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I need some help with my color scheme. These are my first mini's and I am still trying to figure out my paint order. I want something quick and easy since I have 2000 points to paint. UGH, right. 7 Vehicles, 2 Speeders and about 30 troopers.

 

Mine is:

Base Coat/ (Primer Coat)- Grey Spay Paint

Baddab Black Wash- Continue?

Rainy Grey (Codex Grey in GW) The trouble is that when I wash it first it turns into more a light blues from the Grey? Weird, uh. This step involves me painting each armor piece which I am trying to avoid. Any thoughts?

Vomit Brown building to Gold on the eagle and Shoulder Trim

Red on the Wolf left shoulder and Grey Highlights to the Studded shoulder on the right.

Then I want to wash it with something I was thinking Devlen Mud? I have tried Baddab Black and it goes on too think and turns everything dark.

 

Painting the armor plates in step three, is where I am slowing down, but if I don't the mini looks way to dark from the Baddab Black wash in step 2. I was thinking that I skip the baddab black wash and go straight to the highlights, maybe dry brushing the Rainy Grey then the highlights. Continuing the final Devlan Mud wash.

 

I hope that I have explained myself enough to get the point across. I have tried painting about 5 mini's with various sequences, and cannot make up my mind.

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Don't take this the wrong way, but you're trying to achieve super-fantastic results, without any of the work. Sure you can wash the model with Badab Black to darken the recesses and define the creases, but be prepared to spend the time to go back and repaint the armor plates.

 

Or another method you can try is manually painting into crevices/joins/armor plates, and then touching up any overpaint, and then apply your highlights.

 

With any method, the amount of time you spend on it is directly proportional to how good it'll actually look (relatively speaking, based on your skill level what takes someone more time may take someone less time).

 

My recommendation? Man up and repaint the armor plates after your black wash..

 

I won't even go into what I think about drybrushing the models.

 

 

DV8

Get a scheme down first on one mini. Trial and error on this "test" mini until you get what you get em looking how you want. Whatever steps you took to paint this mini break the steps down into an assembly line style for the rest of your army. I use a black primer for my minis. This is where you might be having your problem. Either use a white or black primer man.

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