I tried painting some rangers a while ago but they dident really turn out as I would have liked so I went back at them recently with another colour scheme.


Undercoated black and drybrushed with fortress grey and skull white to define areas. The first colour applied is the base, the second is mixed in to make midtone colors and the third is mixed in for highlights.

Skin - dwarf flesh + tallarn flesh + skull white.

Head detail;
eyeball - bleached bone.
pupil - graveyard earth.
eye brow - graveyard earth.
hair - graveyard earth + bubonic brown + bleached bone.
shade between hair and face - water down graveyard earth.
(graveyard is good at calming vibrant skin tones down.)

grey cloak - Adeptus battlegrey + codex grey + fortress grey. 1st + 2nd color + black for shade.

green cloth - catachan green + camo green + bleached bone. 1st + 2nd color + black for shade.

sandy cloth - graveyard earth + desert yellow + bleached bone. graveyard + black for shade.

everything that's brown - scorched brown + bestial brown + bleached bone.
The mixes and the amount of water used varies from different bits so some are lighter or darker.

arrow feathers - shadow grey over white drybrush.

bow (spear) - bestial brown + snakebite leather.

Metal - boltgun metal. mithril silver.

Areas of shade such as creases in the cloth got a waterd down mix of graveyard earth and chaos black (mud green color), this mix was also used to define the seperation of areas such as where arms meet cloaks or between fingers.
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These are the ones I painted before, going to clean them up and have another sprue to assemble.

they look fantastic.

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For a while I have debated whether to paint my rangers with grey cloaks or green and I'm still undecided. I might try a greenish grey mix of both. I love the greens and browns of your top ones but am unsure about the blue/grey. It works for grey company I guess. All very neatly done I have to say as to your normal excellent standard and the Graveyard Earth tip is very helpful. Thanks for sharing the paint guide. It will come in very handy.

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great paint work!! i like those rangers

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What a perfect job! So smooth highlights allover, great choice of colours, nice faces!
Hope my rangers will look like that once painted, and whenever that is, I'll sure remind to check this out again to use this as a reference!!!

Excellent work!

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Perfect job indeed can't find any mistakes or something bad.

The last picture is really beatiful with the muted colours of the ranger.

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quite right about the blue, it dident work at all. I'll be repainting them or at least touching them up to go with the ones on top. About the greenish grey, I tried catachan green and codex grey on some rohan cloaks once, the codex made it fairly light looking. kind of a stoney green tone, nice and subtle though.


Thanks, he seems to be the only one that came out of the first batch looking more balanced. Probably because I didn't use so much blue.

Amazing painting skills mate Im looking forward to seeing some more.

Cyndra the Grey

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Nice job.

Those rangers look BadA$$

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I like the colour scheme, especially on the third and fifth of the new group, where the apron-like part of the armour is a bit reddish brown. That looks really good. Did you shade "by hand" or by washing?

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Really, really like these. I think the first group work quite well, they work very well for the Grey Company.

In fact, once I get onto my own rangers I'm totally gonna steal your scheme (if that's ok!)

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thanks guys,



by hand. at the moment i start with midtones, mix in towards the highlights and then shade. in those two you mentioned i dident actually shade those apron parts, the where already dark after reciving only a light glaze of scorched brown then a little more brown on the midtone and finally a slight amount of bestial brown glaze on the up most highlight, which being lighter just made those parts look darker.
its all in the drybrush underneath with those particular shaded parts.


I retouched the cloaks and weapons on the two outside guys and completely repainted the middle one.



converted these some time ago with arm tweaks and weapons replacement. needed some cheap royal guard.

Green (cloak) - catachan green + codex grey + skull white. catachan green + black for shade.
Green (shield) - catachan green + bubonic brown + bleached bone.
Blonde (hair) - bubonic brown + fortress grey.
Brown (shield detail) - graveyard earth + desert yellow + bleached bone.
Brown (tunic) - black + scorched brown + bleached bone.
Brown (straps) - scorched brown + dark flesh + codex grey.
Brown (cloak stains) - bestial brown glazes.
I think the red on the the arms is dark flesh and fortress or codex grey. as always most shaded was painted using a dark wash mix.


one or two glaze type mixs of boltgun over each scale was enough along with the dry brush to create a rich looking metallic.

Eomer

theres a few wip pictures posted in the painting challenge thread, just thought i post the paints used here.

Skin - dwarf flesh + tallarn flesh + white. Graveyard earth for shading.
Hair - graveyard earth + bubonic brown + bleached bone.
Eyes - bleached bone + skull white. black (for pupil).

Red (armour) - scorched brown + dark flesh + scab red. scab red + bubonic brown + bleached bone.
Brown (straps) - scorched brown + bestial brown + bleached bone.
Green (pouch, sleeve, legs) - catachan green + codex grey + bubonic brown + bleached bone.

Sand (armour detail) - graveyard earth + desert yellow + bleached bone.
Helmet hair - codex grey + dheneb stone + bleached bone.

Metal (sword, helmet, buckles, chain mail) - boltgun metal. mithril silver. burnished gold.
The chain mail and metal armour was shaded using watered down black. the chain mail was also lightly painted with watered down bestial brown. Watered down scorched brown and black was used to shade and separate individual parts where fit.

Base - scorched brown. bestail brown. bleached bone dry brush.

Excellent painting your models look freaking awesome.

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those conversions are nice.

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Very nice rangers! I've never seen the plastic's look so good. The only issue is the gray-blue bits. You might want to darken them up a bit. Great work all in all!

Rob

Very nicely painted.

Those Rohirim with the knives look a bit odd though. Nice conversions but I reckon swords and axes would suit better.

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I really just love your painting. It's all very smooth, and they still look dirty and ready to fight. I especially like Eomers armor. The red is perfect.

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Nice clean painting. Really prof. I love the Eomer especially.

thanks guys.


Yeah axes would have been nice but those guys had no weapons and I've no spares. i suppose i should have at least tried to make some swords or something, they'll be grand, Rohan assassins or sneaky royal guard


Shade
I was cleaning up my bitz box the other day and got playing around with this thing. I'm not sure why I began sticking parts of zombies and ghouls together but it reminded me of the shade.




Warg conversion




I started with the straps last night, rolled some GS into a really long thin sausage and flatten it out by rolling a round pen over from one end to the other. tried that a few times until it looked like a belt and then left it over night to dry.

The saddle is a ball of GS squashed on, I placed a smaller lump on top of that to support the back rest, then added a little texture to make it look like a different material than the saddle.

For the tail, a stretched tear drop shape of GS was but on top with the thin side meeting the wargs back. I used my fingers to blend it in with the tail and worked downwards towards the tail when adding the fur texture.
I copied the rolled up cloth from the Mines of Moria's Aragorn.

Going to try a few more things out like some extras on the orc and perhaps some Isengard style armour on the warg. I haven't a clue how to do it but its worth a shot. could be cool.

love what you are going for with the Warg Armour a modified Uruk style helmet could work great...Open at the muzzle with the spiked cheek guards and maybe the back of the helmet could even have the guard to glance sword blows to the sides. Im picturing what the Isengard troll has with a wolf muzzle sticking out from it. Do what you may but I think I might try the above on one of mine!