1 hour ago, MegaSilver said:

Hey Sorastro, Im planning on painting my guys similar to this. Im wanting the gold to be a dark orangish color, but the color changer wouldn't cooperate. I will be adding more orange than this, and change the cape color. What GW colors do you recommend? I also dont like mixing colors if i can avoid it, nags me when i cant match the mix later on. Lol.

And thanks for the videos as always!

Hi MegaSilver! I've got two suggestions you might like to try to achieve the dark gold colour you're after: 1) You may have tried it already but Retributor Armour is a very rich orangey gold colour; you could use it as a base then shade it with Agrax Earthshade. You might want to then add a few edge highlights with Auric Armour Gold. 2) Take the approach I did for C3PO and use a silver base (Leadbelcher, or maybe something lighter) then apply a wash of Seraphim Sepia in a couple of layers. This approach is pretty cool because you can vary the depth of the orange/sepia by varying the number of layers you add. I hope this helps!

12 minutes ago, flightmaster101 said:

Sorastro,

What do you think of the idea of using Decals on the shields? I have a custom decal system from Testors and the Sheilds of the spearment might be flat enough for decals rather than hand paint.

I think that's a great idea! the shields are pretty flat, although some have sculpted scratches on them, but I guess that wouldn't cause any real issues.

Now I'm confused as to what colour to paint my own units! Although seeing as I'll be going for all the factions it's probably best I stick with the established faction colours.

Just wanted to chime in and say THANK YOU for this great video. At first glance I was underwhelmed by your color scheme, but it has really grown on me quite fast. Most notably because it almost completely removes the somewhat comic look of the figures. The cavalry looks awesome, can't wait for some close-ups...

And btw, I'm another of your (sadly too few) patreons who voted in favour of Runewars, so I will gladly take every little bit you are willing to share!

Keep up the great work! Just wished I had more time to paint myself...

Sooo, are you going to spoil what suggested colour schemes for the baronies are described in the lore guide? Also what colour are you painting Waiqar?

49 minutes ago, Muz333 said:

Sooo, are you going to spoil what suggested colour schemes for the baronies are described in the lore guide? Also what colour are you painting Waiqar?

I have the lore guide found in the core set. Unless I'm missing something, there are no suggested colors anywhere and it actually only names 2 Baronies. Additionally, there isn't really any artwork or pictures of any units from any factions.

Just now, rowdyoctopus said:

I have the lore guide found in the core set. Unless I'm missing something, there are no suggested colors anywhere and it actually only names 2 Baronies. Additionally, there isn't really any artwork or pictures of any units from any factions.

That's disappointing. I'm sure it mentioned in the rules that were uploaded that suggested colour schemes could be found for the baronies in the lore guide. ☹️

2 minutes ago, Muz333 said:

That's disappointing. I'm sure it mentioned in the rules that were uploaded that suggested colour schemes could be found for the baronies in the lore guide. ☹️

In the Learn to Play there is a very basic painting guide. It has a painted Rune Golem using purple for the rune lights and a tannish brown for the tunic. It says it is painted to represent the Carthridge Barony. It doesn't explicitly state the colors of the Carthridge Barony :/.

1 hour ago, SirWillibald said:

Just wanted to chime in and say THANK YOU for this great video. At first glance I was underwhelmed by your color scheme, but it has really grown on me quite fast. Most notably because it almost completely removes the somewhat comic look of the figures. The cavalry looks awesome, can't wait for some close-ups...

And btw, I'm another of your (sadly too few) patreons who voted in favour of Runewars, so I will gladly take every little bit you are willing to share!

Keep up the great work! Just wished I had more time to paint myself...

Thanks a lot Christian!

I'm glad you like the "anti-comic" look; I wanted a slightly darker, more gritty look partly for aesthetic reasons but also because I wanted to cut corners and throw a black/brown wash over everything to speed up the painting.

I'll post some additional pictures once I've completed the set, and I'll also provide some quick visual guides for the figures that I don't have time to feature in the videos.

1 hour ago, Muz333 said:

Sooo, are you going to spoil what suggested colour schemes for the baronies are described in the lore guide? Also what colour are you painting Waiqar?

Hi Muzz!

As others have mentioned there doesn't seem to be mention of specific colour schemes for the named baronies in the Lore Guide. Although it might have been nice to have some ideas to choose from, it just means we have free reign to do what we like (unlike those blue runes - I was all set to do green until I read that!).

