How long would it take you to paint an army to your standard? Can you post a step by step photo guide from undercoat to finished marine? Im having trouble with mine, I've just finished the basecoat (Red Gore) and I have no clue how to step up from that into highlights and stuff, so I've left it at that colour and painted the armor trimmings with silver. And how do you paint metal weapons? I just paint them silver and do a bit of gold here and there, but it just looks like crap cause I dont know what Im doing.
If you've got a spare marine lying around do you reckon you could paint it up in Word Bearers colours so I can use it as a guide?
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Well I'm in the process of packing and moving right now so all of my stuff is packed away. Once I get back I will see if I got an extra model lying around and I can show you my process. I can give you a few tips though. Since you have your base coat going over it with a wash of brown ink (diluted) or black ink (diluted) about a 50/50 mix and then go over your base coat. Dab off the excess ink then let it dry fully, then do a dry brush of Blood Red to bring out the highlights.
As for metal weapons I’m still working on that myself but what I do is a dry brush or either Boltgun Metal or Brazzen Brass depending on the look that I’m going for then use my Brown Ink wash in the corner to give is a “dirty look”. Have you ever gone to www.40konline.com there are some awesome CSM and painters their that I’m sure can give you way better tips than me but I hope that I helped.
Cool thanks, I used brown ink over Red Gore on one of my fantasy models and it looked pretty cool but I never went the next step on highlighting it. Does Red Ink work over red paint, or does it have to be a different base color to the ink to look good?
I'll try and paint some more over the weekend and take a photo or two and see if you can give me any tips on how Im going
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Using the same color ink on the paint will not give it that much definition but will help. Using a darker ink such as brown on red will help to give it the much needed contrast.
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Well I've been busy so here are my latest updates. I have two Champions that didn't come out in the pics so I will retake those. I'm working on a Predator and 5 new CSM as well as a Land Raider I hope to have done soon.
Killer, I've been converting some dwarves for my 40K chaos army. Made a new Lord out of a space marine terminator chaplain, with a daemon weapon....would take a pic but Im lazy :P
Got a couple pics, took them with my phone so the quality is crap
But anyways, heres one of my marines: (please log in to view the image)
Painted with basecoat Red Gore, Boltgun metal for trimmings, then the whole thing coated with black wash. Need to go do the details and stuff but Im too busy with new ideas at the moment
Lord with Daemon Weapon:
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Made his weapon from a Dark Eldar vehicle sprue, need to fix up the greenstuff then start painting.
Daemon Prince:
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Body of Nightbringer, legs/mount/weapon from Fantasy Slaanesh Lord, Wings from Possessed Marines. Arm fell off, need to fix it
Ill take a pic of my Baneblade sometime, my army is Word Bearers so it's got all sorts of weird shit on it Tentacles, arms, spikes, gotta put some scrolls on it, but its mental. Not as heavily converted as yours though
How do you work on your army? Do you build a small squad up and focus on painting them up to standard before moving onto the next squad, or do you batch paint your whole army together?
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Looking pretty good. As for my painting style I will finish a squad and work on the next. I build as I paint normally leaving off the arms and weapons and putting them on last.
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May 26th, 2008 10:21 PM
Not as heavily converted as yours though 
