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Painting: Relictors Tutorial


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I did this as a favour for Commissar Molotov, hopefully someone else might find it useful.

 

 

Colours needed -

 

-Chaos Black

-Skull White

-Adeptus Battlegrey

-Codex Grey

-Fortress Grey

-Badab Black

-Boltgun Metal

-Chainmail

-Mithril Silver

-Scorched Brown

-Dark Flesh

-Dheneb Stone

-Bleached Bone

-Devlan Mud

-Red Gore

-Blood Red

-Khemri Brown

-Kommando Khaki

 

 

Stage 1

 

- Basecoat the armoured areas Adeptus Battlegrey.

 

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y57/El-Diablo/Relictors/Relictors%20Tutorial/Stage1.jpg

 

 

Stage 2

 

- Wash the whole thing with a heavy wash of Badab Black.

 

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y57/El-Diablo/Relictors/Relictors%20Tutorial/Stage2.jpg

 

 

Stage 3

 

- Overbrush the armour with Adeptus Battlegrey. Overbrushing is essentially drybrushing, but with a wet brush.

 

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y57/El-Diablo/Relictors/Relictors%20Tutorial/Stage3.jpg

 

 

Stage 4

 

- Quick highlights with Codex Grey - highlight everything except the darkest areas.

 

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y57/El-Diablo/Relictors/Relictors%20Tutorial/Stage4.jpg

 

 

Stage 5

 

- Apply fine highlights to the top edges with Fortress Grey. Basically, anything at the top of the figure - top of helmet, top of shoulder pads, toes etc.

 

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y57/El-Diablo/Relictors/Relictors%20Tutorial/Stage5.jpg

 

 

Stage 6

 

- Glaze the whole lot with Badab Black, watered down until its virtually see through. Before painting it on, gently dab the brush on a piece of tissue (use the stuff you get for the kitchen, not toilet tissue) to take out the excess water out of the brush. If it takes more than a few seconds to dry on the figure, you've got too much watered paint on the brush. Hit the tissue again and carry on.

 

At this stage I painted everything else Chaos Black and gave the moulded tactical arrow a coat of Fortress Grey.

 

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y57/El-Diablo/Relictors/Relictors%20Tutorial/Stage6.jpg

 

 

Stage 7 - The Metal

 

I would of done this as 4 separate pictures but metal is a pain to photograph.

-Basecoat Boltgun Metal.

-Highlight Chainmail.

-Edge highlight Mithril Silver.

-Wash with Badab Black.

 

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y57/El-Diablo/Relictors/Relictors%20Tutorial/Stage7-Metal.jpg

 

 

Stage 8 - Leather

 

-Basecoat Scorched Brown.

-Layer a 60/40 mix of Scorched Brown/Dark Flesh, leaving Scorched Brown in the recesses.

-Edge Highlight with thinned Dark Flesh.

 

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y57/El-Diablo/Relictors/Relictors%20Tutorial/Stage8-Leather.jpg

 

 

Stage 9 - Skulls & Parchment

 

These 2 are the same except for the base colour.

1-Basecoat the skulls with Dheneb Stone and the parchment with Bleached Bone.

2-Wash with Devlan Mud.

3-Highlight the skulls with Dheneb Stone and the parchment with Bleached Bone.

4-Add Skull White to Dheneb Stone to highlight the skulls, add Skull White to Bleached Bone to highlight the parchment.

5-Using thinned down Chaos Black, paint thin lines on the parchment to represent text.

 

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y57/El-Diablo/Relictors/Relictors%20Tutorial/Stage9-SkullsParchment.jpg

 

 

Stage 10 - Lenses and Wax Seals

 

1-Basecoat Red Gore.

2-Layer Blood Red over the top, leaving Red Gore in the recesses. On the lenses, leave some Red Gore showing at the back.

3-Add a tiny spot of Skull White at the back of each lense for reflection points.

 

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y57/El-Diablo/Relictors/Relictors%20Tutorial/Stage10-LensesandWaxSeals.jpg

 

 

Stage 11 - Black

 

-Edge highlight the black areas with a 50/50 mix of Chaos Black/Adeptus Battlegrey.

 

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y57/El-Diablo/Relictors/Relictors%20Tutorial/Stage11-Black.jpg

 

 

Stage 12 - Chapter Badge

 

1-Paint a circle and square with thinned Fortress Grey, then fill in.

2-Go over the grey with thinned Skull White - you'll probably need 3 or 4 thin layers to get it smooth.

3-Tidy up the shape with thinned Chaos Black and add the details - eye, nose and teeth.

 

At this point I would paint the tactical arrow - layer with a 50/50 Fortress Grey/Skull White mix, then layer with pure Skull White, sing as many thin layers as it takes to get it smooth.

 

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y57/El-Diablo/Relictors/Relictors%20Tutorial/Stage12-ChapterBadge.jpg

 

 

Stage 13 - Weathering

 

-Water down Scorched Brown (approx 10/1 water/Scorched Brown) and glaze around panel lines, joints and anywhere else dirt would collect.

-Do the same with Catachan Green, then with Bestial Brown.

-Overall theres around 15 layers of colour glazed on.

 

For more info on glazing see Lunchbox's glazing article.

 

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y57/El-Diablo/Relictors/Relictors%20Tutorial/Stage13-Weathering.jpg

 

 

Next, base however you feel - i've washed the sand with Brown Ink then drybrushed it with Khemri Brown then Kommando Khaki. Paint the rim Scorched Brown and add static grass to taste.

 

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y57/El-Diablo/Relictors/Relictors%20Tutorial/RelictorFinal.jpg

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