Will's workbench

Nice pictures and some useful information about colouring in your notes.

 

Inspiration for me and my new Cambrian project that will feature rocky outcrops.

 

Thanks for posting.

 

Cheers

Frank

Thanks Frank! I was lazy and didn't write the exact colours I used - all Games Workshop acrylic bar the initial undercoat which was tube acrylic. To remedy that:

 

Adeptus Battlegrey (dark), Astronomican grey (light), Dheneb Stone (concrete) and their "Skull" White.

In smaller quantities, the yellow is Iyanden Darksun, the pink is Tallarn Flesh.

 

You could mix your own equivalents, but I find sometimes it's a helpful shortcut to use premixed colours if I'm not doing all the painting in one session - I guess taking notes would work too but I tend not to think of that while painting

 

One interesting result is that drybrushing slightly shiny darker grey over the lighter matt undercoat gives a nice polished stone effect - a rough surface in recesses, with the bare stone revealed on edges. I'm not sure it's very 'scale' but it sort of works for earth and grot lying in the crevices..

Will very effective

That looks rather effective, Will. This multi-layer paint approach does seem to work quite well. I've had some success with a similar method of painting rocks based on something Richard (Ben Alder) posted some time ago. In my case, I started with a burnt umber undercoat and then successively lighter neutral grays. The greys were applied by dry brushing, but getting increasingly dry as they get lighter. Some of the greys had burnt sienna, yellow, or green added for variety. All done with artists' acrylics with much easier to remember names...

 

Nick