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Painting and Modelling

 
   
 
   
     
   
   
     
 

Painting and Modelling is such a huge subject I could never hope to cover it on one page. What follows are some basic tips.

 
   
 
   
     
   
   
     
 

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.