Regarding my Waiqar colour scheme: I think you know me well enough to know that I'm too fond of a little mystery to give away spoilers like that, but I don't blame you for trying All I'll say is that my brief was to produce schemes unlike those we've seen so far, and to that I hold..

Always love your videos Sorastro!

It looks like you've painted all of your human army and a couple golems. How long does it take for you to paint the figures? Not including filming and editing etc, but raw painting time?

1 minute ago, Back5 said:

Always love your videos Sorastro!

It looks like you've painted all of your human army and a couple golems. How long does it take for you to paint the figures? Not including filming and editing etc, but raw painting time?

Thanks Back5! It's tricky to say in hours, but once I'd worked out my colour scheme, and after a pretty long priming session, I got through that lot in a couple of days. Note that I haven't painted Kari yet - for no particular reason, but she won't take long.

4 minutes ago, Sorastro said:

Thanks Back5! It's tricky to say in hours, but once I'd worked out my colour scheme, and after a pretty long priming session, I got through that lot in a couple of days. Note that I haven't painted Kari yet - for no particular reason, but she won't take long.

No worries at all. I am always interested in how my style of painting compares to the professional painters. I am not a pro by any means, but knowing that it still takes you a couple days to paint that many figures makes me feel better! I had assumed you could run through them all in a few hours or something

Some great painting here, Sorastro. I'm looking forward to seeing how you paint your spearmen and cavalry.

1 hour ago, Sorastro said:

Regarding my Waiqar colour scheme: I think you know me well enough to know that I'm too fond of a little mystery to give away spoilers like that, but I don't blame you for trying All I'll say is that my brief was to produce schemes unlike those we've seen so far, and to that I hold..

Mixed feelings there as purple is my favourite colour but I can't wait to see what alternate colour schemes look like. The photo earlier in the thread where someone found the Daqan painted black and white looks terrific.

Of course you're going to have to follow up on this with the Latari Elves and Uthuk Y'llan later this year!

12 hours ago, Muz333 said:

Mixed feelings there as purple is my favourite colour but I can't wait to see what alternate colour schemes look like. The photo earlier in the thread where someone found the Daqan painted black and white looks terrific.

Of course you're going to have to follow up on this with the Latari Elves and Uthuk Y'llan later this year!

Oh I agree Purple is the most tempting colour for the undead (it's how I painted my old Warhammer Vampire Counts), which is partly why I wish to avoid it. It's also so much fun exploring alternative colour combinations.

You're right about the other upcoming factions too; I've got a few vague ideas and lots of colours in "reserve" for them..

I think I've decided to go for black and purple for my Daqan forces with gold metal. No idea how I'll do it without a colour guide from you though! Perhaps some useful stuff will come out of the upcoming BoW hobby weekend.

Then I have no idea what to paint Waiqar who will be my main army until the Uthuk arrive. Hopefully I can work in pink or purple there though!

For my Daqan loan-to-friends force I'm planning to paint them using the colors and styles of the Boros Guild from MTG's Ravnica cycles: Lots of scarlet on white and ivory, with yellow-gold trim and polished steel plates. Does anyone have a good method for a 'polished steel' look? I don't want it to be silver, and I don't want it to be overwhelmingly dark, and I'd like to use some kind of a wash technique to emphasize the articulation of the plates without compromising the shine of the metal greatly. Video reference would be great!

For my Waiqar main army, I'm planning to paint them to look like praetorian guards that were lying in a bog for a few weeks before a fragment of a cursed spirit was ham-fisted into their swollen corpses: lots of dirty ivory-over-purple bones, with patchy light-grey-over-pale-blue cloaks over moldy green-over-grey clothes, and rusty-black-iron metal for the armor. I'm going for a faded cryx sort of colors to match the snowy ice marsh I'm going to do with their bases.

Sorastro,

How's this idea for my Daqan? Any suggestions on making the purple and gold pop more? I struggle to make the purple brighter without making it pink.

Edit: and ignore the blue head, that was an idea for my rebel sab's skin that didn't pan out.

37 minutes ago, flightmaster101 said:

Sorastro,

How's this idea for my Daqan? Any suggestions on making the purple and gold pop more? I struggle to make the purple brighter without making it pink.

Edit: and ignore the blue head, that was an idea for my rebel sab's skin that didn't pan out.

