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Re: Custom painted Harbingers playing pieces

Postby ThatWidescreenGuy » Tue Jul 06, 2021 5:27 pm

Why choose red/purple for the numbskulls, if I may ask? I'm not saying it doesn't look neat, I'm just curious.
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Re: Custom painted Harbingers playing pieces

Postby SavageXtreme » Thu Jul 08, 2021 4:45 am

ThatWidescreenGuy wrote:Why choose red/purple for the numbskulls, if I may ask? I'm not saying it doesn't look neat, I'm just curious.

The skulls went through different colours, at first I thought of doing light grey/white, the numbers were in black, but as I changed the skulls to dark grey, I tried to paint the numbers to white, then used the purple and red just to try and appear light, then gave up and left it as it is.
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Re: Custom painted Harbingers playing pieces

Postby ThatWidescreenGuy » Thu Jul 08, 2021 5:48 am

Yeah, the numbers could look better in black if they were carved into the skulls instead of protruding from them. I think light makes sense in this context, maybe try (If you want to keep obsessing over it) mixing with more white at the center and then using the most saturated version of the colour for the surrounding area, kind of like a lightsaber(?
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Re: Custom painted Harbingers playing pieces

Postby SavageXtreme » Thu Jul 08, 2021 10:08 am

Considering I'm not happy with the dark grey now, yeah I think I might repaint over them someday and make them grey-white as they originally were. Sometimes its hard to decide what colour matches what, but the Harbingers stay as they are, they've gone through enough effort.
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Re: Custom painted Harbingers playing pieces

Postby DarkWolff » Fri Jul 09, 2021 10:03 am

Army Painter has a good non-bleached bone color. You could get that and a little ink and it will give it some more detail without much effort.
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Re: Custom painted Harbingers playing pieces

Postby SavageXtreme » Thu Oct 28, 2021 12:19 am

DarkWolff wrote:Army Painter has a good non-bleached bone color. You could get that and a little ink and it will give it some more detail without much effort.

Perhaps they are good quality, but when I do eventually redo the skulls, I'm likely using acrylic paint again, always tend to be on a budget.
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