'.

 

[Chrispy]

NSA is right, Since they\'re kroot and I assume they are armed the same (Unless you\'re doing a kroot army)a as long as the colors are somewhat together, it will look more natural if some are lighter or darker than the rest.

It\'s easy to think of them as animals which seem to all look the same, but if you see one tiger and then another, their stripe pattern is totally different! So maybe some kroot in the squad have been eating differently, or after a long campaign, remnants of many squads were formed into one, thus giving a more unique appearance!

Variety is the spice of life. (Actually, it\'s Cinnamon..)