Sunday 3 April 2022

Painting Tallarn Desert Raiders


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!

5 comments:

  1. Real nice painted figures! And thank you for the painting guide!

    Greetings
    Peter

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  2. 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!

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  3. Hang on; they are not ancients...
    Look tops though!
    Regards, James

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  4. Haha well they're ancient in that these figures and their citadel comrades that got me into the painting side of the hobby!

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  5. Quick note further Highlights added; Vallejo Desert sand, Dark sand on Tunics and Red Leather on brown areas.

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