Painting leather

Some time ago I promised to mock up how I paint leather - so here goes.

Step 1. Basecoat.

Step 2. Heavy drybrush

Step 3. Lighter drybrush

Step 4. Heavy wash

Step 5. Stippling orange and green.

Step 6. Light drybrush

Step 7. Highlight drybrush

Step 8. Heavy wash - repeat for darker color.

Tribal Chief turned Executioner?

Got a lot more work done on Bael last night. Pretty happy with the way the skin turned out - might try to add a bit of orange wash too though, as suggested below. The only thing that naggers me is the shine - I recently poured together two half bottles of sepia wash, which might have been a mistake, as the shine showed up after  that was applied, so I think I need to get a new one of those.
From the start I wanted him to look like some sort of tribesman, and I really like when scifi minis wear some sort of animal hide - for status/showoff, and I think it sets him off from the other models in my collection pretty well.

The skin was painted using; a base of Scalecolor African Shade washed with Nuln Oil, it was then highlighted with VMA Burnt Umber and further with a mix of Burnt Umber and GW XV-88. A wash of Gryphonne Sepia wash added and it was finished of with a rehighlighted with the same mix as before the wash.

Almost mutant skin.......

As Half & Half are borderline mutants, I wanted to give the big fellow a twist to the skincolor. I also wanted it to be something else than the WAT grown AdMech skin I have done in the past, so I decided to work out of a yellowish base and then just play around and experiment...as follows:

Base: very old GW orc brown - lovely color :D

Then a wash of GW serpia

Next step was a skin drybrushing

It was then time to work some other colors into the skin, so he was given a random stippeling with a dark brown color and orange as well. Needed plenty as the next step would cover up most of it.

Another lighter fleshy drybrush.

Then I worked in some shading by adding ogryn flesh wash to "under sides" ie. non light exposed parts of muscles and fattybits. A purple was was added in the deepest recesses and in random patches to add even more depth to the skin.

Orange wash was applied on recesses and around implants/rusty bits.

Top layer drybrush of the skin - quite light coat of drybrush.

Finishing touches included picking out details and adding purple, orange and reddish washes around implants to make the skin look more irritated.

OSL tutorial

OSL made easy - yes it's possible. Made this little tutorial I thought I'd share. Pics here are just to show you what it contains, please download via the link or in the download section instead, as the quality is way better.
Download: OSL tutorial

PAINTING CHIPPED PAINT EFFECT

Some time ago I made a short tutorial for painting chipped paint. Thought this would be good place to share it as well. Click on the pictures for larger version, or download at the bottom of the post. I've used it with excellent results on especially my Iron Ghosts space marines, there is a set of pictures displaying a bit further down the page if you want to see how they turned out.

Link: Chipped Paint tutorial.pdf