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Hello, I just started with warhammer painting, i dont play the game, but i like the characters and the job painting them.
So i bought my self a box of 20x Plague Monks to start of with and some colors.
I got Citadel base : Castellan green and shade : Biel tan green to start off with.
I painted the whole character with Chaos Black first, then i put a layer of the base castellan green, and when that one had dried out i used the shade, after a little tutorial on youtube.
But i want the cloak to look a bit dirty or like its have some damage to it, any advice on what i should buy and continue work on the cloak? also how to make them more detailed.

For the flesh i bought reikland flesh shade and kislev flesh but i dont like the colors, any tip on what i can use to get a dirty nice looking flesh on my minis?
( maybe i used them wrong ) Dont have any base color for flesh.

Thanks for taking your time.

Welcome.
I visited your country once. It was beautiful.

So you wanna paint ratz huh? That's cool, I always liked the lil buggers.

Anyway, what process are you using to paint the skin?
You should be basecoating, then shading over the top to get into the recesses, then to gain further definition, you highlight raised areas that would naturally catch light on them.

Easy enough to say, sure. But there are tons of vids out there that can help you along to pick up some techniques.

For instance, if you want a little grime on your cloaks, try the drybrushing technique and go light at it applying some brown to the edges that might touch the ground.

That being said, here's a video I found by googling "how to paint plague monks"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY2RjeqYmOA
This guy uses a brown wash (shade) on his cloaks to make them look grimy/dirty.

Keep in mind, you don't have to use soooo many different layers of colors like he did to achieve a good effect (especially as you're just starting out) and also that you're totally at liberty to select the colors that you think will look the best.

If you watch that video and find him mentioning a technique you don't understand, try googling your questions.

For Example: Google "how to apply a wash to a warhammer model"



As per my own standard advice I wish I'd paid more attention to when I first started out:

Keep your brushes clean. Keep them clean. Clean them. (mess up the brush and the paint won't do what you want it to)

Look into how to water down your paints properly. If they're completely new, they might not need it, but still might. (if your paint is too thick -- or too thin-- it won't do what you want it to do)

Look into what brush sizes and shapes are useful for different painting techniques (guess what the paint won't do if the brush is too big or too small for what you're trying to do)

And have fun with it
You might make something you think looks great, or you might make something that looks like a dying toad like I first did, but that's the fun of it, I think.

Norskmaler wrote:
Hello, I just started with warhammer painting, i dont play the game, but i like the characters and the job painting them.
So i bought my self a box of 20x Plague Monks to start of with and some colors.
I got Citadel base : Castellan green and shade : Biel tan green to start off with.
I painted the whole character with Chaos Black first, then i put a layer of the base castellan green, and when that one had dried out i used the shade, after a little tutorial on youtube.
But i want the cloak to look a bit dirty or like its have some damage to it, any advice on what i should buy and continue work on the cloak? also how to make them more detailed.

For the flesh i bought reikland flesh shade and kislev flesh but i dont like the colors, any tip on what i can use to get a dirty nice looking flesh on my minis?
( maybe i used them wrong ) Dont have any base color for flesh.

Thanks for taking your time.

These are my rats.

I have to say, plague monks are not my favorite model, but they are a bit simpler to paint just because the robe is most of the figure. I'm not saying your method is wrong! Just saying this is how I did mine above:

- prime black
- paint cloth medium grey and the flesh, ratskin (that's the base you're missing likely)
- do any highlighting you may want in a lighter grey
- wash with biel tan (turns the whole cloth green); wash the flesh with reikland flesh wash
- your cloth is now done
- work on the flesh:
I will actually do a couple of different ones, adding different mixes so they're not all the same, but I typically mix my first skin highlight (this is after the wash) as a mix of the kislev and ratskin, finishing a final highlight, after that's dried, with a layer of just kislev. Or you can use any of the skin tones really. Also, bugman's glow is a nice base for skin (for Skaven). I'll use it instead sometimes.
- work on fur: you can dry brush some here, in different colours, if you're careful. If you want to do a lot of drybrushing, you might want to do the fur first, so's not to get it on the robes.

So some detail notes, after I'd done my first batch I was very bored of them, and needing more, I decided they should have skaveny runes on their robes, so after the grey I added the runes, in an offwhite/cream colour, which also turned more green after the Biel-tan wash.

To help make them look dirty, you can also use a black (nuln oil) or even a brown (agrax earthshade) wash as well.

I usually paint the eyes red, as most people I think.

Anyway hope that helps some

also there is this link from watching paint dry, which I liked when I started painting my guys.

Haha. Thats the text/image version of the video I linked.
Must be good!

Zmoney716 wrote:
Haha. Thats the text/image version of the video I linked.
Must be good!

indeed ^_^

Zmoney716 wrote:
Welcome.
I visited your country once. It was beautiful.

So you wanna paint ratz huh? That's cool, I always liked the lil buggers.

Anyway, what process are you using to paint the skin?
You should be basecoating, then shading over the top to get into the recesses, then to gain further definition, you highlight raised areas that would naturally catch light on them.

Easy enough to say, sure. But there are tons of vids out there that can help you along to pick up some techniques.

For instance, if you want a little grime on your cloaks, try the drybrushing technique and go light at it applying some brown to the edges that might touch the ground.

That being said, here's a video I found by googling "how to paint plague monks"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY2RjeqYmOA
This guy uses a brown wash (shade) on his cloaks to make them look grimy/dirty.

Keep in mind, you don't have to use soooo many different layers of colors like he did to achieve a good effect (especially as you're just starting out) and also that you're totally at liberty to select the colors that you think will look the best.

If you watch that video and find him mentioning a technique you don't understand, try googling your questions.

For Example: Google "how to apply a wash to a warhammer model"



As per my own standard advice I wish I'd paid more attention to when I first started out:

Keep your brushes clean. Keep them clean. Clean them. (mess up the brush and the paint won't do what you want it to)

Look into how to water down your paints properly. If they're completely new, they might not need it, but still might. (if your paint is too thick -- or too thin-- it won't do what you want it to do)

Look into what brush sizes and shapes are useful for different painting techniques (guess what the paint won't do if the brush is too big or too small for what you're trying to do)

And have fun with it
You might make something you think looks great, or you might make something that looks like a dying toad like I first did, but that's the fun of it, I think.

Glad you liked it, hope you found people friendly.

Thanks for the advice, i have looked up on some videos but many of them are 4 years old etc, so wanted to ask in case there was something new / good source that people where using today.
Found a " Tutorial " on the rats so are going to be doing that one, to see how it works out for me.
Ill take every advice you gave me and follow them, the only problem is that there is only 24 hours in a day.

Regards Norskmaler

What city are you in?
Oslo here..
If in oslo stop by Amundsen Hobby in Trondheimsveien..

For washes I recomend Army Painter Strong Tone, it is the closest we get to the old magic sauce that was Devlan Mud from Citadel.
Or make your own..
Google Les Wash Recipe..

many of them are 4 years old etc, so wanted to ask in case there was something new

A lot of what you will find is going to coincide chronologically with when the models were released. Something new comes out, the community gets in a buzz about it, and people create content to discuss/support it.

Pending some crazy new advancement in the art of painting, I don't think you can really go wrong, friend.



And yes, I took a large ferry over from Deutschland and I was markedly impressed by everyone's demeanor, the tidiness and all of the beautiful scenery.