Tomb Guard by Alan and Michael Perry

[elvendarkness]

Hello,

Can anyone help me with the step by step techniques along with the paint colors you used to paint the Tomb Guard like Alan and Michael Perry's? I'd like to paint my Tomb Guard in the same manner. Mind you this is my very first Warhammer Army so any help you can offer would greatly be appreciated! Thank you in advance!

Thomas

 

[Wicksy]

You mean painted like this?

I dont want to sound condescending but unless you already paint pretty well, you'll not get results exactly as the picture. You can however get close enough that they'll look cool on the battlefield

I havent painted these guys before but if i was to try and tackle them as per the pic i'd start by painting the whole lot dheneb stone (once primed of course). Thin layers to get a solid colour without ruining the detail. Wash the lot with devlan mud then use dheneb stone to drybrush the bones. Or, if you want to go further, paint the dheneb stone on instead of the drybrush (the drybrushing will be far quicker and easier). The golds on the model will likely be shining gold - many thin layers to build up a good solid coat. You can shade it with a wash of devlan mud and a little chaos black added or thin down some scorched brown, add a touch of black and shade the gold yourself. That will produce far nicer gold. Highlight with burnished gold then shining gold with some mithril silver added. The reds look like scab red highlighted with blood red then lined with vomit brown/blazing orange. The blues look like hawk turquoise highlighted with the addition of white and probably shaded with small amount of dark blue added to the turquoise.

 

[airhead]

What I think Wicksy is trying to say nicely, is that if your level of painting is not great, you will get some very good results, but you won't get what Perry has done. It would be good learning for you to go ahead and paint them, post up your work in the WIP Forum for comments.

What's your level of painting?
1. This is my first go at mini painting.
to
10. I won a Golden Demon last month....

(I'm about a 6 on that scale.)

You've got decent brushes? (GW Tank brushes or the local craft store brushes won't work - sorry).

You've got a good selection of paints? (GW, Reaper, Vellajo)

Clean them up, prime them and basecoat them. Then start posting pics. Don't base them til the end as you'll want to leave room under their feet for the basing.

 

[MrPickles]

You mean painted like this?

I dont want to sound condescending but unless you already paint pretty well, you'll not get results exactly as the picture. You can however get close enough that they'll look cool on the battlefield

I havent painted these guys before but if i was to try and tackle them as per the pic i'd start by painting the whole lot dheneb stone (once primed of course). Thin layers to get a solid colour without ruining the detail. Wash the lot with devlan mud then use dheneb stone to drybrush the bones. Or, if you want to go further, paint the dheneb stone on instead of the drybrush (the drybrushing will be far quicker and easier). The golds on the model will likely be shining gold - many thin layers to build up a good solid coat. You can shade it with a wash of devlan mud and a little chaos black added or thin down some scorched brown, add a touch of black and shade the gold yourself. That will produce far nicer gold. Highlight with burnished gold then shining gold with some mithril silver added. The reds look like scab red highlighted with blood red then lined with vomit brown/blazing orange. The blues look like hawk turquoise highlighted with the addition of white and probably shaded with small amount of dark blue added to the turquoise.

to OP, that's a pretty ridculously high standard. be prepared to spend 15+ hours per model to get anywhere close.