Spring Cleaning Sisters of Silence

You can see my usual black recipe in the previous post: Model Air Nato Black, black ink wash, no highlights. I wanted a higher contrast finish for the Sisters. Here it goes a bit wrong.

Before I get much more paint on I drybrush the fur. I want a warm colour so basecoat with Model Air Golden Brown and wash with Agrax Earthshade. I’d usually begin drybrushing with the base coat but Model Air is a bit thin. I mix Flat Earth with Desert Yellow (all paints are Model Colour in the rest of this), then pure Desert Yellow, then Pale Sand. I do a final drybrush of Pale Sand to really stand out. It looks very stark now but will mellow once I’ve varnished the minis at the end.

I always do bases first. Partly it makes sure I do it, partly because I don’t mind making a mess with all that drybrushing. I had a bit of spare buff (the lightest colour) on the palette so drybrushed the whole of the models. It’s been so long I needed a good look at the detail under that black primer.

The texture went on before I primed the Sisters. It’s a mix of medium and fine railway ballast: quick, low effort but effective.

My usual recipe is Burnt Umber, heavy overbrush of Flat Earth, heavyish drybrush of Buff; then back round the rim of the base with Burnt Umber.

An inauspicious start. I got these Sisters more or less when they came out. I assembled them, primed them and other than using up some spare US Field Drab when painting other minis’ bases I’ve done nothing with them.

Let’s watch this change.