Necromunda: Hive War (a Painting Challenge)

I like the two gangs in this set as they have the look of two completely opposite paint schemes. The all female gang (Esher) and the secretive Delaque present themselves as a vibrant “Punk” paint scheme and a contrastingly dark and ominous one.

So I started with the Delaque gang and built the ten models simply as described in the suggested scheme given in the box set. (I followed the same plan for the Esher gang).

Once assembled I undercoated the Delaque in Black and highlighted them with a grey pray paint directly from above.  I wanted their long coats be to a dark leather look and so limited the contrast. The Esher had a single all over grey primer.

I was also inspired to paint these long leather coats in as dark a color as possible, ideally black.  However, I think it would be easier to have it dark brown, but with a Nuln Oil wash to darken the leather.

For the long leather coat I painted the entire coat in a 50/50 mix of Chocolate Brown and Black from the paint set. This was followed by using a piece of sponge to stipple some “damage” marks at various places with “Flat Earth” on the larger areas.

The next step was trying to “crosshatch” the highest folds with Dark Sand. I must admit at this point I was wondering where this was going! But once all this was dry a wash of “Smoke” was brushed over all the lower portions of the figure. I think it looks OK and did the same approach for the other models.

Note: I recorded this process to that I can replicate the scheme if I purchase additional figures.

A couple of photos show the finished look.

At this point I still think it’s was too “Red/Brown” but as I intend to coat the entire model in Nuln Oil I hope this will darken down the Leather as well as “griming up” the other colors.