Im lucky enough to have two beautiful sons, Adam (3yrs) and Jack (18mths) but of the pit falls of having young children is that even when you do manage to find time to do some painting they like to "help".Upon seeing my unpainted Forge Fathers and Marauders Adam decided that I had made them for himself and his little brother. Obviously my counter argument fell on deaf ears so I am now in the process of painting two Warpath armies to Adam's specifications!
Adam dictated that Jack's new Marauder army should be red, black and white. After a little thinking of how this would look on the miniatures I remembered a short story on the Mantic website about a Corporation force fighting an army of red skinned Orx (HERE is a link to the story)!
So I settled on red flesh with rusted metal and black for clothes.
First I went to the local Trago Mills and bought myself a spray can of red plastic primer. This stuff is supposed to be used on cars but works really well on miniatures and costs about a quarter of the price that GW sell it for!
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| An Orx undercoated using a primer designed for cars! |
Once undercoated I slapped a brown wash over the model and then dry brushed silver over the armor and weapons. This gives the metal areas a really nice rusted appearance. The skin was then painted with a bright red and given a watered down version of the brown wash I used earlier. The clothes where painted plain black and I finished off by picking out the teeth, claws and eyes with white and any lenses or visors with green.
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| Green is mean but red is dead (ard)! |
This style of painting wont win any awards but lets you paint a massive amount of models very quickly. It is perfect for somebody like me, who is far more interested in playing the game rather than painting but cant stand fielding unpainted models.
See ya.