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Under coating:-
In my opinion, all models should be under
coated. Painting on them becomes hard if you
don't. As far as I'm concerned, Black and White
are the two options. I don't agree with
undercoating a model green or metal, even if it
is Orcs or Necrons. I feel I have cheated if I do
it this way.
Between black and white, I've undercoated all of
my models in black, apart from my Skeletons,
which were undercoated white. I prefer black as
it gives you instant shadow, and instead of
having to use inks to create shadow (which take a
long time to dry) you have to drybrush to create
high lights. I much prefer this method, which
neatly brings me on to
Drybrushing and:-
I will go over how I dry brushed my Orks for
Warhammer 40,000.
From the black under coat, I painted all of the
skin Dark Angels green. This took about five
minutes to dry. Then I dipped my large brush in
goblin green and then drew it back and forth over
a tissue till you could only just see paint. I
then lightly passed the brush over all the skin
areas. The result was that the high contours
(like the muscle) got painted, but left dark
angles green in the recesses. This is how I make
shadow. After the goblin green had dried (about
twenty seconds) I did exactly the same, but mixed
some white with the Goblin green so it was a
lighter green. I then drybrushed even more
lightly than before, which just brought out the
fine details.
I did eactly the same on the clothing. I started
with Scorched brown, then drybrushed in Bestial
Brown and then in Snakebite leather. I did the
metal slightly different, which lead me onto
Ink Washes:-
To paint my guns and axes for my Orks, I
wnated them to look old and rusty. Firstly, I
drybrushed boltgun metal onto the desired
surface. When that was dry, i gve all the metal
areas a brown ink wash, which spread over the
surface. When it is dried it looks like rust.
I used Inks to paint my Skeletons. Working from a
white undercoat, I mixed some brown and black ink
to make a dark brown ink. I painted this
liberally over the skeletons. It went into all of
the recesses, giving me shadow in my eye sockets,
rib cages etc, along with making the skeleton
look old and rotting. After the ink was dry I
drybrushed the skeleton firstly in Bleached bone,
and finally in skull white. I made the weapons
rusty, as with the Orks.
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