The list of paints used for my desert raiders, written down for future reference, VJ = Vallejo GW = Games Workshop.
BASE COAT:
VJ Green Ochre - tunic
GW Tallarn flesh - flesh
VJ Camouflage Olive Green - trousers
VJ Flat Earth - boots and puttees
VJ USA Uniform - weapons
VJ Flat Brown - Pauldrons equipment
GW Deneb Stone - Shemagh
VJ Offwhite - Headress, plasma glow
VJ Turquoise - Knife handle
VJ Sky Blue - Headress edging
VJ Gunmetal Grey - gunmetal
VJ Bronze - Knife hilt scabard
GW WASHES:
Brown wash - Equipment, trousers and footware eyes/face
Thinned Blue - Headress
Thinned Black - Equipment, Lasgun
Sepia - Tunic, lasgun casing
Flesh - arms, possibly face
HIGHLIGHT:
Tau sept Ochre - Tunic
VJ Tan Yellow - 2nd Tunic
VJ Cam Olive Green - Trousers
VJ Russian Uniform - 2nd Trousers
VJ Flat Earth - Boots & Puttees
VJ Biege Brown - 2nd Puttees
VJ Thinned USA Uniform - Weapon casing
VJ Thinned USA Uniform + VJ Dark Yellow 50/50 - 2nd Weapons casing
VJ Green Blue - Knife handle
VJ Flat Brown - Pauldrons, straps & Equipment
VJ Mahogany Sand - 2nd Pauldrons, straps & Equipment
VJ Bronze - Knife hilt, scabbard
VJ Old Gold - 2nd Knife hilt scabbard
GW Tallarn Flesh - Flesh
GW Thinned Elf Flesh - face
VJ Off White - Shemagh
PLASMA OSL:
VJ Turquoise - raised parts of ribs
Mix of sky blue and white watered down - this also is used to highlight the area around the ribbed area on the plasma gun and area the light hits from the guns glow.
Watered down white - inbetween ribs
Note: posted late as it seems to have slipped through the net. This suggests I had yet to add some comments, long forgotten!
Real nice painted figures! And thank you for the painting guide!
ReplyDeleteGreetings
Peter
Thanks Peter, my intention was to do this for all my projects however time and energy don't always work out. It's handy refer back to when I resume it way down the line!
ReplyDeleteHang on; they are not ancients...
ReplyDeleteLook tops though!
Regards, James
Haha well they're ancient in that these figures and their citadel comrades that got me into the painting side of the hobby!
ReplyDeleteQuick note further Highlights added; Vallejo Desert sand, Dark sand on Tunics and Red Leather on brown areas.
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