Wassas Catachan Camo Tutorial

[Wassa]

I said a while ago that I would do a tutorial for my camo vehicles. I've decided to go with 2 minor colour shapes (black and yellow), on a background of 2 different shades of green to give the camo scheme below. Edit these to suit your colour scheme.

 

 

 

Give everything a basecoat of Chaos Black:

 

http://i.imgur.com/ycr7LZYl.jpg

 

Recoat it in Abaddon Black as they're slightly different and if you need touch ups later then they'll be the same shade of black:

http://i.imgur.com/a9OjPicl.jpg

 

Decide what stencils you want to use. I used Anarchy Models Mini Tiger Stripe, but you can even use masking tape cut to shape.

http://i.imgur.com/6DgmwKBl.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/jju7hf5l.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/IfW1CdNl.jpg

 

Once the stencils are applied, spray everything Ogryn Camo, this may take a few coats due to the dark black underneath:

http://i.imgur.com/bcjuphul.jpg

 

Repeat Stencils on top of the Ogryn Camo once dry:

http://i.imgur.com/iLSkhPrl.jpg

 

Spray Elysian Green:

http://i.imgur.com/3ZD2cvTl.jpg

 

Use bigger stencils than before for the next step, I believe these were the non Mini ones from AA.

http://i.imgur.com/UGtjiPql.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/CaxxmFNl.jpg

 

Spray Caliban Green:

http://i.imgur.com/AWHaRZcl.jpg

 

Carefully peel it off when dry to reveal your awesome camo pattern:

http://i.imgur.com/Zxs8VEul.jpg

 

It should be camo, but still appears "flat":

http://i.imgur.com/wGOZZ32l.jpg

If you wish you could tidy up the edges of any outlines that are fuzzy due to the stencil not being completely flat while spraying, but I didn't bother.

 

Use Coelia Greenshade with a small base brush to shade the recesses:

http://i.imgur.com/wlaLHBGl.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/qbrT9Atl.jpg

 

Drybrush Underhive Aash over the whole model:

http://i.imgur.com/KuXTBvEl.jpg

If you're keen you could use a layer brush and do a different highlight for each colour.... but I'm not!

 

Paint details and add transfers:

http://i.imgur.com/H97yDOhl.jpg

 

I forgot to take pictures of the tracks, but I think they are just Dryad Bark, all over wash of nuln oil, heavy drybrush with Gorthor Brown, and a gentle drybrush of Zandri Dust.

 

Let me know if you have any questions

[Kierdale]

An excellent tutorial! :tu:

[WarriorFish]

Better late than never ;) Great stuff :tu:

[Wassa]

Well I got distracted by my Blood Angels :), and it turns out I left some of the Caliban Green in the airbrush for a few months so couldn't do any for a while :(.

 

These were done with a cheapy £30 airbrush and compressor set, but just bought myself new one for xmas so I'm looking forward to getting back to painting my vehicles :).

[Reyner]

Amazing. Makes me want a Catachan Tank Company 

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Great help! Thanks!