Fumbling my way around the world of Ancients

I’m a fan of keeping thing simple so with these I’m going to go with a 2 or 3 stage painting process after undercoating.

I undercoated the models first with a grey spray undercoat and then a light spray of Games Workshop Wraith Bone.  The Wraith Bone was sprayed from about 45 degrees to give a zenith highlight.  I am not sure its necessary with these figures but for the sake of a couple of minutes extra work I decided to do it anyway.

I then blocked in the base colours in this order;

Flesh with The Army Painter Kobold Skin

Tunics with Citadel Contrast Blood Angels Red

Sarissa Shafts with Citadel Zandri Dust

Boots and Straps with Citadel Gorthor Brown

Bronze Areas with The Army Painter Weapon Bronze

Blue Areas with The Army Painter Crystal Blue

I wasn’t overly careful with blocking in the colours because the next stage was going to be a wash.

I mixed a wash from equal parts

Strong Tone from  The Army Painters Quickshade

Quickshade Wash Mixing Medium from The Army Painter

I felt that strong tone on its own was just a little too dark for figures at this scale and I didn’t really want to go with a lighter shade, just a more diluted shade.

The result was rather mucky looking but I figured adding highlights to a couple of the colours would enhance the miniatures a lot.  Besides the main focus on the figures would probably be the shields once they are done.

I chose to just highlight a couple of colours, the White and the Blue.

White with Wargames Foundry 33C White

Blue with Citadel Lothern Blue

So far I am reasonably happy with the results.  Its a very quick paint scheme and with over 300 Sarissa armed troops to do I think I will appreciate that by the end.

I did a few of the helmets in blue and a some in white to break up the bronze look and because pictures I had seen had helmets in different colours.  I did toy with the idea of doing some in red but ultimately decided to just stick to the 3 colours.