Terrain Buildings

[YellowStreak]

What's the copper patina secret? As my ogres have a fair amount of copper (gut plates) that may look good on them...

[The Other Dave]

What's the copper patina secret? As my ogres have a fair amount of copper (gut plates) that may look good on them...

The way I do it is to start with an undercoat of a turquise-ish color, then drybrush or paint (depending on how lazy I feel) a Tin Bitz-y metallic color on top, leaving the turquoise showing in recesses. (Actually, NMM techniques work great here too, with just red-brown highlighted up through orange- or yellow-brown, since weathered copper isn't really all that metallic looking.)

[Primarch]

I do it by making a wash of turquoise.

[Tenorikuma]

What's the copper patina secret? As my ogres have a fair amount of copper (gut plates) that may look good on them...

Both Dave's and Prim's methods work. Here's what I did in this instance:

1. Dark base layer (black or brown)
2. Paint with an even layer of metallic paint (copper or reddish bronze).
3. Mix some dilute verdigris/turquoise paint and go over the object a few times, letting the paint collect in the recesses a bit, and move it into areas where you think water might naturally drip and pool. Make sure some copper shows through here and there.

Optionally, you can drybrush it again with copper if you want to bring out any detail the verdigris has obscured.

My verdigris colour was a 2:1:1 mix of turquoise, olive green, and dark grey. I don't think it has to be exact, just don't make it too bright blue or green.

If you want something to look really old and encrusted with oxide, you can start with the turquoise and then just dry-brush copper on it.

[YellowStreak]

What's the copper patina secret? As my ogres have a fair amount of copper (gut plates) that may look good on them...

Both Dave's and Prim's methods work. Here's what I did in this instance:

1. Dark base layer (black or brown)
2. Paint with an even layer of metallic paint (copper or reddish bronze).
3. Mix some dilute verdigris/turquoise paint and go over the object a few times, letting the paint collect in the recesses a bit, and move it into areas where you think water might naturally drip and pool. Make sure some copper shows through here and there.

Optionally, you can drybrush it again with copper if you want to bring out any detail the verdigris has obscured.

My verdigris colour was a 2:1:1 mix of turquoise, olive green, and dark grey. I don't think it has to be exact, just don't make it too bright blue or green.

If you want something to look really old and encrusted with oxide, you can start with the turquoise and then just dry-brush copper on it.

Thanks, I'm gonna give that a try.

[me_in_japan]

For the record, Ten's method is pretty much exactly what I do for verdigris (good for nurgle marines, is a bit of verdigris)

[Admiral-Badruck]

Very nicely done.

[The Other Dave]

Trust me to have the most lazy way of painting something!

[Primarch_Vanguard]

Nice. Thought it would have been in a tree. And agree, the brickwork is excellent.

[ashmie]

Very good indeed. I actually thought that was the publicity photo for the box. Well done mate.
I picked up a model train magazine yesterday. Well recommended for ideas for scenary and board building. Just up the scale and take out the train line. Unless it's Flames of War or something Steam punk.