Nick Turtles Finally Completed w/Weapons

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Originally Posted by d3m01iti0n

I love these! Planning on doing the same thing myself. What do you use for paints? I have a ton of Citadel around from my 40K hobbying; I wanted to at least do some washes and paint the weapons.

Donatello - I used a custom mix of P3 Formula paints' Battledress Green and Beastial Brown, dry-brushed over a base coat of Testors' Model Master Acrylics Flat Black, and the first dry-brush layer was just straight up Battledress Green. I don't know the exact ratios used for the custom mix though. Just add a little bit of Beastial Brown to some Battledress Green until you get a murky brown-ish color. That's the best I can explain it. I discovered a close approximation to it is Testors' Model Master Acrylic Field Drab.

Leonardo - I laid a base coat of black. The first layer dry-brushed was Testors Model Master Acrylics Dark Green. I then dry-brushed over that layer with Testors Floquil Military line Dark Olive Green.

Raphael -- A base coat of black with P3 Formula Paint Iosan Green dry-brushed for the first layer of green, and then I mixed a light yellow (don't remember the exact color, but a Testors Model Master Acrylic color that is a light yellow that is flat should work) with the Iosan Green to get a lighter shade of green. Just add a little bit of yellow at a time to get the desired shade, as I don't remember the exact ratio.

Michelangelo - I laid a base coat of black, and then dry-brushed P3 Formula Paint Iosan Green on him. It takes several coats when dry-brushing to get the green to the point I did, but it's well worth it. He's the only one that I used one shade of green on.

I believe that covers all 4 of them. I hope that helps. Let me know if you have any other questions!