WarbossD - Burrows and Badgers - A beginning
Getting some paint down
The models are great. Just enough detail to bring them to life but not so burdened with fiddly components that they became a chore to paint.
Recently I’ve been using Army Painter Quickshade to produce great looking models quite quickly and I wanted to go with this for these models. Being metal models the shading step will also make the base coats extremely robust to wear when handling the metal models during highlighting.
The brown earthy tones of the ‘dip’ technique should really suit the natural colour tones I am planning of using to make thew models feel grounded and ‘real’. Although in fairness I only ever apply with Quickshade with an old brush as I find the dipping technique often lays the shade on way too thick and pooling is a real problem.
Another advantage for me is the Vallejo Model Color range of paints that I favour have many subtle tones of brown, green and grey which mean there are many ways to differentiate models parts without resorting to exotic and off the wall colour schemes.
To begin I wanted to just lay down neat base colours and then using an appropriate shade over the top.
The images above show the base colours used for the represented models, and I think give the general idea. While some of the browns and green would probably stand a coat of strong tone I will generally use soft tone to avoid over muting the red and orange tones on some of the models.
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