Painting the OOP realm of battle

[Valkyrion]

I managed to snag an oop realm of battle board - not the city one, but the one with the moulded hills and imbedded skulls etc.

 

How do I paint it? 

I know, like, technically how I paint it - spray black, drybrush various greys and browns over the top, but the logistics of it escape me....I could do it using GW pots and their tiny drybrushes but not too keen on that idea!

 

Any advice? Any particular brand of tinned paint that is akin to mechanicus standard grey, or dawnstone that I can drybrush on over a GW black spray?

[Imren]

Is it new or is it painted (and perhaps varnished?)

 

If it is already painted and you plan to paint over the present paint job then I recommend you to use airbrush to prevent obscuring the detail. With airbrush you will paint much much faster and with much thinner coats saving paint and time and also obscure less the details.

 

If it is new then I guess you can go ahead and paint with paintbrush. It will take much longer time though.

 

Instead of using model paint You can use cheaper craft paint, but they usually they don't thin very well.

 

Either case, if I where you I'd definetely see this as a good oppurtunity to throw myself in the blissful realm of airbrushing.

 

 

I think firstly you need to decide on a theme of the board. do you want earth tones (dark tones with rhinox hide, lighter with zandri dust S75 sandalwood or similar) or grasslands (GW castellan green mixed with vallejo game color camouflage green and then drybrtush some lighter gren tones mixing in scorpion green or yellows) or burnt ash wastelands (Grey tones from skavenblight dinge down to astronimcan grey/dawnstone/mech.std. grey)?

[Helias_Tancred]

I sprayed mine Chaos Black.

(for everything else it was mostly dry-brushing, and I used GW paint pots, and I went through a bunch)

Then I decided on a basic color theme. I'm a believer of more neutral terrain so it doesn't take away from the models used, so I wanted a gray-ish board with brighter gray highlights.  A gray tundra look with some frost on it.

For the stone areas I made it look like a weathered stone that also had frost buildup.

I did the skulls like skulls .... then I wanted an eerie chaos-magic induced look so I dry brushed a light amount of a bright blue followed by Skink Blue. I then applied some of that to the rocky areas too.

The good thing about that board is it doesn't take a Picasso level of detail to make it look good. I used several sizes of dry brushes along with a regular sized paint brush for dry-brushing the several grays over the general board.

 

Oh and two full cans of matte varnish after I was done! Further down on my IG account I have some finished board pics, its been a while so way further down lol.

Edited July 3, 2022 by Helias Tancred

[Helias_Tancred]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CeXyssIuzS3bZl1R4HtDBGgR4Gp-M81yMdp2i40/

A recent one of it after I moved into my new home. Still need to build a 6x4 table topper with trim for it.