Today's offerings!

Today's offerings to the dark gods came in the form of me saying to myself "let's get the first stage highlight done on that aegis"...... Which then turned out to become first stage highlighting on the flying prince, aegis and two heldrakes....... What can I say I had the mixture there in the pot ready :D

Also if you look closely you might spot a few extra touches on the mauler where I've 4th highlighted the face and done a wee bit of gold on the standard prince (only used for dark apotheosis and test painting).

The helldrakes are both worked up from black and given 3-4 light coats of screamer pink. Then I loaded up pink horror tonight and gave the whole thing a light dusting of it to bring out some shadows before using it to highlight along edges. Liking the results so far and another airbrush highlight to go yet before the brushwork begins!

Wish me luck as that final highlight is on the cards for tomorrow night :p

Terabyt3

A new project. The Saim-Hann Wave "Serpent"

Okay so here I go painting my troop carrying tank #1. I could have gone down the route of GW and stayed true to "normal" Saim-Hann colours but where's the fun in that! So wanting something different and setting a challenge for myself I went for an actual scale effect on the tank. These first 3 steps take about an hour including drying time.

Here's the tank basecoated:

This was undercoated using Skull White spray then airbrushed with Red Gore. The Skull white makes the red really stand out compared to a black undercoat. Then a Chaos Black was used with the airgun to "blend and fade on the extremes of the hull.

Next came some shading:

The first step of shading is done using a watered down Scab Red and painting the dips and recesses with that. At fist it won't look like much but when you apply the wash it really darkens it and sinks the darker red well. Once dry wash the whole model ina 1:1:1 mix ox Scab Red:Chaos Black:Badab Black. Ensure that this mix sits in the recesses and once it's dry you should see the effect the Scab Red had on the dipped areas.

Now for the time consuming part:

Painting each scale individually...... I know, right? Using a 50/50 mix of Mechrite Red and Blood Red I've started to paint the individual scales on. They are just solid colour at the moment and I'll shade and highlight each scale when it comes to it. Trying to random pattern the scales and have less scales as it moves toward the black areas. The shading in the first twon steps still shows through the gaps in the scales.

Well that's taken me an hour so far. The next post will hopefully be a scale covered tank ready for some shading and highlighting. Must get back to it I guess. Wish me luck!

Terabyt3!

Painting the pouches...

Following on from the previous Pathfinder painting tutorial I'll move onto how to paint the pouches and backpack.

I really didn't want to go down the route of standard leather as IMO Eldar have advanced past using animal skin as clothing. So to give it a synthetic feel I decided on a light grey for the belts and pouches. As before it's a Chaos Black undercoat.

Stage 1: Adeptus Battlegrey

Stage 2: A watered down Badab Black was applied (ensuring recesses were filled)

Stage 3: First highlight was simply Adeptus Battlegrey again.

Stage 4: Second Highlight was a watered down 50/50 mix of Adeptus Battlegrey and Astronomican Grey. (Be careful with this part as with it watered down it can run into the recesses and ruin your shading if you hold too much paint on your brush). The watereing down of this allows the previous highlight to show through a small amount and "blends the colour better.

Stage 5: Extreme highlight pure Astronomican Grey.

Stage 6: The buttons and buckles where simply painted Dwarf Bronze then highlighted Shining Gold.

That about sums up the lot of it! The reason I use the foundation paints for this is to get a nice even coat and because of the rest of the model a clean bright contrast helps it stand out,

I hope this helped anyone reading it, next up I'll cover the weapons.

Cheers, Terabyt3!

Painting the cloak...

A few people have asked how I've painted the pathfinder so I'm going to break it down. Unfortunately I don't have any step-by-step pictures at the moment but soon I will!

Stage 1: Basecoat the entire cloak with a 50/50 of Cathalan Brown and Scorched Brown

Stage 2: Use a watered down Scorched Brown to shade the recesses. (it won't look too dramatic at the moment)

Stage 3: Wash the entire cloak with a very watered down mix of the 50/50 mix from stage one and Badab Black. It should be 1:1:1:6 (maybe even higher water content)

Stage 4: First highlight with the 50/50 mix again

Stage 5: Second highlight with Cathalan Brown

Stage 6: Third highlight with a 1:2 vomit brown/water mix (be careful here not to "pool" the water in the recesses)

Stage 7: Extreme highlights with either a 1:2 mix of Bleached Bone/Vomit Brown (if you're feeling brave use pure Bleached Bone)

And that's it. All primer is Chaos Black spray and always keep a spare brush dry at the side to quickly catch any running paint. Feel free to comment any questions!

Enjoy, Terabyt3!