Easy Color Scheme for Poxwalkers?

[Cryptix]

For my pox walkers I'm debating on what colors I want to do their skin. I was thinking of going for white undercoat -> DG spray -> druchii violet wash -> pallid wych flesh drybrush on their skin, but now that I've taken inventory I don't have a lot of druchii violet left and it'll take a lot for the 40 I have. Anyone have any suggestions for a non-wash heavy scheme that's easy to do?

[Xenith]

unless youre dunking the models in them, you should easily be able to do 40 models with a single pot of violet wash.

 

Washes are also going to be the easiest way to do them.-

 

Personally, I'd go something like:

 

White undercoat > basecoat all details > repaint skin white > flesh shade wash over white skin > localised green and purple washes. > additional purple wash around lumps, bumps and pustules. 

 

Alternatively, google "how to paint a pox walker" and you get this:

 

Edited December 6, 2017 by Xenith

[Major_Gilbear]

Well, if Druchii Violet is pricey, and you're otherwise happy with your current idea for painting the Pox Walkers, then I have two alternative suggestions for you:

 

1) Use Army Painter Purple Wash. Should be about half the price in $/ml compared to the GW equivalent. I use it a fair bit (purple is a surprisingly awesome shading colour!), and find it to be excellent. They're thicker than the GW washes (i.e., more like their old GW washes), but they dry to a good finish.

 

2) Make your own wash. Roughly-speaking, you need a about 1 drop of pigment (paint or ink), 3 drops of matte medium, 2 drops of glaze medium (a flow improver and retarder in one, available from Vallejo), and about 6 drops of clean water. Scale up the quantities as you need. It's very easy to make, you can alter the strength by altering how much pigment you add, and for the modest cost of a matte medium and a glaze medium (plus whatever paints/inks you add) you can make the equivalent of about 4 big pots of Citadel wash.

 

 

I mentioned inks and paints in point #2 above, and I just wanted to add that you can also make a 50/50 mix of ink and paint, and then add this to your wash. Inks tend to be more transparent, and the base colour comes through more - this means that if you apply a purple ink wash over a tan colour, you will get a more brown-looking result than if you use purple paint which is more opaque. However, although I tend to prefer paint for going over colours (as I like the more obviously purple-looking shading), I find the inks are usually better if you're planning on going over metallic paints because the metals keep their lustre better. A half-and half mix might be suitable if you block in metals and colours on your Pox Walkers first and then wash over everything with your wash (essentially, like a dip).