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Painting the KD:M Pinup Architect

Painting the KD:M Pinup Architect

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Basecoating

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Basecoating

When painting I prefer to basecoat the flesh areas first – although this miniature isn’t too complex in terms of sculpt, it can help when trying to figure out what’s happening.

Basecoating

The next step (and the hardest!) was to figure out a colour scheme.  One of the other painters said, ‘We’ve got a red Architect and a blue Architect, why not go green?’  After hunting around a bit, I found a picture of a samurai that used really interesting colours (link to the image and artist: https://www.deviantart.com/freshpaint/art/Paizo-Male-Samurai-282060941).

I decided to pull the jade, the dark blue-green, and the gold for the miniature and basecoated in darker versions of those colours.

Flesh – Reaper’s Tanned Highlight
Top and Boots – Citadel’s Waaagh! Flesh
Cape and Boot Details – a mix of Waaagh! Flesh and Citadel’s Kantor Blue
Helmet – Citadel’s XV-88
Glove, Panties, and Socks – Citadel’s Kantor Blue
Feathers – Citadel’s Jokaero Orange

I briefly basecoated the lowermost boots in Citadel’s Rhinox Hide but the dark colour pulled the eye down, away from the majority of the mini.  In the end, I painted over using Waaagh! Flesh again, but left a slight tint of the brown showing through to help distinguish between the sections.

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