Just wondering what colour schemes people have been painting their Onis?
I know traditionally, they are red, but I'd love to try something different... Just not really feeling the inspiration.
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Master T reference from http://www.bushido-thegame.com/forum/gct-master-t-528-6
"The Oni start off as a sort of orangy red, as they age and grow they become darker in skin tone. Their hair however does the reverse so as Oni age their hair whitens. Legends tell of colossal Oni with Skin as black as Jet and manes of silver white"
if that helps at all:)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oni_(folklore)
In the folklore of 'real' (i.e. japanese mythology rather than the Bushido Fluff) Oni, blue is also a very common colour.
excellent stuff!
i was just hoping to do something other than just plain old red.. wanna do something crazy like big tattoos / paint...
I like the Blue ones i've seen. Blue skin, White hair, Black horns and teeth.
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My Bobata is Blue with a white mane. Now just to get round to finish painting him. Waka is going to be a light greenish hue and the slaver will be back to red.
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I'm doing my slaver black with red Maori tribal markings all over him, so he should finish about 50/50 red/black, to match his split personality, I'm choosing maori as they have lots of historical links to Japan, and when you read some of the older descriptions of Oni 'Giant, black skinned humans with clubs who wore animal pelts' they sound somewhat similar:)
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@greeny - I was thinking Maori style tats too - more symmetrical and angular than japanese ones that are more flowing and decorative...
Either than or very quickly painted on war paint as if it'd been prepared for war in some ritualistic fashion.
Need to fire up photoshop and play with some layers.
my only concern with black skin is you lose a lot of the detail / definition to the mini.
I did paint up my old ogre kingdoms with blue-grey skin and white painted faces with red face markings that looked quite cool.
Rather than going black you could use a very very dark grey, or alternatively a very very dark blue (Something like an 1:1 mix of the (Old GW Foundation) 'Necron Abyss' : GW Abaddon Black
or your preferred paint brand of choice of course.
Another tip I picked up along the way was to shade Red with either green or blue, rather than the traditional brown/black. It can really make a difference to the overall tone of the mini, green provides a cool tone while blue adds a certain richness.
When I get hold of my Oni, I'm going to go for a deep red with white glowing japanese text as tattoos and glowing eyes to really indicate that these creatures are from another plane.
sounds awesome, hope you'll post some pictures:)
I have a tendency of shading both red and black with purple, have no idea when i started doing it (college i suppose) but it seems to work ok, probaby just a toned version of the blue you suggest here:) might give the green a try though:)
MIck
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"from another plane" - thats exactly what I'm aiming for :)
I've always had a funny relationship with reds - I've never liked orangy-reds (and always found them hard to paint), preferring to push towards purply-reds. might try a green shade, but in my head that sounds wrong as green is opposite to red on the colour wheel so cant imagine how it will mix.
http://blog.brushthralls.com/?page_id=1203
I originally picked up the tip from a copy of White Dwarf, but this article on colour theory kind of explains it well.
The idea is that as red and green are complementary colours, shading red with green creates a richer shade (as you are mixing red and green towards brown), and does not 'dull' the red, as would happen if you used black. There is also the factor of using the 'cool' tone (green/blue) to shade a 'warm' tone (the red) helps the eye to percieve shadow better, as it mimics natural light and shade more closely.
cracking link, reminded me of some stuff I learnt in college I'd totally forgotten:) thanks for sharing it!
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Cheers - that makes more sense.
I almost never use black or white for shading and highlighting - nature doesn't really have either colour in it - I much prefer highlighting using a cream colour, but not tried sharing with a complementary color - gona try that out.
this thread inspired me a little so I managed to fit the odd 15 minutes or so into the slaver here and there over the last few days- not finished but getting there-
I shaded the red with green ink, and it really glows! gonna need some matt varnish in there though I think:)
Mick
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LOVE it! :D