Let Slip A Dog Of War

Work continues on the Warhound! A few of the bits and jesus there are a lot of them were ready for next stage. Rather than wasting a shitload of time and cash on GW’s overpriced washes,  I decided to give oil washing a bash. Not something I’ve tried before but ah well  – why not!!

2 thigh panels, the coc… crotch plate and the plasma blast canon were up for it.

Mixed up a wash with equalish parts of lamp black & burnt umber from W&N with odourless mineral spirit and had  a wee bit of neat burnt sienna on the side to blend into the wash as i went.

Didnt have any makeup sponges to hand so i cut up one of those yellow kitchen sponges to wipe off the excess later.

Slatthered the wash on with a cheapo Lidl oils brush and then took off the immediate excess with a chunk of sponge and left it be for an hour or so.

After an hour or thereabouts I removed more of the wash with sponge and odourless spirit and then feathered n tidied up any streaking with a brush.

Think they came out rather nicely. God smokey aged battleworn look. (none of that parade ground clean n perfect pish here!! )

After leaving the oil washed plasma gun to dry/cure fully for about a week twas time to tackle the bloody plasma coils.  Plasma on a smaller mini like a skitari or heaven forbid a space marine is easy enough but on a titan’s plasma gun……. bit trickier as flaws show up so much more easily but had to be done.

Paints use (from light to dark): Kimera white, DR white ink, GW Baharroth blue, S75 Adriatic Blue, VGC Turquoise, S75 Caspian Blue, AK3G Anthracite

Used a mix of airbrush and W&N S7 #1 brush on it. Happy how it came out in the end but twas a right PIA as a workup!!