Painting Faces Masterclass

NetrixX · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2013 6:20 pm

Faces make or break a miniature's look in my opinion, and in my quest to ever increase my skill of face painting, I stumbled upon a few very good articles for the Eavy Metal team. Not sure if these are posted before, so excuse me if I double post. They are a very good read and have some nice tips, for beginners and pro's alike.

Painting Faces:
http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m2570007_PaintingFacesMasterclass.pdf

Painting Faces Redux
http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m820035a_Painting_Faces_Redux.pdf

Enjoy!

Rognarr · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2013 6:30 pm

Awesome guides! Personnally i stumbled across them some weeks ago too. It would be cool if we maybe could make a collection of links with official pdf painting guides from GW? What do you think?

Monotone_Matt · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2013 6:34 pm

Excellent! Had stumbled across the redux article a few months ago but never could find the original - thanks for linking

NetrixX · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2013 6:52 pm

Rognarr wrote:

Awesome guides! Personnally i stumbled across them some weeks ago too. It would be cool if we maybe could make a collection of links with official pdf painting guides from GW? What do you think?

I think that would be a very good idea!

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2013 7:15 pm

NetrixX wrote:

Rognarr wrote:

Awesome guides! Personnally i stumbled across them some weeks ago too. It would be cool if we maybe could make a collection of links with official pdf painting guides from GW? What do you think?

I think that would be a very good idea!

I agree!
I liked all the old GW articles but they've removed most of them now :sad:

Those articles are great!!

May I ask where you found them?

LordElrond · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2013 7:22 pm

I love them too.

I'd like to know where to find them, as there's no obvious link for the GW website

Fëanor, the mighty elf · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2013 8:32 pm

Wow, GW has articles on their site that are actually useful and are not showcasing new figures for us to buy! :shock:

Very nice! Might prove to be useful.

Rognarr · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2013 9:13 pm

Here's another nice one about Elrond:

Elrond Masterclass: http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_Cus ... asterclass

(List of FAQs: http://www.adepticon.org/wpfiles/LOTRSBGIndyFAQv1.1.pdf)

And in the attachment is a guide about general painting techniques.. unfortunately for you in German, but the pictures are nice too! Have a look.
I can't find it anymore via google or browser history.

One way to find the "hidden" pdf's of GW btw is to let google scan their site. Search for "http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/ filetype:pdf" and you find tons of pdf files from GW.

UPDATE: The attachment won't load, what can I do?

trupy · **Joined:** Fri Feb 04, 2005 6:46 pm **Posts:** 4

Hi, don't forget you can go to the old GW site by using http://archive.org/web/web.php Threre are lot of helpful information inside, but it has missing information as some pdf or images.

NetrixX · **Posted:** Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:49 am

SidTheSloth wrote:

NetrixX wrote:

Rognarr wrote:

Awesome guides! Personnally i stumbled across them some weeks ago too. It would be cool if we maybe could make a collection of links with official pdf painting guides from GW? What do you think?

I think that would be a very good idea!

I agree!
I liked all the old GW articles but they've removed most of them now :sad:

Those articles are great!!

May I ask where you found them?

I just googled!

Rognarr wrote:

Here's another nice one about Elrond:

Elrond Masterclass: http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_Cus ... asterclass

(List of FAQs: http://www.adepticon.org/wpfiles/LOTRSBGIndyFAQv1.1.pdf)

And in the attachment is a guide about general painting techniques.. unfortunately for you in German, but the pictures are nice too! Have a look.
I can't find it anymore via google or browser history.

One way to find the "hidden" pdf's of GW btw is to let google scan their site. Search for "http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/ filetype:pdf" and you find tons of pdf files from GW.

Looks good, specifically cause I still have an unpainted Elrond in front of me!

trupy wrote:

Hi, don't forget you can go to the old GW site by using http://archive.org/web/web.php Threre are lot of helpful information inside, but it has missing information as some pdf or images.

Awesome stuff, nice find!

Legolas31 · **Posted:** Wed Jan 23, 2013 7:55 pm

the first article is great!

thanks a lot

WPKHolt · **Joined:** Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:03 am **Posts:** 3

Has anyone found the article on how to paint horses?

Rognarr · **Posted:** Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:48 am

I have the one for the riders of Rohan, including horses. It's German though, but the Names of the paints are the very same, so maybe it helps at least a littble bit.
Hope it's what you mean.

valpas · **Posted:** Tue Feb 05, 2013 6:21 am

I remember wondering about that horse guide when it was published when the Two Towers came out (2002). The final highlight is Vermin Fur, which is the old name for Vermin Brown, a medium red brown. They probably meant some light yellowish brown, like Bubonic Brown the last part.

-- Pasi

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:07 pm

Re painting horses, if ŷou check out my WIP I have done a few horses for my Mumak Diorama. If the standard is ok for you I will be happy to share how I did them.

WPKHolt · **Joined:** Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:03 am **Posts:** 3

I am looking for the one that was on the GW Blog. Showed the different kinds of horses and how to paint them. I think it was by Chris Peach.
Thanks for all of your responses!

Rognarr · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2013 5:10 pm

Ok, I tried to google it and tracked it down to http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/conte ... 22&start=1 but it keeps showing me the start page, so GW must have taken it offline

But then I found this older 'eavy Metal Masterclass guide on horses, hope this helps at least a bit: http://www.cadik.info/warhammer/bretonn ... horses.pdf

WPKHolt · **Joined:** Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:03 am **Posts:** 3

@Rognarr
That is what my searchfu came up with too.
Thanks for the help!

NetrixX · **Posted:** Thu Feb 07, 2013 9:44 am

Nice horse painting articles, I for one absolutely hate painting horses, because of the large highlighting areas, which tend to come out too ''comic like". I'll probably be giving the Rivendel Knights a go soon, so who knows I might get better.

NetrixX · **Posted:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 2:24 pm

I found another cool article, It's about the Space Hulk set, but contains some nice info on how to paint red, gems, bone etc. Might be usefull sometime

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http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m960010a_Space_Hulk__%27Eavy_Metal_Masterclass

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