Saturday, May 30, 2009

Painting Deathwing, Part 1

Painting Deathwing, Part 2
Painting Deathwing, Part 3
The Completed Deathwing

While painting a friend's Deathwing, I was searching online for the best way to do it. I wasn't satisfied with any of the ways presented and finally struck out on my own. Here's how I paint the Deathwing.

Step 1: Basecoat the model. I use about a 50/50 mix of Bleached Bone and Skull White as I don't think regular Bleached Bone looks as nice. Here you can see how I used the airbrush to get the entire army basecoated in less than an hour.



Step 2: Using Gryphonne Sepia, I airbrushed the wash right onto the model. I had heard about this technique with the Citadel Airbrush came out and I wanted to try it out. This picture is obviously not a terminator, but as I forgot to get a picture of this step it will have to do. Either way, the colors are the same as I'm doing a similar process for my Banshees.



I chose to airbrush the washes as opposed to brushing for speed. Also, I like the way the wash applies when airbrushed.

Step 3: Now, drybrush the bleached bone mixture over the washed figure. I use a large brush for this step and it goes quickly.



Now you're ready for the detail! The next part will discuss where to go from here.

2 comments:

  1. That is certainly an interesting and fast way of doing it. It still looks a bit whitish (rather than bone-ish) to me, but I'm interested to see the end product.

    Did you thin the wash at all when you airbrushed it on?

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  2. I didn't thin it, Gryphonne Sepia is a lighter wash and I didn't feel it necessary. The washes are already much thinner than standard airbrush paint. If it was thinned I don't think it would have gone down very well.

    As for the bone versus white, when I decided on this color scheme I was thinking of dry bones in the desert which are almost pure white with light brown shadows in the sunlight. The GW Bleached Bone is a little more like parchment color, not bone. Perhaps later I'll make a post explaining why I chose the lighter color.

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