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Painting LeatherHere is a collection of suggestions for painting leather clothing, armour and acroutements on miniatures: Stan Olson: Red Dyed leather works out to a more Maroon (deep) red colour. Craft colour paints usually have this shade . Mix in an ivory off-white/light grey to get a dusty shade for dry brushing. Blue dyed leather would start with again a deep navy blue, drybrushed with the same colour mixed with an off white/light grey. Natural leather is a shade of tan-flesh colour (light shade) but most people want to give it a wash with a thinned mixture of the original (light-pale) colour and brown ink (e.g., Citadel Flesh wash or Brown ink with a touch of yellow ink if you want to lighten up the brown ink). David Kuijt: Leather could be almost any colour that cloth was. Leather was often decorated by painting, and could be dyed or bleached to a very broad spectrum of colours. Cuir bolli is thick leather boiled and/or impregnated with water. It would be very dark brown, possibly black. When painting cuir bolli I would use a medium brown and a wash of Liquitex Burnt Umber; or possibly a dark (chocolate) brown and a black wash. For other leather, especially belts, baldrics, brigandine, or the like, almost any contrasting colour is possible. I tend to use earth tones for rank-and-file soldiers, because bright coloured dyes were more expensive than the more muted vegetable dyes. Joe Mann: Chestnut base, black or dark brown wash, beige highlighting/drybrushing. Anonymous: After primer, light coat of an off white/dirty white paint, then wash dark brown, and after a light brown drybrush over raised areas of the coats. Jimbo: For leather I use a light brown, followed by a very light drybrush of a lighter colour, followed by a dark wash of brown and chestnut ink. David Vance: I have used a black undercoat and then drybrushed various browns (heavy with the dark shades, then working in less with lighter shades) on as well. This looks pretty good, and also gives the uneven, worn look as well as being REAL FAST. If you are going for a slick black leather color (knee-high boots and leather skin-suits) then the black base color, a LIGHT drybrush of medium grey to pick out details with a very controlled use of straight white to sharply emphasize those details works well. > Top of Page > Painting > Tips & Guides > DBA Resources > Fanaticus Last Updated: 20 February 2005 Questions, comments, suggestions welcome. |
