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Hey dakkadakka community, I am a new member to these forums and also to the universe of warhammer 40k. I am therefore pretty bad at painting until I get some more experience.

I am trying to paint sisters of battle (I like playing the not so popular armies, but it sucks that gw seems to support them the least), and picking the colour scheme was hard, and applying it is even harder. So far I have narrowed it down to three schemes. One is the standard black armor with red robes, which seems the most popular choice. The second is the white armor and red robes which is seen in the soulstorm expansion of dawn of war. A third scheme I am trying is purple armor and blue cloak.

The one I like the best, is the white armor and red robes, but I just can't seem to get it to look all that good on the models. I can't realy do much with white armor other than try and apply some shading. The purple scheme I tried was a lot more fun to paint, because I could play around with higlighting and shading to make some cool effects on the cloak and armor. I haven't gotten around to trying the black colour scheme yet, and I am not sure I will. Any tips or ideas for colour scheme, or tips for painting white armor would be much appreciated. I sprayed them skull white, and am thinking I should have gone with gray instead and layered white on top?

Adding pictures of two test models as refrence (phone pics):
http://imageshack.us/g/29/imag0113d.jpg/

Hi There and welcome to the wonderful world of Dakka!

My main army are Space Wolves but I also collect (and in the process of painting loads) Sisters of Battle! I prefer the white/grey colour scheme from Soul Storm. I don't paint the minis with pure white but instead I have a slightly grey armour with white highlights (for the edges of armour etc) and use watered down Badab black wash for the recesses. I will try to get my link for some of my inquisitorial army (pictures already on Dakka) to show you! Red robes are my choice also with pink highlights and again a dark wash, something more in the devlan mud range!

Cheers
Andy


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Here is the page link. Only three of the big models there I'm afraid but I'm going with the colour scheme!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/374767.page

Cheers

P.s. Just looked at your pictures, very good! You will get cleaner in your painting and don't forget to water (slightly) your paints as you paint them! You keep a lot of detail that way! Love your first picture (very close to one of my mistresses!) and the purple with the gold is very good! You should choose the colour scheme you prefer and go with it!
Andy

Thank you for the reply! What you said sounds pretty good, which gray do you go for as base on the sisters? Also, if you have a pic of one of your models I would love to see it, since sisters aren't that popular it's hard to find good pics, how to's, and schemes by google. I try and water almost all my paint roughly 1:1, but I guess I am not accurate enough and should try to get more water in the paint with the brush.

All comes with time! I will have to post some pictures soon as I have had to put up my paint brushes until Friday as urgent work for my PhD is calling!!! I agree not much of SoB stuff out there!

For my minis I use white spray primer, then codex grey mixed with white for the main colour. Pure white for the highlights. Anything shiny would be gold/silver.

My repentia mistress is quartered with black and white though. Highlights of silver on the white sections and gold on the black sections.

My seraphim ladies are black though with white dry brushing all over to delicately highlight the edges. My seraphims do not have the usual jump packs but instead have eldar angelic wing jump packs which I have layered gold to tin bitz. If you check out the colour of Karamazov's throne, this is the colour for the battle sisters!

Hope it helps and I will plant some pictures soon!

Cheers
Andy


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I have just dug out some and will put pictures up in a moment!

The throne looks pretty good, so I am going to give your sugestion a try and see how it goes. How you painted your seraphims sounds kinda weird, so would like to see a picture of that as well. I was also wondering where you got your wings for celestine, and I asume you got them from eldar models same as the seraphim, that sounds pretty awsome and I will definitely have to try that myself.

Here are the pictures!

The long base on the mistress was just a random base to stand her up in! I try to add the fleur-de-lis tattoos to the cheeks also!

Cheers
Andy


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Any help with your schemes? Anyways as I said, I will get some more pictures up on Dakka but copius amounts of reading and experimenting are calling as I will have to speak at an international conference soon in front of several hundred to possibly thousand people!!!!

I will let you know by private message if you like?!

Cheers
Andy

Acidian wrote:Hey dakkadakka community, I am a new member to these forums and also to the universe of warhammer 40k. I am therefore pretty bad at painting until I get some more experience.

I am trying to paint sisters of battle (I like playing the not so popular armies, but it sucks that gw seems to support them the least), and picking the colour scheme was hard, and applying it is even harder. So far I have narrowed it down to three schemes. One is the standard black armor with red robes, which seems the most popular choice. The second is the white armor and red robes which is seen in the soulstorm expansion of dawn of war. A third scheme I am trying is purple armor and blue cloak.

The one I like the best, is the white armor and red robes, but I just can't seem to get it to look all that good on the models. I can't realy do much with white armor other than try and apply some shading. The purple scheme I tried was a lot more fun to paint, because I could play around with higlighting and shading to make some cool effects on the cloak and armor. I haven't gotten around to trying the black colour scheme yet, and I am not sure I will. Any tips or ideas for colour scheme, or tips for painting white armor would be much appreciated. I sprayed them skull white, and am thinking I should have gone with gray instead and layered white on top?

Adding pictures of two test models as refrence (phone pics):
http://imageshack.us/g/29/imag0113d.jpg/

the white armor's pretty tough and gw as usual provides a completely inaccurate guide to painting the scheme in one of their white dwarfs, which i would over look. ive painted a couple which look pretty solid, try this scheme out and see if it works.

hair-chaos black base. highlight over with codex grey (just a couple strands in front of bangs). then wash with watered down chaos black
armor-base with astronomicon grey. then, wash with a watered down 2:1 mix of ultramarines blue and codex grey. drybrush with skull white. lastly, pick out the white parts you want brighter and highlight with skull white
gun-drybrush boltgun metal on metal parts. for rifle case i simply paint chaos black with shadow grey highlight
robes/ sleeves-start out basing with scab red. then slowly build up highlights with blood red, blood red/ blazing orange, and a 2:1 mix of skull white and blazing orange. then, wash with a watered down coat of red gore or scab red (forget which)
flesh-base with skull white. paint over with dwarf flesh. then apply flesh wash. highlight over raised features with dwarf flesh. gradually build up dwarf flesh highlights with skull white as you see fit.
hope that helps!

Thanks for all the help. Going to give wagh's version a try as well, and see what I like the best. Then take some pictures to show the results.


Andy: Good luck with your PhD!

Acidian wrote:Thanks for all the help. Going to give wagh's version a try as well, and see what I like the best. Then take some pictures to show the results.


Andy: Good luck with your PhD!

one last thing too! the gold should be done using bestial brown base with dwarf bronze over it
(brown should always be applied to bronze or gold first as a base)
be sure to get good coverage with the white too, in other words dont leave too much grey in the recesses.
the more white you paint over it the brighter it will get, as even pure skull white is darker with a base under it that isnt white
sisters are so hard to find info on painting, so you def have my sympathy

If you want to have more fun painting white, use astronomican grey+ some shade and then layer and higlight with mixes of white and astronomican grey. Btw, new sister codex in next white dwarf. Rumors of plastic sisters as well. Im going to get them to christmas if the rumor is true.