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Protoype paintscheme for my new IG army.

VERY simple to paint, will literally take a few minutes to paint each model

Skull white undercoat from GW
codex grey armour, weapon, helmet, boots, fortress grey highlight
skull white highlight on the white portions
chainmail gun barrel and magazine
dwarf flesh face with elf flesh highlight
1/3 devlin mud ink + 2/3 future floor polish wash
hardcoat followed by dullcoat

fortress grey base
pva layer on base with black rocks dropped on, static grass second - allow to dry then dab more PVA on and dip in snow flock

Looks nice for a model done in a few minutes, will we see any other models?

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wizard12 wrote:Looks nice for a model done in a few minutes, will we see any other models?

yep, i have 110 more to paint next saturday...

Very nice result for a scheme that favours mass-production.

magic wash produces a result far exceeding the effort.

Pretty much what I use except for some variations and washes. I use them as urban guard though. Doesn't yours turn out a bit too dark for snow camo?

Edit: Sorry, misread some of it. I basecoat it using codex grey

Vanhammer_Bard wrote:Protoype paintscheme for my new IG army.

VERY simple to paint, will literally take a few minutes to paint each model

Skull white undercoat from GW
codex grey armour, weapon, helmet, boots, fortress grey highlight
skull white highlight on the white portions
chainmail gun barrel and magazine
dwarf flesh face with elf flesh highlight
1/3 devlin mud ink + 2/3 future floor polish wash
hardcoat followed by dullcoat

fortress grey base
pva layer on base with black rocks dropped on, static grass second - allow to dry then dab more PVA on and dip in snow flock

Wait when did you take a photo of one of my guardsmen ...if only mine looked this good. This is pretty much how I try to do mine to get some nice looking snow guardsmen. I just wish they turned out this nice.

Looks very nice. Reminds me of the Mobile Infantry from Starship Troopers.

very simple and effective. Nice looking model. Those are very similar to the colors I plan to paint my own IG, so thank you for sharing your technique, it will definitely help me

Oppl wrote:Looks very nice. Reminds me of the Mobile Infantry from Starship Troopers.

DAMN, that would have been a great theme for the army!




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Element206 wrote:very simple and effective. Nice looking model. Those are very similar to the colors I plan to paint my own IG, so thank you for sharing your technique, it will definitely help me

One thing i didn't mention was the use of a wet palette to help with getting the paint to the right consistency - and keeping it there.

It makes all the difference when doing this sort of speed painting.


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Crushy wrote:Pretty much what I use except for some variations and washes. I use them as urban guard though. Doesn't yours turn out a bit too dark for snow camo?

Edit: Sorry, misread some of it. I basecoat it using codex grey

Yeah it is white basecoat so that helps. I went for colors i see around my area in winter, wet granite grey, white snow, still leaving patchy grass.

In the end I am making a matching display board that this scheme should blend into. I hope