Here I have a variety of painting projects: WitchHunters, IG tanks, Eldar, weathering experiments, and so on.
It seems obligatory to begin with a picture of one's workspace, so here it is ...
Here I have a variety of painting projects: WitchHunters, IG tanks, Eldar, weathering experiments, and so on.
It seems obligatory to begin with a picture of one's workspace, so here it is ...
Last edited by randyc9999; 21-07-2008 at 04:29. Reason: More accuracy ...
And here is a closeup of the two different wet palettes that I use.
The one in the foreground is simply the plastic from a typical GW package. The bigger space contains my water, the other space contains some sponge from a GW blister with wax paper on top. The sponge is saturated with water. It keeps paint completely wet for at least 20 hours.
In the background is a commercial wet palette. It works okay but its paper is a bit of a hassle to prepare and it only keeps the paint wet for about an hour.
Given that the title for this log says Eldar and WitchHunters, it seems sensible to begin with chaos ...
This is a piece I entered yesterday in a local painting competition. I was trying to get a dirtier look and even tried some weathering products to help in that regard. However, it didn't win, but I think it was in the top two or three ... out of four !
Last edited by randyc9999; 09-06-2008 at 00:49. Reason: Better pictures
There was a squad category in this competition, and I was going to enter this stormtrooper squad, but alas, I didn't have time to finish it since I was too busy trying to finish painting my eldar army for the tournament.
Last edited by randyc9999; 09-06-2008 at 05:43. Reason: Better image
One of the heavy supports for my eldar army in the tournament was this wraithlord. First picture, is it after base coating.
The colors for the base coat are:
red - P3 Sanguine Base
grey - Shadow grey (Vallejo Game Color)
bone/brown - P3 Bootstrap Leather
purple - imperial purple (Vallejo Game Color)
Last edited by randyc9999; 09-06-2008 at 02:47. Reason: added paint colors
Now after finishing the reds.
For the reds, I first inked with combo of red ink + black ink. I then blended with
1. Sanguine Base + Skorne Red (P3)
2. Skorne Red
3. Skorne Red + Khador Red Base
4. Khador Red Base
5. Khador Red Base + Khador Red Highlight
6. Khador Red Base + even more Khador Red Highlight
7. Khador Red Highlight
Steps 3-7 were pretty thinned down with water + matt medium
Purple is a color I have lots of trouble with. I tried the following:
1. Imperial Purple
2. Imperial Purple + Liche Purple (Vallejo Game Color version)
3. Liche Purple
4. Liche Purple + Vallejo Blue Violet
5-9. Progressively added bone to the mix.
10. To make it blend a bit better, I washed it with about 10:1 water:Liche Purple wash.
Last edited by randyc9999; 09-06-2008 at 03:03. Reason: Added paint colors
And here it is as it looked in yesterday's tournament. Just need to get the gems done.
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It all looks pretty good! I like the red on the wraithlord.
Originally Posted by L192837465
I was a bit pressed for time before the tournament and I wasn't able to field some of the units that I wanted.
I was planning on using the Avatar as a HQ choice, but I realized a couple days before the tournament that there was no way I was going to get it done (I still had the above wraithlord unprimered, an unpainted squad of guardians, and a partial harliquin unit ), so I decided to go with Maugan Ra. Since it was going to use a similar paint scheme, I decided to paint it at the same time as the wraithlord.
Here it is after the reds have been painted.
And here it is as it was at the tournament. I still have gems and other detailing to do, but it was certainly okay for table-top.
BTW, it kind of underperformed at the tournament. The highlight/lowlight, was dying to four slugga boy pistol shots, despite the 2+ save (4 pistol shots, 3 failed saves)!
For the tournament, I ran two squads of guardians, which in three games managed to stun a single rhino, even with multiple Eldrad guiding. One of these squads had its reds and purples done but everything else still in base coat, as seen here.
The other guardian squad is almost complete. Here are three of them.
And here is the complete squad.
And finally two closeups. The one strange thing you might notice about both guardian squads. I had my son glue the models together (he likes that and playing the game but not the painting), and each and every time he decided to add an unhelmeted male head, it was invariably put on one of the few female guardian bodies. Talk about male boobs ...
Last edited by randyc9999; 10-06-2008 at 18:06.
Wait, people actually like assembling the obnoxious and finicky arms of Guardians? I guess it takes all kinds..
Other than that, pretty good work on the painting. The weathering looks particularly good on the Chaos termie.
Haha. It is awesome your son is interested in the game. Not to sound like a creep, but how old is he?
Anyways, awesome shading and superb quality. I like how you do not highlight, but instead think how lighting would actually react and just shading. It creates a very distinct style that looks nice on such smooth armour as eldar. Keep up the good work.
I was quite pleased to hand off the responsibility of gluing those guardians to my son; they are a real pain. He did refuse, however, to glue the third squad of guardians!
Thanks for kind words. My 14 year old son introduced me to the hobby a few years back. At some point, he kind of decided that he'd rather have me do the painting rather than him. Unfortunately it was at the same time that I became a bit more slow and careful with my painting. The result: we play a lot of the time with primered only armies.
As for my painting style, I've always thought that the edge highlighting style, while it looks very good on the tabletop, isn't particularly realistic, so I've tried something a bit different with my eldar.
Last edited by randyc9999; 10-06-2008 at 15:24.
My involvement with 40K began a three or four years ago when my kids purchased the Battle for McCarrage set. They began to tire of marines vs bugs and so I decided to purchase an army as well to give them more playing options. The army I selected was the Witch Hunters and my first paint job was the standard black armour sisters. About a year and half ago (I think) I stripped them, rebased them, and tried a different paint scheme.
Over the next few days I'll try to post more pictures, but here are two Seraphim, one of which is the VSS. I decided to make the colored shrine things count as the Book of St. Lucius for each squad.
Unfortunately, in 5th edition these extra tall models will be at a real disadvantage (I think) with the new LOS rules.
I stopped by my local game store and picked up three of the new GW washes (Black, Flesh, Red).
This is what it looks like after one coat directly on white. Most of the body is flesh, the gun is black, and the clothes are red.
And after two coats.
As promised, here are some photos of the rest of the Seraphim squad. They are not yet complete, and are getting a bit beat up from falling over on the gaming table!
The one on the right is only base coated in a number of places.
Here are a few more of the Seraphim. As you can see, the faces and hair didn't quite work out. The metal of the guns is only base coated grey as well.
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