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Well that’s about it ….

I just wanted to say thanks for all of you who have send votes in my direction.

Cheers

WarHound67!!

Well I have to say painting the Genestealers has been a lot faster and less fiddly. Mind you I haven’t gone through and picked out all the detail yet.

Here’s the quick low down

Base Coat Black

Pick out body details with GW Altioc Blue

Paint the hands feet and faces GW Genestealer Purple

Dry Brush GW Lucius Lilac

Wash the black parts of the body in GW Naggaroth Nightshade

Wash the whole model in GW Druchii violet

Paint the tongue and eyes white

Paint the tongue in Tamiya clear blue

Paint the eyes in yellow..

Now I am picking out the details and getting the models finished. A bit to go and I will try and grab some shots of the game set up

Cheers to those who have voted and followed along with this

I have to say .. every time I thought it had these guys finished I found something else I missed.

The gemstones were completed in flat black with a highlight of silver and finally a top layer of Tamiya clears.

These aren’t really batch painting models but the thought crossed my mind a little while back that all the rope, bone, scrolls and gold were going to get a was of Gw’s agax earthshade and all the silver metalics with nuln oil .. so I set out to pick out all the bits. One thing I will say is, it might be just me but by the time I got to the wash stage I still found bits I missed – oh well..

I have pretty much finished all that I was planning on batch painting and washing .. it’s model by model to the finish line from here. Cleaning up armour bits, bringing back the washed parts, getting the things I missed while batching  and putting in the finishing touches

One thing I did do with the agrax is drop a little in each eye socket this time around. The plan being to pick out the highest parts with shining silver and then glaze green 🙂

A few more updates pics before heading into the home stretch – I have to say these models are not for the feint hearted 🙂

A simple to explain but long time to do stage !

I grabbed Army Painter Greedy Gold and proceeded to get around to all of the ornamental bits (and there are a lot of them). I followed this up with picking out all the gun metal parts (pipes, weaponry etc.) .. I started off using GW’s Ironbreaker but it is a thin paint (or at least mine is) and honestly I really didn’t want to paint all of this stuff twice if I could avoid it (Yes I know thin the paint and do two coats, but sometimes with items that are not high detail, one slightly thicker coat will do the job – especially for those of us that have work, family and other commitments :)). Anyway .. I switched to Army Painter Gun Metal and found this to be much better for the task. Following this (just because I had the paint out already) I drybrushed all the bases, next will be picking out all the skulls and scrolls (or whatever they are called) (and there are a lot of them too), lots and lots of time consuming fiddly stuff to get done at this stage, but that is the nature of the models (all being characters with loads of “bits”). This is a great and fun to paint boxed set but not for someone who want’s to smash it out and get it on the table !

Moving on from getting the single miniature finished I started in on the Terminators.

The first thing I realised is I need to do these a little quicker, but the issue with this set is EVERY model is highly detailed character.

As an interesting aside. I remember seeing these guys when they first came out and I was gobsmacked with what GW had done with the Terminators and Genestealers, however, getting some more modern AoS and 40K figures I can see the improvements that have happened since these were made. On the other hand the one thing these models have that I see a little less off these days is the dynamic poses found in this set .. anyway back to the info

Basically I painted these guys in 2 coats of thinned down GW’s Evil Sunz Scarlet followed by a wash of GW’ s Carroburg Crimson and then a very light dry brush of Army Painter Lava Orange .. then I went over the miniatures edge highlighting with the Lava orange to give the edges more definition. The Librarian was painted in GW’s Kantor Blue with a wash of GW’s Drakenhof Nightshade, drybrushed with Gw’s Alitoc Blue and edge highlighed with army painters Electric blue .. Here are the WIP photo’s of where they are up to in this stage 🙂