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Thanks to Oliver Campbell/Ollie for this.
Here is a simple guide to quickly, easily and effectively paint your Emperor's children ready for the table-top!
I assembled the miniatures and undercoated them by hand (I didn't have any spray at the time) Chaos Black.
I quickly drybrushed the whole model using codex grey. This looks a bit harsh at the moment but looks better at a later stage. Only one highlight keeps the process quick but still looks effective.
All the areas that will be pink on the model were given several coats of warlock purple. Get creative when choosing which parts of the model to do as this is were your army gains variety and makes each trooper different.
After a quick touch-up of the areas around the purple with chaos black the areas coloured purple were then given LOADS of coats of tentacle pink. I mean loads of coats here otherwise the colour will look patchy and poor.
The next step is to water down a small amount of warlock purple. This purple is used to shade the edges of the armour and such on the pink parts. I do not do any highlights on my normal squads but save it for my HQs and other special "centre of attention models".
All the metal areas on the model are drybrushed with boltgun metal.
Finally all the details are done. The plumes were overbrushed with enchanted blue, the skulls and other bone details painted with bleached bone and the horns on one of the helmets were painted bleached bone and then given a wash of brown ink. The eyes were carefully painted with scorpion green as well as the plasma on the gun, which was overbrushed with the same colour. Some details on the metal were picked out with shining gold.
Here are the finished models with their squads:
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| Comment made by Asmodai on 12:41:05, 2 March 2008 |
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| Ehh...it's ok but the painting is all..."blaeh" |
| Comment made by Slugga on 08:10:49, 12 January 2008 |
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| It has it all. Nice. |
| Comment made by ShasEl Blindsight on 08:07:22, 8 November 2007 |
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| nice simple way to pump out a large number of basic troops very well done |
| Comment made by Teh_Frm4terer on 14:24:40, 18 December 2006 |
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| Fire Dragon, if he just put pink there, he would have to put like 10 layers to cover the black. By putting purple he can put only 1 or 2 layers instead of 10... Oh and good tutorial :) :P... |
| Comment made by Lord of the Pit on 11:18:29, 5 December 2006 |
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| lol the grey bit doesnt do much by the looks of it... otherwise the models look good but why put the warlock purple there if its just gonna be covered up by the pink later on tho? |
| Comment made by Commander Arthurein on 12:20:33, 4 November 2006 |
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| isn't bad, good work |
| Comment made by The Vilest Worm on 20:02:54, 24 October 2006 |
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| The pink is good (great), but the black seems unfinished. Nice article though. |
| Comment made by xblooddemonx on 07:23:53, 19 October 2006 |
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| ITS GOOD |