I'm wanting to paint blood on the base and body of some models and was wanting to know if any of you have experimented on this and if you've got pictures of the results that would be even better...

Basically its running blood from mouths, cuts, severed limbs etc

Thanks for the help... the golden daemon is due in about a week so I've gotta get this model finished.

Here's a good tutorial on the B&C, easily applied how you want, might try it my self on my marines.

The Bolter and Chainsword - Librarium - Painting Tutorial: Blood and Gore : A 40k Space Marine Resource (http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.php?autocom=ineo&showarticle=298)

First of all blood is very easy to get wrong, I wouldn't try on anything important before I had a technique perfected.

For a dried effect use a crimson and brush it on as it would have fallen and ran, heaviest around the source. Fresher blood is a brighter shade and looks best in streaks. Of course you can match the two.

Important: Less really is more, even a little that doesn't look just right can ruin a figure.

You can always dip a toothbrush in the paint and run your finger over it letting the blood splatter onto the mini.

I do blood dripping and gore with dried hot glue. The little drops that form on the end of the gluegun are perfect to glue to a sword to make it look like blood is pouring off.

Or, you can put a big drop of hot glue on a paper plate and let it dry just a little bit, then draw the sword/weapon through the glue like you're cutting it, it should stick to the sword and pull off in stringy clumps, gives a nice gorey look after its painted.

Thanks everyone, i'll have a few practises and see how that goes.

Does anyone have specific GW colours they've used?

Pickle: That link was awesome, I only have small areas and less splatters but I will see if I can replicate it.

Cool, wanna see how it goes. You'll need the Tamiya Clear red for that one.

To do blood along those lines you need:
Tamiya Clear Red
Black Ink
(and I reccomend adding a tiny bit of blue ink to the mix, too).

Although personally I simply mix up about 85 Clear Red/10 Black Ink/5 Blue Ink, and work up in several layers.

If you are restricted to just GW paints, you can do it by mixing some Baal Red with Badab Black and Asurman Blue (85/10/5), then about doubling the mixture by adding Gloss Varnish (so you end up at about 50 Gloss Varnish/43 Baal/5 Badab/2 Asurman).

Obviously you need to add a bit of water to the above, to stop it killing your brushes dead.

-t.

i'll have to go get some of that tamiya paint and check it out...

Reason for wanting GW was that I already have there paints.. was initially thinking that I would use red gore, blood red, chaos black and 'ard coat.

I have done that with my Malanthrope. I did it by putting down blood red paint which actually looks far too bright to be blood. I then went over it with scab red and red ink. The result was that it has a texture like real blood. Real blood will begin to dry, go crusty at parts and remain more or less fluid at other spots. I also appied gloss varnish to it to make it reflective and wet looking. Here is the base of my Malanthrope, there are some giant eyeballs etc which aren't to do with blood just odd Tyranid plants sprouting.

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z191/Leech-man/Tyranids/MALANTHROPEBASE1.jpg

I have done that with my Malanthrope. I did it by putting down blood red paint which actually looks far too bright to be blood. I then went over it with scab red and red ink. The result was that it has a texture like real blood. Real blood will begin to dry, go crusty at parts and remain more or less fluid at other spots. I also appied gloss varnish to it to make it reflective and wet looking. Here is the base of my Malanthrope, there are some giant eyeballs etc which aren't to do with blood just odd Tyranid plants sprouting.


That is one sexy base my friend...

That is one sexy base my friend...

Glad you like it. I think that to do blood on a base it helps to try and have a contrast too. I put the blood on the Malanthrope's base on bare rock and gravel. The rock was given a matt varnish which means it won't reflect any light. You could try this too with your own blood effects. With blood I find it isn't just colour but also texture and how wet it looks compared to everything else that matters.

Yeah, I was hoping that the matt of the Ork skin and clothes would give a nice contrast to the gloss blood.
I'll admit i'm kind of taking my time at the moment as dont want to wrong foot it. I should really just get in there and do it.

ps. those eyes are awesome.

Wow nice blood. But the eyes are quite incredible: How do you did the eyes?

Wow nice blood. But the eyes are quite incredible: How do you did the eyes?

:watermelon:Thankyou, glad you like my blood. How I did the eyes can be found here in the showcase. Or you can send me a private message about it. Message - Librarium Online Showcase (http://www.librarium-online.com/showcase/showphoto.php?photo=786)
Look down the page and you will find an explanation as to how I tend to paint eyes on my models. In this case the eyes were used as enhanced senses but they still follow the same basic rules.:watermelon:

So Ive gone and purchased some Tamiya clear red and used that after a little experimentation and I'm happy with the results... (would have been nice on a bigger model or area but suits my base.)

