[Gavswine]

Hi all
Thought I'd start a thread to share some pics and to help keep me focused and motivated to finish this huge pile of minis. I'm quite an experienced painter, but very recently bought an airbrush and am back to being a beginner again. My aim with Sedition Wars is a decent tabletop standard with as little effort as possible. Therefore I'm using lots of airbrushing, batch-painting and inks/ washes. Quite different to my usual style. This is a necessity as I have 2 kids under 3yrs, so painting time is extremely limited. Anyway. Onto some pics. The first three test Samaritans:


and a test Scyth Witch. The rear shot shows the iridescent metals a bit better. There are golds, greens, purples and silvers in there which don't show up very well in the pics:



What do you think?

[VeronaKid]

Fantastic, man! I especially the source lighting on the Samaritan's weapons- very eerie and atmospheric. The shimmering tones on the witch's assets are nice, too. Great job.

[Dead Circus Monkey]

HOT DIDDLEY DAMN!

those are great!

[Pierre]

Very nice vanguard

[kryts]

looking good.

I just got a air brush so I'm not really good at it. I have been painting mine all by normal brush. Maybe I should try using the air brush for doing some of the base coats, that might go faster.

[Gavswine]

Thanks guys.
Kryts; I'm using the airbrush for basecoats, then a preshade (spray from underneath the model with a darker shade) followed by an initial zenithal highlight. With the scythe witch I reversed this to have a darker metal on top with a lighter gold underneath. Then I hit the models with washes before tidying with brushwork. Definitely quicker than all brushwork.
I also painted all the bases in one go with the airbrush. If has limitations, but I'm enjoying finding its uses!

[Magos Kasen]

Very nice, particularly like the Samaritan's glow effect.

[Gavswine]

Thanks!
Got a few more bits done tonight. Finished the 4 x Scythe witch:


Knocked out a Hurley:


and made a decent start on a Grendlr (shown here alongside some work-in-progress Samaritans):

[althai]

Ooh, nice work on Hurley. I like that you took the time for a little bit of freehand. Really good stuff all around.

One change you could make that would really help these pop, imo, would be to make the helmet visors darker on the sides and brighter in the middle. This would be a good place to spend some time on a smooth blend. You could also add a narrow line of pure white in the center as a reflection.

I know your aim for these was reasonably fast good tabletop standard, and you have great results without spending too much time by the looks of it. But I've found that one good way of getting a little extra mileage when doing fast tabletop painting is to pick a focal point on each miniature to paint to a higher standard, and the helmet visors would be a good candidate for that.

[Gavswine]

Good thinking althai, and very timely as I've only painted one visor so far! At the moment it's a simple basecoat of yellow with a red glaze. I'll see if I can stomach the extra effort when I've finished the current WIP Samaritans.

[AGN1964]

Looking good!

[Gavswine]

Finished a Grendlr off tonight. Really fun to paint, especially the last stage of applying gloss varnish and Tamiya clear red.
Gooey and disgusting.
My wife, who usually casts an eye over finished minis, couldn't look at it. Job done!

[Abhorsen]

very nice, love the gloss. trying out different schemes for the strain atm. i really like the look of yours. what colors did u do under-neath the gloss varnish and red?

[Gavswine]

Very simple actually. White undercoat; GW Baal red wash; GW leviathan purple wash over the exposed muscle' areas; pick out the skin areas with light flesh (I use a mix of bestial brown and white). That's it. The tongue and mouth had some blue wash instead of the red.
After a spray varnish I applied Tamiya red to the exposed muscle and gloss varnish to the mouth and tongue.

[Nord]

Nice and gribbly. Can't wait to get mine started now.

[Stuart]

Thanks for sharing the paints used on the flesh. would you mind outlining all the paints used for this model. My sedition wars just arrived and i have never painted a miniature before so currently have no paints. I would like to do a batch order, if i can get mine looking anything like yours that would be awesome. If you wouldn't mind laying out all the colours you used it would be very helpful for me. Thanks

[sioka]

Awesome work Gavswine this is one cool looking beastie, the contrast between the exposed gorey muscle and the hard metalic areas is ace. Tamiyas clear red is the blood paint of the gods and when mixed with Tamiya smoke you can get some nice aged blood stains too.

Your Vanguard are looking good too love the Hurley, some very clean painting and some good use of freehand. The red makes for a nice spot colour and could be a good choice for unit markings.

[Gavswine]

Stuart, on 06 February 2013 - 05:04 PM, said:

Thanks for sharing the paints used on the flesh. would you mind outlining all the paints used for this model. My sedition wars just arrived and i have never painted a miniature before so currently have no paints. I would like to do a batch order, if i can get mine looking anything like yours that would be awesome. If you wouldn't mind laying out all the colours you used it would be very helpful for me. Thanks

No problem. Though bear in mind a couple of things: I used an airbrush (but only for speed - you can get the same results with a brush easily), and I use some Games Workshop paints from their old range. That given, I'll list colours that are new GW, or non-airbrush equivalents:
Undercoat with skull white primer spray.

Dark Metals: Basecoat Leadbelcher; wash heavily with Nuln Oil. Once dry, wash again if it looks too bright.

Claws: Basecoat Runefang steel; wash with Nuln Oil.

Teeth: Basecoat Balor brown; highlight Ushabti bone.

Flesh: Wash all over the white undercoat with Carroburg Crimson. Again, wait for this to dry and then apply another wash. Wash the muscle, mouth and tongue with Druchii Violet . Wash the tongue with Drakenhof Nightshade. Highlight the skin areas with slightly thinned Kislev flesh.

Green lights: Thin down Moot green with water. Wash the lights with it to create the glow. Once dry, paint the centre of the lights with White scar.

Finishing:
Spray the whole model with Purity seal. Once dry Varnish the mouth and tongue with 'Ardcoat and apply Tamiya clear red liberally to the exposed muscle areas. You can be a bit messy with this - it is gloopy blood after all.

[Gavswine]

Finished a few more vanguard (and assembled some invisi-vanguard):


Thankfully these are plenty quick enough that I've taken althai's advice and spent a bit more time on visors:


Onto some phase 1 strain next so I can finally play a game!

[althai]

Ooh, those are looking really nice.