Painting Daern's instant fortress?

MacMathan

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I have never tried to paint anything this big or like this before.

What color do you think of the adamantine walls being?

Which paints, inks, and techniques would you use to do it on a old GW plastic tower piece?

Thanks in advance
 

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James Gasik

We don't talk about Pun-Pun
My headcanon for Adamantine is that it's a grayish color, not pretty like Mithril. Except for the Drow, who use black adamantine, likely getting that color due to exposure to faerzress (weird Underdark radiation).

But really, it might look like this:

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That's Osmium, in case you're wondering, and likely the best candidate for a real-world analogue for Adamantine.
 

aco175

Legend
here is the picture from the DMG. It is kind of grey and metal--ly. You can give it some deep shadows and black in the recesses to show it is very old. you could give it some bluish streaks like marble to show it is more fantastic.
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Mad_Jack

Legend
I'm pretty sure that traditional D&D canon has adamantine being black, but I'd guess that any dull metal color would work.
If you're doing it fast and easy, I'd paint it black, heavily drybrush any surface not in complete shadow with a dark grey, then drybrush again with a metallic steel color on the parts that are obviously getting hit by direct light. Finish with a black wash and some random splotches of different-colored washes in random places for moss, rust, etc.
If you're really going crazy on it, I'd do the whole thing in non-metallic metal technique.
 

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