Shading Scorpion Green

Darkweaver · Post by **Darkweaver** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:50 pm

Yep!

Altough I still haven't decide if I'll play them, I'm painting my Norse team. I decided for a light green, and I used scorpio green.

What's the better way to shade it? I don't want to risk to make it too mush dark with shading having to do tons of drybrush to have it back clear!

Thanks

Indigo · Post by **Indigo** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:52 pm

I thought scorpion green had been discontinued?? I'm probably wrong though.

Add dark angels green in small amounts until you are happy with the colour.

Darkweaver · Post by **Darkweaver** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:54 pm

Indigo wrote:I thought scorpion green had been discontinued?? I'm probably wrong though.

It could be, I don't know... anyway I've been around citadel/gw for some years... I still have many old "hex" pots!

Indigo wrote:Add dark angels green in small amounts until you are happy with the colour.

Thanks a lot!

Gandhi · Post by **Gandhi** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 7:42 pm

Here's my latest mini...as it happens i used scorpion green on it

I used Dark Angels Green as darker color...I guess it worked out pretty well.

Werewolf Number 1 of the Rotten Roughnecks

I should warn you, the image became quite big...

Grasshopper · Post by **Grasshopper** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 8:45 pm

Is the hex-pot paint still good? I'm in awe!

Grasshopper · Post by **Grasshopper** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 8:47 pm

I got an ERROR page off your link Gandhi.

Gandhi · Post by **Gandhi** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 8:49 pm

Whoops...should be working now......

juck101 · Post by **juck101** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:11 pm

any time you have no idea how to shade/highlight an odd colour, just add a bit of black or white to the base colour. Kinda crap if you put too much in, but add maybe 5-10% of additional colour and will be able to shade. I use a brush to dab 4 or 5 blobs on a mixing tray and add 1 blob of mix colour. _ near ok for just about any task if you stuck for paint.

Loads of paints about but only need a few if you very delicate mixing inbetween shades. It is actually harder to mix diffrent types of GW colour than just make one up from scratch. Also mixing tray very cool because when paint dries you can see later the previouse mix if you need too

Darkweaver · Post by **Darkweaver** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:48 pm

Grasshopper wrote:Is the hex-pot paint still good? I'm in awe!

Actually I still have many hex pots, and the paint in them (apart from bm yellow, sw grey and sb leather) is in perfect conditions. The pots with the black screw closure are already gon in the trash bin..I hope the new ones work well, but I admit I'm looking for better paints (maybe Vallejo, but it0s hard to find them in Italy, or at least in my area)

CauCauCau · Post by **CauCauCau** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 5:01 am

If you're willing to make an online order for paints, you can still get the old GW hex pots under the name "Coat d'Arms." The names might not be the same, but it's the same paint.

dendron · Post by **dendron** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:28 am

Thanks fpor the info.

I got out of paint and didn´t want to paint a whole team.

Dendron

juck101 · Post by **juck101** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:57 am

dont worry about not having many paints.
I painted my last elf team with scaly green, white, black, storm blue and boltgun metal. Oh and silver to highlight armour. That was it, i even took them week before the Albion Coast Cup on holiday to france and painted just as well there. Point is if you are HAPPY with colours you dont need 20 pots to achieve great results.

Richy · Post by **Richy** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 9:48 am

I'm still using old GW hex pot paints and even some pre-hex pot GW paints without ill-effect.

I can confirm that Coat d'Arms paints are the way to go - they produced all GW paints until they switched manufacturer a few years ago. The name are different, but conversion charts are easy to find on-line and they're cheaper than GW paints.

Munkey · Post by **Munkey** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:41 am

Darkweaver wrote:
Grasshopper wrote:Is the hex-pot paint still good? I'm in awe!
Actually I still have many hex pots, and the paint in them (apart from bm yellow, sw grey and sb leather) is in perfect conditions. The pots with the black screw closure are already gon in the trash bin..I hope the new ones work well, but I admit I'm looking for better paints (maybe Vallejo, but it0s hard to find them in Italy, or at least in my area)

I'd agree with that, the Hex pots are great but the screw lid ones are an absolute s*d to open, I have to use pliers on one of mine

Bring back Hex pots.

Indigo · Post by **Indigo** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:59 am

juck101 wrote:any time you have no idea how to shade/highlight an odd colour, just add a bit of black or white to the base colour.

This works on some colours, but not all of them. Yellow comes out awful if you shade it with black.

Here's what I use to add to the base to highlight it.

Shade with ----> Base ----> Highlight

Dark Brown -----> Red -----> Yellow (white means it comes out pink)
Brown/Orange ------> Yellow ------> White
D.Angels green -------> Green ------> Yellow
Black/Dark Blue ------> Blue -------> White/pale blue

You get the idea. Most of the time there is a darker shade of GW paint to use as a shade for another.