dazt2801
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Hello All
I am finally returning to painting mini's after a really short break of "15 years". As I finally settled down, I have been able to set up a permanent work area. I have tried to get back into the hobby quite a few times in previous years, but to no avail. This means I have a large amount of minis in various states, but none painted.
I only paint Games Workshop products. A lot has changed. The quality of the paints themseleves, the brushes and especially the techniques being used. I used to put a base coat on, slap some ink washes onto the mini, drybrush and then base it.
I am doing a project log so I am focussed on painting. My first model I was going to paint, was Canis Wolfborn, but after looking more closely at the model, it just looks wrong. I have decided to go for a Dwarf Lord with a Great Weapon. I got this model about 4 years ago when it first came out.
Started with a undercoat of Chaos Black Spray. I always work with a black undercoat, and with the new Foundation paints from GW, this is a lot easier. I attach the model to an old paint pot using blue tac so I dont hold the model itself and ruin areas already pianted.
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I will start by doing the flesh areas. I put a basecoat of Tallarn Flesh on. I thinned it down a little and applied 4 thin coats in all. I then moved onto the area which were going to be gold. I bascoated this with a 50/50 mix of calthan brown and burnsished gold, and again thinned the paints down.
I applied a wash of Ogryn Flesh to the flesh and gold areas. I then moved onto the areas which were going to be dark metal. I used chainmail for the basecoat, and gave it a wash of badab black. I have never been any good at getting any sort of detail into dark metal areas.
With the flesh, I started to higlight the raised areas firstly with dwarf flesh, then tanned flesh, elf flesh and lastly with bleached bone. I then gave another thin wash of ogryn flesh to blend the areas together. I havent touched the beard yet as still unsure what colour to do.
I will get another pic put up tonight showing my progress. I am not 100% happy with it and will aprreciate all comments and advice given. I know the only way to get better is to practice, practice and more practice.
Cheers Darren
I am finally returning to painting mini's after a really short break of "15 years". As I finally settled down, I have been able to set up a permanent work area. I have tried to get back into the hobby quite a few times in previous years, but to no avail. This means I have a large amount of minis in various states, but none painted.
I only paint Games Workshop products. A lot has changed. The quality of the paints themseleves, the brushes and especially the techniques being used. I used to put a base coat on, slap some ink washes onto the mini, drybrush and then base it.
I am doing a project log so I am focussed on painting. My first model I was going to paint, was Canis Wolfborn, but after looking more closely at the model, it just looks wrong. I have decided to go for a Dwarf Lord with a Great Weapon. I got this model about 4 years ago when it first came out.
Started with a undercoat of Chaos Black Spray. I always work with a black undercoat, and with the new Foundation paints from GW, this is a lot easier. I attach the model to an old paint pot using blue tac so I dont hold the model itself and ruin areas already pianted.
View attachment 4042
I will start by doing the flesh areas. I put a basecoat of Tallarn Flesh on. I thinned it down a little and applied 4 thin coats in all. I then moved onto the area which were going to be gold. I bascoated this with a 50/50 mix of calthan brown and burnsished gold, and again thinned the paints down.
I applied a wash of Ogryn Flesh to the flesh and gold areas. I then moved onto the areas which were going to be dark metal. I used chainmail for the basecoat, and gave it a wash of badab black. I have never been any good at getting any sort of detail into dark metal areas.
With the flesh, I started to higlight the raised areas firstly with dwarf flesh, then tanned flesh, elf flesh and lastly with bleached bone. I then gave another thin wash of ogryn flesh to blend the areas together. I havent touched the beard yet as still unsure what colour to do.
I will get another pic put up tonight showing my progress. I am not 100% happy with it and will aprreciate all comments and advice given. I know the only way to get better is to practice, practice and more practice.
Cheers Darren
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