Spring cleaning Challenge: Blanchitsu Aeldari

The method I developed, was purely accidental, and formed out of technical issues and cost cuttings. There is more detail on this in the Gigers Geneatealers project and why certain discussion made.

First the model was given a heavy white drybrush

I then painted the woodstain on all the armoured sections.

During my step back I had realised that the stain has varnish and I should embrace this rather than fight it. So once the stain had dried I added a very watered down black paint to darken the recesseses and then a second coat of the wood stain. Because of the varnish I could drag and blend the colours in a similar fashion to watercolour paints.

This project started out of my other spring cleaning Challenge project.

I had decided to have a go at playing kill team and rather than use any Imperium factions I would use a xenos one for a change. It was only a few models so wouldn’t be that difficult or expensive.  To make do something different again I would try to copy the style of the artist H. R Giger and from the recommendation of a friend use Woodstain.

Well it didn’t go to plan. What was meant to be fun, turned out to be soul destroying. The techniques just didn’t seem to work. I was copying what I was shown but it just wasn’t working. Along with other life issues this became the straw that broke the camels back and I had to leave it for my own sanity.

After a break, I decided randomly to paint an eldar guardian that was kicking around using the same method… And it worked. So along with the geneatealers I have decided to create a second 40k kill team along side the geneatealers.