How To Paint Marble Effect Miniatures

For this tutorial i ll be using games workshop s citadel paints range.

How to paint marble effect miniatures. Let the paint dry. Miniature marble effect painting tutorial. The reason being that i forgot to cut from the video and take shots of the model at each stage. Create the look of marble at a fraction of the cost with a faux finishing technique.

Do a google images search under marble you should find something out there. Base coat the model in the desired color in this case gold. Basically to achieve the effect you do the following. Ok now for the written tutorial.

If you are not using a gloss based paint then add a gloss coat to the surface. Choose your colors based on the type of marble you wish to recreate. I totally meant to but as i got painting i just kept going. A while ago i posted this how to paint marble on a forum but it was a members only area and thought it may help people.

You might find this realistic stone tutorial useful when painting a herdstone as shown here when painting up scenic bases for your warhammer or middle earth models or when painting other fantasy wargames scenery and terrain. An idea if you try your own colors is to do the colors listed below to give. The paint colors used in this tutorial will provide a white bone color marble but you can use your own colors to give the desired look your after. How to paint a marble effect faux finish.

How to paint a realistic stone effect. This technique really works well with a slippery foundation. It was a second time i ever painted marble and the first one took place more than five years ago. In this article we re exploring how to paint marble surfaces.

So the first thing to do is find a marble pattern that you like the look of. I used another model for this than the video. An introduction to marble. Marble is a type of rock formed when limestone is exposed to high temperatures and pressures.

In our how to paint everything series we take a look at how to paint different models armies and materials and different approaches to painting them. If your base paint is a glass based paint proceed to step 2. I actually gone commando with this one just painting the miniature and doing a tutorial at the same time.