I need another 4 Temple Guard to make my unit 24 – a 6×4 unit, and enough that in 8th edition (which we’ve been playing for years…) it has enough staying power to not wither and die in seconds without a Life Slann.
This has been a learning experience for sure…my painting style has changed so much in the last year that trying to re-create this paint job has been challenging. The primary problem — the white primer! (and I didn’t realize how much of a problem it was until tonight).
I went back and re-read all of my articles on painting Temple Guard from a few years ago to get a sense of what was going on. The first problem – all of the skin needed to be black so I could drybrush two layers of grey on top.
Solved that and put some more paint on, no problem. I got all of my base colours on and this morning I did a quick wash of a few colours to bring it down – my goal for OFCC (in 3 days) is to have them looking like they could hide in amongst the other 20, not necessarily to be done – and they need to be darker for that.
This evening I came home and they were bright. Hoooly. Bright. Really nice looking colours, Scab Red in particular is gorgeous with a darker shadow behind it and the white primer, but…no…these are dark models. I only had a half hour to paint tonight, so I slapped another coat of Badab over everything and tomorrow morning we’ll do some more hoping. 😛
White primer, it giveth and it taketh away!
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