Thornfall Alliance Paint Scheme Help

[Arestoatal]

Hello. New player here, and I've picked up the pigs. I have a paint scheme in mind but I'm not sure how to execute it. The paint scheme I want is regular farrow skin with black armor and lite tan cloth. Weapons would be their regular color, and the various chemical jars and apparatuses would have a red glow to them. As a finishing touch, white farrow hand-prints would be located on mechanical parts and armor, though only one a mini.

The first question is: How can I do a cheap, easy, but good farrow skin?
The second question is: How can I get good black armor?
The third question is: How hard would it be to just paint an appropriately sized hand-print in regular white paint?

Any and all help would be appreciated.

[Irall]

a friend of mine give me a trick to pain unit: Paint them completly in the color they going to have the most on them.Then , slowly add the detail of each unit one afther the other.(do thier weapon, then thier armor , clothe ect).I cant help whit your second and third question,but,for my pig skin,I use Vermin Brown and they look fine^^I can post you a pic to show the result if you wish.

[Arestoatal]

Sure

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[Benejeseret]

I'd suggest looking up PG_Ghool's or others painting techniques (I've seen his farrow) but I think they are fairly involved and certainly highly skilled.

Lately I have been playing around with basing white (gesso), pre-shading with Agrax Earthshade, and then washing with Reikland Fleshshade, then finishing whole model with final Earthshade. It is very simple and provides basic highlight to shaded colour quickly. I'm also trying the old ogryn wash and others but have been fairly happy with the colours so far.

For sickly skin on the Hog's and S&D I've been working with Gesso, then pre-shade Earthshade, then layering on some very thinned down greens (like Nurgling green? - have to go check)

For black armour, I guess my first question would be what type of effect are you going for? Black armour to me either makes me think of black leather or cast iron. Either one could use some re-texturing. Leather would need "wrinkles" and then have studded steel bolts and the like, or for cast iron find a way to give the whole surface a gritty look. What I have tried is using cryx base and highlights (P3) over black for my slaughterhousers, but I was not really satisfied with the look on my first attempt. It came out too greeny and not black enough. If you want it to look like black paint on their armour, then perhaps base it Leadbelcher/Pig Iron and then dab on thinned black into the centre, but leaving edges showing metal as if scrapped or worn.

The handprint sounds like a neat idea. I would not have the brush control to free-hand myself...so I suppose if I were to try such a thing I would try to carve a sponge/foam stamp.

[ForceFields!!!]

brown with P3 flesh wash over it looks good for Farrow fur. I also dry brush highlight my fur with black, cause they are based on a real boar.

[Irall]

Sorry for not posting the pic yet,got some camera problem.....

[Arestoatal]

Actually, having pictures of all of your suggestions on farrow models will massively help me with this.
As for the black armor, I imagine as the armor came out black, as if some ingredient was added to the forging process to make it black, or even came out that way because of the ores used.
Also, my farrow paint scheme will reference the Uruk-hai, the middle-earthean super orc. That's where the white paint comes in.