My Attempt At Painting: Fallout Wasteland Warfare - The Tabletop Hub

Hey everyone Sam here from the Tabletop Hub and this is My Attempt At Painting a Super Mutant from Fallout Wasteland Warfare. This is our painting guide or painting tutorial series here at the Tabletop Hub but what makes it different from other painting guides is that I include my mistakes and tell you about them. I’m not a professional painter by any means so as I learn and progress as a painter the hope is, as you watch these videos, you begin to progress and improve too.

So, to begin I applied a undercoat of zenithal highlights to help me better pick out where the highlights and shadows are on the miniature. If you haven’t done this before it can be super helpful. Once this had dried I took some of Army Painters Goblin Green and applied this to all of the shadowed areas on the miniature, now this is the first time I’ve used a wet palette and I have to say I’m already seeing a massive difference when painting my miniatures, you may need to apply a couple of layers to get an even coating but the results really speak for themselves, your work is less chalky and preserves the detail on the miniature.

Once this was done I then took Army Painters Jungle Green and began painting the highlighted areas of the miniature, at the areas where I saw the highlight meeting the darker areas I tried to blend the two colours as best I could. Now Jungle Green may look a little too bright but remember we will be adding a dark wash to this at the end which will bring that down a little. Equally the skin colour of the Super Mutants in Fallout 4 is quite bright.

For the cloth and clothing that the Super Mutant wears I actually steered clear of using any browns, instead I used Army Painters Dark Stone. It gave the clothing a nice dark and discoloured look.

Next I moved on to the pieces of metal that the Super Mutant uses as protection, now recently for any metal I’ve been painting I’ve been tending to steer clear of using actual metallic paints, I just don’t feel like it gives me the look I’m trying to achieve so in this case I used Dungeon Grey from Army Painter.

Now if you look at any images of a Super Mutant you’ll notice that the armour they wear is all rusted and weathered so I wanted to achieve a very similar look here, so what I did was I took Army Painters Dry Rust effect paint and got my Stippling Brush and applied just a little amount to the brush itself and the just dabbed the effect paint onto the metal, once it was applied I would occasionally scratch it or dab it some more but it gave the armour a really nice look and I think the weathering effect really works well.

Once this was done it was really time to just apply some finishing touches to the miniature and get those final details completed so I applied some of Valejo’s Bonewhite to the skulls around it’s waste and the cloth coming out of the Molotov Cocktail, and I equally added some Army Painter Leather Brown to the ropes that the Super Mutant has tied around it and to the Molotov it’s holding.

Once this was completed it was time to add the wash, now usually I would use Army Painter’s Quickshade to my miniatures but this time I wanted to experiment with some Citadel Inks just to see what kind of finish they would produce, so I used some Agrax Earthshade from Citadel and applied this generously to the miniature and then removed any excess or unwanted pools of the ink before leaving it to dry. It gave a similar look to what you’d achieve from the Quickshade and I think on a miniature with such intricate details having a wash or ink with a thinner consistency perhaps works well…I still love the Quickshade though.

With the miniature more or less complete I wanted to finish off by completing the base so I got some Army Painter Leather Brown and gave a quick coating to the ground. For the barrel I used some Army Painter’s Desert Yellow and applied a couple of coats there before taking some Oak Brown from Army Painter and painting any wooden planks you can see sticking out of the ground.

One stage I don’t know if I’d repeat was once this was all done I took some Agrax Earthshade and covered the ground with it, I equally took some Green Ink and added this to the barrel and to the wood to make it look like they’d gotten moss or fungus growing on them, like I say I’m not sure if I’d do this for my other Super Mutants but it was interesting to experiment with.

With this complete I gave the miniature a quick coating of Anti-Shine and we were done. In all I think the paintwork was effective in replicating the look of the Super Mutants from the Fallout series, in future though what I’ll likely do is give the bases more of a gravelled look that a dirt one because I think that would look quite nice.

In the meantime though why not let me know what you think down in the comments below. But until next time have a great week folks, and I’ll speak to you all soon.