Painting a Trollblood Pyre Troll… part 1

March 26, 2013 by elromanozo

Romain kick's off a fiery new miniatures painting tutorial with a flaming hot Pyre Troll for Hordes from Privateer Press!

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manpug

It seems hard to paint a good transition for heat on a cool blue colour. That might be the reason that PP did the model a brown red skin colour to avoid that issue.

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elromanozo

It’s not too difficult, really, it just requires a little bit more work…
If you want finer transitions, do more layers. That’s all there is to it, really !

BoW Romain

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trebormills

I prefer the blue troll look with flaming fists as my Pyre troll sitting next to me can confirm

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manpug

I never did light sources before and it comes off intimidating to me. That my be the next project I should do if I’m skittish about it. Need to keep growing in my painting 🙂

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wargamerlester

How many parts will this be?
I’m glad you did this, I wanted a blue skintone tutorial. Love that you used P3 paints. We own all the range here at home. 🙂

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warzan

5 Parts One every day this week 😉

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wargamerlester

Thanks Warren.

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captain

Relay every day! Thats nice!

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sellsword

Romain, do you have a website or gallery of your own or anything like that? I was wondering what sort of projects you like to work on for your own enjoyment away from doing demos and things like that.

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elromanozo

Maintaining a website is hard work… I can’t spare the tim at the moment ! You can see some of my work on Minirama, right here on Beasts of War.

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captain

Like the time warp of the base coating.
This will be a nice tutorial. Good you paint it in Trollblood colors instead of the brown/red. The glow effect comes better on the blue.

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nehpets

I always look forward to your painting videos, you’re quite good and you explain things well. You’ve helped me big time, I’m really interested to see your technique on fire, and the light it puts on the troll wielding it. Thank you for having the patience to show people like me how to properly apply techniques.

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elromanozo

Thank you for your words of gratitude…
I really feel priviledged making these videos, and receiving comments like this one only makes the honor sweeter.
Remember, though : you can watch all the videos in the world but nothing replaces first hand experience !

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jaybutton

Great video! Thanks for making it!

What did you prime the mini with?

Thanks again!

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elromanozo

Thanks for watching !

It’s my usual priming method, also called pre-shading. Many painters do it that way, and it’s also what the No Quarter magazine painters do most of the time. It’s also the single most asked question in my tutorials… But never you mind !

There’s a tutorial about that method in the backstage part of the site, just for people who ask this question… But it’s pretty easy. Spray black everywhere, spray grey over the edges to make them stand out, then spray white lightly from the top.

That’s all there is to it !

Have fun painting,

BoW Romain

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jaybutton

Thanks for the feedback! I will have to try that out. And thanks again for all the great tutorials!

Jay

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dawnpatrolchapter

I also painted my Pyre troll with brown fading to a red gore to brown mix to avoid the problems showing fire reflection on a cool blue skin tone.

Wow Romain,
I got to hand it to you that is looking pretty sharp and its only pt 1
I am guessing the time involved is a bit lengthy but hey looking at the finished piece there on top of page, wished I saw this before painting mine

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elromanozo

Thanks a lot !
In retrospect, I could have done better.
Stay tuned for another fire-light tutorial…

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whiteape1

I would love to have a video like this done for space marines where the whole model is painted instead of just an arm

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elromanozo

What… you mean you’re not satisfied on the numerous tips I’ve done on a space marine, nor on those Dave has done ? And you haven’t seen the tutorial I’ve done on a Grey Knights terminator, or the one I’ve done on a Chaos Lord Terminator ? Don’t hesitate to browse through past 3 colours up videos… There’s a neat search engine on Beasts of War.

In the meantime, feel free to apply the techniques I’m showing on any type of miniature. That’s what they’re for ! 😉

Oh, and there’s another full tutorial in the vaults on a space marine (a blood angel character). I don’t know when it’ll be scheduled, though.

Still, there are SO MANY great miniatures other than space marines out there… They also deserve some love, don’t you think ?