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Apart from these being ridicilously time consuming to paint I don't think there's anything very special with my paintjob here. I'm happy with how they turned out though, and how the scheme I've chosen for my army applies to the various models in it. The icons are transfers I've tried to blend in a bit with weathering etc. I like how transfers can look, they just require some work to look as though they belong. I normally gloss coat the area where I want to apply the transfer. It seems the transfer sticks better then, and also the film becomes less visible. Then I use decal medium by vallejo on top in a few layers to make it "melt" into the model. I think this works the same as microsol. Finally I weathered over it to make it look as though it belongs. Sometimes I touch up the decals as well with highlights etc as well, but not here. A colour guide and techniques used: I basecoat all main areas first, then wash the entire mini with agrax eartshade. This saves some time I think. I usually do apply two thin coats of the basecoat, though it's not always needed when I wash then reapply the basecoat the way I do here. I think I just apply the second thin basecoat in the areas where I see it's very needed due to this. This saves some time as well. Grey cloth: 1. Basecoat mechanicus standard grey 2. shade agrax earthshade 3. reapply basecoat of mechanicus standard grey. I do this with a thinned version of it which I feather out towards the recesses so I leave a darker shade. It's relatively quick and provides an acceptaby smooth finish. 4. Mechanicus standard grey and vallejo model colour ivory mix in 1:1 ratio (I think flayed one flesh is very similar). Applied roughly where the highlights will be to sketch the highlights. 5. Mechanicus standard grey thinned and fat glazed on the transitions between the highlight sketches and base. 6. Thinned vmc ivory as final highlight. Applied in short streaks (very quick to do) along the bottom edges so the cloak looks a bit frayed. Yellow: 1. Averland sunset basecoat 2. Agrax Earthshade. I just wash all over, though you can recess shade i suppose. In that case you can skip step 3. 3. Averland sunset reapplied. A bit like I did with the cloth, but flatter. 4. 1:1 mix averland sunset vmc ivory 5. edge highlight ivory. 6. Sometimes I glaze some vallejo model air tank brown into the recesses to give more colour. I'm not sure I did here. But I did on the dominus. Off-white cloth: 1. Zhandri dust basecoat 2. Agrax eartshade 3. Zhandri dust reapplied (same way as with the grey) 4. Screaming skull highlights, also feathering to make it smooth. 5. VMC ivory as final highlight (or flayed one flesh) Metal: 1. Vallejo game air chainmail (you can use leadbelcher, they look virtually the same) 2. Agrax eartshade 3. Vallejo game air silver. It's mainly edge highlighting with this, though I feather it out some to avoid having to redo the first step after the wash. OSL: This is the way I did it on the vanguard, rangers and the enginseer, but not on the dominus (that method is more time consuming, though it looks virtually the same...). The various osl objects I've painted with white first. Thinned ceramite white is a favourite for me when painting details like this, as it flows easily when you thin it down enough, and it still covers great. So: 1. Thinned ceramite white all over the source 2. on the red lights I paint the red gw gem paint on top. On the others I just paint with vallejo game inks. 3. Then I use the appropriate ink (vallejo game ink) and glaze it around the source until I'm happy. And that's it really. the way of doing osl with just glazing the light colour over the finished area is something i stole from Ben Komets. Sometimes you need to glaze different colours, but it's quite easy and fast. The eyes on the hellblasters are done like this as well except with glazes of scorpion green (old gw paint) and wild rider red. For display pieces I'd do it with more colours than just the one glaze, but this allows me to do it to regular infantry models as well without wanting to kill myself with the time it takes. Plasma weapon (same way on the hellblasters): 1. Temple guard blue, 2 coats. 2. Baharroth blue highlight. I really don't like this paint, it covers like crap and it doesn't really feel like a natural progression from any of the other gw blues. I think I'll just add white to the basecoat in the future. 3. Vallejo game colour dead white. I think white scar is +- the same final highlights. 4. Mix of vallejo game inks blue and green and use it as a wash in the recesses.
Posted: 7 Dec 2017
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