Pigments

I just finished my third Deffkopta (pics will show up later), and I just wanted to say...God I love pigments! I have said it before, but the more I use pigments the more I wonder how I could have painted without it before? How on earth did I manage to do some weathering?

Untill next time, happy painting!

Some Slugga boyz

Ok, here is a pic of my first compleated Slugga mob.

I did some weathering on my trukk for my sluggas, the entire process only took about 20minutes. God, I love pigments!

Ok, I realize that the pic isn´t top quality, but it´s the best I can archive at the moment. And as a little bonus I´ll give you a sneek preview on a new project I will start. Some Warmachine models.

Untill next time, happy painting!

New recruits

My Bad moons have got reinforcement by a Big Mek With Kustom force field, I finished him yesterday (at least I think i´m done...) maybe I just make some improvement on the base, we´ll see. On this big mek I used the weathering technic I described in me last post. What do you think, does he need som improvement on anything? Maybe you got some cool ideas for the base? Let me know!
Until next time, happy painting!

Weathering yellow

For my Bad Moon orks I start the yellow with Ilyaden Darsun over a black undercoat. I then wash with Devlan mud and repaint the area with Ilyaden darksun leaving Devlan mud where I want my shadows. Next step is to do a highlight using VMC Sand yellow. I use bright highlights for this step, it will look fine as soon as the weathering is done. So, now our yellow is ready for weathering!

Step 1

I start with VGC Dark Fleshtone and a spunge (I used one who came in a blisterpack). I wipe of almost all the paint from the spunge and then I lightly press it against the surface. By making small motions I can control the pattern better.

Step 2

I mix 1.1 VMC Oily Steel with black and repeat the first step, try to get the metalpaint in the  same area. You could do this with a staplerbrush, but I think the spunge works well.

Step 3

Next thing to do is to take some Orange Rust pigments (I use pigments from Forge world, but any brand will do I suppose) and apply it with a brush where you think the rust should be. Don´t be shy on the pigments, you can always remove some later if it get´s to much.

Step 4

For next step I use Dark earth pigments (also from Forge World) and Applied it on the areas I figure that dirt would be. Mostly at the lower half of the armor.

Step 5

I use Black soot pigments and spot it randomly on the armor using a brush.

Step 6 (can be skipped)

I did some randomly parts with Ash grey pigments (from Forge World). About half of the time I skip this step, because it will look fine without it.

Step 7

I took VMC Oily steel and applied it on the parts of the steel color that have been to dark. This is also a choice of taste, do what you think would look best.

So, now you should have a miniature with fine looking weathering and this took me all about 10 minutes at top. Good luck and hope that you liked my step- by- step guide to how I weathering yellow.

Please note! It have come to my attention when applying varnish straight over the pigments the varnish may change the apperance of the pigments. Now, I usually dont varnish my models, but if you want to do so you might get around the problem by applying a coat of varnish after step 2 and then finish with another layer of varnish after the last step.

Until next time, happy painting!

Nobz, nobz, nobz, looking for a good time!

I finished another AoBR nob, and I´m rather pleased with the result. Again I used a lot of pigments from Forge world when weathering him. I have said it before, but I can´t say it to much, weathering pigments is for weathering as Devlan mud is for shading (you can use it on almost anything from orkskin, to armour, metall, dirt etc.). Fantastic!

And just to illustrate the use of pigments I have a before an after picture.

The pigments I´ve been using is Orange rust, Dark earth, Black soot and Grey ash. How much weathering you should do on a model is very individual, but this is how I prefer.
Untill, next time. Happy painting!

One more for the grinder!

Last night I finished my next AoBR nob for my orks. I hav recently started to experiment with weathering pigments and I must say that I really love them! It´s unbeliveble simple to archive a very good result even if you lack experience of weathering.

For this ork I used the weathering pigments from Forge World, but I guess that almost any brand will do the trick. I just take a dry brush and brush it over the areas I want to get "dirty", it only take a minute to get a good result. And how it turned out? You be the judge, let me know what you think and please give me cunstructive comments so I can improve as a painter.

Untill next time, happy painting!