Hi All,

Just about to start Hoth campaign and want to paint Loku up as I'll be using him.

What colours are being used for him at the minute? Any advice and pics would be appreciated.

Cheers.

I haven't got round to painting him yet but SturmtruppenX1 has (he posted some pictures on his painting thread).

I'd ask him which paints he used.

Here is a picture from his thread.

I've painted Loku as well and I'm fairly happy about the result.

There's discussion about Loku painting in Sorastro's painting thread page 49.

Scroll down to post 971 (my post about the paints I used) and then further down posts about what methods others used/planned to use. Maybe you can find some of them helpful. And maybe SturmtruppenX1 can enlighten what method he used as I cannot remember clearly what I did and Sturmtruppen's Loku looks fantastic.

So I had a go at the weekend and here is wip, what you think?

I used a mix of 1 part Vallejo bright orange and 2 parts Vallejo flat red followed by a wash of citadel carroburg crimson. Pretty happy with the results although I wish it turned out a wee bit darker

http://imgur.com/a/b7tv9

Sorry about he crappy picture/lighting. I'll get a solo shot later

Looking good Soontirbeblownup. The skin looks glossy and I like the texture you've created on the skin. Also, I like the boots as you used two colors there. I was just lazy and painted them brown.

Loku was a lot of fun to paint.

I base coated the skin with Khorne Red, then Carroburg crimson.

Then I layered with many, many thin coats of different reds wazdakka red/evil suns scarlet up to a highlight of wild rider red. (experimenting with the red without really knowing where I was going with it) Focusing on the facial features, lumps on the crown, eye sockets and tops of hands/flippers.

Then, at the very end, I washed twice with Cassendora Yellow and he turned from redto glorious orange overall. He was looking a bit red up until that point.

He looks better at arms length than in this photo.

Awesome job, Addum. I now wish I had used Khorne Red as well. But I didn't own it and didn't want to buy it. So I went with Mephiston Red and tried to balance the tone with washes.

I see you didn't go to the usual yellowish jacket color. The brown-gray jacket looks cool too. What paints did you use?

Thanks Elrath. Appreciate the comments. I think Mephiston would have worked just fine. I beleive that the older the Mon Calamari, the darker the skin tone, so anything goes really.

I went for a more neutral overcoat. The jacket is a base of Steel Legion Drab washed in Agrax Earthshade. I then mixed Karak Stone with Drab in several layers and finished with pure Karak Stone. I think I should have mised in a little palid wych flesh with the KS to a popping highligh on a fer corners of the jacket, lapels etc.

Combat pants and the backpack are Castellan Green up to Elysian Green. 'Aka Sorastros Bobafett's scarf.'

Boots and Straps are Mournfang brown, washed in Agrax and highlighted with Skrag Brown. I did not realise till later that the boots have chaps or whatever they are called. I would have done something different with the different parts there.

Looks great!

I'm confounded by the transition from coat to upper shirt/uniform for Loku. It seems to all run together under the straps for the backpack. I decided to paint the upper portion like the 'scarf' on the hero sheet, which then blends seamlessly (unfortunately) into the tunic. i wish there was a clear delineation between these three parts - the scarf doesn't exist on the model in reality.

Here is my half-done progress, with atrocious, sun based lighting. I'm debating what color to make the droid eyes...

Imperial Assault - Return to Hoth heroes by Ben Neff, on Flickr