As I said before lovely army! A while ago I bought a whole load of those plastic skeleton miniatures off of fleabay, they came assembled and painted- some have pretty funky metallic purple weapons. They really do need a repaint and I might just add it of my list of things to do. How o you achieve the awesome 'dirty' look of your skeletons?
I started playing in 4th edition too but after a few months 5th edition was already released. As said I think each edition thereafter addressed some of the pronblems of the previous edition, though it wasn't always an improvement of course.
Looking back I quite liked the magic 'card game' with the Winds Of Magic cards (rebound, magic duel). The spell cards and magic item cards were less interesting. That said, I really like that you can have everything in the book and do't need all the extra stuff nowadays. A few years ago we tried to get into 2nd edition 40k and it was quite hard to track all the cards down because half of the rukles back then were printed on cards and not in books.
All of my plastic skeletons were also assembled and painted. In the end this saved me heaps of assembly time so it was a blessing in disguise. Before repainting an old skeleton I clean off some of the really visible mould lines, mostly on the skull, legs, arms and rib cage. Then I base the model with sand, give it a shield (where appropriate) and a black undercoat. The bone is done with three drybrushes:
1) Vallejo Game Color (VGC) Charred Brown (Citadel Scorched Brown), this drybrush can be sloppy and wet, almost like a basecoat but not quite.
2) VGC Earth (Citadel Graveyard Earth), this drybrush has to be medium-dry but it's still ok if it's a bit wet.
3) VGC Bone White (Citadel Bleached Bone), make sure this drybrush is dry.
This takes care of the bone, nothing less, nothing more (a skeleton without weapons is considered finished at this stage). The dark colours and the sloppy drybrush make for a dirty look. Also variations between the coverage of the drybrush give a slight variation in bone colour.
This bone colour is also the base for the rust (for metal bits like weapons and shield rims) & verdrigris (for brass bits on characters).
Rust:
1) I paint the metal bits with the previous Citadel Generation Orange Ink. It's the one that comes in the pot on the right (but with a white cap):
It's OOP and unfortunately VGC didn't copy this colour but you can probably find a suitable alternative.
2) I paint the armour with Badab Black Wash (if you do your verdigris first you can combine this step with the last step of the verdigris)
3) Drybrush with Citadel Boltgun Metal, this doesn't have to be an even dry drybrush, it can be a bit patchy, just don't let the metal cover too well.
Verdigris:
1) mix up a bit of old Citadel Jade Green (can't find it on Coat d'Arms) with Bone White (still on the wet palette) to make it lighter (white may look even better but since I already had the bone on my palette I used that).
2) wash the verdigris bits with the diluted Jade Green mix
3) when the wash is dry, (dry)brush the verdigris bits with old Citadel Shining Gold (Coat d'Arms Bright Gold). This colour is very different than the current Citadel Shining Gold.
4) Wash the armour with Citadel Badab Black Wash
Altogether several easy steps to paint old armour for lazy people like me, good luck!
Damien> Thank you very much! I'm very pleased how the catapults turned out, this is the way I always imagined them to be and reminds me of the old 'Machineries of Destruction' pics of Orc and Goblin warmachines on a single base
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24 February 2010, 03:52:02 AM
