I'm planning on repainting all of my dwarf warriors. For my rangers I decided to stick to brown, I just couldn't picture an old grey haired dwarf being a ranger, but since I've got two boxes of dwarf warriors I wanted to add some more variation when it comes to their hair. In addition to the normal brown and grey I also wanted to add a few more colours like the orange hair I've seen on a few dwarves. My problem is that I'm not sure how to do it.
Has anyone done this before or have any ideas on how to paint realistic looking orange hair?

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If you can find an article about painting Warhammer Dwarf Slayers somewhere then that might be helpful. I'm not sure if their orange hair looks that realistic though...

A painting article for Murin and Drar on this website also has some info about painting orange hair:

http://www.one-ring.co.uk/phpBB2/kb.php?mode=article&k=316

Hope this helps.

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I basecoat the hair it with bleached bone and then painted over with bestial brown. This makes a darker orange than in the article above. You could perhaps use both these methods for even more variety.

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I've used scorched brown -> bestial brown -> fiery orange and it works really well. You just need the smallest bit of the orange to pull it off.
If you do a little too much, a bit of devlan mud wash will tone it down a little.

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Thank you for all your quick replies. These have really helped.

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Happy to chime in with useful OR useless advice =)
Can't wait to see the results, been loving the rangers!

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Miguel's (MacGothmog) article on painting a Dwarf king had the best way of painting *auburn* hair I've ever seen. It's right here:
http://www.one-ring.co.uk/phpBB2/kb.php ... icle&k=295

You obviously don't have to do it the same as this, but I think it's very helpful personally ie which colours etc.

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