Skitarii Vanguard

 Hello once again friends. Today I'm going through my skitarii vanguard and the very unconventional colour scheme that I chose for them. It's an orange and camo green colour scheme, and is usually one that I don't much care for, which is exactly why I chose it. I wanted to see if I could do this colour scheme justice and I think that I may have done just that, but I'll let you be the judge of that.

I started the orange of their jackets with Jokaero orange, then layered with the Privateer Press colour Ember orange mixed with Jokaero orange in a 50/50 mix and layered again with Ember orange. Afterwards I washed the jackets with agrax earthshade and then edge highlighted with Trollslayer orange.

The blue on the Skitarii was started with Teclis blue, highlighted with Lothern blue, washed with Nuln oil, layered again with Lothern blue and edge highlighted with Vallejo White-Grey air paint. 

The green on their armour pieces were base coated with Deathworld forest, I then layered with Elysian green and washed with Athonian camoshade. After the wash had dried I layered again with Elysian green and edge highlighted with Ushabti bone. 

The brass on the skitarii were base coated with Warplock Bronze from Citadel, I then layered with Brass Scorpion and then washed with nuln oil. Afterwards I layered again with Brass Scorpion and then edge highlighted with runefang steel.

I think I did this unconventional colour scheme justice but I'm a little biased. Let me know what you think in the comments. I'm going to follow through with this colour scheme with the rest of my skitarii so if I can improve upon it I will.

That's it for me this week. I hope to post a little more frequently this month than I had last month. Next week I'll be painting up some Crypt Ghouls for my Flesh Eater Courts. 

Stay safe and hobby on

Lord Drachen von austerberger

 

I started the lord off with a basecoat of Rakarth flesh and made sure to get a solid coat as it is a lighter colour and absolutely needs more layers in order to have a proper solid coating. 

After the Rakarth flesh I applied a generous but not overzealous amount of the new contrast yellow from the Citadel paint range to all of the fleshy areas. This was then washed with agrax earthshade and then highlighted with ungor flesh. 

I chose this colour scheme for the flesh as I wanted a ill jaundiced look for the skin. Personally I think it turned out well. This is an easy scheme that I will be using on all of my fleshy troops for this army.

I also basecoated the claws with zandri dust, after the yellow had dried on the flesh, just to ensure there was no accidental mixing between the paints. 

After the zandri dust had dried I applied screaming skull, which I then washed with agrax earrthshade, and layered again with screaming skull. I then highlighted the claws with pallid wych flesh. 

After the yellow on the flesh had dried I layered ungor flesh to all of the raised areas, ensuring that I did not get any into the cracks and crevices. 

The blue was started with Caledor sky, layered with Teclis blue and edge highlighted with lothern blue

That's it for me this week. Next week I'll be showing off some skitarii vanguard. Happy gaming.

The Broodlord!

As you know I play Tyranids for Warhammer 40K. I enjoy painting them because they feel both very natural, and at the same time very unnatural, giving it that somewhat creepy and uneasy feeling. Well recently I've been painting up a broodlord and I think it looks pretty good. I'll give you a rundown of how I painted it. 

I started the red with Khorne red from the Citadel paint range. I then layered it with Wazdakka red. After that I layered it with evil sunz scarlet and gave it a wash in Carroburg crimson. I then highlighted with evil sunz. 

As for the white I started with Celestra Grey as a base. I then layered up to the Vallejo White-Grey air paint. Afterwards I gave it a wash with Abbadon black that had been mixed with a fair bit of medium. It was around 4:1 or until it becomes very runny. This was then layered with the White-Grey again and then highlighted with pallid wych flesh.

The purple for the veins began with a base of the xereus purple layer paint from Citadel. I then made a 50/50 mix of xereus purple and the Vallejo air White-Grey paint and layered that on top. I then took that mix and mixed another 50/50 ratio with the Vallejo air White-Grey paint and used that to highlight all purple areas.

The claws were pretty simple. I started with Zandri dust as a base, layered with screaming skull, washed with agrax earthshade and highlighted with screaming skull.

Here he is in all of his glory 

Well that's it for me this week. Next week I'll be showing off my Flesh Eater Courts Vampire! Have a great weekend and Happy Halloween 

New to Battletech

 Hello everyone, it's been some time since my last post hasn't it? Well I plan on fixing that and keeping posts coming at a regular rate, hopefully.

At any rate I've recently bought the Beginner box for Battletech by Catalyst games. I haven't played any games yet, but I was able to paint these models up and get them tabletop ready. 

I started by spraying them with the Citadel Skull White spray, with the intent to test out the new Citadel contrast paints on them which seemed to work like a charm!

After the contrast paints, which honestly worked better than expected with the red, I touched up the red with some Evil Sunz Scarlet edge highlights to make the red really stand out.

I then decided on a blue contrast colour to make the red really stand out. I started with Caledor Sky, highlighted with teclis blue and washed it with nuln oil. 

The other one I painted with the Citadel yellow contrast paint Iyanden Yellow. Honestly I liked how that one turned out a bit less so I touched up the yellow with the Base paint Averland Sunset to get some solid yellow colours on the flatter parts of the model. I then combined Averland Sunset with the Vallejo air paint White-Grey in a 1-3 mix (1 part yellow to 3 parts grey white). 

For the green on the yellow fellow I started with death world forest as a base, layered with Elysian green and then highlighted with ogryn camo and then gave it a final wash in Athonian camoshade.

The bases were painted using the Citadel texture paint Astrogranite, washed with nuln oil and drybrushed with Dawnstone and then Pallid Wych Flesh. 

The cockpits were painted with Russ grey and a line of Pallid Wych Flesh, with a little dot.

Here they are all completed.

Not too bad if I do say so myself. I'll have another post in the next week or so. See you all then.