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Greetings Wargamers and Players, Welcome to Miniature War, I´m Meinkopt and I bring you a painting guide for some Back to the past and see how to apply different techniques using as an example an old Imperial Militia from Warhammer Fantasy.
This free companies, are going to be part of the Miniature War Army and in the future will be part of the Battle Reports. This army it´s based in the colors of the old province of Silvania.
We start giving the red tones to the fabric, in this case it´s going to be the part of the pants. For this I'm using the set of Reds from Andrea Colors, that will let us create all the scale from dark to light easily with just a little mix.
With a medium paintbrush as maximum, we shall apply differents tones, searching to create deep and blur between the layers.
I recommend that the layers should be thin, for this we need to dilute the paint a lot, so the thinner are the layers and more “veladura”, will get a better result, but it will be more time for this.
Now for the other part of the pants, we shall give some black tones. Like the reds, I'm using the set of blacks from Andrea.
I use a lot this sets because they really function, and the type of pigment it´s very consistent and the final result it´s a perfect matte when you paint the fabric.
As the last steps, we shall do the shadows and from there the lights, using a small paintbrush and soft strokes with the diluted paint till you get the black tone and the lights that you like.
For the jacket, it´s like a studded leather armor, let´s give them a look of old and blacked leather.
We mix a tone similar to Dark Flesh with Rinoxhide for the layer base. We shall cover all the nooks and crannies.
It´s not necessary, but in this case for the militia, I did an half layer with Agrax Earthshade to add a little more of dirt.
Later we shall add more Dark Flesh to the mix, so we can create the deep and lights of the studded. To remark the edges and final lights, we use pure Dark Flesh.
The straps and belts that go around the jacket that´re going to be painted in browns too, but will be one that will stand out more than the one in the jacket.
For this the layer base of the straps will be the same that the jacket, but the lights and tones will be from different colors.
To Dark Flesh we shall add Mourfang Brown. In this way being brown will stand out from the armor. The final lights and borders will be with pure Mourfang Brown.
Now we shall see another type of brown, this one will be applied in the leather jacket and will keep the dark tones, that look good with the scheme of colors from Silvania.
For the layer base, we mix Steel Legion Drab with Rinox Hide and cover everything very well. This will give us a different brown from the last one.
For the lights it´s as simple as to add more Steel Legion Drab to the mix.
In the Silvania's Scheme, the troop shirts are from a light bone color going to yellow.
To represent this color there are two ways to do it, firts using the colors from Citadel, but it will give us a satin finish and for me personally I don´t like this for the fabric and the other is by using colors from Vallejo
that will give us a matte finish, that´s more correct that the fabric should be matte.
If you wish to use Citadel, then use the combination of Kherni Brown for the layer base, and then mix it with Ushabti Bone, so you can give the light with this, until you get to the pure Ushabti Bone.
In this case in this tutorial I choose the matte option.
For this I use a layer base of Khaki and then mixed it with yellow caqui, this is the one that I use to add deep and medium lights, applying the edges and final lights with Ivory.
The tones for the woods. it´s being use the looks of dark and greenish tone.
For this we mix Steel Legion Drab with Abaddon Black for the layer base, when this is dried, then we apply Agrax Earthshade.
We are going to give edges and light using more Steel Legion Drab to the mix, for the middle way I use pure Steel Legion Drab and for the lights in some zones, I mix Ushabti Bone.
In this case for the metals, we selected an old and wear down look. After all the militia are built in from old soldiers or adventurers or locals with poor resources.
If we add that this is a color scheme that seeks to create the appearance of a dark army and very aged war against vampires.
To create this perspective, we shall give a base layer, of Bolt Metal Gun mixed with Abaddon Black.
Later, we give a layer of Null Oil to the armor so it will darken more.
When it´s dried, with soft strokes we apply pure Bolt Metal Gun. The strokes doesn't have to cover completely, we are searching for a look of scratchs in the armor, in this way we create the worn out thanks to the tint applied before.
Then we shall give a layer of Agrax Earthshade to add more dirt to the armor. When this one dries, we start to outline and give some strokes to scratch the metal a little more, but now we use Ironbraker Armor.
For the flesh, in this case we use a more darker and tanned tone. Similar to the one that we can apply to a dwarf.
For the layer base, we use Dark Flesh mixed with a little of Cadian Fleshtone.
When the layer is dried and used a fine point brush, we start to create little by little the edges of the muscles or the expressions.
To create this edges, we add Cadian Fleshtone to the mix. But only to the middle tone, cause we don't want the flesh to be too pink.
For the final lights in the edges, we add a little of Ushabti Bone to the mix.
For the effect of the beard of some days or shaved off hair, we add dark or light gray to the mix of that you use for the flesh. With this we shall apply it to the parts that we wanted to have that look, then we add a little more of the flesh toen, to create a little of volume.
And with this we finish this tutorial, where we use as an example a Imperial Militia, we see how to fast create, different techniques of painting that we can use in various miniatures.
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