Hope everyone had a nice weekend. (especially if you got a three day weekend!). I had a blast hanging with friends, BBQ'ing, eating crabs, and playing Divinity online. (soon to have a review). I also got some time to put a few coats of wash on the grots!
As I mentioned in the previous post, when I work on ork infantry, I use a very simplistic method of painting them. It's primarily done with washes over a skull white base coat. This lets me paint the models with decent amounts of detail, while not destroying my sanity over their being so many. (I think I have around 200 orks)
In these photos you are seeing the first group of grots that have gotten the skull white base, devlan mud wash, (earthshade wash now), and about two coats of thraka green.
If you've never used this technique before, you might be a bit amazed. It provides for sharp detail in musculature, with very little time spent (few minutes per grot).
Compared to traditional methods (base layers, with lighter and lighter highlights painted carefully on the muscles), this technique is greggles proof. It's pretty hard to muck it up, and looks good on the table top.
Compared to traditional methods (base layers, with lighter and lighter highlights painted carefully on the muscles), this technique is greggles proof. It's pretty hard to muck it up, and looks good on the table top.
The next step after this, is to go through and pick out the main tabards in a lamenters yellow glaze (which has a similar inking effect), pick out the paints and wraps in another wash (maybe badab black), then finish with boltgun on the weapons, with a wash and highlight. That's all there is to these guys.
It can be argued that this isn't the best way to paint a model if you are going for anything other then table top quality (these guys are being used for hull point markers), but I'd argue this is probably one of the easiest techniques for a new hobbyist to use that results in very good looking figures. (if you are painting orks at least. If your models don't have a lot of muscles, this doesn't work as well).
I did not come up with this technique. It was found on a youtube video, via da waaagh a few years ago. Here's the original tutorial if you want to see how how thoume2 came up with it!
I'll continue updating my progress on these guys as time goes on. I also need to finish my last vow for ETL...and have been stalling on that. Remind me not to paint 1500 points of templars in a short time span in the future. Have a good week everybody!
