painting red

[hestan101]

hi all,
im currently practisjng bloodletter flesh, using glazing/juicing, but im having a difficult time painting the red. could anyone suggest a good recipe thatll work for glazing?
thanks, max

 

[Dragonsreach]

OK so what have you used so far and what paints are you working with?

 

[JesterzUSMC]

Personally, I like a white basecoat and successive washes of 1/2 Blood Red, 1/2 Red Ink. Better coverage than the ink, but still dries looking like wet, fresh, blood, maybe some brown for clotting?

 

[hestan101]

so far ive base coated with scab red over a black undercoat (black because my pinvice is broken and therefore cannot assemble a model to spray white)ive shaded with 1:1 scorhed brown scab red, then pure scorched brown, then 1:1scorched brown chaos black. im going to highlight with 1:1blood red red gore, then probably some combination of oranges
thanks,max

 

[xMANIGHTx]

I usually shade adding a bit of blue wash (ink).
Shading with inks (and glazing in general) will give a shiny finish. Having inks in the mix allow you an easier (maybe a bit better too) control over smoothness in gradients.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by hestan101
so far ive base coated with scab red over a black undercoat (black because my pinvice is broken and therefore cannot assemble a model to spray white)
Désolé, je ne comprends pas ceci ?...or Y\'what? lol

ive shaded with 1:1 scorhed brown scab red, then pure scorched brown, then 1:1scorched brown chaos black. im going to highlight with 1:1blood red red gore, then probably some combination of oranges
thanks,max
That\'s kinda what I half expected and what I\'ve used in the past. The Vallejo equivilent I\'m using as a base is Cadmium Burnt Red as this doesn\'t require having to mix paint and I get a constant colour.
If you have the opportunity I\'d suggest investing in some Vallejo Model colours such as then Burnt Cadmium, Hull Red, Flat Red, Carmine.
Other than that I\'d suggest adding a tiny amount of Purple to the red to act as a balanced darkening agent.

 

[nick232]

can\'t you add green to shade aswell??

 

[Mr Scream]

Ok I would say get a solid coat of blood red (if you basing black then do this by going form scab red - blood red) now shade using scab red or by adding black to the blood red. Highlight by adding a bit of blazing orange for the 1st highlight then add a bit of sunburst yellow to that for the second and finally a bit of white to that for the final lights. Now use a very thin glaze of Blood red over the whole area to harmonize the colors. There ya go, nice bright clean red. You can add colors to this with glaze\'s such as blue, purple and green to create areas of interest.

 

[jahminis]

@nick232: you can add green to shade...
dark angels green and scab red make a nice redwine colour...
it\'s what we used at Privateer Press before the sanguine base was available...

now i just use P3 sanguine base over black, and it works a treat for red basecoats...
of course, i usually work from darkest to lightest, instead of starting with a mid-tone, then shading and highlighting...

cheers
jah