Oldhammer 40K

After lots of sweating, swearing, squinting, and slopping paint around, I’ve gotten the teeth and eyes picked out with white, put red on the ovipositors, aged the claws, and then did final assembly. And there are 10 genestealers painted now!!

Some notes:
-Don’t be too scared of the tiny details. Even if you slop the paint around (which I did quite a bit), it still is usually easier then to go back with your other colors and touch up around those small details to make them not stand out as much. Had to do that with at least 4 out of the 6 eyes.
-If your paint seems to be too thin to cover correctly, make sure to shake it more and get another drop, I had to reshake once or twice to get more pigment mixed in so it wasn’t as watery on the brush.
-There is no shame in getting a little light up magnifying device – I have a larger one as well, but I need to find the power cord for that one after moving. It is tricky to paint under it, but it is handy for seeing where you should be putting the paint or seeing if there are other areas that need touching up.

I need to do a final go around of little touchups on all the models and then I will varnish them up to protect the paint jobs. I need to decide if I want to go all matte (no shine) or if I want to add in some gloss varnish to make shiny bits. I did that mix with some Dreadball Nameless models. You can see in the picture here that the shell and claws were done with gloss varnish and then the green armor on the arms is covered with matte varnish to make it flat instead. I’m not sure yet which bits would be shiny and which wouldn’t on a genestealer, so I think I’m going to do all flat to start and then see if I feel like anything should be shiny after that.