Ferrus65 Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 For my return to AOS I’m assembling a large skaven army (clan verminus theme, so maany rats!), of 120 clanrats and 40 stormvermins, and I don’t like the sad grey of unpainted miniatures. So I need to find the speedest way for give my little rats a reasonable, decent table-game look in the short time possible withouth being crazy . I was thinking: Body and robes - a decent primer with some washes (I have the classic GW chaos black, or a Tamiya matt white one, bu I could even consider buying an Army Painter coloured one) Shields and weapons - painted and washed Bases – painted and finished In this way, I could put on the table the army in a short time, and slowly (very slowly, I really have short times for hobby) finish the painting process, withouth using for mounths unpainted miniatures. Any suggestion? What are other skaven or horde players doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swooper Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 White primer (or zenithal priming, if you want to get fancy) with washes or glazes is definitely the fastest way to paint hordes. Just make sure you get good coverage on your primer so there are no bald spots underneath or behind bits that stick out. You could drybrush highlights on fur, metal and other highly textured areas if you wanted. My own army is a horde army, but I'm purposefully not taking any "shortcuts" with my painting. Since I don't actually play AoS (yet, at least), there's no rush for me to get a painted army and I just want to enjoy the painting process. It takes me about 7-10 days to do a batch of 5 guys from primed to complete, so I'll be painting for a long while myelf... however, if I did want to do it faster, that's the method I'd use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuneBrush Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 Not sure if this guide by the awesome @Mengel Miniatures is any help: http://www.mengelminiatures.com/2016/12/tutorial-skaven-deathrunner.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 How about that new green nurgle spray as a base colour, then paint all the skin, belts, shields, weapon handles the same mid-brown (hopefully one coat), paint the weapons and shield rims silver, use a texture paint on the bases, and then shade everything at once with one all-over coat of agrax earthshade? Would probably work with some of the other spray colours too, e.g. mephiston red etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGPO Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 I painted over two hundred clanrats recently with the following method: 1. Prime mournfang brown 2. Use two base colours to paint cloth areas (I varied this by unit so I could differentiate them easily) 3. Paint the metal with Gehenna gold and lead belcher, the straps, teeth and claws zandri dust and the flesh round the face, tail and hands bugman's glow. The spear shafts and pouches are painted dryad bark. 4. Wash the whole thing with Agrax 5. Pick out the eyes with mephiston red and give the face a quick highlight of cadian fleshtone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferrus65 Posted January 13, 2018 Author Share Posted January 13, 2018 Thank you guys, a lot of interesting points. I think I’ll make some test with different methods on single miniature, and them I’ll choose the betterfinal result. Anyway, I think I’ll have something to do for the next weeks! ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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