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Dead Man's Hand: Lawmen

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    20 Dec 2024
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    22 Dec 2024
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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

  1. Basecoat with Dark Reaper .
  2. Shade recesses with thin Corvus Black .
  3. Apply chunky highlights with 2:1 Dark Reaper and Administratum Grey .
  4. Highlight again, but with fine lines of with a 1:2 Dark Reaper and Administratum Grey .
  5. Selective highlights of Administratum Grey .
  6. Add very small/specular highlights. For this, I like to mix a little White into my Administratum Grey .

White Cloth

  1. Basecoat with 1:1 Corax White and White .
  2. Wash with Apothecary White .
  3. Shade deep recesses and around buttons with Stormvermin Fur .
  4. Finish with a few White highlights.

Khaki Cloth

  1. Basecoat with the admitedly complicated mix of 2 parts XV-88 , 2 parts Zandri Dust and 1 part Doombull Brown .
  2. Apply general shading with 1:1 XV-88 and Doombull Brown . Keep this thin and run it into recesses.
  3. Now shade the very deepest parts and around buttons with 1:1 XV-88 and Rhinox Hide .
  4. Add some general highlighting with 1:1 Karak Stone and Zandri Dust .
  5. Highlight everything with fine lines of Karak Stone .
  6. Mix some Pallid Wych Flesh into your Karak Stone , then finish with very small/specular highlights.

Black Cloth

  1. Basecoat with Black .
  2. Apply chunky highlights of Dark Reaper .
  3. Now add fine highlights of Stormvermin Fur .
  4. Selectively highlight with 3:1 Administratum Grey and Stormvermin Fur .
  5. Finish with 1:1 highlights of Administratum Grey and White .

Shiny Black Leather

  1. Basecoat Black .
  2. Add chunky highlights of Stegadon Scale Green .
  3. Apply fine highlights of Thunderhawk Blue .
  4. Selectively highlight with Fenrisian Grey .
  5. Finish with specular highlights of Blue Horror .

Dark Brown Leather

  1. Basecoat the leather area with Rhinox Hide .
  2. 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.
  3. Add a chunky edge highlight of Skrag Brown to all edges.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Add a little pure white (like Dead White ) to your Ushabti Bone and add dot highlights to corners.

Steel

  1. Basecoat with Leadbelcher .
  2. Wash with Nuln Oil .
  3. Highlight with Ironbreaker .
  4. Add fine highlights with small amounts of Vallejo Model Air Silver RLM01 Metallic .

Arid Basing

  1. Basecoat with Zandri Dust .
  2. Wash with Agrax Earthshade .
  3. Drybrush with Zandri Dust to re-establish the base colour (if needed).
  4. Repeat with a lighter drybrush of Ushabti Bone .
  5. Drybrush very lightly, essentially dragging your drybrush over the details with a single pass of Screaming Skull .
  6. Wash the rocks with Reikland Fleshshade .
  7. Pick out prominent details and add general highlights to the rocks with Pallid Wych Flesh .
  8. Finish with a few small White highlights on large rocks.
  9. Finish with a nice Steel Legion Drab rim.

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Citadel Painting System 26
Base 9
  • Corax White
  • Corvus Black
  • Leadbelcher
  • Mournfang Brown
  • Rhinox Hide
  • Steel Legion Drab
  • Stegadon Scale Green
  • XV-88
  • Zandri Dust
Shade 3
  • Agrax Earthshade
  • Nuln Oil
  • Reikland Fleshshade
Layer 13
  • Administratum Grey
  • Blue Horror
  • Dark Reaper
  • Doombull Brown
  • Fenrisian Grey
  • Ironbreaker
  • Karak Stone
  • Pallid Wych Flesh
  • Screaming Skull
  • Skrag Brown
  • Stormvermin Fur
  • Thunderhawk Blue
  • Ushabti Bone
Contrast 1
  • Apothecary White
Vallejo Game Color
Base 1
  • 72.001 Dead White
Vallejo Model Air
Base 1
  • 71.063 Silver RLM01 Metallic
Vallejo Model Color
Base 2
  • 70.950 Black
  • 70.951 White
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