@ Gankom - Thanks!
@Duke Viktor Black - I use a grey primer from B&Q called Plasti-Kote, its cheap and if you're careful and lightly 'dust' the mini's, works ok. Its roughly the same colour as celestra grey. I put 2 thin coats of bugman's glow over the grey, followed by 2 thin coats of reikland flesh-shade.
@ Darknight - Thanks for your comment, I decided to give it a whirl and when I finish this guy, i'll try it out (I have 2 cans of Purity seal, hopefully that will work)
So, when I got back from work and saw I had comments
- I headed straight for my painting desk and got to work!
Here are some pics of how I got on. After cropping the G.sword pic in my previous post on photobucket, it made it look wonky so I left these ones with all their glorious cutting mat background!
Here is a picture of the current state of my Greatsword Test model.
I made a few mistakes doing this (particularly on the brown highlighting) and had to correct my mistakes by washing a mix of a darker shade, medium and water over mistakes. Thin enough the darkest shades still shine through.
Saying that, using a Rhinox hide + Gorthor brown 50/50 layer before the gorthor (or perhaps straight to baneblade brown 'edge highlights') will be much easier when painting ranks. The boots need fixing and a bit on the back of the hat.
I picked out some areas of flesh with another coat of Bugman's. I then proceeded to take ages messing up and 'fixing' the eyes.
I will probably go with evil sunz read highlights on the cloth and will give that a go tomorrow.
Not happy with the base (I should have based him properly first, but instead just used a bit of textured paint..) I decided to fix one of a batch of 100 I made over the christmas holidays that came out a horrid colour (deathclaw brown doesn't look like blackfire earth texture paint!
I have know Idea why I was trying to match regular sand to the GW texture paints either!)
Then I stuck a halberdier to it!
Here is a very early WIP of the halberdier. I want to keep the reds dark and muted on the non-gs troops to give the army a 'darker' feel.
Trying to paint the Altdorf Guard out of the Uniforms and Heraldry book I came across a problem, which is the nice black and gold that I want running through my army doesn't work too well on the leather jackets! I will have to find a way to get some gold onto them without it looking strange, but hey.. Reserving the glossy black for the greatswords (and my knights of the blazing sun) I decided to try shading black (!)
I did this by mixing skavenblight dinge and abaddon black (Abaddon Dinge!) I then painted a coat of Nuln oil over the top.
I think this looks ok and will be better when I get to highlighting (and find somewhere to add gold!)
The light has washed a bit of contrast out in these pictures - hopefully some daylight ones when they're done(!)
Once I have the training wheels off, I'll hopefully be able to show some more interesting pictures, so bear (rawr) with me!
Thanks for all your support.
I appreciate your comments and critiques.
*edit* noticed I missed a tiny patch of abaddon dinge on the halbedier. It isn't the light washing out the contrast, I just hadn't shaded the halberdier yet! Ha.