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- Prime White
- Mix Scorpion Green with a lot of water. It should be soupy and naturally shade the mini. It is best made using a few drops of paint thinner rather than water, but I used water here. Whatever you do, do not use an airbrush for this step. The goal is to not have any even dispersal of paint!
- Paint the whole mini except claws.
- Wash the full mini with Gryphonne Sepia. The key here is to add a little thinner so the surface tension of the wash is broken. Again I used water here to see what would happen.
- Once that was is essentially dry, use washes of Levian purple around the base of each claw. I also added some wash to the face detail on the mini, and a few random spots. The purple is key because it really pulls out the detail. I would not put too much on though.
- Dry brush the whole miniature with some light color. I used bleached bone on one of these, and will probably use the deheneb stone foundation paint on a different on. The goal here is to hit the top of the head, the hands, and boney protrusions. Be careful not to add too much.
- Paint the tongue red
- Make a bleached bone wash and hit the tips of the claws and hooves. Finish this by adding some white to the wash to highlight just the tips.
- rinse and repeat. I like to vary the colors just a bit from model to model so the bugs do not look like carbon copies of each other.
These take me almost no time at all to paint. I basically did them interspersed while doing other tasks. A careful approach to the washes will yield better results. Paint thinner really shines when doing work like this, but I know many people do not have it.
Thanks ! Very nice tutorial. It look like simple and fast way to get lots of models done. Will have to try it.
ReplyDeleteI think a few drops of thinner are crucial if you have some! Breaking the surface tension of the wash gives much better results. I will show a batch done that was as well.
ReplyDeleteNice results. For a moment there I thought you had dipped the model into the Scorpion Green soup. :P
ReplyDeleteWhen I am done painting tau (maybe by the end of summer?) i have a ton of hormagaunts to paint, this sounds like a pretty awesome way to do it.
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