Painting demo

I've painted a set of five space marines sequentially,  so that each step of th3 painting process can be seen (ish).

Hopefully this will help the kids improve their technique; at the warhammer club I run at school.

Space marines:
1. Primed with Imperial Primer.
2. Basecoated, armour is macragge blue, gunmetal and insignia are Leadbelcher,  gunbody is abaddon black, eye-lenses and wax seal are mephiston red, finally shoulder trim and script are ceramite white. Backpack skull with Balthasar Gold.
3. Washed, armour with blue ink (watered down 50/50), gunmetal and insignia with nuln oil, wax and eye-lenses with carroburg crimson, script with agrax earthshade. Backpack skull washed with nuln oil.
4. Mid lighted, armour Kantor Blue/Calgar Blue (50/50). Highlight gunmetal and insignia with ironbreaker. Backpack skull with gehennas gold.
5. Edge highlighted armour with Teclis blue. 2nd layer of ceramite white on shoulder trim. Base sanded, painted rhinox hide, drybrushed doombull brown with patches of scorched earth static grass. Eye-lenses highlight troll slayer orange, a dot of ceramite  then 'ardcoat for shine.

Warpstone

So, after finishing my clanrats I'm working on the rat Ogres and Master Moulder.  Before attempting the gigantic chunk of warpstone sticking from the shoulder of one of the Rat Ogres I decided to paint the smaller pieces of warpstone on the Master Moulder's prodstick.

Step 1:

Prime the whole model in chaos black.

Step 2:

Basecoat the warpstone in Abaddon Black followed by 33/66 Caliban Green/Abaddon Black. (Not entirely sure the first coat of AB was necessary)

Step 3:

Drybrush with Kabalite Green. A bit heavily. 

Step 4:

Drybrush with Warpstone Glow, more gently.

Step 5:

Edge highlight using a Fine Detail brush and Moot Green.

Glow

Step 6:

After surrounding metal has been layered and highlighted.

Wash closest metal to the warpstone with Biel-Tan Green.

Step 7:

Layer Kabalite Green.

Step 8:

Highlight Warpstone Glow, onto the Kabalite Green but only on the areas closer to the warpstone chunk.

Step 9:

Final highlight Moot Green on spot closest to the warpstone.

I found that after all that the glow looked too stark against the model, so I applied an extra was of Biel-Tan in the (hopefully not so) vain attempt to blend the transitions between greens in a little.

What do you think?

Rat Ogres

Well its time I put Clan Moulder's contribution to better use than in their first encounter with the High Elves! (See post below)

So to mark this new focus and the completion of  the unit of Clanrats with hand weapons I am starting to paint the Rat Ogre pair and their Master Moulder Greil.

Note to self; stop gluing models together before painting. Master Moulder is going to be a pain in the tail to paint with his prod in front of his body...

Well I started by using my new can of chaos black primer over our 2nd story balcony (praying to the horned one that I didn't drop a Rat Ogre!) Which worked nicely.

Basepainting

I followed that by basepainting the structural metals and blades with Leadbelcher and the more mechanical metal pieces with Balthasar Gold. (I figure the plates and blades will be made of steel whereas the canisters etc. would be constructed of the more malleable copper).

Fur: Abaddon Black

Skin: Ratskin Flesh

Cables: Caliban Green

Leather: Rhinox Hide

Teeth/Bandages: Ushabti Bone

Warpstone: 50/50 Abaddon Black/Caliban Green

Washes

Flesh: Agrax Earthshade

Leather: Agrax Earthshade

Bandages: Seraphim Sepia

Warpstone/Cables: Biel Tan Green

Steel/Copper: Nuln Oil

Scars: 25/75 Xereus Purple/Lahmian Medium

Cracks near warpstone: Biel-Tan Green

Layers

Fur: drybrushed Stormvermin Fur then Dawnstone

Leather: Doombull Brown then highlight with Tuskgor Fur

Steel: drybrushed with Ironbreaker

Copper: drybrushed with Gehenna's Gold

Bandages: highlighted with 50/50 Ushabti Bone/Scar White

Eyes: Mephiston red base then Evil Sunz Scarlet

Flesh: Cadian Fleshtone

Warpstone: see my post on painting clanrats, I followed the same process as for the warpstone bell-clapper on the musician.

Cables: same colours as the warpstone, but not drybrushed. (Caliban Green / Biel Tan Green / Warpstone Glow / Moot Green / 50/50 Moot Green/Scar White

Blade: washed with Biel Tan Green, I thought it should have a warpstone-induced glow or sheen as it seems to be powered by warp energies...

Claws: highlighted with 50/50 Ushabti Bone/Scar White

To Do

1. Add rust to the steel and verdigris to the copper.
2. Highlight the stitches with Ironbreaker (Mental Image: Master Moulder with a staple gun - FUN!)
3. Tiny dot of Scar white in the eyes.
4. Paint buckles with Ironbreaker.
5. Bases!

Clanrats - painting log

I started by painting one of the clanrat units.
I'm still trying to think of a clan and location backstory for the army, I know I don't want one of the four great clans, but I've not been able to find much in the way of information for any of the minor clans like Vrrtkin, Skitr, or Skrapp.

I started by super-gluing some neodymium magnets to the bases so that I can store the clanrats in their movement tray without them falling out.

Magnets glued to the bases.

Then I primed the whole unit with Imperial Black (unfortunately no spray can yet, so hand-painted -.-)

Primed and ready!

I wanted a very earthy tone to the units rags, my clanrats are far too low on the ol' totempole to warrant anything but scraps and rags for clothing - all my clan's funds are spent straight on warpfire throwers!

So the first step was to basecoat the units clothing in Rhinox Brown.

Rhinox Brown rags.

Fur and metal basecoated with Steel Legion Drab and Leadbelcher. 

Standard Bearer with Caliban Green and Mephiston Red standards. I decided to paint all the small pieces of cloth with Caliban green, in an attempt to tie the unit together (other than the abundance of leather).

Clawleader (almost) completely basecoated.

Clawleader with Agrax Earthshade wash on the fur and leather, Nuln Oil wash on metal and the tail painted Cadian Fleshtone.

Tail washed with Agrax Earthshade, leather has a layer of Doombull Brown. Metal edges have been highlighted with Ironbreaker.

The standard bearer with washes, wood and brass pieces painted. Bell with Balthasar Gold and a wash of Nuln Oil, green standards washed with Biel-Tan Green and red standard with Nuln Oil.

Finished clanrat pack, with final highlights and complete with rust.

Green standards highlighted with Warpstone Glow, and a little Moot Green.

The wooden shaft was basecoated with XV88 and highlighted with lines of Tallarn Sand to give the appearance of a grain to the wood.

The leather was highlighted along the edges with Tuskgor Fur (which looks suspiciously pink in the pot!)

The clapper of the musicrat's bell was painted with a 50/50 Abaddon Black/Caliban Green basecoat. Washed with Biel Tan Green. Drybrushed gently (aiming for the edges) with Caliban Green. Then with increasingly lighter drybrushes of Warpstone Glow, then Moot Green, then 50/50 Moot Green/Scar White, then 25/75 Moot Green/Scar White and finally the tiniest specks of Scar White on the four front corners of the warpstone clapper.

The rat on the bell, which I can only assume is a campanology enthusiast, I painted to have grey fur like the mysterious Grey Seers as I thought that only the best of rats would avoid being a hot-dog-esque snack long enough to skitter onto the battlefield with skaven.

Perhaps a miniature, red eyed incomprehensible grey seer will bring these ragged clanrats luck in the carnage to come...