I'm not Sorastro, but your colors are good, you just need to add some depth to them with some washes and a highlight or two after the wash. Use some Agrax Earthshade on your gold color and whatever the purple ink is for GW. You'll be amazed at how easy it is to make your paint pop with a simple wash

It's got that druchi violet wash on it, but I might add some nuln oil to it to make the shade darker. It xerus purple with 2 highlights of deamonette hide, an a small highlight with pink horror. The gold is gehanda's gold unwashed with highlights of auric armor gold and a auric armor gold/storm host silver mix for the shoulders.

its also a ? mold.

12 minutes ago, flightmaster101 said:

It's got that druchi violet wash on it, but I might add some nuln oil to it to make the shade darker. It xerus purple with 2 highlights of deamonette hide, an a small highlight with pink horror. The gold is gehanda's gold unwashed with highlights of auric armor gold and a auric armor gold/storm host silver mix for the shoulders.

its also a ? mold.

Looks interesting but I think the model would look even better with some of the equipment and minor clothing like the boots/belt in a different color. It might also be worth looking into giving officers a different color helmet than regular mooks.

I've actually thought about purple myself with Daqan but I might go with some sort of desert style color scheme since I've been using some of the Vallejo diorama effects. I worked up a quick base and it came out perfect for deserts after a few dry brushes.

8 minutes ago, Kubernes said:

Looks interesting but I think the model would look even better with some of the equipment and minor clothing like the boots/belt in a different color. It might also be worth looking into giving officers a different color helmet than regular mooks.

I've actually thought about purple myself with Daqan but I might go with some sort of desert style color scheme since I've been using some of the Vallejo diorama effects. I worked up a quick base and it came out perfect for deserts after a few dry brushes.

I know what you mean, but I'm not going to do much more than a 2 color mock up on an army man. So swords will be steel, leather brown, skin will be skin, etc, etc.

the idea is picture the daqan and sub the purple for the blue, the gold for the yellow, and maybe black or a different purple hade for the red capes.

On 3/29/2017 at 8:18 AM, drkpnthr said:

For my Daqan loan-to-friends force I'm planning to paint them using the colors and styles of the Boros Guild from MTG's Ravnica cycles: Lots of scarlet on white and ivory, with yellow-gold trim and polished steel plates. Does anyone have a good method for a 'polished steel' look? I don't want it to be silver, and I don't want it to be overwhelmingly dark, and I'd like to use some kind of a wash technique to emphasize the articulation of the plates without compromising the shine of the metal greatly. Video reference would be great!

Sorastro does a great job of this with Gaarkhan's shoulder pad armor in this video, spoilered for size. I've used this for lots of other figures now, always turns out great. Sorastro goes on to explain how this process will build up contrast, gives you control how bright/dark you want the armor to look by how many layers you choose to do.

7 hours ago, flightmaster101 said:

Sorastro,

How's this idea for my Daqan? Any suggestions on making the purple and gold pop more? I struggle to make the purple brighter without making it pink.

Edit: and ignore the blue head, that was an idea for my rebel sab's skin that didn't pan out.

Hi mate!

The only things I'd add to the excellent suggestions provided so far is that for the large number of minis involved I'm taking quite a quick, "base-shade-few small highlights" approach to the metallics on my Runewars minis (just like I did with the rune golem). As has been pointed out - darkening (and dulling) with a shade then adding a few bright sparkles will make the metal pop more.

Regarding the purple; it might sound odd but you could try lightening it with some pale green - like Nurgling Green for example. I used to do this for my undead and it's a useful trick because it lets you push the brightness (and luminosity) without things becoming too pink. Alternatively, a pale blue could be used if you want a more lilac hint in the highlights.

17 minutes ago, Sorastro said:

The only things I'd add to the excellent suggestions provided so far is that for the large number of minis involved I'm taking quite a quick, "base-shade-few small highlights" approach to the metallics on my Runewars minis

If you ever have some time to spare, I'd LOVE to see a little (Runewars?) video with a few general tips for "mass painting" huge amounts of the same figure. If you don't have the time, a little text guide would be great, as well!

5 minutes ago, SirWillibald said:

If you ever have some time to spare, I'd LOVE to see a little (Runewars?) video with a few general tips for "mass painting" huge amounts of the same figure. If you don't have the time, a little text guide would be great, as well!

Sure thing! My first priority is to complete the next video (Carrion Lancer) but after that I'll make time to prepare a brief colour guide for the regular troops.