Update to Painting Guides

 

Hello everyone

Just a short update today, as I've moved some things around on the blog, to make them easier to find. Before all my Painting Guides was shared in a Blog Post from 2019 and if it wasn't because it was one of my most visited posts, it would have been quite difficult to find.

But I've decided to move all my guides to their own menu, so they will be much easier to find in the future.

In other news, I've also set up a Ko-fi account, so if you want to support me, so you can continue to enjoy my current and future free Painting Guides, I would appreciate it greatly! but it's not a requirement. More details on this on the Painting Guide page.


Hope you are all well <3

Until next time
Chris

Painting Simple Power Weapons

Hello everyone
I just worked on this little guide today and I have also added it to the list of my existing painting guides which you can find

Here


Hope you enjoy.

Until next time
Chris

Sons of Horus - Justaerin Black - Painting Guide - PDF

Picture for attention ;-D also Nameplates from Versatile Terrain

Hello everyone

I just finished making the PDF version of my guide on painting black power armor, so follow the link below to view it.

By request, I've also made a version with a white background so it was more printer friendly.

Painting Guide Archive

Hope you like it


Chris

Sons of Horus - Justaerin Black - Painting Guide

I've updated the blog a bit, so now all the guides are found in one place.
So go HERE to find all my published guides to date

Enjoy :-)

Sons of Horus - Green Power Armour - Painting Guide

This guide is no longer up to date, go here for the updated version

Crimson Fists - Casualty - Painting Guide

Greetings!

So I'm still paint testing here, to figure out how I'm going to paint the rest of my Crimson Fists units. You might have seen my last test, but of course I didn't write down any directions for that one....I'm a moron.

So I've been painting a couple of figures and paint stripping them the past month, until I remembered that I had this fine figure laying around so I thought I might as well paint it.

I used mainly Vallejo colors for this figure, actually I think I only used Vallejo colors :-p

For the Power Armour I used the following colors:

Base coat:

• 72.019 - Game Color - Night Blue (It's very dark, a lot darker than GW Regal Blue (Or whatever its called now))

Hightlights:

• Night Blue (See above)
• 72.022 - Game Color - Ultramarines Blue
• 70.902 - Model Color -Azure (Most likely a paint in the Game Color range that match this one aswell)

Painting:

1. Night Blue base coat
2. Night Blue 6(7):1 Ultramarines blue ratio + a few drops of water to thin it down
3. Azure 1:1 water mix added to above mixture
4. Repeat the above highlight if needed. Depending on how much time you wanna spent.
5. Finish of with a fairly fine edge highlight of pure Azure (probably thinned down slightly)
6. Depending on how much you have highlight it might be needed to tone down the recesses of the armour. I used a black wash to pin wash where needed.

For the cloak and Fist I used the following colors:

Base:

• 72012 - Game Color - Scarlett Red

Highlights:

• 70.909 - Game Color - Vermillion
• White (any white will do to be honest, but I used a white from the Vallejo Model Color range)

Painting:

1. Scarlett Red base
2. Apply black wash, I used Vallejo Model Wash - Black (You could also just do the base coat with Scarlett Red and add drop of black and then continue from there with highlights)
3. Scarlett Red + water highlight
4. Add a few drops of Vermillion to the mix
5. Repeat step 4 if needed.
6. Add a drop of white to the mix for the highest edges.

For the rest of the gear you can use whatever colors you want :-)

Finished figure (Still missing base)

*Update 25.10.23* - Base Done
So I manged to get the base finished. I should probably have used a 60mm Dreadnought base, but sadly I didn't have one laying around.

Hope you like it.

Feel free to comment below

- Chris

Crimson Fists - Pedro Kantor - Chapter Master

Hello everyone

So today I slowly started working on the Chapter Master of my Space Marine army, the figure is a metal figure from Games Workshop (Pedro Kantor), I bought of Ebay a long time ago, but never got around painting. But now it feels like the time is right, since I'm taking a small break from the WW2 projects, got bugged down abit, and doing some Warhammer helps keep things fresh.

What can I say about the figure, it's made of metal and the details are exellent, I think GW started making this figure a part of their FineCast range, so if you bought a new one, it would probably be resin, but since I'm a cheap skate poor student, I bought it used of Ebay, which I would recommend to anyone wanting to start a cheap Warhammer army, since GW prices could ruin you rather quickly.

Onwards to the painting and pictures!

Painting

So like all my other Space Marines I started priming the entire figure black, then painting it blue (GW Regal Blue, think it's called Kantor Blue now after they decided to rename everything...). At the same time I also painted all the bling and weapons gunmetal, on alot of pictures I've seen of this figure people use alot of gold, but I for some reason just doesn't see that fitting for a Crimson Fist army, but then again I'm abit "special" ;-D

When everything was dry I gave it a heavy wash of black, I usually use the GW Badab Black wash (which is brilliant, probably also called something else now) but since I had run out I used a Vallejo Black ink diluted with quite alot of water, which gave pretty much the same result. It did turn the model a tad to dark in my humble opinion, so I decided to just highlight it slightly with the base blue.

Well that is what I've done so far. Here have some pictures.

Next up I painted the different red parts, in this case the fists and the vax on the seals. I used GW Scab Red as the base color, then washed with black and highlighted slightly with base red again.

Highlights

So for the first highlight I went with a mix of Regal Blue and Ultramarines Blue, and applied it fairly generously around the edges of the armor and on some of the upper parts where there would be more light. Then I added a few drops of Ice Blue to the mix and applied this lightly on the edges. As the other GW colors used, these probably have new names aswell now :-P

Considering an even lighter shade just on the upper most prominent parts and edges, but right now I'm actually pretty satisfied with the result, so might just keep it as is.

So I decided to do a very light highlight on some of the most prominent edges, for this I used GW Icy Blue, might have added abit to much on one of the shoulders, but will just fix redo it later.
I also did some highlights on the gloves using Scab Red, Blood Red and some white to build a couple of layers ending with a fairly pinkish color on the edges, think it looks ok.

So next up i've started working with some of the details, still a bit of way to go, but progress is good. I'm not going to write alot about how I paint the different details and accessories, I'll just say I mostly use washes (usually brown and black) to create shading, and then I highlight with a brush using the base color and perhaps another layer or two lighter on top of that. I don't really any any specific colors I use everytime, because I forget to write it down :-p

Finished?
I think I'm tempted to calling Kantor finished, well beside the banner which I will be doing next, but I quite look how he's looking now.

But I'm open to suggestions if anyone have some ideas for improvements.


Anyway pictures!

You can see the finished figure here :-) 


Cheers
Chris


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