Re: [Epic] Epic (square) bases

From: Brett Hollindale <agro_at_...>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 22:23:41 +0100 (MET)

At 08:33 AM 5/11/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Brett Hollindale wrote:
>> I painted some of my Space Marines White with black guns and they look just
>> right crawling out of Star Wars Imperial shuttles...
>
>I've wanted to do this, but I can't paint a white figure with any
>kind of detail at all. Do you just paint 'em solid white, or is
>there any washing/highlighting that you can do to bring out the
>detail? A black wash makes the thing gray for me, and I just
>have not had any luck drybrushing white. The pictures of GW's
>Howling Banshees show white with dark detail in between, similar
>to Stormtroopers' white armor with black in between the plates.
>
>I'd like to be able to do that.
>
>andy
>
>--
>Andy Skinner
>askinner_at_...
>
>

I'm afraid that I only paint them solid white. Then I paint the gun black
and I differentiate the detachments by painting the right shoulder pauldron
as seen on the snow troopers on Hoth...

I also didn't have any luck with black washing to make their joints black as
they really aught to be...

Agro
Received on Wed Nov 05 1997 - 21:23:41 UTC