My Attempt At Painting: Fallout Wasteland Warfare - The Tabletop Hub

Hey everyone Sam here from the Tabletop Hub, and today we’re back for another Fallout Wasteland Warfare painting guide.

Once again I’m trying to keep things simple with my paint scheme for Dogmeat, we’re only going to be using four paints and one wash. This model is pretty tricky to do though in my opinion, German Shepherds are lovely dogs and one of their distinctive attributes is how their fur has that natural fade of colours and Dogmeat is no exception, what makes this tricky to achieve on this miniature is that there isn’t a massive amount of fur definition on the model. The torso is quite smooth and as such you’re going to spend most of your time while painting this model doing a lot of feathering, and judging up where those fade lines should be.

Before we jump in, I would recommend tackling Dogmeat one side and one limb at a time, because of the amount of feathering we’ll be doing here it’s just easier to keep track and work with the model if you aren’t trying to do the whole thing at once.

So, first of all I took some of Army Painters Leather Brown and began painting the hind leg of Dogmeat, this is going to be our main or base fur colour for Dogmeat so you’re going to paint the bulk of the legs, the underside of the tail and Dogmeats midriff in this colour.

Next I took some Army Painters Skeleton Bone and painted Dogmeats belly, you may find this paint to be pretty watery so don’t be surprised if you have to give it a coat or two to get an even spread.

Next, while the Skeleton Bone was still slightly wet, I took my brush with Leather Brown on it and began painting Dogmeats midriff and tried to feather the two colours as I went, if you do this and find that there’s too much Skeleton Bone getting into the middle of the torso don’t be afraid to wait a little while and do another coat of Leather Brown to cover it up, take your time with this, it’s tricky, it’s annoying but in the end it’ll be worth it if you get a nice smooth fade.

Next I took some Army Painters Oak Brown and used the same process to apply the paint to the top of Dogmeats torso, again trying to feather as best as I could as I went.

As for the face, for Dogmeats nose I used Necromancers Cloak, and for the rest of the face apart from the eyes I used the Leather Brown. It really helps to have a reference photo or two of Dogmeats face up on a screen near you when doing this and that’ll really help you figure out what colour should go where when painting the face.

For the base I used Necromancers Cloak for all of road surfaces and mixed two parts Leather Brown with one part Necromancers Cloak for the dirt just to give it a bit of a darker look. For the plank and Nuka Cola bottle I painted those with Oak Brown.

While the base was drying I took some Army Painters Necromancers Cloak and gave the top of Dogmeat a dry brush in order to get the final fade. I didn’t use black for this as I felt it would be just too dark and we’ll be adding a wash to this in a moment to bring down the colour slightly anyways so don’t worry if it doesn’t look dark enough.

Once the entire model has dried, give it a wash with Citadels Nuln Oil to finish it off, this will really help bring out any definition that is in the fur, especially near the front of the model and really helps mask those fade lines a bit better if like me you’re not a pro at it.

And folks that is it, this was my attempt at painting Dogmeat from Fallout Wasteland Warfare, I hope you’ve found it helpful. If you’re learning to paint miniatures and want to showcase your work or get some tips feel free to join my Discord. There’s a number of us in there painting a whole range of miniatures with a whole range of skill levels too and I can’t tell you how helpful it can be to have someone to bounce ideas or get advice from when you’re learning how to paint.

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S.