Marneus Calgar NMM Gold

by | Mar 11, 2015


So over the last few nights I've been painting a round(ish) base! I did a naughty thing and painted a test model for my grey knights.......that's different to all my other grey knights lol! Been thinking away to myself that I am not happy with the colour scheme (hence the failure that was TO40KGS lol) and so I have resolved to strip and repaint them all! Madness I know, especially since I am only halfway through them lol! The theme idea is to paint my grey knights as Adeptus Custodes (The Emperor's elite guard), which I think will look utterly awesome on all my old metal models. So it's happening!

Basically I tried out a more "yellowy" NMM gold method which I think has come out really nicely and will now be getting rolled out to the high elves also. Here is a step by step guide (along with loads of WiP pics below) of how I did it: (assume all proceeding layers are to higher raised surfaces/edges, also all paint watered down with water)

  1. Spray Plastikote Chocolate brown (allow to dry for 24hrs!)
  2. Layer 50/50 Rhinox Hide/Balor Brown
  3. Layer Balor Brown
  4. Wash Agrax Earthshade
  5. Layer Balor Brown
  6. Layer 50/50 Balor Brown/Zamesi Desert
  7. Layer Zamesi Desert
  8. Layer 50/50 Zamesi Desert/Averland Sunset
  9. Layer Averland Sunset
  10. Layer 50/50 Averland Sunset/Vallejo Yellow
  11. Layer Vallejo Yellow
  12. Highlight 50/50 Vallejo Yellow/White
  13. Highlight 25/75 Vallejo Yellow/White
  14. Extreme highlight White

Very intensive and I think my brush work wasn't super perfect (some layers lost I think) but it was certainly one of the most time consuming/technical methods I have used! Think beginning to end this guy took me 12hours (will time it next time) across 3 sessions. Below is also a wee video rotating the model (NB one of my first ever videos so please excuse the utter shitness! Have an idea to improve this though!).

Let me know what you think guys! Really enjoyed doing this one though and cant wait to spend a year (lol) painting up all my grey knights like this (30 terminators + 30 marines + 2 dreadknights + more vehicles to follow).

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