Quick purple daemons / poxwalkers with washes

[Isolia]

Hey there,

Since I am experimenting with nurgly things for my new chaos force as well as some Bloodbowl shenanigans, I thought I'd share my trials in trying to get a purple skintone on plaguebearers, poxwalkers, rotters and the likes, rather than the greenish palette people usually go for. I don't want it to be too Slaaneshi though, so I tried a bunch of approaches.

For these guys I like quick and easy methods so diluted Druchii Violet is my favorite jar these days

With wash painting it usually works backwards in that we put down the brighter and paler colours first and work out way toward the darkest hue. So depending on the brighter first glazes/washes, the general colour "warmth" is different, and this is what I tested here and thought might be worth sharing.

The paint is unfinished , but the skin is done. One can highlight at will but the purpose of wash painting is to avoid that phase on large blobs

Some guts were coloured with base reds just to make the general colours pop a bit.

All minis were primed with Corax White, and then some were first washed with thinned glazes or washes. I always thinned them 1:1 with Lahmian Medium for this test to be reproducible.

I usually used 1 or 2 layers of the first colour , indicated under the mini , and then washed three times with 1:1 diluted Druchii Violet .

 

For the one with both Bloodletter and Lamenters, I washed some parts with Bloodletter (wounds, eyes) and the rest with yellow as normal. The Druchii Violet was then applied more diluted (1:3 with Lahmian) on this one to try a more yellowish hue, since the skin basis is the same as the central mini. I will darken it more I think but this is the result of three coats of more diluted Druchii (to be consistent with the other minis' number of layers applied). 

So far my opinion is that glazes , being very bright and popping colours, are the best first coat to give a luminous, sickly violet skin. I will go with Lamenters yellow followed by Druchii violet for my forces (the center model).

I tried Zandri dust as a basecoat but, as expected, it is way too dark .

Here are the results, hope it gives some guidance for those who want to go this route (picture key under it if you can't read my handwriting :) ) :

 

 

http://i66.tinypic.com/25teofr.jpg

 

 

From left to right, in case it's a bit blurry on smaller screens, I list the layers/glazes before the  3 layers of  1:1 Druchii Violet / Lahmian Medium :

 

Corax white only

 

Corax white, then 2 layers of 1:1 Bloodletter / Lahmian Medium

 

Corax white, then 2 layers of 1:1 Lamenters Yellow / Lahmian Medium

 

Corax white, then 2 layers of 1:1 Lamneters Yellow / Lahmian Medium, except in the red parts where only 2 layers of Bloodletter were applied; Druchii Violet was thinned 1:3 with Lahmian before applying 3 coats

 

Corax white, then 2 layers of Cassandora Yellow

Edited July 27, 2017 by Isolia

[Zhiv]

Very nice, I will have to try this myself with my plague bearers.  <.< Also posting this here so I can find this post AFTER I get the relevant paints. 

[Isolia]

I'm sure it can be adapted to any colour , I myself transposed it from.this video which I find very useful for hordes :

 

https://youtu.be/c52TP0naWIU