ZEB ORRELIOS

PAINTING GUIDE BY SORASTRO

Hello! In this guide I’ll be painting Zeb Orrelios from the “Stronger than Fear” Squad Pack from STAR WARS: Shatterpoint!

As usual I’ve primed the figure in black

followed with some zenithal highlights,
I’m first painting the eyes using pure white, before placing the pupils with black:
and I also chose to magnetize the
arms:
I’ve also painted around the eyes with Next I’m colouring the whites of the
the black, trimming the whites back in eyes with a thin layer of Bright Yellow
the process: Green:

Next I’m mixing some Green in with the

Bright Yellow Green:

And I’m applying this more towards the We can then reapply the black to tidy
edges of the eyes: things up:
 Next I’m painting the skin using a
And I finished the eyes off with a small roughly equal mix of Warm Grey and Here I’m mixing the Warm Grey and
glint of pure white for each one: Faded Plum, lightened with some Olive Faded Plum:
Flesh:

(Here I mistook a part of the arm for

And I’m now adding the Olive Flesh:
armour, but will fix that later!)

For the head I’m also mixing in some

Khaki:
Next I’m painting the hair using a mix
of Dark Neutral Grey and Dark Purple:

I’m also using this to darken the skin

tone, which I’m then using to place
some shadows around the eyes, and
pick out the recesses on the face:
 For the outer yellow parts of the suit
I’m first mixing some Yellow Green
and Dark Golden Brown, then lighten-
ing things with some Pale Yellow and a
touch of Golden Yellow:

Here I’m mixing the Yellow Green and

These are the four colours on the pal- And here I’m adding the Pale Yellow
Dark Golden Brown (which we’ll actual-
ette: along with a little Golden Yellow:
ly be using for the trim in a while):
I’m now using the Yellow Green and
Dark Golden Brown mix to paint the
raised trim:

For the torso I might go slightly darker

for the shadowed areas:

Next I’m using Warm Yellow darkened

with a little Black Brown for the more
saturated yellow parts of the outfit:
 Here I’m using a slightly darker mix for
the more shadowed areas, and doing a
quick bit of blending:

I’m now mixing some Dark Camo Green And for the lighter parts I’m using
and Black Green for the dark parts of Camo Green lightened with some Fad-
the armour: ed Green and Yellow Green:
I’m now painting all of the armour with
the two tones:
Notice I’ve also used the darker tone to I’m also adding some dark lining to
define the recesses: these sections on the legs:

And here on the arms:

For the knee area I’m freely mixing the greens to achieve some light and shadow:
 And here I’m just using the skin tone
to paint over the area I mistook for ar-
mour:

Next I’m painting the weapons using

a mix of Coal Black and Blue Black,
thinned with some Glaze & Wash Medi-
um to essentially create a speed paint:
And I’m now just mixing some of the
tones on the palette to create a light
brown-ish colour for the strips on the
weapons:

We can then use a couple of grey tones

for some of the smaller details. For
And here I’m using Neutral Grey:
the panel on the front I’m using Dark
Neutral Grey:

For the lights on the wrist and waist I’m And I’m then brushing over some Or-
first using pure white: ange Light:
 Next I’m spending a while doing some
careful black lining to help create a
clean, well-defined look (I’m using Art
Black by Scalecolor for this):

I even added black lining to the sides of the raised trim, followed with some cor-
rections where necessary:
I’m now going to highlight the skin by
simply adding increasing amounts of
Olive Flesh to the mix we created ear-
lier:

I decided to do quite a bit of stippling

here to create a bif of a “fuzzy” look:

For the stripes I’m using the Dark Pur-

The approach I took with the larger stripes at least is to first draw the stripe on,
ple and Dark Neutral Grey mix we used
then use a lighter tone (something inbetween the dark stripe and the skin tone)
for the hair, lightened up slightly with
to soften up the edges:
some of the skin tone:
Again, here you can see me softening the edges a little:
I’m now highlighting the face where I’m also adding some additional Khaki along
with the Olive Flesh:

And I’m now adding the stripes:

I’m now just freely adding some addi-
tional skin highlights:
I’m now mixing some Bright Neutral Grey into the hair base tone to add some
highlights to the facial hair:

Next I’m returning to highlight the outer

yellow parts of the suit where I’m in-
creasing the amount of Pale yellow and
Golden Yellow in the mix:
 And I’m now highlighting the inner sec-
Here I also favoured doing some stippling to help with the transitions, and to
tions by adding Pale Yellow to the base
create a soft texture:
tone:

I’m once again doing some stippling:

And I’m now highlighting the bands
on the weapons using some creamy
tones:

Next I’m highlighting the dark parts

of the armour by adding some Yellow
Green and Faded Green to the base
tone:

Stippling works well here, too:

We can also highlight the ligher sec-
tions in the same way:

I’m adding some fairly bold strips of

highlight to the arms:
Then softening out the edges with an And for some bright, glinting highlights
intermediate tone: I’m adding some Pale Yellow:

Next I’m painting on the white design

using a mix of Bright Neutral Grey and
White:
 I’m also painting these triangular fas-
tenings using a simple grey scale:

Next I’m adding some Bright Ivory to

the blue-black base tone to add a few
highlights to the weapons:
I’m now painting the brown parts of
the weapons using Dark Golden Brown
mixed with some Dark Warm Grey:

And we can add some Khaki for the

highlights:
 I’m now painting the “zappy” tips of the
spear using pure white:

Once dry I’m brushing over some

thinned Magenta Fluo:
 I’m now glueing Zeb to his pre-painted
I want this to have an uneven look:
base:

And I decided to add just a couple of

I’m now just refining or pushing a few
touches of OSL using the Magenta Fluo
of the highlights:
mixed with white:

I also added a little Bright Ivory to boost

the highlights on the face/head:
Finally, I decided to mix some Purple
into the Magenta to further darken the
recesses of the “zappy bits” of the
spear:

And then added a few crackly lines on

top using pure white:

And this completes Zeb Orrilios!

 PAINT LIST:

Titanium White (MH)

Art Black (SCA)
Bright Yellow Green (MH)
Green (MH)
Warm Grey (MH)
Faded Plum (MH)
Olive Flesh (MH)
Khaki (MH)
Dark Neutral Grey (MH)
Dark Purple (MH)
Yellow Green (MH)
Dark Golden Brown (MH)
Pale Yellow (MH)
Golden Yellow (MH)
Black Brown (MH)
Dark Camo Green (MH)
Black Green (MH)
Camo Green (MH)
Faded Green (MH)
Coal Black (MH)
Blue Black (MH)
Orange Light (HM)
Bright Neutral Grey (MH)
Bright Ivory (MH)
Magenta Fluo (VMC)
Purple (HM)

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Thank you!

HM = Hera Models, MH = Monument Hobbies, SCA = Scalecolor Artist, VMC = Vallejo Model Color