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Today I'll try to show you how I painted texture on the red cloth around Grinder's hair, and recreate the same effect on
a blue mantle.

Marta Slusarska

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First I'll tell you how I achieved this texture on Grinder and them I'll try to do step-by-step on the Wraith and Viking, as Exchange mini published
the used technique may vary a little. Awesome blog collections

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Red cloth:
January (10)
At the beginning I was going for plain and smooth red, so I basically did all the lights and shadows as smooth as
possible. Then I noticed that it doesn't look good enough, especially next to the leather elements. Besides with this 2012 (83)
scale it's almost a sin not to try some freehands.
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Because I noticed that foldes and recesses of the cloth look almost like feathers, first I was thinking about emphasizing
it with adequate freehand, but I was worried that it may look too girly, so finally decided against it. Then I tought about
simple fabric pattern. It shouldn't be to difficult to do, and should look real/believable enough. Members

Because I had only a general idea how to achieve desirable effect I simply jumped into a deep water and took the
brush with a bit of 'Jack Bone (P3) and started to paint thin lines on the brightest parts of the cloth.
Why 'Jack Bone? No idea, honestly. I guess it might be simply because it was already on the table and I was to lazy
to look for off-white. I trully doubt there was any clear thought behind it.
Of course not every single line was nice and thin, but I decided it's OK. Sometimes manually weaved fabrics have
thicker threads as well.

To keep colour nicely red I did some red lines on the bright areas too. It helped to create even more contrast between
threads. Then I used the same red to create light threads in the shadows. And finally some Leviathan Purple (GW
wash) to create dark threads there as well. After a while I added few beige lines in the shadows at the back of the
cloth, in the shadows. And when threads were more or less done, I applied a layer or two of red ink (Deep red W&N).
Few more touch ups and little corrections and the cloth was ready.
I think that using wash instead of ink would also do the trick, but probably I'd need few more layers (as inks have more
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Blue mantle: lovers

nejen akrylem od lopeeho

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For this piece I was planning to do mantle full of mystical symbols and signs.... but I was too affraid that I'll spoil the
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whole paintjob, so decided to do something simpler.
The technique used here is pretty much the same as with red cloth on Grinder, first smooth blending, then thin and Show All

faint white lines, then some turquoise glazes, turquoise lines and some more glazes. I decided not to introduce really
dark lines here, because the whole mantle should stay rather light in colour, ethereal. Also I tried to do the lines Recommended Websites
thinner than on the Grinder, mostly because the mini is much smaller, and I didn't want the fabric to look fake or
extremely thick. Putty and paint
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Colours I used to paint the mantle: Chest of Colors
- VMC off-white (70820) Platoon Britannica
- VMC blue green (70808) Creature spot
- VMC medium blue (70963)
- VMC black (70950)
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idrys 17 March 2013 20:49

Czy ma Pani jaki swj Tutorial w jzyku polskim, bo mj angielki pozostawia wiele do yczenia. Pani dziea s naprawd Followers
wykonane w sposb perfekcyjny i robi due wraenie.
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REDAV 18 March 2013 14:24

Dziki za tutka bo akurat tego ostatnio poszukuj.

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Marta Slusarska 20 March 2013 09:40

Przykro mi, niestety prowadz bloga tylko po angielsku, a nie mam a tyle czasu na to,zeby koxac duzo na forach i
praktycznie dublowac swoje tutoriale I artykuly.
Ale mysle, e google translator w poczeniu z fotkami powinien dac przyzwoity obraz tutoriali.

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Erik Gustavsson 31 March 2013 11:58

Thanks for posting this, I will make sure to try it in a near future.

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Jamie Stokes 26 April 2013 05:00

thanks for sharing this Marta!!

I've linked this as article on my blog (Full credit to you included)
jnsminiaturemoments.blogspot.com

Cheers
Jamie

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