tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post8005244656459443127..comments2024-03-27T22:37:01.796-04:00Comments on Dungeon Fantastic: Painting ghostly minis guide?Peter Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14246000382321978462noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post-1312020962006423712017-01-08T16:04:37.866-05:002017-01-08T16:04:37.866-05:00Sure, you can find it pretty easily in craft store...Sure, you can find it pretty easily in craft stores. I have some old Ral Partha paint. It's an overcoat, and I've used it to good effect on a few minis. Dab it on the eyes for your Cujo minis.Peter Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246000382321978462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post-10143603948428721672017-01-08T15:43:49.029-05:002017-01-08T15:43:49.029-05:00Do they have glow-in-the-dark paints? Because my f...Do they have glow-in-the-dark paints? Because my favorite ghost mini ever was the old style LEGO Ghost minifigure.Ronintendohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13335678853838217038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post-66412569281282186252017-01-08T13:42:00.193-05:002017-01-08T13:42:00.193-05:00Wow, I don't how ghostly that'll look, but...Wow, I don't how ghostly that'll look, but it sounds pretty awesome. I'll make something that color for sure!Peter Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246000382321978462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post-22068867101038074932017-01-08T11:23:45.367-05:002017-01-08T11:23:45.367-05:00De nada! I didn't find exactly what I was loo...De nada! I didn't find exactly what I was looking for, but did find this guidance for painting a shoggoth in the Grenadier Cthulhu creatures boxed set insert (the painting color codes are for Polly S Colors):<br /><br />"To capture the iridescent quality of this black ugliness, paint a base color of black (PF 15) then dry brush the entire figure dark green (1445). Next dry brush lightly with shades of red (1462), blue (1431), and light green (1443) at random. The eye areas are yellow (1456) with a thin wash of red (1462), with black (1419) pupils."<br /><br />Still no mention of a ghost, though, but perhaps it was in another of their sets ....allangrodoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11800184312511280050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post-90051045287034071722017-01-08T09:32:16.945-05:002017-01-08T09:32:16.945-05:00Thanks for the conversion chart, and thanks for lo...Thanks for the conversion chart, and thanks for looking!<br /><br />I also found this, which sounds tricky but doable (and lists the colors in generic terms, which helps me immensely):<br />http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/617098.page;jsessionid=2B1633F8E5E20D1205B8A56EEE008133#7242379Peter Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246000382321978462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post-89648657256160403852017-01-08T01:40:51.623-05:002017-01-08T01:40:51.623-05:00Nothing in the Heritage LOTR Painting Guide either...Nothing in the Heritage LOTR Painting Guide either ....allan.grodoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11800184312511280050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post-3017511818674709802017-01-08T01:01:51.263-05:002017-01-08T01:01:51.263-05:00No love there either. If it pops into my head, I&...No love there either. If it pops into my head, I'll let you know .....allan.grodoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11800184312511280050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post-35827770819353129182017-01-08T00:42:34.543-05:002017-01-08T00:42:34.543-05:00No love: I looked in the three Grenadier Action A...No love: I looked in the three Grenadier Action Art set booklets (which is where I thought the suggestions would be located), as well as in my Floquil and Morningstar minis painting guides, but nothing.<br /><br />The suggestion as I recall it was to paint in reverse: to place lighter colors lower/deeper in the figure, and to then paint darker colors over them. But again, I can't find the reference to validate it further, sorry.<br /><br />Hmmm: perhaps it was in one of the Dragon magazines in the 60s....<br /><br />Allan.grodoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11800184312511280050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post-80317308441864174022017-01-08T00:09:04.810-05:002017-01-08T00:09:04.810-05:00This paint equivalencies guide may help, Peter (co...This paint equivalencies guide may help, Peter (compliments of Bill "DungeonDelver" Silvey who mentioned it over on the Knights & Knaves Alehouse forums recently): http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Paint_Range_Compatibility_Chart<br /><br />IIRC one or more of my old painting guides or booklets had some suggestions for ghostly minis (I'm thinking it was from Grenadier, but it may have been in one of the random How To Paint Minis booklets I'd picked up years ago too). Will see if I can dig it up.<br /><br />Allan.grodoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11800184312511280050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post-19593861978756789702017-01-07T21:56:14.315-05:002017-01-07T21:56:14.315-05:00Heh. They don't have feet, so it's not an ...Heh. They don't have feet, so it's not an issue. :)Peter Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246000382321978462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post-52033134549752553122017-01-07T21:50:46.020-05:002017-01-07T21:50:46.020-05:00They are metal.
