Because I definitely need a new game right now, I bought some excellently priced Concord troops for a brand new game from Warlord Games. I looked into Bolt Action a while ago, but couldn’t stand by the WWII theme. But space ships and laser guns!? Sign me up!
I found this blogger that I wanted to use as a template to work from. His painting was clean, simple and looked relatively quick.
These are the only paints that I think I’m going to need for this army. Some of them may not even be used.
First I did a wash of this ancient Asurmen Blue. I mixed it a bit with water because I didn’t trust that it wasn’t going to be really really dark. This ended up really patchy and annoying instead.
The next coat I mised Nuln Oil with the Asurmen Blue and it worked out a lot better. I may just try the Drakenhof Nightshade instead next time.
I went to bed at this point. But since tomorrow is a busy day and potentially stressful day, and since I seem to have acquired the habit of being unable to sleep the night before anything stressful (which really helps the stress, let me tell you), I got up to do some more painting. Unfortunately, my only camera devices are in the bedroom and I don’t want to go back in there unless I’m sleeping. So I’ll say what I did, and uhh…maybe you’ll get a photo in the morning. Sunday morning, I mean.
I bought a new pot of Ulthuan Grey for this project, which I thought would be a nice mid-step. But after the dark Nuln Blue combo, it was really patchy as well. I mixed it a bit with the Asurmen Blue (thus ensuring that this out-of-print colour was thoroughly ensconced in my process) and it was a lot better. Then a layer of the Ulthuan, then White Scar. I went back with the Nuln Oil to catch some recesses that didn’t have enough contrast on them.
A quick dump of Snakebite Leather over the base to get started. I’ll probably put the Seraphim Sepia onto that (it should’ve been in the above photo…I use that paint everywhere…) and then dry brush with the Snakebite and Zamesi Desert.
I did a quick wash of Nuln Oil over his gun. I’m thinking I’ll do a blue in the “energy” parts, but haven’t had that much success with such things recently.
And if I can stop myself, I’ll call that done. He looks pretty good. Good enough to paint an army in these colours, I think.
