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Thanks to Tau Online for this.
This is just a quick painting tutorial for how to Kroot Hounds. This follows on from my painting tutorial on how to paint Kroot Carnivores. The colour scheme for my kroot is blue skin and red for their quills. Firstly, as always, I undercoated the hound using a black undercoat. I began by painting the skin of the kroot regal blue:
The next two stages are simply to build up the skin colour. To do this I firstly drybrushed the skin using enchanted blue:
To finish the skin I lightly drybrushed the skin with lightning blue:
Now that the skin was complete, I painted everything apart from items the kroot is carrying with blood red. This includes its eyes, quills and the strap around it. For a bit of variation I then painted the underside of the hound with blazing orange. I didn't paint this orange straight off because it would have required a few coats of orange before the black undercoat wouldn't have shown anymore (and so I painted it red first - this only required one coat of blazing orange then).
Sorry for the unclear photo next, I couldnt't seem to get a clearer shot. Snakebite leather was used for the items that the kroot was carrying. On other hound models you may need to use boltgun metal for some metal items (like hooks) and skull white (for the bones). Quite a few of these items are small, so I kept a pot of blood red close to touch up any mistakes that went onto the carrying strap.
That's pretty much all finished now. Just the basing of the model to do. For my bases I always paint the base snot green, but the rim of the base with dark angels green. Although I go onto flock the base, the snot green has been used to make sure that if I miss a bit it won't show up as easily.
To finish I flocked the base using modelling flock. After the PVA glue had dried, I applied two small spots of PVA glue onto the flock and then put static grass onto those spots. After shaking off any excess grass, I gently blew the grass so it was facing upwards (and not lying flat as it sometimes does).
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| Comment made by suvantom on 18:44:38, 15 April 2008 |
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| its alittle to bright i mean how are you going to hunt if your bright blue, your prey could see ya from miles away |
| Comment made by Mr. Mister on 08:47:16, 31 December 2007 |
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| Again with the bright blue/red scheme? Just because Kroot are aleinious doesn\'t mean the skin HAS to be blue! |
| Comment made by kanter on 21:41:23, 16 November 2007 |
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| I used this idea, but with maroonish colors. It turned out nicely, thanks! |
| Comment made by rocker360 on 08:03:45, 17 October 2007 |
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| nice |
| Comment made by Karashi Lissera on 12:25:29, 29 May 2007 |
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| I dont think that would work in the real world ( color ), blue hound, clashing but simple |
| Comment made by Sven-Kaiser of Krieg on 23:23:13, 12 April 2007 |
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| +++Alright...+++ |
| Comment made by Tony on 16:27:37, 10 December 2006 |
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| You could apply the same techniques here to different colours |
| Comment made by XV-88 on 11:39:19, 6 September 2006 |
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| a little too bright, as said before |
| Comment made by Scizor on 10:37:54, 5 September 2006 |
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| i agree with TO, its a nice and easy-to-follow article, i reccomend it to the less experienced :) |
| Comment made by shas o Andrew on 21:38:10, 26 August 2006 |
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| Better than average just way TOO bright |
| Comment made by comicfreak on 17:19:38, 25 August 2006 |
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| ok |
| Comment made by Grogalmighty on 08:58:55, 14 August 2006 |
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| the color scheme is too clashing. try something that looks more.. well.. beastly ;) |
| Comment made by Tau Online on 11:55:49, 11 August 2006 |
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| This isn't really a hard painting tutorial to follow; it's more aimed at less experience painters. Comments are always appreciated! |
