40k-Speedpainting-Challenge: A Battalion of Kasrkin in one Weekend ***COMPLETED***

The list is ready and I nearly had the 17 minis I want to paint. Only one was still in the mail, but I needed a plan and had to prepare the minis.

Preparing the Minis:

Back in the day one didn’t care about slit bases. Just paint them Goblin Green and there we go. Nowadays this is a no go for me. So I filled up the bases with Putty.

Also I didn’t care about mold lines back then. So I cleaned the models. The Sargeants couldn’t have Plasma Pistols I think until this edition, so the models had Hell Pistols. I replaced them with Plasma Pistols.

Lastly I glued the minis on nails. I always do this as it is a great handle when painting and very useful when dipping.

The minis are ready to be primed. Onto

The Plan:

• Uniforms will be grey
• Armour plating will be green
• Guns and backpacks will also be grey with a few details
• The eye lenses will be blue
• Cabeling will be red
• Some glowing on the weapons
• A few decals on the shoulders
• Martian Ironcrust for the bases

So the first step will be a black primer from the rattle can. I have to make sure to get into every single corner of the minis. But with the nail handle this is no problem as you can hold the mini up while priming and spray them from below too.

Second step will be zenithing with uniform grey, also from the rattle can. This should take care of the underlying uniforms and mostly of the backpacks and guns.

Then I will start working on the armour plating and see where I am going next from there.

So the list is ready. So are the minis and the plan. I’ll start tomorrow 1200h and will be posting updates through out the weekend regularly. That’s 1100h on BST. 

I only have one concern. I would love to dip them with the solvent based dip from army painter. But this stuff takes 24h to dry. So if I am not making it to this stage by Friday night I’ll probably have to use the water based dip. We’ll see.

Until tomorrow…