Chest of Colors forum

hi
i just wondered how the folks in here painted their leather items, is there a hard and fast rule, or do you have to use certain colours.
thank you
steve

It depends on what kind of leather colour you want offcourse but most of the time I just use Snakebite leather as a basecoat with some highlights on the edges. This is mostly for straps and belts. I also saw painters do them like this: black undercoat and just a very subtle highlight on the egdes and then a coat of gloss varnish. It's easy but I do not really like the effect it gives. (too shiny...)

Btw, welcome here on this forum! I hope you'll enjoy your stay!

I usually start out with a basecoat of vallejo model color's Cadmium Maroon, and then highlight with red leather, which gives a warm, realistic look like the leather parts on this one:

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hi guys
thank you for the welcome, i should have mentioned what leather i was looking for, but you already have fulfilled that part. i like my leather to be warm and supple looking.
thank you
steve

my usual way of painting leather is:

Snakebite Leather highlighted (sometimes even roughly, by drybrushing) up to Bleached Bone.
Sometimes the transition goes from Scorched Brown, through Snakebite Leather to Bleached Bone.

And then I wash it or glaze it with a mix of Flash Wash + Vallejo Smoke.
The effect is lik this vest:

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Belts – usually bestial brown than was with black and weary delicate highlight with bestial, now also using valejo black red mixed with black – washed and than highlighted with these mixture + more black red and than snakebite leather.
Gloves – mix of black red and snake highlighted to snakebite and than for better effect sometimes shining varnish.