The Founding

So after my first failure i had to have a little think, and here is what I have come up with.

So here is a quick step by step guide.

1- Prime Grey. This is just to make the next step easier

2- Airbrush army painter brainmatter beige. the grey primer was so that the beige will stick to the model. I’ve applied this without much worry about where it’s going as i’m going to mask off what i want to stay beige.

3-Greenstuff worlds liquid mask. I applied this very carefully using a cheap fine detail brush to just he area’s i wanted to keep beige.

4- Colour spray. Here i used The Plastic soldier companies German uniform fieldgrey once the liquid mask had dried.

5- Remove masking.

6- Tidy up mask. This could be where you have accidentally masked the armour you wanted in the green, Vallejo 70.830 german fieldgrey is an exact match for the spray.

7- Armour wash. here i washed the green armour with a thinned down nuln oil using lahmian medium. using the medium helps the was flow more evenly and not pool when it dries. But it’s been thinned down quite a lot so that it doesn’t darken down the model too much.

8- Block painting. Now i just paint all the basic block colours in, flat black for the armour joints, straps, pouches, gun casing and antenna’s.

Leadbelcher for various parts of the gun, scopes, antenna’s, backpacks, some grenades.

Khorne red for the the other grenades, eye lenses and scopes sights.

9- nuln oil wash applied all of the block colours applied above.

10- highlights. Red grenades were highlighted with evil sunz scarlet.

lens effects were created using Khorne red, evil sunz scarlet fire dragon bright, flash gitz yellow and white.

Silver was highlighted with stormhost silver.

11- washing the beige. so with the beige i made a wash mix of 2 parts agrax and 3 parts lahmian medium, so it’s not too strong and just enough to add a little shade to the recesses.

12- shoulder pad trim and symbol. base with retributor gold, wash with reikland fleshshade and little highlight of retributor gold again and then a tiny bit of silver followed by a slight wash of agrax earthshade.

13- Base. The base was painted with a base colour Rhinox hide and i then applied greenstuff worlds crackle paint, once that’s dried i then layered it with XV-88, then zandri dust, followed by a dry brush of ushabti bone. Then give it a wash of agrax followed by another drybrush of ushabti bone. then slap on a tuft of static grass and some citadel texture paint valhallan blizzard, paint eh rim black and then you’re just left with one step.

14- Matt varnish and you’re done.