Managed to get a couple of things painted today from the stone town Kickstarter – the undamaged flooring, the ruined level, the table and the wardrobe. It proved a lot easier to show what the accessories looked like on the damaged level than the solid one, so let’s just pretend someone put them there after the building was damaged!
Colours used:
Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
Base coat: Citadel Morghast Bone
Recess pigment: Soilworks Dark Earth
Other pigments: 50:50 Soilworks Dark Earth and Vallejo Yellow Ochre
Wood base: Mournfang Brown
Lines in wood: Death Guard Green, XV-88 or Averland Sunset
Wood contrast: Nazdreg Yellow, Guilliman Flesh, Wyldwood or Aggaros Dunes
This Space Marine with Flamer was part number 0819/4 and the catalogues from that time state that the minis on the page shown were designed by Jes Goodwin and Normal Swales – which did which mini I don’t know.
The paint scheme here was obviously inspired by – but not totally faithful to – the 2nd. Edition Ultramarines brightness.
This was my first outing with the Scale75 Artist paints for a Space Marine and they were not thinned quite enough!
Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
Base coat: Scale75 Artist Light Ultramarine blended to Cobalt Blue, highlight Primary Blue
Bone: Art White followed by Off White
Yellow: Light Skin followed by Intense Yellow. Wash of Instant Full Healing. Highlight of Primary Yellow.
Red: Light Skin followed by Primary Red
Silver: Black Metal followed by Heavy Metal, highlight Speed Metal, wash Instant Shadow Black
Kneecap: Light Skin followed by Art White, shade of Instant Paralyze Blue
This took me about an hour as a colour test for painting Ultramarines using the Scale 75 Artist paints. I really like the vibrancy you can get out of the colours and while it’s far from my neatest paint job I really like the overall effect.
Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
Base coat: Scale75 Art Black
Wet blend blues: Scale75 Light Ultramarine / Cobalt Blue
Highlight: Primary Blue
Eyes: Art White followed by Crimson, then Citadel Contrast Blood Angels Red, then shade with Instant Arcane Purple
This is the third attempt at a colour scheme for a Stormcast Annihilator from the Dominion box and the second gold attempt – I think it’s much better than the first, the gold shading really made a lot of difference.
Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
Metal base: Scale75 Necro Gold, Scale75 Viking Gold over that
Metal shade: Watered down Scale75 Instant Arcane Purple, 7 or so layers at the darkest point
Highlight with Dwarven Gold
Highlight that with Elven Gold
Highlight that with Peridot Alchemy
Highlight that with Citrine Alchemy
Silver:
Black Metal
Thrash Metal
Heavy Metal
Wash in recesses – hold model upside down – with Fairy Blood, followed by Shadow Black
Leather:
Mournfang Brown
Shade with Grizzly Brown
Red handles:
Vallejo Heavy Red
Shade with Grizzly Brown
Gems:
Vallejo Heavy Red, shade with Grizzly Brown, highlight Vallejo Model Color Cold White
Blue: Prussian Blue, shade with Drak, further spot shade with Fairy Blood, highlight with Prussian Blue and some light scratches with same
Some oldhammer! Or is this middlehammer? I lose track. This Games Workshop Warhammer 40K Techmarine was released as part of the Company Command box set a month 3rd edition hit, apparently – which would put him at being released in late 1998. Still using the same metal backpack as the older 2nd Ed. Techmarines, his sculpt is a mirror of the Captain with Terminator Honours and various others. It’s a Jes Goodwin sculpt.
In the 2004 US catalogue this miniature is part number 010110305 with backpack 010107503 and axe/hand 010110306.
I was painting the metal guys up as a Raven Guard successor when I got him, so he has been stripped for repainting in blue. The RG successor scheme:
All painted using Scale75 with the exception of some washes and a contrast – in the scheme of a Raven Guard sucessor that is as yet unnamed. Back when I was playing 2nd. Ed I called them the Harbingers, but that name is actually a canon chapter now (perhaps it was then too) so I need to find another.
Base armour: Scale75 Artrist Green Grey, attempted to shade with SIN-42 Golem Grey but it wasn’t very dramatic
Base armour highlight: 50/50 Green Grey and Scale75 SART-16 Artist Arctic Blue
Base armour ultimate highlight: Arctic Blue
Red base: Scale75 Crimson
Red highilight: Scale75 Primary Red
Red wash: Carroburg Crimson
Metal base: Scale75 Black Metal
Metal wash: Drakenhof Nightshade
Metal shade: Scale75 Instant Fairy Blood
Metal highlight: Black Metal then Thrash Metal and Speed Metal, White Alchemy as ultimate highlight
Axe glow at the back: Scale75 Art White + Talassar Blue Contrast
Eye lens: Scale75 Sap Green and Spring Green, dot of Art White
Cables: Primary Blue, Crimson, Cobalt Blue, Primary Yellow, Dark Violet, Turquoise Blue
Wash for cog and rack on servo arm: Vallejo Mecha Dark Rust Wash
Wash for tubes on arm/backpack: Scale75 Instant Love Affair
Purity Seal: Scale75 Off White, Seraphim Sepia, writing Scale75 Artist Burnt Sienna Umber
Eye (all black as per RG): Scale75 Artist Art Black
Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black Basecoat: Citadel Waaagh! Flesh Corner wash: 50/50 Waagh! Flesh and Typhus Corrosion
Mud/dirt – start off with the lightest colour first, sponge or stipple on Mournfang Brown. Then repeat the process with some Rhinox Hide lower down. Drybrush Verminlord Hide to taste and edge highlight the dirty areas with Ryza Rust.
Drybrush the raised edges to simulate rubbing wear with Necron Compound, then repeat with Verminlord Hide towards the center. Repeat with Ryza Rust again.
The lid is Vallejo Model Color Grey Black with a coat of Contrast Basilicanum Grey over the top. Edge highlights on the lid were done with Mechanicus Standard Grey.
Text was done using Vallejo Model Color White Grey and the wine splatter on the back was done with Blood for the Blood God.
Vallejo Light Rust Model Wash was used to blend some of the colours together – particularly the muddy browns at the base.
The scratches were made using Waaagh! Flesh mixed with Army Painter Matt Black for the dent, then Army Painter Matt White with a little bit of Waaagh! Flesh for the highlight at the bottom.
Gritty, dirty texture on the underside of the bit that the forklift tines go through was 50/50 Waaagh! Flesh and Typhus Corrosion.
