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Having finished the base coat on my Ork Fighter Bommer I gave the plane a wash consisting of Chestnut Ink, Scorched Brown paint (which helps remove the gloss of the ink) and some water to thin the wash down.
I am quite pleased with the end result. I was trying to get a rusty looking battered plane and I think that this paint job does do just that.
See the full workbench feature on the Ork Bommer.
As part of my Daemonhunters’ army I have a retuine for my Daemonhunter Inquisitor including an Acolyte, a trainee Inquisitor.
Having painted the parchment on the figure, I added the writing. I have also highlighted the purple cloak with Warlock Purple paint.
Personally I am not too happy with the text writing so I may start over and try again.
Full workbench feature on the Acolyte.
After quite a long time I have finally finished the first of my Grey Knights.
These were started a few years ago and I never really got around to spending huge amounts of time on them, as other projects always seemed to take over.
I am quite pleased with them and I am using them as the basis for my other Grey Knights.
I am using desert basing to fit in with my desert terrain.
You can see how I painted these Grey Knights in the full workbench feature on them.
Having undercoated my Ork Wartrakk. I gave the non-metal parts (and the front tyre) a base coat of Desert Yellow.
Next stage will be a wash to accentuate the detail.
Having finished a lot of my Grey Knights Land Speeder, I started working on the crew.
I started with a black basecoat and then gave the armour a basecoat of Boltgun Metal.
Next stage will be highlights and details.
Having given the Ork Gunwagon a basecoat of Tausept Ochre I have given the other parts of the model a drybrush of Tin Bitz and Boltgun Metal.
This is another view.
Next stage will be a wash.
My main force of Daemonhunters Inquisitorial Stormtroopers are based on the Cadian Kasrkin, this was a boxed set I got years ago (when they came out if I remember correctly). They were stuck and based a few years back, as well as undercoated white, and then (as I guess with many miniatures) left in a box.
I recently got them out to start painting them. The first stage was a basecoat of Desert Yellow. These are the heavy weapon troopers and the sergeant.
This is quite a watery thin paint compared to other Citadel paints, but was just like thinning any other Citadel paint with water without actually needing to do that. Here is the rear view, and unlike most Imperial Guard, the Cadian Kasrkin have backpacks which identifies them as stormtroopers.
I have left the boots alone, as these will be painted Scorched Brown. I do like these models which are really well sculptured.
This is how I undercoated my Ork Wartrakk.
Some people use black undercoats when painting vehicles and some use white. For some of my Ork vehicles I use both! A white undercoat for the bodywork, to enable me to use lighter colours or reds and then black for the mechanisms and other metallic and rubbery parts.
The model was built with the crew left off for painting separately. The Big Shoota stayed with the gunner. I used some of the Ork glyphs from Forge World, I would have preferred if the glyphs were cast in a similart vein to the Inquisitor purity seals, but they’re not, they have quite a thick backing.
On my Ork Gunwagon I have applied most of the basecoat using the Foundation Paint, Tausept Ochre.
It goes on quite well over the black undercoat and I have left black in the panel lines.
Full workbench feature on my Ork Gunwagon.
One of the problems I have found with using Citadel plastic miniatures in games is that they are quite lightweight and prone to falling over.
What I do is add a penny (or a washer) to the bottom of the plastic bases which though does not add a huge amount of weight, does add some and also lowers the centre of gravity, both of which means that the model is less likely to fall over.
