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2 librarians with jump packs
10 honour guard
10 vanguard veterans
30 assault marines
2 sanguinary priests

Hopefully, by setting up this blog, I will be less lazier (I hope!) and be more active in the painting of my army. Here are some pics:

A librarian


One of the assault marines I haven't come round to stripping yet.


Assault marine sergeant with thunderhammer. He's meant to have an infernus pistol, does anyone have any ideas on how I could model one on?




Yep, that's a mould line. Not a brain tumour, I better clean it off soon.
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Ok, so grab your base coat, preferably a dark one like this brown here.


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Mix a little bit of a lighter colour into the paint you used for the base coat. In this case, a rusty brown. Now mix a little bit of water into the mixture and apply, making sure that the transition from rusty brown to dark brown is smooth (i know it's not in this picture!). In this example, the left hand side is receiving the 'light' whilst the right hand side is receiving shadows. So from the left hand side, apply your paint. You then wipe, or take off some of that paint onto a towel or something and continue into the right hand side. As you reach the right hand side, gradually take off more paint and apply light brushstrokes. Slow and steady wins the race.


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Similarly, take a lighter shade of paint and mix it into your mixture. You then use the above technique, making sure that this time you leave some of the previous shade behind in a smooth transition.


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Again do the same but with a lighter shade

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At this point, you can clean up any problems you may have encountered. Here, I made the shadows a little lighter and blended some ugly lines in.

I know this wasn't the best tutorial but I hope it was helpful anyway. This technique does take some practise so don't panic if it doesn't turn out the way you wanted it to. Just make sure you allow a nice transition from light to dark.

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