How To Paint Marble Effect Miniatures

Base coat the model in the desired color in this case gold.

How to paint marble effect miniatures.

Miniature marble effect painting tutorial. How to paint a marble effect faux finish. For this tutorial i ll be using games workshop s citadel paints range. Let the paint dry.

Ana explains the how to paint marble effect on miniature s base using her warhammer 40 000 space marines librarian for the tutorial. Create the look of marble at a fraction of the cost with a faux finishing technique. If your base paint is a glass based paint proceed to step 2. How to paint a realistic stone effect.

I totally meant to but as i got painting i just kept going. This technique really works well with a slippery foundation. Ok now for the written tutorial. I actually gone commando with this one just painting the miniature and doing a tutorial at the same time.

The reason being that i forgot to cut from the video and take shots of the model at each stage. If you are not using a gloss based paint then add a gloss coat to the surface. 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. So the first thing to do is find a marble pattern that you like the look of.

Basically to achieve the effect you do the following. Do a google images search under marble you should find something out there. I used another model for this than the video. Marble is a type of rock formed when limestone is exposed to high temperatures and pressures.

Nazroth posted on 1 29 am feb 23 2016. 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. In this article we re exploring how to paint marble surfaces. It was a second time i ever painted marble and the first one took place more than five years ago.

Choose your colors based on the type of marble you wish to recreate. 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. 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.