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Hello all DakkaDakke members ,

I just have a quick question that I need a little help with. Viewing the new How to Paint Citadel Minatures guide I realised that it contains eight army projects , however it does not say which armies these projects are based on , would someone be able to help me / let me know any more detail on this ?

SonsOfAphrodite-

From this post on another forum:

"The Army Projects present in the book are Tyranids (Kraken), Orcs & Goblins, Haradrim, Empire (Reikland), Space Marines (Aurora Chapter), Tomb Kings, Gondor (Minas Tirith), and Dark Elves. "


I don't own it so I cannot confirm this. I hope that helps.

Thank you kronk ,

I Shall take a look , many thanks

SonsOfAphrodite

I imagine the idea is that the techniques used should be easily transferable.

Regardless, if it's anything like the painting articles in WD this month, the techniques described will be pretty much apply base, apply wash, apply layer, apply lighter layer.

Even painting is getting dumbed down now

Flashman wrote:I imagine the idea is that the techniques used should be easily transferable.

Regardless, if it's anything like the painting articles in WD this month, the techniques described will be pretty much apply base, apply wash, apply layer, apply lighter layer.

Even painting is getting dumbed down now

It's not that the painting is being dumbed down, it's being made simpler (which is not always bad), I personally could do for the things they talk about (while I might not use their "systems" and paints, but the instructions are always helpful as a reference.

The army projects are described in a few pages, giving step by step instructions. One example is the Dark Eldar Warrior. Stage 1 is Basecoat (it then describes the basecoats applied to each area of the model.

Is it worth 50 bucks? Meh... I haven't used it enough to comment on that.

Alfndrate wrote:

Flashman wrote:I imagine the idea is that the techniques used should be easily transferable.

Regardless, if it's anything like the painting articles in WD this month, the techniques described will be pretty much apply base, apply wash, apply layer, apply lighter layer.

Even painting is getting dumbed down now

It's not that the painting is being dumbed down, it's being made simpler (which is not always bad), I personally could do for the things they talk about (while I might not use their "systems" and paints, but the instructions are always helpful as a reference.

OK, but do they explore a range of different techniques (e.g. blending) or does it just focus on layering (which is a perfectly fine method but you'd like to see them discuss other mehods too).

Flashman wrote:

Alfndrate wrote:

Flashman wrote:I imagine the idea is that the techniques used should be easily transferable.

Regardless, if it's anything like the painting articles in WD this month, the techniques described will be pretty much apply base, apply wash, apply layer, apply lighter layer.

Even painting is getting dumbed down now

It's not that the painting is being dumbed down, it's being made simpler (which is not always bad), I personally could do for the things they talk about (while I might not use their "systems" and paints, but the instructions are always helpful as a reference.

OK, but do they explore a range of different techniques (e.g. blending) or does it just focus on layering (which is a perfectly fine method but you'd like to see them discuss other mehods too).

Blending? No, but these are not techniques for advanced users. They do talk about glazing (even though they don't deal with glazing as how it is in the "art world") which is a decently "advanced technique" when used the way "artists" do (i.e. mixing paint with an artistc medium which makes the paint transparent to an extent, extends the working life of the paint (allowing blending), and allows you to control the color and lighting far better than with normal "wet" or "dry" blending.