Colo(u)rs?

[aukenlak]

OK, so I'm a ham fisted painter at best...so chances of me doing justice to my Celts is pretty slim. Anyone got some suggestions for colors that would be appropriate for British Celts for someone with no chance of painting plaid?

[Guest]

I'd certainly go for more drab or earthy colours like brown, maroon, forest green, some beige and blue maybe but I'd try not to make them to colourful. After all they are a bunch of warriors and no clowns.

Cheers

S.P.

[aukenlak]

Thanks, I know they liked fancy clothes, but clowns is certainly not what I'm going for.

[Morsleib]

Choose a few of those colours and cycle them between the models. That will give then a varied but coherent look. Blue body paint and tatoos are typical but can be very difficult to pull off convincingly if you are a so-so painter. In that case less is more. Just a few small strokes and swirls will look better than a botched attempt at something finer and more elaborate. The same goes for plaid. A couple of simple lines in each direction can hint at something more complex.

BTW I am not saying that you are a bad painter, just relaying my own experience.

Terry

[aukenlak]

No worries, I am a bad painter.

[aysonator]

if your using gw paints try undercoating quite bright coulors (vomit brown, camo green, tauche ochre) browns (bestial brown) and beighes (dheneb stone) and under coat the skin with dwarf flesh (i use lots of coulors highllight but you say your not to good) and then do one huge wash of devlan mud looks great and it gives a muddy look and the bright coulors of earlier look muddy and dull.