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This is a very fast way to paint cadians.The result is very good too. I painted 5 cadians in 1h this way.



Flak armour - Knarloc green
Cloth - Khemri brown
Metal - Boltgun metal
Skin - Tallarn flesh




Flak armour - Badab black
Cloth - Devlan mud
Metal - Badab black
Skin - Ogryn flesh

Eagle:
Skull white

Base:
Dark flesh, Vomit brown, Bleached bone
Rim:
Graveyard earth

Are these two differant ways of painting the shock troop? Or did you go over him with a second coat in the second pic? This doesn't look bad but it does look like you only put an hour or so into painting him.

It looks to me like he is showing us a progressing, ComputerGeek. The first picture is before washing, the second picture is after.

I think it looks OK. With a little refinement, I think it would look pretty good on the table (especially if there where several dozen guys that look just like it sitting next to him!). Biggest thing that will help IMO is to make sure that there lines between flesh, cloth, and armor are sharp.

This is actually very similar to my technique I use for my Cadians, although I usually use Dark Angels Green for the armor and leave my weapons black with a white drybrush for highlight (I go this route as most modern small arms are flat black). I also wash everything in Badab black...might consider using some other colors for the skin after seeing this, though!

20 minutes actually

good tutorial. big up.

I would suggest you consider not painting the base colours on, especially the cloth, and instead drybrush them over a black primer.
This creates greater shade and variation of tone than the wash can achieve by itself. The foundation paints are great for this - the thicker consistency is a gift for drybrushing.

Here's an example (these take me approx 4hours for a squad, so about 25 mins each)



All colors are drybrushed on, a few details picked out (belt buckle, snaps on pouches, etc) then a wash of Devlan over everything.


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Ruckdog wrote:(I go this route as most modern small arms are flat black)

That's so last millenium - brown is the new black!
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