Now i'm just finishing it off with some dirt/mud area the boot area. Any Ideas?

I've look all over the net but without much luck... currently search through LO but anyone has ideas let me know, I have scorched brown, kommando khaki, bleached bone, snakebite leather, chestnut ink, chaos black.

Thanks again for all the help. Will have pictures once its complete.

Actually scratch that... though I would like to know for future reference, I've decided against the mud for now (as i'm basing my models on a Baal like red sand/ dust world and i'm not sure how that will look, so for now they can have clean boots)

I'll post some pictures up today... basically I just need to touch up some places where the paint has worn off due to holding it while glueing it onto the base and then its finished. (for now :D)

After taking the shots, i've noticed a few more things that need a touch up.
But here he is... thanks for the help.

http://www.librarium-online.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=116&pictureid=1303http://www.librarium-online.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=116&pictureid=1304http://www.librarium-online.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=116&pictureid=1306

and the base

http://www.librarium-online.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=116&pictureid=1308http://www.librarium-online.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=116&pictureid=1307

It looks alot better without the extreme closeup, but without the closeup you cant see all the detail...

I think your Dante is well done. The base is good and it looks like some knid of massacre. However the blood isn't very visible. I think you would need more gore/blood/guts etc to show it is a truly gory setting.

Haha see I was thinking.. oh **** I think i've over killed with this blood thing.
blood on dark green isn't the easiest to see I agree, but I didn't ever want that base to distract you from Dante... he is the supreme lord, untouched by filthy ork blood or blade...

wa wa wa ... you get my drift :D

Again the photos don't do it justice... one day I'll purchase a nice macro lens and set up a proper lighting rig to shoot my models.

I doubt having a little less blood than usual would matter actually, he's a supreme lord as you said, so he's likely pretty skillful with a weapon. Plus since it's an axe rather than a chainsword or something, he could probably kill orks with nice, clean cuts inflicted by a power weapon, which would cleave through the flesh easily and probably cause some cauterization (sp?) of the wound anyway, so there probably wouldn't be that much in the way of blood splatter. Of course, this is just thinking logically about something that doesn't exist in the real world, so you really can decide for yourself =P. For the figure itself, it looks great, especially the axe. I must say the base looks slightly cluttered though, but that's just from what I can see in the photos.

That is true Seasonreaper, but when you make it more realistic looking, it becomes more believable in a Sci-fi sense.... I hope...

I think it looks very well done. I understand that dark red does not show very well on dark green in photos, but I'm pretty sure the judges will pick out the spots of gore easily. As for the rest of the model...:in-love: The axe blade is awesome and I'm ever so tempted to steal the idea ;) sorry. The white looks very good and so does the gold. Well, seeing as is armour is totally gold I wouldn't of expected you to skimp there! :P

Rep giveth.

Thanks guys :D and feel free to steal anything... (well maybe not my car)

Don't ya love having these great discussions on the physicality of a made up world... I would say that it could then come from his gun.. but being its a melta, it too would have sealed any wound.. maybe? So i'll end with him jumping up and down on all the bodies until their would rupture.

Hehe, jump Dante jump! Crush those orks with your sandals!

..but being its a melta, it too would have sealed any wound.. maybe?

Wound? WOUND? What wound, it's a frigging melta! :P There wouldn't be a wound, just a pile of hot sticky bubbling mess... Mmmmm, tomato soup...

Anywho,when is said painting competition? I do hope you tell us how ya get on! :)

Just spotted this thread. I thought I might pop this laddo up for reference.
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d135/danjones87/IW/prince1-1.jpg

Dan

Wound? WOUND? What wound, it's a frigging melta! :P There wouldn't be a wound, just a pile of hot sticky bubbling mess... Mmmmm, tomato soup...

Anywho,when is said painting competition? I do hope you tell us how ya get on! :)

OKay so I found out today, that it made it past regionals but won't be sent to Australia for the finals as they would instantly reject it due to base size... rather funny... but at least he looks better on this base than his old smaller one...

Next time I will read the rules before entry...

Well that sucks... At least you know you can do well enough to get past the regionals so that'll be a morale boost for your next project =).

Well that sucks... At least you know you can do well enough to get past the regionals so that'll be a morale boost for your next project =).

yeah fully, I think next time I'll think of something bigger, so as to be able to push it further.
Terminator or maybe dreadnought... or maybe a trebuchet...

I'm just glad to back into painting a normal squad... as fun as it was to paint dante, he took a bit a of work.