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There were times, when I could spent countless hours on painting my miniatures. This times are long gone. So I had to find a way to paint my minitures in a short time. Well thanks to GW I found one.

And as it works out so good I'd like to share my success:

Spraypaint everything white.
Paint the whole miniature using only washes.
You will touch every surface only once. Shades and highlights will be created automaticly by the wash.
In case of black and red, you need to mix 30% to 50% paint to the wash to get a good coverage.

I painted 66 miniatures in just 2 afternoons.

Those are some impressive results! Thanks for sharing

Pretty amazing results, much better than basecoat + dipping.

What did you use for the flesh tone? Is that just Reikland Fleshshade?

You could do a zenithal highlight with the primer beforehand to help define the dark areas. Basically spray everything chaos black, then when that's dry, spray on white from above at a 45 degree angle all around.

Oh wow! I will have to try this out.

I usually basecoat white, and I put on my coats so thin that I get very similar results. Did you put yellow down under the green? I always find that's a really easy way of doing ork flesh, and works well for reds.

Those came out surprisingly well, nice job. I tried something fairly similar with plaguebearers recently (not quite to the same extent) and while the results were quite good from up close, from two or three feet away the dirty green/brown nature of them made them look badly painted. I think that was more to do with the scheme though; you can definitely create nice tabletop standard minis with a heavy reliance on washes

The skin is really just Reikland Fleshshade. It's like skill in pots.
The green is just one (thick) layer of green as well.

You can use more wash if you want it to appear darker or less to make it brighter.

I mixed some Abbadon Black in the Nuln Oil. It looks so much better than basecoating an dipping - and it is ver fast.
If you care, I can upload some extra pictures with based miniatures.

I will also try it on Ultramarines and share my experience.

Brilliant technique with impressive results! This technique may actually get me to paint my models.


Some of them, anyway.

Very cool. It's quite similar to how I speed paint my models, though I usually use 2 coats over the white primer rather than just 1 wash. I'm sure your way is quicker.

All the models in my "speed paint" gallery is painted that way...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-59981-44149_Speedpaint.html

I'm naturally a pretty slow painter but it takes me 20-25 minutes to paint most of the infantry figures in that gallery, with the exception being Spider Riders which took me closer to an hour because I took a bit more care with them.

Same with my Zombies...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-59981-27869_Vampire%20Counts.html

I also do the same for my Lizardmen though they take longer because after you've done that there's still a lot of small details that need picking out...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-59981-27868_Lizardmen.html

This technique is called Greyscaling though ordinarily the whole model would be shaded first.

This is done either with a Black undercoat and white drybrush or White undercoat and a black/devlin mud/whatever GW call it wash over the top. The latter is more subtle.

I did about 60 odd zombies in 3-4 days doing this not that long ago so you've go me well beat there OP!

Super results too. I'm only just picking up the latest GW range so this has inspired me to take a closer look at the washes.
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Greyscaling, as I understood, meant you paint the model black and white to create your shading and then use a tint/clear/transparent paint to colour it.

What we're talking about isn't really greyscaling because you're using the coloured washes to create the shading over a white primer rather than creating black and white shading first.

It can be either. The technique is identical.

How is the technique identical? In one of them, you need to manually create highlights over darks, but in the other you gloop on the gloppity-glupp and it magically creates highlights and shadows at the same time.

Looking very nicely done. Does it hold up well if you start adding things like metallics and solid tones?

I am loving that. Would have made painting my Malifaux stuff way easier.

Those are some pretty good results. Do you have a way to get a khaki kind of color with this method? It doesn't seem like there is a wash that would give that result.

Also, are you able to get different shades of gray by varying how heavily you wash, or how much black paint you add to the wash? If, for example, you wanted a model with some dark gray cloth and some light gray, could you achieve that?

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Those are some pretty good results. Do you have a way to get a khaki kind of color with this method? It doesn't seem like there is a wash that would give that result.

Also, are you able to get different shades of gray by varying how heavily you wash, or how much black paint you add to the wash? If, for example, you wanted a model with some dark gray cloth and some light gray, could you achieve that?

Citadel Athonian camoshade is a khaki wash. A couple of layers of that over white should give a decent and fast method of painting IG fatigues

Yes, it pretty easy to achive different shades of grey. It just depends on how much Abbadon Black / Water you add to nuln oil.

Thanks guys. I didn't realize Athonian Camoshade was a khaki color. It looks much too green on the website, but I'll have to give that a try.

All my washes are from the previous set, so I have the Badaab black wash, but I assume it is pretty much the same as Nuln Oil. Does anyone know if they newest washes are significantly different than the last versions?

Latest work (16min per Poxwalker)

very cool!!!!

Taht is really impressive. I might have to steal this for my nids.

Very inspiring!
Can you give us an idea what the ratio wash:water is? (example 1 part wash : 2 parts water)

Just wash right out of the bottle.

Homeopathic painting; the thinner the paint the greater the talent!

This is my primary method of painting lately, though I’ll throw a lighter drybrush on there first just to bring out some detail. Though having an airbrush means my first coat doesn’t have to be stark white. I usually do a bone base, white drybrush, and then go hog wild with the washes.