How to paint in 5 minutes: Marble

For the third part in my How to paint in 5 minutes series, I run through how to paint marble with a wet wipe.

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[iannordin]

What I really like about the white is that you made sure to mimic how marble isn't just white stone with black streaks but instead a complex web of crystalized limestone. It really helps add dimension and randomness to it

[AllThingsCubey]

Frankly, the black one looks a hot mess, and I'd experiment with some other colour combos for it, but the white... omg that's such a good result. Genius idea with the masking technique. I must find an application for this.

[freshmeat]

Short and to the point. Thank you for showing, esp. including the black one instead of just a white.

[Nattmask]

I've just tried this with rattle cans and gotta say, the bases came out better than I expected. Can imagine that they'd be better with an airbrush, but I'm so happy that this technique was so simple!
Thanks a bunch for sharing the tutorial!!

[qaschmeeps]

I am very grateful for the tips! I am going to give it a try.

[RogerS]

Again a great technique, hadn't thought to use it on armour but have some interesting idea's with stencils on top. Googling marble gives some great idea's for colour (I like gold, mottled pattern of med-dark greens on the next layer sort of following the veins and then black (was going to try a couple of thin black layers to try and add depth but got impatient). One thing I found looked great was to do a couple of very smooth coats of the glossiest varnish I could find on the base then add matt pigments over the top in some places and the joints to look like dirt and rubble. The contrast worked oddly well.

[celephaisk]

Love it! Such an easy and effective technique- thanks for the video!

[VikingFyre]

DUUUUDE!!! That’s brilliant! I’ve got some terrain that I wanted to do in a faux marble but didn’t wanna go through the old school way of it because it’s so tedious. Will definitely be using this technique!

[ZombieMonkey]

Very interesting technique. I haven't quite committed on how I'm going to do the marble effect on my Glutos figure yet, but I'm definitely going to try this out on a few test bases

[UnkyWoebot]

Reckon this will be the go to for my Blood Angels Bladeguard Veteran shields!

[laffing_hwhitee]

Excellent quick techniques and references

[isi]

Omg best hack ever!!!! Thankyou for this tip this is super helpful for me! Thanks a lot

[minibob]

My biggest grief with this technique is finding the correct wipes. All I've tried so far are too firm.

[bibbleboi]

This technique looks great, I'll have to experiment with it, I don't know if I'll have much success with it because I'm wanting that marble color to be the armor for some Votann I'm painting. Thanks for a great video.

[kiesminis]

This is cool, I'll have to try this at some point, maybe on a base

[red]

I am going to try the silver/grey/white version of this to decorate my air dry clay items, I will let you know how rattle cans worked.

[oskardrabikowski]

I will try this on mahut model from Conquest!

[ROBFACED]

Followed you here from twatter, thanks for uploading. Going to go try this now!

[lumanson]

Does anyone have a recommended brand of wet whipes? The ones I got just tore instead of stretching

[chrisandrews]

I'm doing this effect on my movement trays....gonna need a big baby wipe