Above: In fact in this photo, I used almost pure Ogryn Camo. To be honest, this was a step too far, the effect looks too patchy. So...
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| Tamiya Clear green |
Above: Time to blend the highlighted areas back a bit. Here I used a wash of Tamiya X-25 Clear Green.
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| Sap Green Ink Wash |
Above: I thought the wings needed to be a bit darker, so I washed them with a 25% solution of Liquitex Sap Green Permanent ink. You can also see on the centre section of the right wing where I trialed the next step.
In the Elric stories, the dragons have leathery wings. So, in a nod in that direction I want the wings to have an accent of golden leather.
The following steps show how I achieved the look I was after.
The aim is to progressively lighten the central part of each wing section while increasingly changing the tone to a golden leather. The colour mixes are (mainly) in the captions.
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| 10/90 Matisse Permanent Green Light / Vallejo Khaki |
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| 20/80 Vallejo Khaki / GW Ogryn Camo |
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| 50/50 GW Ogryn Camo / Vallejo Buff |
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| 50/50 GW Ogryn Camo / Vallejo Buff |
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| 20/80 GW Ogryn Camo / Vallejo Buff |
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| Vallejo Buff |
I'm still making the central parts of the wing sections lighter, I suspect with diminishing returns.
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| 50/50 Vallejo Buff / Vallejo Light Yellow |
In the step below, I used some light yellow to make sure that the shape and size of each section passed the eye test.
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| Vallejo Light Yellow |
At this point I was happy enough with the general size, shape and colour graduation of the central section. So now I need to make of the tone more golden and to bring some of the green back.
Above: I gave the outer parts of the wing sections a 50/50 Vallejo light Yellow / Matisse Raw Sienna to give the golden tone that I was after. I followed this with a targeted wash of 25% solution of Liquitex Sap Green Permanent ink so that the golden leather would gradually blend into the green.
Above: In this final step I extended the
Sap Green ink wash a bit. I gave the whole a bit of an eye test and tidied up the creamy yellow sections twith Vallejo Buff and Matisse Burnt Sienna.
So that's it for the upper section of the wings. I'll do another post for the under wing painting.
