ShadowLord XT
Commander
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Plane of Shadow
 | | 03/27/2006 8:35 AM |
| Story:Last Saturday at a tourny I was playing against a Balor band. Near the end all I had left was a Khumat and a Warrior Skeleton (My Dark Naga and AoH both had been vicious attacked and died). Anyways, all my opponent has is a Balor with 5 HP left. He wins initiative and kills my Khumat with 2 attacks all that is left is the Warrior Skeleton, I need a natural 20. So I roll the dice and get...20!!!!!! My Warrior Skeleton killed the Balor!
So, what should I paint the skeleton up like? Gold? Red with another colour of glowing eyes? I don't know. Some maxminiers should know. | |
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Cthulhufnord
Warlord
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| | 03/27/2006 5:30 PM |
| A lucky warrior skeleton eh? Here's a few sugestions.
Repaint the skeleton's shield. I'm thinking you could go with a green shield or perhaps just paint a four-leaf clover on it. I'd likey paint the word Balor circled in red and crossed out much like the Ghostbusters symbol. If you are feeling more ambitious you could paint a mini Balor on the Shield instead. If you want a more arcaic look paint the words in Norse Runeshttp://members.aol.com/JehanaS/futhark/index.html
If you are looking at painting the Skeleton I'd sugest going with a dramatic color like blood Red or Bright Green. | |
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zenthrus
Warlord
5132 Posts
SLC, UT
| | 03/27/2006 5:33 PM |
| I'd blend the bones into an ivory/bone color.
For a nifty demonic look try reddish-orange fiery glows on everything (pinpoints in the eye sockets, glowing shield, glowing sword).
If you wanted to go the opposite route you could go with a scheme of blueish glowing (eyes, shield, sword). That would give it a sense of "good-guy" vanquishing the evil, glowing-red Balor [:D]
There aren't too many better reasons to paint a skeleton warrior than to commemorate its triumph over a Balor [^] | |
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ShadowLord XT
Commander
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Plane of Shadow
| | 03/27/2006 5:42 PM |
| I like the runes, thanks Cthulhufnord.
I was thinking of painting it orange and drybrushing red so the bones are red and it has an orange glow coming from within.
Zenthurus, how would you make the sword and sheild 'glow'? All I can think of is a metallic colour, but I'm sure there is a better and nicer way of doing so though. | |
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zenthrus
Warlord
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SLC, UT
| | 03/27/2006 6:11 PM |
| http://hot-lead.org/advance/fire_prac.htm
Use this article as a guideline but modify the colors involved to suit your needs. Basically things that glow (because they are lit from within) tend to have the lights brighter in the center or undersides and get darker towards the edges.
For example: the skeletal Warrior's Shield. I'd start by priming white. Then add a very bright green wash (fairly thin so the white still lends its brightness). Follow that by successively darker washes/highlights on the high parts and let the brightest areas remain the channels. It's the opposite of highlighting (instead of moving from dark to light you move from light to dark). The shield's rim and should be the darkest shade with the underside of the shield adding a complementary color to help create realistic shadows (a tiny bit of red added to green in this example).
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glumag
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| | 03/27/2006 6:19 PM |
| | Paint it with a cold theme in mind...any skeleton that takes down a Balor has to have some cold properties to it [)] | |
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glumag
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| | 03/27/2006 6:23 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by zenthrus
http://hot-lead.org/advance/fire_prac.htm
Use this article as a guideline but modify the colors involved to suit your needs. Basically things that glow (because they are lit from within) tend to have the lights brighter in the center or undersides and get darker towards the edges.
For example: the skeletal Warrior's Shield. I'd start by priming white. Then add a very bright green wash (fairly thin so the white still lends its brightness). Follow that by successively darker washes/highlights on the high parts and let the brightest areas remain the channels. It's the opposite of highlighting (instead of moving from dark to light you move from light to dark). The shield's rim and should be the darkest shade with the underside of the shield adding a complementary color to help create realistic shadows (a tiny bit of red added to green in this example).
That fire tutorial is good but not the best. I can't find the one I read that was great. The fire is good looking but not perfec, imho, there should be dark shading on top, almost smoky-like. A flame that big would show more darker surfaces. | |
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LargeMarmot
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| | 03/28/2006 12:20 AM |
| | I like the cold idea. The Gamesworkshop site has some skeleton paining tips on thier TombKing and Necron pages. The necrons are robo skelies so the ideas there are more interesting. | |
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Username
Warlord
5692 Posts
| | 03/28/2006 2:27 AM |
| Give it a cape!
Super Skeleton! | |
Originally posted by Schooly_D
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jacksonm
Warlord
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River City
| | 03/28/2006 9:05 AM |
| | You could paint the base gold, or maybe copper like a lucky penny. [:)] | | | |
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Zozo
Warrior
218 Posts
| | 03/30/2006 7:15 AM |
| | Paint it bright neon PINK! and glue "lucky charms" marshmallows on it [:P] Well, thats what I would do anyway. [:D] | |
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| | 03/30/2006 2:01 PM |
| There are some good ideas here......
How about:
1) Paint his base gold, but make it look like an olympic medallion.
2) Like Username said, give it a cape - get a "Superman" figure from HeroClix, chop the cape off and mount it to the Skeleton.
3) Glue wings on him, and if you can bring yourself to do it cut the flaming whip off the balor and attach it to the skeleton.
4) Cut the Skeleton off his base, cut the Balor off his base, mount the skeleton on the dead and horizontal Balor, suspend a word balloon (pretty ballons?) above his head that reads "Blood, Death, and Vengence!!!"
and 5) Renounce being the Champion of Half Golems (still not to sure what one is) and declare yourself Champion of the Skeleton King (with epic card)!!!! | |
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