Thanks for all the great feedback folks! I'm glad people are still intersted in this! I wrote down all the suggestions and will get crackin on them tomorrow night hopefully. Won't get any painting done tonight though.
TomasP, For starters, I used the paint un-diluted which really helps with the texture. When I do it on a 1/35 scale tank, I thin the paint just a little bit to keep it from getting any type of texture. If it gets too texture-ish, you can hit it very lightly with 1000 grit sand paper. That will get rid of the actual texture but it keeps the appearance of it. I started with (after the original painting/shading/highlighting that I wasn't happy with) a very dark gray and began lightly tapping randomly with a piece of the foam you get with figgies. I kept changing the shape of the piece I was using to keep things random. Once I had that done I almost freaked! It...looked....horrible! But that's okay, completely normal for it to look nasty at this point. After that I would just basically repeat the steps above with dark red/maroon---> Scarlet Red----> Scarlet Red/Bloody Red 50-50 mix-----> and a very few spots with Bloody Red. I hope that makes sense. If not, just let me know, and try harder
10Ball, I agree and that was originally the plan, but somehow during the making of said cloak, It managed to get shorter. I think it has to do with final placement. I originally though I could "hang" it from a lower point on the shoulders. Since I had a cloak that I thought looked good enough, I did'nt want to try to lengthen it or make a new one.
Always next time though right?
Ghost, thanks for that little ego stroke! It's much appreciated. Never thought something of mine would cause someone to join a forum just to comment on it! As for the base, I had considered snow covered ruins an really like the idea. I just have no experience creating a snow base, and very little experience making things (like the bottom of his cloak) look wet. Muddy I can do, just not the color tone change in fabric from being wet.
And the dirty-ing up of the cloak will be the very last thing I do as it will be done with pigments. So no painting after that.
Thanks agin for all the feedback gang! See ya next time!
