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Hey guys, a little question this time:

I recently used the weak pound, to buy the Forgeworld great Unlean One, but this guy is so over detailed, I'm afraid my painting skills won't do it justice. Until now, I painted the demons with rotting flesh, followed by black, green and brown ink, with another layer of drybrushed rotting flesh. That looks okay, but I never know how to paint guts and stuff, and I need an impressive way to paint that giant rusted sword.

So, any ideas?

Hi there. For the sword, I'd reccomend following this excellent tutorial (it's how I do metallics after reading it), but changing the colours to browns, greens, oranges and purples. http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/649 The more thin translucent layers you apply the better the disgusting look will be.

Hope that helps.

start with black undercoat, then a base coat of gretchein green. use two separate washes of the new thraka green & devlan mud. doesn't matter which order. highlight with the gretchin green, remembering to thin done the paint quite a lot.
i've than mixed up a batch of gretchin green & rotten flesh to get a mid highlight tone then finish with rotten flesh.
next comes the magic. use thinned down inks (both new and old) to 'stain' parts of the flesh, using a damp clean brush to blend out the edges. i use reds, yellow, browns & greens for this.

for the metals, i always start off with tin bitz then drybrush up with bolt gun metal or brazen brass depending on which i want. for the iron i then will apply chestnut inks, washes of dark flesh then dapples of orange for rust. for the brass i'll wash with a brown/green ink mix then a very thin wash of vile green to get verdegree.

i'm currently doing a deathguard army for next weekends painting comp and will post my results the following week.

in the mean time heres a doombull (converted from the blood thirster) i did some time ago. the sword has thinned washes of green & brown ink, applied over and over until i got the desired effect -







and a bloat thrall -







btw can anyone recommend a pic hosting site that's faster than imageshack? have tried photbucket but i don't know how to share an album on a forum.

Have a look at this Great Unclean one from Warseer. I was actually reading this just before I saw your post, which was weird.

The author (not me) has a tut on the 2nd or third page.

EDIT: Should add the link.
http://warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121334

if its demon nurgle then the easiest way to paint them would be to prime them white and then just ink them with colors like red, green, yellow, black, brown etc. or you could use washes. Then i would paint the details (blood, sword, and spores) separately. hope this helps you

also heres a good picture of nurgle http://www.coolminiornot.com/152597
http://www.coolminiornot.com/166079
http://www.coolminiornot.com/171705

thanks guys. some interesting stuff in there. I'll start as soon as I'm done with these WM figs.

edit: any special way you paint horns?

i use a mix of the old inks - yellow & brown - over bleached bone. or blend snakebite up to bleached bone.