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Post by Haardrada on Apr 19, 2017 21:31:27 GMT
I'm looking for advice on what colours would be best suited to painting camel figures?
I'm looking at doing some arab/bedouins and am interested in what colours players use to represent a natural look to these beauties?😊
Regards
Eddie
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Post by gregorius on Apr 20, 2017 0:21:11 GMT
Eddie, I've only painted one element of camels, but I was happy how it turned out. I started with a dark brown base coat, then a heavy drybrush with a medium brown then a final drybrush with lighter brown.
Cheers,
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Post by mark leslie on Apr 20, 2017 4:03:39 GMT
As Gregorious, I've only ever painted the one element too. However, I started with a white undercoat, a thinned down light brown over the top so the pigment tends to pool in the deeps and lightly covers the heights. Then a darker brown in all the nooks and crannies which should be easily visible from the previous wash. Then, with a lighter shade add highlights to all the raised areas.  |
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Post by davidconstable on Apr 20, 2017 6:55:06 GMT
Camel colour varies a lot, from off-white to a light brown. In the 70s I saw a few, and tribe/group colour tended to be similar, but at a watering hole a real mixture occurred.
For an army I would probably vary, but make bases use a similar colour camel, to represent a single tribe/group.
You need a dark base colour, depending on the time of year the hair is long or short, long hair tends to get dirty and give a dark undertone.
Do not use pictures of racing camels.
David Constable
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Post by Haardrada on Apr 20, 2017 7:13:07 GMT
The last time I saw camels I was working in Qatar and that was over 12 years ago and they were a mixed bunch.
I've only painted one in the past and that was a big hairy one for my war drummer for my Timurids and he was in dark to mid-brown shades.
The camelry I have are museum miniatures and their website shows three poses in three different colours, so I think the mix idea might look the best.
Thanks Guys.
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Post by Simon on Apr 20, 2017 15:00:24 GMT
To get the right feel, I guess you could use a little spit to dilute the paint!
Simoin
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Post by menacussecundus on Apr 20, 2017 17:22:23 GMT
Simon
My method (using the Valejo model colour range).
Denis
CAMELS
Undercoat: Desert Yellow Top: Dark Sand
Socks: Undercoat: German Camo Beige Top: Buff
Undercoat: Cork Brown Top: Desert Yellow
Socks: Undercoat: Val Beige Brown Top: German Camo Beige
Undercoat: Val Beige Brown Top: Cork Brown
Socks: Undercoat: German Black Brown Top: Choc Brown
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Post by johnw on Apr 25, 2017 17:28:08 GMT
I read somewhere that camels vary from light brown to dark brown, but light brown is considered "better" for a riding camel, so I would do camels a light rather than dark brown.
I have also noted from looking at pictures that camels tend to have lighter legs than bodies, whereas horses it is usually the other way around.
John
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Post by davidconstable on Apr 26, 2017 7:33:10 GMT
I read somewhere that camels vary from light brown to dark brown, but light brown is considered "better" for a riding camel, so I would do camels a light rather than dark brown. I have also noted from looking at pictures that camels tend to have lighter legs than bodies, whereas horses it is usually the other way around. John That is why I wrote ignore racing camels, these days people use them for sport, they tend to be very light with hair that tends to be thinner than other camels, and a lot less of it.
The preferred riding colour is biased by modern views, so people today would go for a lighter colour, however in 1970 it was definitely a tribal/group colour, to an extent an interchange of young camels occurred between tribes/groups as a mother might reject a youngster that was not an acceptable colour. One old man rode a camel that was nearly black, he felt it made him distinctive.
There is a tone change between legs and bodies, with the legs being lighter, but hair on the legs is thinner, with a lot less layering, so a camel being cleaned in winter will show that up, even after a first brush to get the worst dirt out of the hair.
David Constable
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Post by timurilank on May 5, 2017 20:24:51 GMT
I'm looking for advice on what colours would be best suited to painting camel figures? I'm looking at doing some arab/bedouins and am interested in what colours players use to represent a natural look to these beauties?😊 Regards Eddie I have two elements of camel mounted types for the Christian Nubian.
All my figures are undercoated white which facilitates the painting of light coloured clothing or beasts.
Camels were given a thin coat of yellow-brown.
Thoroughly dried, I can dry brush the nose, knee and underside white.
Done.
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Post by lydia on May 6, 2017 6:09:09 GMT
Australia has a large population of feral camels, the descendants of those released into the wild in the 1920s when they were replaced by motorised transport. If you Google australian wild camel you'll see plenty of pictures of camels of many hues.
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Post by davidconstable on May 6, 2017 7:49:26 GMT
The multiple colours of wild camels shows the variation of colours, but from what I saw in Sinai area in 1970, that caused a problem occasionally, groups/tribes would come to a watering hole, most of their camels being a similar colour, but occasionally a mother would have a lighter/darker youngster, and reject it, so it would be swopped with another tribe.
The variation in group/tribe colours I saw over a couple of days was large.
Purely as an aside, most of the time the camels and horses of different groups/tribes got on, however none of them liked me in particular, but that stopped when I changed to Arab dress.
David Constable
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Post by Haardrada on May 6, 2017 8:08:29 GMT
The Qatari camels were very shy and always kept their distance...exept the few who chose the contact sport of crossing roads at night...damn dangerous for the camel and the driver.
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Post by mark leslie on May 6, 2017 10:14:23 GMT
Australia has a large population of feral camels, the descendants of those released into the wild in the 1920s when they were replaced by motorised transport. If you Google australian wild camel you'll see plenty of pictures of camels of many hues. Best not done at work however, and remember to delete your browser history! |
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