Danijel’s paintjob on his Chaos Space Marine Lord – Part 1
In today’s text, I will briefly explain to you how my friend Daniel, under my guidance, set out to begin the real coloring of his first figure for Warhammer 40,000.
The figure in question is a metal Chaos Space Marine Lord, manufactured by Games Workshop.
Since he was trying to prepare figures for coloring on his own a few years ago, the first thing I hired him was to add another layer of black matte paint to the figure, in order to improve the coverage with the base layer.
For this purpose, I gave him my Winsor and Newton Series 7 brushes of size 1 and 000.
Since he is practically an absolute beginner in the field of miniature painting, I did not burden him, in my opinion, with unnecessary details such as diluting the paint, since Scalecolor paints from Scale75 I use mostly undiluted.
After applying black matte paint to the parts of the figure that needed it, we set out to paint the gold details on the figure. The paint used is Victorian Bronze, and unlike the previous step, I advised him to use a thinner brush of size 000, since it is easier to paint smaller details.
The pictures below show progress, as well as a few examples where the bronze-gold color escapes beyond the boundaries of surfaces, which anyone who begins to paint miniatures must go through:
Then we set out, using the color Deep Red, also from the Scalecolor collection, to paint the mantle of the figure. On this occasion, I stressed to him that it is important to allow the first applied layer to dry completely, before trying to change anything on the surface, because otherwise he will only have more work to do later, regarding repairing coverage.
Next we set out to paint the skulls on the front of the armor. The color used is called Thar Brown from the Scalecolor collection.
Below I suggested to paint the chain mail and the chains that are also on the front of the armor:
Since, as it turned out, I correctly estimated that 2 hours is exactly the same amount of time per workshop term without too much information or fatigue, I advised to put a base coat on the fur top of the coat. The Dubai Brown color from the Scalecolor collection was used for this purpose.
He also, on his own suggestion, chose to put a Scalecolor Basic Flesh on the skin on the head of the figure.
The following four photos clearly show the end result of this two-hour workshop:
During this workshop, I also drew his attention to some basic ergonomic rules for coloring figures. More precisely, about the importance of having support for elbows, wrists, as well as the hands themselves, in order to reduce stress and make it easier to achieve better end results of coloring.
This advice proved to be something more difficult to adopt, though not impossible.
He also realized on his own that, thanks to the long-range glasses he wears, he finds it harder to see the finer details on his figure. Removing them has improved the perception of the mentioned details.
We continue at the first opportunity with the application of washes, and the basics of the drybrush technique (drybrush), and highlighting the edges of surfaces and details (highlighting).
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