Turtorial! Burnas Ropes

Here’s the second part of the tutorials DocNuk requested.

I’m assuming you’ve read the preceding tutorial on the straps (it’s a few posts up…) so I’m not going to go over everything or reasoning, I’m just going to list what colors I used and how.

Here’s the start, the boyz with the ropes blackened and cleaned up and the paints I’ll use.

The close up and uglies…

Scorched Brown base much like the straps.

From here on out I’ll show the palette along side the boyz so you can get an idea of how to mix this as there’s no recipe, it’s all by sight and what I feel like. I’ve added a bit of Graveyard Earth to the Scorched Brown and mixed it out on the palette. It may look like a lot of paint but it needs to be enough so I can add more to it down the road – you’ll see this in the following progressions.

From here I’ll add a little more Graveyard Earth, go over the twists on the ropes and add a little more Graveyard Earth and go over once more. The final step here is straight Graveyard Earth.

From here I’ll move into adding Kommando Khaki to the Graveyard Earth for highlighting. These last two steps are only applied on the highest areas of the twists, the underside of the ropes under the tanks will get none of this paint – it enhances the depth. The last step is a touch of straight Kommando Khaki for a highlight.

Again, I’ve included the finished, Dulcote sprayed, burna along with the two I’ve just worked on for reference as to how it will look once sealed.

Thanks for looking and hope everyone enjoys these – maybe I’ll do more…

Later!

p.s. you’re welcome DocNuk!