Once again, I've been practicing painting only with washes and I've gotten pretty good with it. I'm doing some cadians for a friend and I feel I've nailed it. The fatigues are gryphone sepia, the armor is thraka green and devlan mud mixed, the flesh is orgryn flesh, the flock is devlan mud, and the black and white is just that...chaos black and skull white.
It goes so fast and I can do about a whole squad in just one sitting.
PS: Sorry about the pic quality, they came out a bit blurry...
Last edited by big squig; 14-07-2009 at 07:23.
Looks good! What did you use as basecoat under the washes?
The green looks like something I could use for Wood Elf cloaks.
wow these look great. could you give a step by step on how you achieved the look? I am painting cadians and would love to use whatever method you did.
Last edited by Guerillaboy; 13-07-2009 at 18:03.
Looking good.
All just washes over a basecoat? No edge highlights or nuffin'?
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Can you also name the base colors you've used? And then the washes used over the base colors pleeez?Originally Posted by big squig
Originally Posted by Rick Blaine
I don't get this fascination the internet has with plastic Plaguebearers. Surely we all have all the PBs we need by now?
No base color. Just assemble the mini, glue sand to the base, prime white, black wash the entire mini (including the sand), very very very lightly dry brush white to soften/lighten things up, apply washes.
Essentially, you are gray-scaling the mini from head to toe. This takes care of all your base, shade, and highlight. Then, you just stain in the colors with washes.
I'll try to put together a step-by-step process with pictures.
Last edited by big squig; 13-07-2009 at 21:44.
Looks pretty good, and if it's that quick then wahay! You could have an entire army painted up in days! Is it as effective on vehicles/larger models as well?
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Looks great! I'm gonna have to pick up a few new minis to try this myself...
Even more impressive.
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Looks great, I love devlan, sepia, and badab, however the rest always turn out to shiny for me.
How many coats of the wash are you applying? The green of the armor just looks so solid. I've never gotten this effect when using just the washes over white primer.
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Simply stunning! An excellent technique. i guess ill have to try it!
I basicly painted my entire Beasts of Chaos army with nothing but washes. The black/white gray-scaling didn't even occur to me but not that you said it, it makes perfect sense. I just have to try it.
Ok, I've made a step-by-step tutorial as was requested.
If you have any questions, let me know.
Last edited by big squig; 14-07-2009 at 08:23.
Also, some more examples....
(A couple of these have been posted here before.)
Thanks for the tutorial. Much appreciated.
Originally Posted by Rick Blaine
I don't get this fascination the internet has with plastic Plaguebearers. Surely we all have all the PBs we need by now?
Did a few more minis today. All reaper. I especially love the monkey.
Thanks a bunch!
Try shaking the pot before using, it should kill the shininess. My Devlan Mud didn't work at all until a friend of mine gave me a tip about shaking.
Haha! That is amazing!
Too bad there aren't any pink washes for my Slaanesh marines, but at least my old skaven minis will get painted pretty quickly!
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