Siege Tower Painting

robbo007

robbo007

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Hu guys,
I managed to get one of games workshop's siege towers for my table. I'm looking for the same effect/colour like on the box. Any ideas how to get those affects with the paints (or equivalent these days) mentioned on the box?

Start with a base colour Bestial Brown then dry brush with Snake Bite Leather? The box just shows the colours but not the stages unfortunately.

Link to photo: https://ibb.co/192Qycv

Thanks,
 
You could base it with Zandri then use shades like Sephia or Reikland ( Reikland for that darker part ) or even agrax. Then after that you could dry brushed with Zandri again or mix with Zandri and little bit darker hue of Zandri. Even if there is some gloss from shades or similar, you could tone it down with mat varnish ( I use Liquitex Mat with brush ). I think that picture is very bright, because some colours on the list are more intense then what you can see on the pictures...
 
ok great. I'll take a look at those. Maybe do a test run. Trouble is the tower has been built so its going to be hard to get into all the nooks and crannies.

Cheers,
 
Probably worth doing a dry run on something small with a heavy wood grain texture first. A shield, perhaps?

FWIW, I got a similar effect to that shown on the siege tower picture back in the day using a scorched brown base followed by progressively lighter drybrushing with bestial brown then bubonic brown and finally, bleached bone. Of course, this was in the pre-shades days and all the paint names are in old money.
 
Looking nice. But that very light colour of drybrush over very dark brown tends to make ( to me ) not so nice colour ( almost white looking ) as contrast is too high between those two. I usually before puting light drybrush go over with few darker colours. Working very well with yellowish colours as they very close in brightens/lightness. Maybe glazing would help little bit?
 
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Looking nice. But that very light colour of drybrush over very dark brown tends to make ( to me ) not so nice colour ( almost white looking ) as contrast is too high between those two. I usually before puting light drybrush go over with few darker colours. Working very well with yellowish colours as they very close in brightens/lightness. Maybe glazing would help little bit?
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Thanks for the feedback. Yeah just looking closely I see what you mean. There are areas where I've perhaps gone to heavy with the dry brush and there is more of a litter colour. I'll see what glosses I have and might be able to tone it down a little. I'm still a novice painter but learning new techniques each day :)
 
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