mcmattila

Thanks a lot! The dirt was just simple drybrushing with the same colors as on the base. I do it with pretty much every model! Cheers! Someone asked me this on my plog on Dakka, so I'll just copy-paste from there:

Lots of Farstriders getting painted lately, I got mine done as well! Also, I've totally forgot to post my Cursebreakers here, so let's correct that:

My first finished Nightvault warband, Thorns of the Briar Queen.

It's been too long since I got to post a warband here! I finished Spiteclaw's Swarm last night, can't wait to get a game in with them.

These are absolutely brilliant! Looking forward to seeing the whole crew together. Weirdly enough, I really like how you painted that mushroom. Aren't Blood Axes the 40k Orks that wear camo? They look more like Evil Sunz to me.. But in any case, great paintjob! I like how you still have some purple in the skin, seems a little more alive than just gray.

Sounds like you're spraying from too far, the paint dries up before hitting the model, which produces the dusty look. Also make sure that you warm the can and shake it properly before painting. I haven't used Corax White myself, but I'm fairly certain that the paint is OK. In the future though, it saves you a lot of money to just buy the cheapest spray primer you can find from your local hardware store! And regarding rescuing your models, look into paint stripping. I won't go any further into it as I don't know what products you have available locally. Here's a great video about using any spray cans, Luke fixed any issues I had with spray cans:

Nice work on those Stormcasts! The blue-gray flame effects and Stormsire's head seem to have come out especially well, and that green armor is a shade I don't think I've previously seen. Your bases are also painted really well, though I would've tried some other color than green for the stones, to introduce a little more contrast. It's also really nice to see paintjobs on the new teams. It will probably be quite a while before I'll buy Nightvault as I'm only half-way through Shadespire, but I'm still very exited for all the new warbands that have been released/teased.

Those are positively badass! --- I finally got my Boyz done! I guess instead of Ironskull, my boss' name should be Copper'ead These were on a hiatus since the end of July, but I thought that I'd get them finished in honor of Orktober. Really happy with how they came up! The recipes for orange and skin came from Tale of Painters' Amy, big thanks to her for sharing!

Really cool conversions!

Wow, those are really bright! It's nice to see some alternate color schemes for the khorne boys, you don't get too many of those..

Great looking gang! The "goblin green" adds a funky old school flair to the standard khorne scheme.

I finally finished my merry men of Khorne last night, and with that also the core set. Painting these guys was again something new with the amount of flesh and faces. I'm very happy with the paintjobs overall, the lighter skintones might have a tad too much contrast, but that's probably good for the tabletop. For the eyes and teeth I tried a 10/0 brush, which made things a lot easier and surprisingly hassle free, though I had to rinse the brush pretty much after every stroke. This was also the first time trying out the blood paint, lots of fun! I ended up doing some unintentional "conversion" work on this warband, as halfway through painting I noticed that I had shaved of one of Saek's horns while cleaning up the models I then removed the other one as well, as he might have looked a bit silly with only one horn.

Stunning paintjob! I really like those scratches, especially on the hammerhead. Mine's just smooth metal, and can look a bit plain..

Rushed or not, those look great! Nice, clean-looking warbands! They certainly show that as long as you keep the colors "in between the lines", you will get a good-looking warband! In the future if you want to enhance your painting with minimal effort, I'd suggest drybrushing some select colors, mainly metals hair or cloth, though you have to do this first as it can get messy. Another trick is to use shades to tint colors a bit, such as using agrax earthshade or nuln oil to darken down parts of weapons or armor. Both methods are very quick and don't require much accuracy. Of course, drybrushing and hence adding more definition to some areas of a model might make orther parts look bland.. I'm going to go with orange orcs as well, as soon as I get those models!

Thanks for the tips, I think I might try this scratching in my future projects! And I'm looking forward to seeing your finished Guard!

Do you use a brush or something else? The scratches just look so.. micro

How did you do the micro scratches? They look great! Only criticism I could give is that the champion's sword could use a bit more chipping, like you've done with the warden's spear. --- I've finished my first two warbands, Steelheart's Champions and the Sepulchral Guard. Garrek's Reavers got bumped back in the queue by the brilliant Guard models, but they're next. I chose blue as the spot color so I could do some "Finnish" themed shields. I initially messed up the Guard's blue cloths with a wash (warden's cape was a blotchy mess!), but managed to fix it pretty nicely without repainting the whole thing. Also, the cloth on some figures looks glossy, that's from a coat of lahmian medium which should do a matte effect. I guess I didn't shake it enough.. Well, both of these warbands have certainly been learning experiences!