How I painted my Lawmen Gang for this popular skirmish game. For these lads, I decided that blue-grey cloth, with pops of a cold white would be their identifying colors. The rest of the miniature was populated with pretty neutral or complimentary colours.
Blue-Grey Cloth
- Basecoat with Dark Reaper .
- Shade recesses with thin Corvus Black .
- Apply chunky highlights with 2:1 Dark Reaper and Administratum Grey .
- Highlight again, but with fine lines of with a 1:2 Dark Reaper and Administratum Grey .
- Selective highlights of Administratum Grey .
- Add very small/specular highlights. For this, I like to mix a little White into my Administratum Grey .
White Cloth
- Basecoat with 1:1 Corax White and White .
- Wash with Apothecary White .
- Shade deep recesses and around buttons with Stormvermin Fur .
- Finish with a few White highlights.
Khaki Cloth
- Basecoat with the admitedly complicated mix of 2 parts XV-88 , 2 parts Zandri Dust and 1 part Doombull Brown .
- Apply general shading with 1:1 XV-88 and Doombull Brown . Keep this thin and run it into recesses.
- Now shade the very deepest parts and around buttons with 1:1 XV-88 and Rhinox Hide .
- Add some general highlighting with 1:1 Karak Stone and Zandri Dust .
- Highlight everything with fine lines of Karak Stone .
- Mix some Pallid Wych Flesh into your Karak Stone , then finish with very small/specular highlights.
Black Cloth
- Basecoat with Black .
- Apply chunky highlights of Dark Reaper .
- Now add fine highlights of Stormvermin Fur .
- Selectively highlight with 3:1 Administratum Grey and Stormvermin Fur .
- Finish with 1:1 highlights of Administratum Grey and White .
Shiny Black Leather
- Basecoat Black .
- Add chunky highlights of Stegadon Scale Green .
- Apply fine highlights of Thunderhawk Blue .
- Selectively highlight with Fenrisian Grey .
- Finish with specular highlights of Blue Horror .
Dark Brown Leather
- Basecoat the leather area with Rhinox Hide .
- Glaze most of the leather with thinned Mournfang Brown . Use quite a small brush and drag towards edges in rough lines. This should create some extra texture.
- Add a chunky edge highlight of Skrag Brown to all edges.
- Highlight everything again, this time with a fine line of Skrag Brown and Ushabti Bone mixed 1:1. This is a good mix to throw in occasional fine lines as scratches too.
- With pure Ushabti Bone , selectively highlight corners and exposed edges of the leather. Put a dot of this colour where the additional scratched above meet edges too.
- Add a little pure white (like Dead White ) to your Ushabti Bone and add dot highlights to corners.
Steel
- Basecoat with Leadbelcher .
- Wash with Nuln Oil .
- Highlight with Ironbreaker .
- Add fine highlights with small amounts of Vallejo Model Air Silver RLM01 Metallic .
Arid Basing
- Basecoat with Zandri Dust .
- Wash with Agrax Earthshade .
- Drybrush with Zandri Dust to re-establish the base colour (if needed).
- Repeat with a lighter drybrush of Ushabti Bone .
- Drybrush very lightly, essentially dragging your drybrush over the details with a single pass of Screaming Skull .
- Wash the rocks with Reikland Fleshshade .
- Pick out prominent details and add general highlights to the rocks with Pallid Wych Flesh .
- Finish with a few small White highlights on large rocks.
- Finish with a nice Steel Legion Drab rim.
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