Last night I had nightmare visions of giant men clad in fur and iron, their skin painted red as blood. Could these dreams that haunt me, be related to my task of painting a unit of Khurgan Marauders? I best get on with it – or I fear these dreams will drive me mad.
Doing skin with contrast paint
What color? Red – of course! But this time I will be trying out one of the new contrast paints from GW. For contrast paints they advise using one of the special undercoats, Wraithbone or Grey Seer. To my understanding it has something to do with the size of the pigment particles, where larger pigments such as Corax White, doesn’t provide the optimal surface for contrast colors. I’ll be using Wraithbone as it will give a more earthly tone to the final overlaying color. I’ve used the Wraithbone spray before with regular citadel paints and so far I’m very pleased with it.
After priming with Wraithbone I applied a heavy layer of Flesh Tearer Red contrast paint. I guess it does what its supposed to do, pile up to create darker tones in the recesses, much like a shade and leave a thinner transparent layer on the raised ares. For skin tones, contrast color appears to be a very good way of producing fast tabletop results. Once the contrast had dried, I did a broad highlight on raised areas with Evil Sunz Scarlet. Overall I’m fairly pleased.
Trousers
As explained earlier, I am following the instructions of another artist who also serves the Blood Lord. Although difficult to decipher from lucid ramblings, the instructions state that trouser should be basecoated with Dawnstone. Normally one would use a base and not a layer paint, such as dawnstone, for the first layer of paint, but who am I to question the wisdom of our Dark Lord – so I applied two layers of Dawnstone. Once dried I shaded with Nuln Oil and did a drybrush with Administratum Grey.
Leather
The instructions specified Zamesi Desert, but I don’t have that paint and used Balor Brown instead. The leather bits were then shaded with Agrax Earthade.
Skullz and armor
As a nice touch in this paint scheme, armor and helmets are given a skull white color using Ushabiti Bone as the base coat. I then shaded with Agrax Earthshade. This leaves the white parts looking really brown, so once the shade had dried, I applied another layer of Ushabiti Bone in the center parts of the armor and helmets. Finally I edge highlighted using Vallejo Off White.
Weapons and armor edges
Leadbelcher as a base coat for weapons and edges on the armor. Detail parts were than picked up with Hashnut Copper. Shaded with Nuln Oil and edge highlighting with Vallejo Stainless Steel.
Basing
GW technical Stirland Mud, then Agrax Earthshade and finally a drybrush of Rakarth Flesh mixed with white. Oh yeah, remember to paint the base edges black.
That’s it. Oh, how I hope they will bring many skulls for his throne, or I fear he may collect mine.
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