Archives: Miniatures

One of the minis I painted not long after getting back into the hobby.

Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black

Base Coat: Citadel Rhinox Hide

Stipple, heavy: Mournfang Brown

Stipple smaller amount: Wild Rider Red

Stipple yet smaller amount: Fire Dragon Bright

Stipple smaller again: Zandri Dust or Steel Legion Drab

Base coat anywhere that hazard stripes are going: Averland Sunset

Layer on top of that: Yriel Yellow

Drybrush: Necron Compound, although any lighter metallic will work

Apply 2mm masking tape

Paint black stripes in with Army Painter Matt Black

Peel masking tape off while still wet

Wash with a mixture of Agrax Earthshade and Vallejo 76.505 Light Rust – Agrax some areas, LR others, gets some variance happening

Additional rust can be applied using straight Light Rust

Highlight bolts with Stormhost Silver followed by a dab of Light Rust

Add scunge – 50/50 mix of Typhus Corrosion and Technical Nurgle’s Rot, swirling the NR through

This is a new one to me – painting a plastic mini so large and so not heroic scale! This is one of the Clone Troopers from the Shatterpoint box set. Painted 21st July 2023:

• Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
• White/Grey/Black: Kimera Carbon Black, The White and the two mixed
• Blue: Scale75 Art Cobalt, shaded with Carbon Black, highlighted with The White
• Orange: Scale75 Artist White Ink, Orange Ink and Yellow Ink
• Rim: Vallejo Model Colour Black Grey
• Base: Soilworks Reddish Brown, Natural Soil then Gypsum for the rocks

One of my early attempts at a vehicle post-rejoining the hobby.

Power cable for thunder hammer:

White Scar

Calth Blue Clear

Baharroth Blue

Praxeti White

Drakenhof Nightshade

Mephiston Red

Body of hammer:

Sycorax Bronze

Drybrush Ironbreaker

Cryptek Armourshade Gloss

Drybrush Ironbreaker

Tip:

White Scar

Calth Blue Clear

Talassar Blue

White Scar for tips

Praxeti White for edges

Shoulder trim:

Khorne Red

Abaddon Black

The hammer started off being undercoated in Mecha Black and a base coat of Hashut Copper was applied. A wash of Canoptek Armourshade was next and once that dried a heavy drybrush of Ironbreaker followed. The contact face of the hammer then received some White Scar and a drybrush of Praxeti White was applied, brushing from the face back so that it faded the further it went.

Calth Blue Clear was applied to the sides of the hammer. It dries a little more slowly than the Citadel washes so it’s a little easier to move it around to create a light to dark transition without having to get it right first time around.

Talassar Blue was applied closer to the face of the hammer to help with the transition, then Drakenhof Nightshade was carefully painted onto the face in the recesses and further back on the hammer where there were still lighter spots visible in recesses.

A little more drybrushing with Praxeti White and then some careful edge highlighting with White Scar got it to the point you see above.

Here’s an early attempt at a paint scheme for an Armiger/Moirax from 2020-2021.

The Volkite glow done as red was a mistake – it’s too close to the base and not glowy enough!

Ivory undercoat

Kantor blue

Rivets picked out in Vallejo Metal Colour Copper

Trim in the same

Accents and edge highlights in Skullcrusher Brass

Wash in Agrax Gloss

Base in Aged White

Layer Flayed One Flesh

Edge highlight Flayed One Flesh + White Scar

Exhaust Vallejo Burnt Iron

Exhaust drybrush Brass Scorpion

Base Rhinox Hide

Base Sandy Paste

Chassis Vallejo Steel over Mecha Black

Lens Caliban Green/Waagh Flesh/Moot Green/White Scar

Lens Gal Vorbak Red/Khorne Red/Mephiston Red/Evil Sunz Scarlet/White Scar

Lens wash – Vallejo Model Air Black mixed with Lahmium medium

Power cables on neck – Vallejo Dark Vermillion 70.947

Citadel Thousand Sons Blue

Moot Green

Barrel spill – Slimy grime dark Vallejo

V2

Mecha Black

Several coats of thinned Kantor Blue

Drybrush Macragge Blue on highlights, sparingly

Body 70.863 Gunmetal Grey Model Colour

Body wash Nuln

Body drybrush Stormhost

Pistons 71.064 Chrome

Hydraulic fluid Slimy Grime

Rust Texture spotted – Brown engine soot spotted – Dark Rust Wash – Oiled Earth Wash

Lenses on chassis Stormhost/Dark Vermilion

Army Painter Matte Black in recesses and inner edges. Blended with Kantor

Black templar in some recesses on body

Highlight on armour 77.710 Copper

Spot Nihilakh

Wash for copper – agrax gloss

Highlight for copper – 77.710

Feet – Doombull lined in recesses, Tuskgor drybrushed over – dark rust wash in recesses – dry Necron