Fur Recipes

Old Hob

Old Hob

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Hi folks. So, this isn't a question on how to paint Golden Demon standard fur. Rather, I'm after your recipes for 'quick and easy' batch painting fur to a decent tabletop standard using paints that are still in production/readily available. Examples of a finished mini would also be most welcome. Cheers.
 
Any colour, but various browns in particular. I'm just keen to see what folks do. What I'm doing at the moment is too longwinded and not especially effective, and I have a LOT of fur to paint in the next few months.
 
I am also interested in this. Because if I keep trying to refine this fur it's going to become filled in and smoothed over. And hair is my current bugbear. I can get it to look ok. But I want wondrous 'Timotei in the waterfall' looking tresses and beards for my dwarfs!
 
I think I would possibly approach fur as clothing different to fur still on the owner.
Either way I would defo do blending unless something like a bear which seem to predominantly the same colour.
What is it you are looking to paint?
 
Beastmen

But given they're supposed to all be mutants, several different recipes/variations are welcome.

It's a fair point about cloaks as well. I'll probably keep painting them the same as wolves for now.
 
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Fur has often such a nice texture that I find that one can get away with just a single Contrast color in order to make a quick and easy paint job.

Some recommended colors:

Brown:
  • Gore-grunta Fur
  • Cygor Brown
  • Wyldwood
Tan:
  • Snakebite Leather
  • Skeleton Horde
Grey:
  • Basilicanum Grey

These can just be applied right out of the pot. If one want to add even more variety one can just drybrush various matching colors on the very edges of the fur.

I found an old picture of some A Song of Ice and Fire miniatures that I speed painted some years ago by using the colors described above to paint fur. Note that the wolves though have been drybrushed with a lighter grey to make the their fur pop even more.
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Old Hob said:
Beastmen

But given they're supposed to all be mutants, several different recipes/variations are welcome.
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For Beastmen I could also recommend going with a black color for the fur. I use Black Templar, and then a grey color to drybrush for some highlights.
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Thanks @Kallstrom
There's definitely a place for contrast/speed paints and I have a few of those you mentioned. Maybe it's user error, but I haven't liked my results particularly and ended having to do a lot of fixing up. Like I say, maybe user error. Are there recommended highlight colours for these? It feels like there should be.

The owlbear and chums look really nice. My beasties have greyish skin (as a homage Bryan Ansell's beastmen collection), and I think black fur might make them a touch monochrome. That black and orange really pops, though.

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Does anyone have a more old school painting recipe?
 
I've found speed/contrast paint ok, but it all ends up being very 'samey' particularly across larger areas. I think I'm going to have to experiment with making patchy base coats of different colours, but tips and advice on that would be welcomed.
 
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Thanks @Borgador A useful vid, that, but I think possibly a tad tricky to pull off on discrete areas of beastman fur.
For what it's worth, I follow this methodology for wolves: https://collectinggreen.home.blog/2020/08/09/spotlight-on-wolf-mounts-part-iii-painting/ The author's are much nicer than mine, but mine ain't too bad.

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no recipe or method. Alot of it depends on how the fur is sculpted (spikey, flowing, Goodwin's skaven which have.. kinda spotty fur), what type of fur it's meant to be etc (short hair, thick hair etc)

yet to see some types of fur done right because they are almost impossible.. like Polar bears where you can see the long transparent guard hairs on top of the short undercoat and the salt. People keep trying to claim they look white but I've never seen a white polar bear (outside of cartoons).. they are always grey-yellow when I see them... I don't think I have any form of colour blindness..

Most fur based animals ALWAYS have patches of the skin visible and more so with lighter fur colours, which lead to some colour bleed or effect on the fur itself with the whole UV indexing and stuff cause colour is weird to me.. well, when I think about colour.. how it's all partly subjective cause everyone's eyes are slightly different, and how colour can change greatly in the light.. It's like how you have some birds which look like Metallica's on them cause the colour can really change based on the angle the light is hitting them..

of course, speaking of birds, feathers is a whole different kettle of fish..

Oh and I'm not great at painting or anything but I mostly treat difference fur types as different materials.
 
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