I put the other four together today and will start painting them this week so if you have any suggestions visavi paintscheme let me know!
Here´s a quick guide to how I painted him.
Undercoat: Chaos black followed by light dusting of army painter grey
Cloth: steel legion drab, washed with camoshade. highlighted by adding zandri dust to the mix
Armour: standard grey washed with nuln oil, drybrushed with mix of standard grey and zandri dust and edge highlights in celestra grey
Bone: Zandri dust washed with seraphim sepia, Highlighted with celestra grey and skull white.
Red: Mephiston red mixed with black, washed with agrax earthshade and highlighted with mephiston red.
The cyan/blue/turquise is an army painter paint whose name eludes me at the moment but it´s probably pretty similar to sotek green. Highlight by adding white to the original paint.
Here´s a quick guide to how I painted him.
Undercoat: Chaos black followed by light dusting of army painter grey
Cloth: steel legion drab, washed with camoshade. highlighted by adding zandri dust to the mix
Armour: standard grey washed with nuln oil, drybrushed with mix of standard grey and zandri dust and edge highlights in celestra grey
Bone: Zandri dust washed with seraphim sepia, Highlighted with celestra grey and skull white.
Red: Mephiston red mixed with black, washed with agrax earthshade and highlighted with mephiston red.
The cyan/blue/turquise is an army painter paint whose name eludes me at the moment but it´s probably pretty similar to sotek green. Highlight by adding white to the original paint.
That is a very nice colour scheme you've got there. Any chance you could spill the beans on how you painted this chap, please?
ReplyDeleteAlso, I don't want to come across as being pedantic, but it's "vis-à-vis" and not "visavi". But yeah, just nitpicking where I can ;)
No problem! I´ll add a walkthough on how he´s painted.
DeleteIt´s simplified to "visavi" in swedish so that was a case of unfortunate franco-swenglifaction...
The colour scheme is great. Dark, gritty - just perfect! Oh man! I need this box very urgent! :D
ReplyDeleteThat is a beautiful turquoise, love the tiny data lines flowing across the screen on his wrist.
ReplyDeleteNo constructive criticism I'm afraid, just praise!
Oh yeah I was going to ask, since you've handled the kit what we're your thoughts on potentially converting them to Chaos? Obviously they would be quite high-tech heretics! :)
I meant how easy is the kit itself to de-Imperialize? I didn't mean to change what you've done at all!
Delete(badly worded!)
I think they already look pretty evil - the armour is really cool and I´m glad GW has brought some gothic wierdness to the IG. That said, one of my reservations about the kit is that it´s almost TOO baroque for a standard imperial unit, bordering on chaos baroque. They should in other words be fairly easy to turn into servants of the dark gods.
DeleteGood to hear, I may of purchased a set... ;)
Deleterecepies coming up!
ReplyDeleteLooks great! Might make me change my mind on picking up a box or two. I particularly like your color choices and the work on the shoulder pads.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dave!
DeleteYou should buy a box or two - theyd fit right in with your mechanicvm stuff...
Nice work, although I think that the color of the shoulder pads is a bit "bright" and might work better with a metalic paint as the armor... then you could use black writing, sort of like you see stenciled on airplanes.
ReplyDeleteIt would also be interesting to have the power cable be yellow/black striped instead of red...
Yeah - I agree. I'll paint the shoulder pads grey on the next four and see how that looks. I also find them a bit too bright.
DeleteThe red cable will turn black - I don't want to do yellow stripes on 15-20 of these guys...
Maybe do the stripes just on the volley gun? That would be a nice way to mark it out a bit more.
DeleteAlso, 15-20!
I accidentally used the arms for the volley gun on this first one... You have to read the fine print in these new kits.
DeleteReally nice work. The more I see of the stormtroopers, the more I like them
ReplyDeleteI gotta say I´ve loved them from the start.
DeleteThe only thing that bugged me in the initial pictures was that the arms seemed a bit ape-like, but with the models in hand that´s not an issue.
He looks class really a top job.
ReplyDeletethanks!
DeleteStunning model. As you show, these models have so much potential for so many things.
ReplyDeleteCheers mate!
DeleteI agree - the modelling potential is pretty staggering. I´ve barely done any converting on these first five except changing the chainsaw laspistol to the sergeants left hand and snipped off the antennas.
There are however plans to go crazier on the next bunch...