Paint how to and tips needed

Slide · Post by **Slide** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:36 pm

i'm planning on starting an Imperial guard army from Warhammer 40K, and i want to do them in ACU Pattern Cammo like this...

only these guys are this big...

i depirately need tips, tricks, suggestions, even musings on how i could paint these tiny dudes with a realistic looking digital camo

HELP PLEASE!

Lonewolf · Post by **Lonewolf** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:50 pm

Hmmmm . . . . you might be able to airbrush the lighter base coat, and then use Pigma Micron archival ink pens to do the detailing.

I use 05 (0.45 mm), 03 (0.35 mm) and 01 (0.25 mm) black pens for doing panel lines on 1:100 scale Gundam kits.

They're available in quite a few colors, including green, brown, hunter green, and sepia.

Might be an option for you. Check your local art supply stores to see if there are other color choices, or possibly alternate brands that you could use.

Post by **TER-OR** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:18 pm

I think Neil's done it. Get a nice sable 10/00 spotter brush and thin your paints well. Don't let your brush dry. Drying extenders and flow aid are your friends. It will all be hand-painting work...

http://reapermini.com/TheCraft/15

This tutorial has been invaluable to me.

Kylwell · Post by **Kylwell** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:36 pm

Or.... get some digital camo decals and decal the color on.

Slide · Post by **Slide** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 2:23 am

This would be camo for roughly 160 men... SMALL men... i'm not sure where i'd get it or how expensive either...

that and CUTTING all those decals to individually do legs, amrs that are in kookey poses sometimes... breastplate armour, HEAVY armour for 20 MORE troops, helmets... bumpy, compound-curving helmets... i think i'll try a DRY small brush and try to blot it on layer by layer after a base coat of the lightest colour...

or maybe those pens Lonewolf mentioned... they don't have the right colours of green though...

if i were to spray a THIN coat of medium grey, or tamiya smoke, would that tone-down the vibrancy of the colour from the pens at all? and would any pre-shading show through them? or would i be restricted to post-shading?

Post by **TER-OR** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 4:29 pm

Micron pens are great. You can seal the ink after it's dry, and if you paint over them with very thin gloss coats you should be fine. DON'T use flat paint for that over-coating if you still want to see your pen work. Preshading would be fine, I think.