Green Klingons - Tips required

[Ben2]

Hi guys. After this weekend I should have some time to actually put paint on miniatures.

I'd like to do my Klingons green, in a similar scheme to the ship seen in the third through seventh films based on a certain series involving wandering around in space, and seen again in a series following on from that about a space station with a shouty guy in charge (I think this was sufficiently vague).

Has anyone done green Klingons, how did they do them and do they have some pics of them?

 

[SneakyPete]

I used a medium green Model Masters base coat and then applies a black wash to make the details stand out. Then I painted on the other details. I feel a few high contrasting details really liven up the paint scheme. This one is nearly done, it just needs some touchup in a few spots.

 

[mojo]

What I did on a set was to prime with grey and then badab black it in sections( if you try to brush all at once it will smear and look like turd) then when dry or blow dried - take ogryn flesh and basically coat it- let dry- then thraka green it- building up the green to your taste. I found this to work better for me as I tried to recreate a "patina" effect and wanted some of the original ship color to come through. I also did a set trying to recreate the look of or, color of kronos-1 which was basically the same steps but with tans and browns with very very very little green spots.

http://s1115.photobucket.com/albums/k549/bpayne361/Klingons/

 

[greenboy]

Well done they look great

 

[The Big D]

So I rather fancied green myself after seeing dave773 had done some great airbrush work on the fedcom boards

http://www.starfleetgames.com/feder....php?t=4335&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60

I thought i could do something similar using good old brushes as I have no airbrush or skills in that department. So far i've got:

Primed in black.
All colours are from the new citadel range.

Base colour Castellan Green
Drubrush heavy with Loren Forest
Drybrush medium with Straken Green
Drybrush lightly on the raised bits with Nurgling Green to emphasise the shapes
wash Athonian Camoshade carefilly into all of the recesses without getting any onto the surfaces if at all possible

Using a bit of fine grained sponge Dryad Bark was stippled onto the edges of the green for the chipped paint.

the engine parts were basecoated in Khorne Red, the upper strips lined with Evil Suns Scarlet and the corners with Wild Rider Red.

Thats it so far. Haven't done the weapons, windows, lights or impulse drives and I'm waiting for decals too.
It's really quick though. My whole fleet box went from black to that in 1 day.

Hope that helps.

Geoff