WalkingInBlack Posted February 12, 2014 Report Share Posted February 12, 2014 Heya all I need some advice on how to paint platium blonde hair, I have tried diffrent things and ended up with it turning up very blond hair or just plain white, if its not that the hair just ends up looking dirty which doesn't look good. Any advice/tip? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierzasty Posted February 12, 2014 Report Share Posted February 12, 2014 Are you using a wash by any chance? If so, make your own, most common washes will have shaders (black ink) added to them, which looks really bad on white and other light colors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddy4count Posted February 12, 2014 Report Share Posted February 12, 2014 I would suggest treating it like any other light colored paint... start dark and work your way up in layers. Save white for only the final highlights... As for washes, pierzasty is correct... though after washing you can eliminate unwanted shading by following up with highlights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkingInBlack Posted February 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 I don't use ready made washes and I don't use white other then to mix in with other colors to make then into highlights or I use the white as the last highlight. I used this recipe: Basecoat-Gun Corps Brown Highlight 1-Rucksack Tan Highlight 2-Sulfuric Yellow Highlight 3-Sulfuric Yellow mixed with Menoth White Highlight Highlight 4-Menoth White Highlight It will look very streaky at this point so a glaze of Rucksack Tan over everything smooths it out then go back in with your last 2 highlight colors and touch it up. You can repeat glazes of Sulfuric Yellow and touching up the last 2 highlight colors for several rounds and it will smooth out the transitions in the hair a lot giving it a very soft look. I was also told to try with Bane Highlight, I presume she meant instead of the Gun Corps Brown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Attrition Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 I'm not sure what paint recipe you'll need, but I'd bet that a layer of gloss varnish over whatever you come up with will give it the shine you're after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkingInBlack Posted February 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 If I could add pictures to the post I could show some examples of miniatures I have painted to have platinum blonde hair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elessarion Posted February 16, 2014 Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 You can add images to posts - try uploading them to a site like Photobucket and then copy pasting the IMG link into your post. I'm not the most techy person but that's how I link my images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkingInBlack Posted February 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 Here are some examples of the miniatures I have painted to have platinum blonde hair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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