Oldhammer 40K
Purple Haze
I basecoated the last genestealer and painted the blue parts as well. This means the last three models are now all at the same point.
Time to figure out the brown I used. Honestly, looking at the brown that I used for aging/dirtying the claws – it is close to the color that I mixed years ago, just without the red. I put two drops of the Oak Brown on my wet palette and then added one drop of Army Painter Pure Red. That is looking close on the wet palette, so I painted the head of one of the models with it. It compares nicely with the existing models, so I went ahead and painted all the brown parts on all three models.
With the blue and brown done, it is time to try the purple wash. So does 30 year old purple wash still work? Turns out that yes, it does still work! I shook the wash for a while and it is perfectly fine. Let’s do all the arms for now to see how they turn out.
It's an arms race
New Arm color vs Old ModelIf I hold an arm next to an existing model, the new one looks more purple than the older ones. I’m going to let them dry overnight and see if the color shifts a bit more as it dries. But this seems like it will still be close enough to work! Getting closer to a complete unit of genestealers. I need to wash the bodies, paint all the white bits, and then age/dirty the white bits. Time to see if my eyesight still works enough for detail work – fortunately my eyesight may be bad enough that the paintjob will look good to me even if I’m a bit all over the place.
