I like to base coat, shade, dry brush, ink wash as quick as possible. Then I am happy to put on the table to play.
I have tried to improve my skill with the paint brush and tried different techniques. These days when I paint I tend to rely on ink washes and glazes. I find it quick and easy and gives a finish I am happy with. I will start with a white undercoat and then apply a very light colour as a base. I then add wash after wash to the model. The ink adds darkness to the shaded areas of the model while the light base coat comes through on the highlighted areas, I then finish with a glaze or two to smooth out between the light and dark.
This works fine for models that are largely one colour and have just one type of surface ( i.e. scales, armour, skin etc.) Using my usual painting technique with the Orcs would be trickier and slower. Because I wanted to do a tiger stripe pattern I didn't think it would work very well. I also wanted to try my hand at the GW method of layering.
The primary colours for the team would be black and orange, and of course green for the skin. I watched some you tube videos, and checked some GW painting guides and websites.
I went and got the following colours to paint in the layer method.
Ork Flesh:
Waagh! flesh (base); Warboss green(layer); Skarsnik green (layer); Bei-tan green (ink shade); Waywatcher green (glaze)
Abaddon black (base); Eshin grey (layer); Fenrisian grey (layer); Agrax earthshade(ink shade)
Jokaerg orange (base), Troll slayer orange (layer); Fire dragon bright ( layer); Lugganath orange (egde); Reikland fleshshade (ink shade); bloodletter (glaze)
I wasn't sure if I would use all the of them, particularly for the armour there would only be hard edges and I didn't think there would be much need for multiple layers.
I wanted to practice painting black, as I haven't really painted with black very much.
I started by giving the model a black undercoat then base coating the skin, drum and drumstick
The Chain mail was dry brushed on and pants were painted.
I then did a ink wash on the skin, drum skin and orange bits.
Applied the base coats again over the raised areas and did the first layer of edge highlights for the black armour
A lighter shade of green was applied as a layer on the areas I thought would be lighter.
Lighter layer for the orange.
A final layer of highlights was added and some details picked out. I tried to get the thinnest, cleanest, sharpest lines I could for the final edge high lights on the black.
I have to say, at this point I was really pleased with how it came out. That is one of the best paint jobs I have ever done. The black looked clean and the highlights looked sharp. I really surprised myself with how well the skin looked. I honestly didn't think I had the skill to produce something like that.
This had given me a lot of confidence to work with black, and to use the layer style of painting. I realised my past mistakes when attempting to paint like this. After the ink wash shade I would apply the first highlight layer, rather then reapply the base coat.
So with the painting test a success so far I decided I would try having a go at painting the stripes I wanted the team to have. Normally It would be black on orange, but with the model it would be orange on black, it would be interesting to see if that would work.........
AND RUINED.
Ugh! So my stripe painting needs a lot of work. Probably less stripes and limit to shoulders, knees and elbows ( and maybe helmet too). Definitely black on orange too.
Hmm.. I feel this practice was mostly positive. The orc skin layering came out really well ( for what I can normally achieve). I feel a lot more confident when working with black. The stripes, while coming out pretty bad, have helped clarify what I need to do and how I want the paint scheme to look like
So I think another practice paint attempt is needed with what I have learned.
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