Hey good people!!
For today i will be reposting a tutorial that i have done earlier on on our facebook page. I have had a few people repeatedly ask how i paint pink horrors which i have done earlier for some clients in commissions. But i felt that some people still couldnt quite get the hang of it so here i am trying to do a little more detail. Lets hope it turns out well!
They are simple, really easy to paint, and fun as hell to work with as the models themselves are really cool. Alot of options and alot of useful bitz. so yeah i guess i will get straight to it!!!
First of all the list of paints!!
-Vallejo Squid Pink (well done smarty pants)
-Vallejo Glorious gold
-Vallejo Bonewhite
-Vallejo Beasty brown
-Vallejo Cadmium skin
-Vallejo Brown wash
-Vallejo Golden yellow or Livery green (for eyes)
- Vallejo black primer
-Vallejo white primer
- Vallejo Glaze medium
-Vallejo Magic blue
-Vallejo Cold grey,
-Vallejo black
1) First Clean and assemble the model. This is pretty straight forward and i am not going to go into too much detail. However this kit is great as the mold lines arent too troublesome and usually in areas which are easy to get to so you dont have to worry too much. Then i like to mount my stuff on cork because it gives you something nice to hold onto.
2) Now, this is quite and important step. The priming. For this specific model we will be doing something called dual priming. This is essentially where you prime the model black first and then white from above in a downward angle. Reason this is great is because once you start adding colors to the model, it adds shading without having to go through the trouble of preshading almsot every bit of the model. Since the model is small preshading can be quite a pain in the backside so try leave it to this and try get the hang of spraying the white primer at the right angle. NOW i am doing this with and airbrush. But keep in mind that you can jsut as easily do this with spray cans. You loose a small amount of control, but in the end it wont effect the outcome too much. Also, if you are speed painting like we are doing here it doesnt matter that much here as it is essentially about getting the models up and paitned as quick as possible so you can have a game with them and still have them look good!! so below here you will see what the model looks like after priming. You will also see how the priming works from a top view and a bottom view.
Top view
Bottom View
3) Now we are going to start adding some actual colors to the model. To be able to make the most of the dual priming technique, you have to make sure that the paints you are using are thinned down a fair amount and this is VITAL. You can even add a small amount of glaze medium if you want(make sure its a little though.) This lets the colors underneath show through and when the layers are thin you can decide when you feel that your pink covers enough. This all ofcourse comes down to taste and everybody has different taste, so ya. Also the reason you thin it down is because you will probably have to do more than one coat of the pink. Therefore it is important for you to have a thin layer so that the result can be nice and smooth and not bumpy. It looks like crap honestly and unless your painting Nurgle daemons or anything with some sort of plague or disease i dont think you really want to have small turds all over the model.
4) Now the next step is also quite important but definitly not a must. Just to break the colors abit and give a slight contrast add in a small amount of the flesh colors into the pink that you are using. With this it helps you get a little amount difference in the shades of pink. It will get a lil boring if there pink is jsut a flat pink. So when you do this stage its really simple. Just shoot the new mix of paint straight down from the top. This allows the paint to only hit from the top and the pink shading and black dual priming will do the rest of the work for you! Now go clean your airbrush!! coz u wont really be using it anymore.
5) Now comes probably the most important part of all. This is where you make your own glaze. for the glaze you can use any color that you want, but ideally use something that works with the pink. Personally i used purple but i know this also works with browns and reds. But dont be stupid and go and choose something like a bone color or what. That will just guarantee you a facepalm from me and the rest of the wargaming community. AANNNDDD BACK TO THE POINT, so yeah for this part get your glaze medium and your purple. What i did is that i mixed the purple and glaze medium as such: 5 parts glaze medium to 1 part paint. This makes makes the glaze very thin already which is what you are looking for. But now, you also have to add water to it!! so make sure that the ratio of the water and the glaze is 1 : 1. if yo uahve done it right the glaze should look something like the picture below. With this consistancy it falls into the crevices really nicely and thats exactly what you want. Now take a look at the image under that and you will see what it looks like once you have painted it on. If you want however you can take this a a step further and take a cotton bud ( the ear cleaner thingy) and just dab it onto the raised areas of the model. This cleans that part off and lets the pink show through really clearly and still retains the qualities of the glaze in the crevices. As i am far from as smart as a nobel prize winner i ofcourse forgot to take pictures of that. But in the next step you will see what i mean.
6) First before anything!! LOOK closely at where the glaze dried. this was after i dabbed it off with the cotton swab and this was the final result. This is ideally what you want at this point. Now we can continue with the next stage. For all the feathers give them a nice even coat of cold grey. Make sure this is thin too and do multiple layers as this doesnt kill the detail too much on the actual feather. Then after that all the arm bands and and bangles and all where painted appropriate colors. For the bangles and rings and stuff i gave them a base color of glorious gold, and the arm bands where painted with black. For this next part you need your glaze medium again as you will be needing it on the feathers. mix up the same consistancy for the glaze but rather than purple use blue. This makes a nice thin glaze that you apply to your feathers.
7) next step is getting all the details done. This includes painting the respective areas with beasty brown, also paint toe nails this color. tongues where painted with purple as well and teeth and finger nails where all painted with bonewhite. The feathers were lightly drybrushed with Vallejo Model air White, and washes were applied on the proper areas :D i used the brown wash for the areas like the teeth and also the gold. Make sure you get a nice trim of the golden objects with the brown wash as this gives a nice "blacklining" effect or whatever you wanna call it. Eyes were then painted color of your choice and a brown wash was given around them also. Also for any areas which are silver, i used Vallejo Model air steel as this is a very ncie and bright metallic. I think this suits the bacground theory of the pink horrors qutie well and i think it goes along quite well with the bright and vibrant colors they are at this point, and once you ahve done that give them a quick glaze with the blue from the previous steps.
8) Last step is nothing special. Drill a hole in the foot and then pin it to the base. be careful when yo udo this though and take your time as the ankles are quite fragile and can break if you do it in the wrong direction. So ya. If you dont want to pin them that is fine too. Then just stick it onto the base and we are good to go!!!
Alright guys this is all for now. Hope the tutorial helps. Even if your not painting this exact model i hope you can adapt some of the technqiues into your painting and apply it on other models!!!
If you guys have any tutorial requests feel free to let me know and i will do what i can to make it happen!!! Peace out and stay insane.
