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So due to the new starter set my local GW shop is having a painting competition where you have until the 8th of September to paint a model from the starter set and the best looking one wins.

Now I haven't painted for ages and I never painted humans (Nids for me but I also haven't painted these for a long long time ) so I want to give it a try.

Mr. Sniffles (I'm really calling him Samus though :grin: Can you guess which BL novel I'm reading at the moment? ):




Basically each day I'm going to set 10-20 minutes aside, probably at the end of the day, to painting the Cultist and trying to make it look as good as possible. I got a free Painting DVD set from MiniWarGaming so I might look at that too and maybe learn a bit too.

Now since I didn't buy paints I have to use the paints I have in my possession at the time:
Paints (added links to the paints equivalent to them because I have mostly old paints):
GW:
Skull White
Ice Blue
Shadow Grey
Chaos Black
Mithril Silver
Chainmail
Caliban Green

Formula P3:
'Jack Bone
Battledress Green
Thrall Flesh
Battlefield Brown

Washes/Inks:
P3 Brown Ink
P3 Armour Wash

So I was thinking of Cowl and hood in a fleshy green (I imagine a mix between Thrall and Battlefield with highlights of Jack Bone).
The Cape and shoes will be in black but the end of hte sleeves and the edge of the cape would be in the same colour of the cowl.
The amulet will be a metallic icy blue (more Shadow Grey than Ice Blue though).
Pants will be in Shadow Grey with Ice Blue highlights.

As for the face the eyes would also be in Ice Blue and the mask from metal. The gun as well

Here is a little concept thingiemajing I've done in photoshop to try the colours and I gotta say I love it!


The pants will be in the icy colour (you can only see the knee cap there) and the autogun is going to be in metal (tried to make it look metallic but alas, I couldn't ).

Tonight I will work on mostly priming it. I will prime the Icy blue parts and bandages with white and the rest in black.

I would Base the brown parts with Battlefield Brown, the bandages with a 75/25 mixture of 'Jack Bone and Battlefield Brown (just to make it a little darker), the blue parts with Shadow Grey (the amulet with 75/25 of Shadow Grey and Mithril Silver to make it a little shiny) and the metallic parts with Chainmail (The mask will be a 75/25 of Chainmail and black to make it darker).

Then I will wash the Brown and Black parts with the P3 Brown Wash and the blue and metallic parts with the P3 Armour Wash.

Highlighting will be done with the 'Jack Bone, Thrall Flesh, Mithril Silver, Skull White and Ice Blue.

What do you think?

Thanks!

This should be rather interesting to see. Also, I approve of the use of photoshop to show what the colors should look like. I did the same in my 257th Brimlock blog.

I will be watching this with great interest.

 Smitty wrote:
This should be rather interesting to see. Also, I approve of the use of photoshop to show what the colors should look like. I did the same in my 257th Brimlock blog.

I will be watching this with great interest.

Ha yea it's actually so helpful to use Photoshop! You use almost the same methods! (Just realized I forgot to prime it first xD Oh my oh my )
If you have the time to do it it's really helpful with planning models!

Thanks mate!

No problem. Now go paint us some awesome models!

OK Basing is (kinda) done!

Didn't have a lot of time for painting today so I ended up just priming it all with Black. Tomorrow though I will start earlier and prime the parts that should be icy blue White and base the Brown parts. Hopefully I'd also have time to base the blue parts.

On Tuesday I'd do the washes and hopefully first highlights. On Wednesday I hope to finish the mini with the final Highlights and then I'll have 3 days of being able to fix or improve things! (Like giving him glowy eyes etc.).

So for the boring part where you get to look at the primed Mr. Sniffles:





Gave him two thinned down coats of Chaos Black And well he looks great!

Somewhere in the warp a Lord of Change looks at an image of future Mr. Sniffles and sheds a tear. Whether it is a tear of happiness or profound disgust and sadness I am not sure! What I am sure of is that I am going to try hard and make the Lord of Change proud! :proud:

im interested to see how he turns out, may copy ur scheme for my cultists
Also you should try filing down the sprue-attachment-clipping thing lines on the hood, and remove some of the mould lines, would make the model look a lot better

I would make the eyes red,

keep the rest of the blue parts, and try to work in some subtle yellows into the clothing. probably the bandages.

that would make a great red/blue/yellow color scheme.

Thanks everyone for the response!

And thanks for the tip Meade! Do you reckon I should make the highlights for the brown parts light yellow? What would you suggest?

And I'm not sure about the eyes being red. The reason I love this theme so much is that the ice blue parts contrast so well with the brown parts and I think red will ruin it. I just think the blue will be better

Also, I do have a question: What should I do with the cloak? It will be black but how do I highlight black stuff? Is there another way I should paint the cloak with?

Green eyes are best eyes.

 Kepora wrote:
Green eyes are best eyes.

Couldn't agree with you more, however I don't think it would suit the model

Any help with the black parts? How can I highlight the black?

Doreo wrote:
Thanks everyone for the response!

And thanks for the tip Meade! Do you reckon I should make the highlights for the brown parts light yellow? What would you suggest?

And I'm not sure about the eyes being red. The reason I love this theme so much is that the ice blue parts contrast so well with the brown parts and I think red will ruin it. I just think the blue will be better

Also, I do have a question: What should I do with the cloak? It will be black but how do I highlight black stuff? Is there another way I should paint the cloak with?

ice blue eyes might turn out a bit washed out, that's all. It's very hard to make them look bright. If it is the only spot of red on the model, and you have yellow and blue in there, they are sure to pop. That's the only reason i said that. Ice blue may look good with brown but that does not necessarily mean it makes for good eyes on mini. You could always try one test model and if it doesn't work out just paint over it.

The highlights for the brown parts, you can use beasty brown or some tan-ish equivalent, straw yellow if you got it, flesh color if it is slightly yellow as well.

You want to hightlight black with some kind of gray, up to a stony white on the very edge/top. And it's best to get a little bit of color into it somehow. German grays (little bit blue-ish), dark browns, etc.

I swear they should allow doctors to give their patients painting as a therapeutic! I spent lots of time painting today - I primed the blue parts white, based everything and highlighted everything! I feel very very very good

The plan for tomorrow is to do the washes and second highlighting unless you guys will come with comments and criticisms (very welcome to do so!) and I will have to change stuff!

Wednesday is 40k Painting day in my local GW shop so I might go there to to ask for advice

So! Now now, you! YES YOU! Be patient and don't eat your nails! The photos will come....

HERE:





I think it all looks great and being able to highlight the black cloak made me feel great! I thought it was difficult but it was rather simple.
The only two things I'm mostly disappointed from is that highlighting the metals was impossible! The Mithril did not shine through the Chainmail :/
Secondly the bandages on the legs clogged up from the paint so there is not a lot of details there.

Otherwise I think everything's going super well! WOOT WOOT

Wash the metal first and then highlight it, it'll make a big difference.

Well... I finished painting the model. I also kinda ruined it :/ Clogged the mask and just think that generally I did too much (being scared what I'm doing is wrong or doesn't look good so not thinking about adding another layer of paint or washing too much etc.).

Doesn't matter though, I'm done and that's all that matters. Tomorrow I'll bring it to the GW shop for comments and hopefully I'll also receive some from you guys. I think I will try to paint another cultist and see how it goes (I'm still not too confident about painting the Chaos Chosen... I really want to but the amount of detail on them is terrifying :O






Thanks for the support and tips! Hopefully I won't make the same mistakes with my next model!

I think he looks good, very 'Road Warrior' style with the dark leather and mask.