My Attempt At Painting: Warhammer Underworlds Shadespire - The Tabletop Hub

Hey everyone Sam here, today I’m going to be attempting to paint the Sepulchral Guard for Shadespire. If you’re new to my ‘My Attempt at Painting’ series, it’s basically my attempt at painting some mini’s in the hopes that it’ll inspire you to pick up a brush and get painting. I wouldn’t call myself an experienced mini painter by any means and my hope is that no matter what skill level you’re at that you watch this video, read through my tutorial and think, well if this guy can do it, so can I.

So with that said let’s get stuck in. To begin with I actually gave the entire warband an undercoat of Army Painters Skeleton Bone, because the skeleton makes up so much of the mini this really just saves you a ton of time as opposed to undercoating in black.

Next I wanted to get to work painting the cloak and cloth work that are so predominant on these mini’s, so I took some Army Painters Crusted Sore, added a little bit of water and gave it a thin coating. I’m trying to water down my paints more rather than just applying them straight out of the bottle and although you’ll find you need to add an extra coat or two it really helps give you a nice, even, streak free look.

Next I took Army Painters Oak Brown and painted the shields that any of the troops had that looked like they were made of wood. I equally used Oak Brown to coat the straps of the mini’s and the spear or pike shaft that the main hero skeleton wields.

At the moment I’m trying to experiment a little more with non-metallic metals or NMM, it’s something I dabbled with when I painted my Super Mutant for Fallout Wasteland Warfare, you can check that painting guide in another of my projects here, but I wanted to do the same thing here with the breastplate of the skeletal guard. The shields of the mini’s I still painted with Gunmetal but here, because it’s so predominant I actually used Army Painters Dungeon Grey. Once that had dried I then took some Army Painters Dry Rust effect paint and grabbed my stippling brush and just dabbed and scraped the effect paint onto the appropriate areas like the breastplate and greaves. Once I had got the effect paint onto the areas I wanted it on I then took a dry brush and just brushed these areas down to smooth the effect paint into place and just thin it out a little.

For the chainmail on the main hero here I actually used Army Painters Weapon Bronze and then added some Gunmetal as a top layer just to make it look like the chainmail was a bit more rusted and worn.

For the base I painted the dirt with Army Painters Dark Stone and then painted any rocks or boulders that were on the bases with Dungeon Grey.

Once I had the miniatures painted I then just went back and tried to cover up any mistakes of where paint had gone where I didn’t want to and especially repainting some of the bones from where the reds of the rust had accidentally went over them. Once I had done that and tidied them up a little it was time to add some Quickshade.

Now it’s been a few tutorials since I’ve used Army Painters Quickshade and while I wouldn’t recommend it for high detail mini’s, in this case with the Sepulchral Guard it seemed to make sense. So I got some Strong Tone Quickshade and gave the Sepulchral Guard a generous coating, making sure to go back and remove any excess pools with my brush. If you’ve never used Quickshade before it’s kind of like a cheaters method of getting easy highlights and shadows while at the same time adding a really great protective coating to your mini’s.

Once this had been left to dry for 24 hours I came back to the mini’s to add some simple edge highlighting. Now this is something I haven’t done on a miniature successfully before so this was a little daunting but I took some Army Painters Vampire Red and added this to the highlighted areas of the cloak and cloth work. I didn’t want to highlight the entire mini just in case I completely cocked it up so this time I chose just to focus on the cloth work and highlight there and thankfully, I can safely say that it came out well and really did add a nice accent to the clothing.

All that’s really left to do now is add some matt varnish to the warband and they’ll be ready for the table, but folks that is it, this is a really simple paint scheme and it gives a really nice look to the miniatures and I hope you’ve found it helpful.

Hopefully it wont be as long before I get my next guide out but expect some high-res images of each of the warriors in the warband very soon!