Undead Horde (the Old World)

My quick technique for painting skellybob.

I painted the shields separately with some double-sided tape on a small mdf board.

To make the shields more worned out, I drilled some holes and add some chips with a small blade.

Dirty Down Rust can leave a very stark transition between the Rust part and the non-rust part, so I feathered the edge of the rust with some thinned down seraphim sepia.

(Dirty Down Rust is a water soluble product, so it reactivates when mixed with regular acrylic paint or acrylic washes.)

Added a bit of thinned down fluo orange (pro-acryl) in some selective parts of the rust. It adds a bit of a “pop” effect to the rust that I really like.

The base is done with the quick application of three different inks and quick light drybrush afterwards.

Added some pigment powder over both the base and the lower parts of the skeleton.

Not 100% satisfied with the verdigris look for the shields, so I will probably tweak the recipe a bit the next time.

(For skeletons, I normally batch paint them 5 to 10 at a time. For every batch, I always try a slightly different paint recipe. It’s more interesting, plus trying next things help me more improve as a painter 🙂

Took a while, but just finished a Terrorgheist (3D printed black dragon that will proxy as a flying undead thingy).

Been experimenting with underpainting for my Vargulf. (Not sure if Underpainting is the technical term..)

First step was to airbrush some striking colours: green, yellow and some red.

Than I airbrushed a thin coat of a pale skin tone while making sure the underlying layer was showing a little bit.

Than I applied some streaking grime enamel to tie all the colours together.

Underpainting is a quick technique, but I think it adds a lot of depth and visual interest to the models.

There were a quick speed paint project and messing around with the airbrush.

Not a big fan of the purple hair..

I do like the slight color/hue difference for the skin tone.