Painting: Games Workshop: Warhammer 40k: Genestealer Cult: Purestrain Genestealers & Familiars

These have driven me insane!

Especially as it's such a simple and straight forward process!

The process I followed was as follows:

• Undercoat in black
• Paint all areas of flesh with GW Daemonette Hide 
• Wash areas of flesh with AP purple tone
• Highlight flesh areas with GW Slaanesh Grey
• touch up chitin areas with GW Abaddon black
• Drybrush Chitin with Vallejo game colour Stonewall grey (72.040)
• Paint tongue with Vallejo game colour Hexed Lichen (72.015) 
• teeth with either Vallejo game colour Plague Brown (72.039) or Vallejo game colour Bonewhite (72.034), then washed with AP strong tone
• eyes with GW Iyanden Darksun
• Matt varnish was then applied all over except for the claws and tongue, those were covered with Gloss varnish
• The base was covered with GW Astrogranite debris; once dry it was washed with AP dark tone and the edge of the base was painted black

For the familiars there was the addition of GW Mephiston Red for the cloth which was washed with AP dark tone.

So quick and simple however touching up the black areas just drove me insane! Thankfully this is the last of the purestrain genestealers for my force, so I don't need to worry about doing this for a little while.

April - Overcoming an aversion to black

So with April at a close I can proudly announce that I have overcome my aversion to black and as a result finished all the planned projects!

So onwards to May; My planned projects are as follows:

Master Gunner & Sentinel 

Saker Cannon & Crew (inc engineer)

Demi-Culverin

Painting: Pike & Shotte/Pikemans Lament - English Civil War: Foot Dragoons

In this post I will outline how I painted 12 ECW foot Dragoons, the important part (in my opinion) is that I didn't use black at all!

The paints used were from the Vallejo game colour range, unless stated otherwise.

I started by undercoating them all in grey.

I used the following process, which was consistent on all of them
The coats were paint with GW Mephiston Red
The musket stock was painted with Scorched Brown (72.045)
The musket barrel, trigger and lock was painted with Vallejo Model colour Gunmetal grey (70.863)
Musket fuse was painted with Plague brown (72.039)
Flesh was painted with Tan (72.066), then Dwarf skin(72.041)
The collar was painted with White primer (72.002)
Any Sash was painted Imperial Blue (72.020) then highlighted with Magic blue (72.021) then washed AP Blue tone
Sword hilt was painted with Chainmail silver (72.053)

Trousers, areas of leather and hair were all painted differently using any of the processes listed below

Leather (including shoes and hats)

• Beasty Brown (72.043), then Leather Brown (72.040)
• Beasty Brown (72.043)
• Leather Brown (72.040)
• Scorched Brown (72.045)
• Scorched Brown  (72.045) then Beasty Brown (72.043)
• Plague Brown (72.039)

Trousers

• Sombre Grey (this was also used on the cuffs of the (red) jackets) (72.048)
• Plague Brown (72.039)
• Desert Yellow (72.063)

Hair

• GW Iyanden Darksun
• GW Macharius Solar Orange
• Scorched Brown
• Beasty Brown
• Leather Brown
• Earth (72.062)
• Cold Grey (72.050)

Once the model had been painted AP Strong tone was applied all over except for areas of skin, muskets, Sword hilt and trouser painted with Sombre grey.
Areas of flesh were painted with AP Flesh wash
Muskets, sword hilts and sombre grey trousers were coated with AP dark tone

The command group was painted using a similar method with some changes/additions:
Leader
Bright Bronze (72.057) then Glorious Gold (72.056) on the jacket trim and the sword hilt
Chainmail silver (72.053) on the halberd blade

Drummer
Drum skin: Bonewhite (72.034)
Drum trim: Imperial blue, AP Blue tone
Drum string:Plague brown, AP strong tone, Bone white (72.034)

Standard bearer
Standard pole/Lance: painted beasty brown

once all the models have been painted I covered the bases in sand, painted it scorched brown, then covered it with static grass

So close and yet so far...March objective failed

So for the first time, so far, this year I didn't finish all my intended projects for the month.

I completed the ECW cavalry (Click here for details) and the Genestealer cult Patriach, but couldn't find the time to complete the 4 genestealers and 2 familiars.

In light of the above, my objective for April is the following:

• Complete 4 Genestealers  (From March)
• Complete 2 familiars (From March)
• 12 ECW Dragoons on foot

Onwards!