Painting dreadfleet

How to paint white or any colour on black primer? Painting white directly on black didn’t work well earlier in the project when painting the sails of the wrecked ships. This time I used a different approach: paint all the areas to be painted in any colour grey first. I used Model Color Light Grey for this. While painting the castle on The Bloody Reaver, I noticed this painted makes the black primer disappear completely after two coats.

Basecoating

The next step was to paint the large surfaces in the colours I wanted on top of the grey:

• Game Color Off White: the skeletons and anchors. This took several coats, even on the grey.
• Game Color Bloody Red: essentially everything I didn’t want to paint in an other colour. This is a new paint is this project. It’s a “tomato red”, brighter than Model Color Carmine Red, which I’ve used so far.
• Panzer Aces Old Wood: the scrolls
• Model Color Orange Red: the back of the scrolls

Highlights and details

Model Color White: the skeletons and anchors

Model Color Dark Sand: the edges of the scrolls

Model Color Burnt Red: the words “Bloody Reaver”! ?

And done! With the sails finished all I need to do is glue them in place. This was more complicated than it looks. It’s as if this miniature (and a few others in this game) was designed by someone who doesn’t paint miniatures. To paint in subassemblies and then put everything together was sometimes difficult. But to assemble everything first and then paint it, would have been worse.

All that remains to be done is varnishing and the Bloody Reaver is finished: