A Blood Angels Chaplain in Terminator Armour carrying an added relic on his back and accompanied by a flying zombie baby. Both have skull faces.
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Blood Angels scouts. #nerdlings #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer #40k #bloodangels
This marine is now done!
He isn't going to win Golden Demon, but personally I'm happy with how he looks given the relatively small amount of time invested. I can easily bash out a squad to this standard in 2-3 evenings and not get bored doing it.
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I then do a light and patchy drybrush of Kabalite Green followed by Gauss Blaster Green to bring out the base details, add a bit of green to subtly complement the red without going full christmas tree, and nod to the Goblin Green glory days.
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Finally finally: the base. This army started out as a Boarding Actions force so I use spaceship/industrial bases for them. First I splosh on Akhelian Green contrast over the whole base, leaving some red showing through for interest. Then splotches of Fuegan Orange for rusty bits.
Final touches: silver (Vallejo Chainmail Silver) on the chainsword teeth and bolter barrel, etc. I then shade this, and any other areas I want to darken down a bit, with Drakenhof Nightshade.
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Another advantage of the purple shadow colour we're using is that it helps to balance the orange and keep the overall perceived mid-tone as red.
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Next layering up Wild Rider Red and then Fire Dragon Bright as final point highlights. Red is hard to highlight and it's best to keep these highlight areas very small because otherwise it can start to read as orange rather than the deep red we want.
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Army Painter Pure Red (the paint, not the spray) to volumetric highlight upwards facing surfaces like the tops of the shoulder pads and edge highlight everywhere.
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Back to it: Onto highlighting the red. I tend to save this until last-ish so I can also repair any overspill onto the red areas from the other colours at the same time.
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The new Vanguard Vets look... fine. I approve of the Mk7 helmet! It's a shame there's not more differentiation vs Jump Pack Intercessors, but it's about what I expected. Hopefully there's some upgrade bits coming to let us add a bit more ornamentation ourselves.
It turns out it's much slower doing this and writing it up simultaneously than it is just to do it, plus I need to get up at 5am, so I'll finish this tomorrow!
Parchments get horizontal line highlights first in Rakarth Flesh then in white to give a crinkly texture. I also use the white to dot-highlight lenses, vials, jewels etc. #nerdlings #paintingwarhammer #warhammercommunity
Another bonus of abusing primer as your base colour is that if you mess up (which I did) and get white paint on the red bits, it's tough enough that you can get in there with a thumbnail and scrape off the fresher paint while (probably, hopefully) not damaging the primer.
The (3rd company) blood-drop on the pauldron I freehand by first drawing a line in a medium grey, then fattening out the bottom, then layering up to white, trying to roughly match the tone of the rest of the pauldron. #nerdlings #paintingwarhammer #warhammercommunity
For both the black and white areas I use the same colour progression of bluey-greys: The Fang, Russ Grey, Fenrisian Grey and then white (Schmincke PRIMAcryl Titanium White). I just cover a much smaller area and stop earlier on the black. #nerdlings #paintingwarhammer #warhammercommunity
I love point highlights! They take seconds to do and instantly make a model look 100% better and more polished. If you only take one thing from this tutorial let it be 'don't sleep on point highlights'. #nerdlings #paintingwarhammer #warhammercommunity
Yellow point highlights
More yellow point highlights
Finally, I use a very pale yellow (Dorn Yellow) for some point highlights on only the sharpest corners or highest points which would catch the light. #nerdlings #paintingwarhammer #warhammercommunity
With that in mind, I use a brighter yellow (Army Painter Daemonic Yellow) for my next layer, covering a smaller area of the surface/edges. #nerdlings #paintingwarhammer #warhammercommunity
The 'Eavy Metal style is to edge highlight pretty much every single edge on the whole model, but this is *just* a style and you *do not* have to do this. In fact it's more 'realistic' not to. I just pick out the upwards facing or most prominent edges, especially as I get brighter.
Let's do the yellow bits first (though the principles are the same everywhere). We'll use Averland sunset again to do both volumetric and edge highlights, brightening the yellows up again after the wash dulled them down. #nerdlings #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer
That same space marine from earlier.
I'm going to be employing three kinds of highlighting; volumetric, edge and point. For volumetric we'll be painting the most upwards-facing parts of each surface, for edge we'll be painting the edges(!) and for point we'll be using little dots on the brightest bits. #nerdlings #paintingwarhammer
(If you do hate highlighting and want to skip this next bit, a bit of careful drybrushing will be a good substitute to get you most of the way there.)
An edit of a Dr. Strangelove poster to now read 'Dr. Spend-more-time-on-stuff-you-love, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love army painting.
I think this is actually key advice for army painting! Choose the things you enjoy (or want to practice), put your time in there and figure out how to optimise everything else. You'll have a better time and the army will look better. #nerdlings #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer
Onto highlighting, which is actually the bulk of the work. This is by design, since this is the part of miniature painting I enjoy the most (an uncommon preference, I admit) so I design my schemes specifically to speed through everything else. #nerdlings #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer
The shade is dry now, but I need to go get my son from nursery so I'll finish this thread off later. Everything from here on out is basically just highlighting, however.
I've seen a lot of guides that say you should use different shades over different base colours. I don't like this because a) it's way more effort and b) your shade tint should indicate your ambient lighting - if it's all different colours you can end up losing your sense of place. #nerdlings
A space marine freshly covered in Druchii Violet
Slap Druchii Violet over the whole model. This will give us our ambient occlusion shading, reinforce our purple undertones, make the yellows read a bit 'colder', knock some of the shine off the primer (when dry) and tie the whole model together. #nerdlings #paintingwarhammer #warhammercommunity
Next we basecoat the other details - Vallejo Glorious Gold for bling, Rakarth Flesh for bone, skin and parchment and Averland Sunset for helmet and sword. Boring basecoating stage over! #nerdlings #warhamnercommunity #paintingwarhammer
