"Painting Gallic tartans" Topic
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EdwardR | 22 Mar 2016 10:10 a.m. PST |
I am looking for some advice on painting Gallic tartans. I would appreciate hearing your techniques as these patterns seem somewhat daunting. |
smolders | 22 Mar 2016 10:17 a.m. PST |
Have a look around the net I believe there are some water transfers that remove the stresses of painting tartans. Perhaps one of the more sage persons on the forum can offer a link or company name to help you along. |
EdwardR | 22 Mar 2016 10:21 a.m. PST |
Thanks, I wasn't aware they made transfers for this, but I would like to try my hand painting them. Thanks again |
bilsonius | 22 Mar 2016 10:41 a.m. PST |
Wait till the beginning of next month then look out for advertisements for tartan paint… |
Bashytubits | 22 Mar 2016 10:45 a.m. PST |
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Zargon | 22 Mar 2016 11:42 a.m. PST |
I think EdwardR is talking about Celtic types of tartan like clothing the best is to do your figures in their basic colours shade etc. Next paint fairly broad stripes down and across in a contrasting or darker colour, keep to darker drab colours for this then in the base colour paint through these stripes down and across this should give you a tartan like pattern, the secret is with this last colour use a thinned down colour and do the inner stripes a few times. This will lighten the inner colour more and more as you repeat. A bit laborious but looks good and worth the effort. You can put a contrasting square in the intersection lines. There you go sort of easy to do :) Now on to me doing 40 odd Scotch kilts for the client. ( Blackwatch ocht!:) |
JimDuncanUK | 22 Mar 2016 12:44 p.m. PST |
Some information here: link |
Timbo W | 22 Mar 2016 3:15 p.m. PST |
Ah I remember their advert in the April edition of Miniature Wargames |
olicana | 24 Mar 2016 6:54 a.m. PST |
I found it best to keep things simple. I painted a dark field colour first, then a dark 'stripe' colour, then highlighted. Note I highlighted the stripe as a central square at the 'cross' plus separate adjoining / connecting lines. This gives the 'woven tartan' look, if you don't do this the pattern will look too 'flat'. This works well for simple 'tartan'. If you do all of the field colour first (including highlight), then do all of the 'stripe' colour and highlight it you do not get anything like the same definition and effect.
It's a pretty quick and simple method. I did 546 Gallic types for my Punic Wars collection in no time at all,many in 'tartan' shirts. I avoided doing trousers because they are a pain to do. The overall effect does not suffer. Figs, BTW, are Renegade.
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EdwardR | 24 Mar 2016 7:24 a.m. PST |
olicana, Thanks for your input. Very nice paint job and the overall effect is great. What size bases are you using? I assume you paint in acrylics. What would you estimate (no time at all) for one figure. |
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