The problem with the guide is tha...They are metal.<br /><br />The problem with the guide is that I have no idea what colors to use. I think I've got a handle now on how to layer the colors - just not colors to use. That's where color matching is what I'm after.Peter Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246000382321978462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post-84502706607411271792017-01-07T21:26:11.904-05:002017-01-07T21:26:11.904-05:00Something else i do, but this moves out of "p...Something else i do, but this moves out of "painting" and clearly into "modifying the miniature*"... but...<br /><br />I like to cut the feet/legs off and remake them into the "pointed toe/dwindling legs" you sometimes see on movie ghosts and then mount the fig using a clear post. Often raising a bit to emphasize that it's floating.<br /><br />That is if the mini isn't already like that.<br /><br /><br />* My other passion (aside from painting) is modifying. Which is what drew me into tactical miniatures gaming, which is an all consuming thing. Time, money, everything, it just sucks it all away.evileeyorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08296632217198088455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post-56924957774794808172017-01-07T20:40:31.770-05:002017-01-07T20:40:31.770-05:00I'm assuming these aren't translucent mini...I'm assuming these aren't translucent miniatures, right?<br /><br />The tutorial Chris pointed to doesn't actually require color matching. It roughly translates to:<br />Prime the miniature with white on top going darker lower down. Without an airbrush, you might prime black and dry brush a single stroke of white, top-to-bottom, on each side.<br />Use whatever main color you want, dilute the paint a lot and put some everywhere. You could even do a dunk here. The important bit is that the light-to-dark shading will show through. You're trying to have their feet fade out, basically.<br />Dry brush white. Sorry about this one, I think all tutorials will have this step.<br />The last bit is just finishing, do whatever you think works well for eyes. I like gold paint applied with pointed toothpicks myself.<br />As a personal addition, maybe paint the base lighter than the feet to accentuate the effect.<br /><br />Note that this isn't me speaking from experience, this is just me attempting to "translate" the tutorial to get away from numbered paints and airbrush techniques.<br />Archon Shivahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18161660999691918584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post-65333059754443927882017-01-07T20:16:06.776-05:002017-01-07T20:16:06.776-05:00My concern with blue and then brushed white is tha...My concern with blue and then brushed white is that's very similar to how I do ice. But yeah, I might just have to try something of that sort.<br /><br />Worse comes to worst, I might do black primer, heavy brush of dark blue, and then brush up blue and grey and a final light drybrush with white and see how that does. It might be more smokey than ghostly, but that may do.Peter Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246000382321978462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post-32694050509015728122017-01-07T16:04:29.940-05:002017-01-07T16:04:29.940-05:00Aside from Unknowns tips on "inverse" fr...Aside from Unknowns tips on "inverse" frybushing (instead of dark to light, go light to dark) and reversing the shadows (paint the under side brighter) I'd other this strikingly obvious one:<br /><br />Just oil-stain it blue and dry brush it white and call it a ghost.<br /><br />:P<br /><br /><br />Honestly I've done that with some red ghosts (I like red for "hellish" or "angry" ghosts, blue for "serene" or peaceful) and then doing the inverse dry brushing and it works pretty well.evileeyorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08296632217198088455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post-68609476421787750302017-01-07T15:14:01.821-05:002017-01-07T15:14:01.821-05:00That's one of the ones I read before I got fru...That's one of the ones I read before I got frustrated and posted this. It's simple-but-effective if I want green ghosts and have the GW paints and tints they mention. Color-matching them to what I actually have is really hard.Peter Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246000382321978462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post-23545242352957360372017-01-07T15:12:17.681-05:002017-01-07T15:12:17.681-05:00That's helpful, actually. I'm not sure I c...That's helpful, actually. I'm not sure I can do it, but it helps me understand.<br /><br />Most of my painting has been learned by copying and by rote - I don't have any real understanding of the theory and techniques underlying it. So an explanation like that helps me get some of that.Peter Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246000382321978462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post-67120798228097244732017-01-07T13:07:32.557-05:002017-01-07T13:07:32.557-05:00http://www.beastsofwar.com/games-workshop-painting...http://www.beastsofwar.com/games-workshop-painting-tutorial/simple-effective-paint-scheme/<br /><br />that might helpChris Matahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970387879179700009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post-15163459312764122332017-01-07T12:53:49.213-05:002017-01-07T12:53:49.213-05:00I don't paint minis but I do paint, and one th...I don't paint minis but I do paint, and one thing you might try is simulating an internal light source by painting the crevices with a light, saturated color and accentuating the base with the same paint on the highlights. That's an inversion of the normal ambient occlusion shadow that we use to perceive an opaque object's form. Another similar idea would be to paint the undersides of the figures with a likewise otherworldly light source, with dark fake form shadow on the top-facing surfaces carefully blended to invert whatever top-down lighting you excpect to look at the figures under.<br /><br />Again, I don't know what I'm talking about but some things you might experiment with. Good luck!<br /><br />-joel sammallahti (diceandlives)Joel Sammallahtihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03107984318947080798noreply@blogger.com