Citadel Wood Painting Guide - Part Two

After the parts had been removed from the sprue and cleaned, they were put together and I used Green Stuff to fill the gaps. Once this had dried hard I undercoated everything in Chaos Black - any missing parts were painted over afterwards.

Not all paints used are Games Workshop.

Base:

1 - A heavy brushing of Scorched Brown to all of the base
2 - A heavy brushing of Dark Grey (Vallejo 70994) to stones and slates
3 - Highlight everything other than stones with Dark Earth (Revell 82)
4 - Highlight Dark Earth with Olive Brown (Revell 86)
5 - Highlight Olive Brown with Light Olive (Revell 45)
6 - Hightlight stones drybrushing with Basalt Grey (Vallejo 70869) and a lighter highlight with Light Grey (Revell 76) finish with a very dry highlight of Skull White.
7 - Add Flock to areas. In this case I wanted lots of ground to show.
8 - Any dropped wood was left Schorched brown and had a highlight of Dark Earth (Revell 82) and Medium Fleshtone (Vallejo 70860)

Tree Trunks/Branches:

1 - Undercoated Chaos Black
2 - Heavy dry brush of Scorched Brown
3 - Highlight of Dark Earth (Revell 82)
4 - Very dry brushing of Medium Fleshtone (Vallejo 70860)
5 - Stones and boulders had a brushing of Dark Grey (Vallejo 70994), highlight Basalt Grey and Light Grey with very fine Skull white for final highlight.
6 - Flock added to match base.

Citadel Wood Painting Guide - Part one - Look in the Box

Just arrived for Christmas.
Have a look at the sprue...



Once the parts had been removed and cleaned up, which wasn't much to be honest theyw ere glued together and all gaps filled with green stuff, ready for undercoating with choas black.

Haradrim Raiders

Painting Guide for Raider



For these I wanted a uniformed look, so went for the same colur scheme throughout i.e all have re turben, all have purple cloak.



Undercoat: Chaos Black

First coat;
Eyes: paint in eyes using skull white.
Flesh: Drawf flesh
Cloak: Liche Purple
Turben/Pants: Scab Red
Gaiters and arm bands: Graveyard Earth
Armour: Burnished gold with Ultramarine Blue
Bows/Wood: Scorched brown
Bones: Scorched brown with Bleached Bone highlight



Second coats;
Highlight Scab red with Blood red.
Wash cloaks with Leviathan Purple
Wash Reds with Baal Red
Highlight rope with bleached bone
Flesh wash with Ogryn Flesh



Once all dry wash with Badab Black all over.
Varnish and mount on horses.

Christmas list

Ruins of Osgiliath
Citadel Wood
LOTR Terrain Pack

Mordor Orc Drummer
Mordor Orc Task Master

Orc Shaman

Gollum, Sam and Frodo

Mordor Army - Orc Warband

This will be the basis for my 1000 pts Mordor Army:

Morannon Orc Captain - 50 pts
Morannon Banner Bearer - 35 pts
*Modor Orc Drummer - 15 pts
Morannon Shaman - 100 pts
*Mordor Orc Task Master - 25pts
War Riders - 20 points per company - x3 (60pts)
Morannon Orcs - 20pts per company x3 (60pts)
Mordor Ocs - 15 pts x3 (60pts)
Troll drummer - 150 pts
*Troll - 100 pts

Total pts so far = 655 pts

Still decisions on what else I need to be made - I will update this asap.

War of the Ring Rule Book

I received this a couple of weeks ago, I wanted to see what it was all about. Usually I don't game these figures just paint them but I thought I would have a go and see what it was all about.

problme is now - what army? I have the beginnings of a couple, Mordor, Rohan and Gondor.

Initial thoughts are it looks good but could be very expensive buying all the figures.

Riders of Rohan Painting Guide

Men

Always water down your paint.

Undercoat: Chaos Black

First Coats

Flesh: Dwarf Flesh
Hair: Scorched Brown
Belts/Leather: Scorched Brown
Chainmail: Boltgun Metal
Cloak: Military Green (V)
Trousers: Catachan Green
Shirt: Bestial Brown
Bow: Scorched Brown
Feathers: Bleached Bone
Helmet: Silver / Shining Gold
Blanket: Graveyard Earth

Second Coat

Flesh: Elf Flesh
Hair: Bestial Brown Highlight
Belts/Leather: Leather Brown
Chainmail: Methril Silver

Wash

Flesh: Ogryn Flesh
Cloak: Thraka Green
All other parts: Badab Black

Varnish

Medium Matte (V540)

Ruins of Osgiliath

One for the Christmas list

The Hobbit

Green light for "The Hobbit"

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/wrap-hobbit-greenlight.html

Gandalf the White (Foot) - Metal

Painting Guide:

Ensure paints are watered down.
Paints used are Games Workshop and Revell Aqua Colour.

Undercoat - Gunship Grey (R74)
Eyes - Bleached Bone
Flesh (1) - Tallarn Flesh, shape the eyes.
Hair/Beard (1) - Dry brush Rotting Flesh
Cape (1) - Paint whole cape with beige (R89)
Hair (2) - Dry brush Bleached Bone
Flesh (2) - Highlight raised areas with Drwarf Flesh
Cape (2) - Dry brush Rotting Flesh then 50/50 with Bleached Bone leave to dry
Cape (3) - Dry brush very lightly to make the extremes very white. 50/50 Bleached Bone and White (R05)

This is how he looks now >>

Clothing:

Top Layer: - Paint with Rotten Flesh, dry brush highlight with 50/50 Rotten Flesh and Bleached Bone

Bottom Layer: - Paint with Bleached Bone, dry brush highlight with 50/50 Bleached bone and White (R05)

He now looks like this >>

Belt: Leather Brown (R)

Sword: Boltgun metal

Staff: Paint with Rotten Flesh and drybrush with Bleached Bone.

Washes: Ogryn Flesh wash to flesh areas, Devlan mud to staff, boots, and hair. Highlight again with Bleached Bone. Silver wash with Badab Black.

Based and varnished.

I had problems with ensuring the hand holding the staff actually stuck. It fell off several times during painting.

NEW - Just Purchased

Harad Warriors & Morannon Orc Commanders - More for the workbench!

King Aragorn

Drummer Troll

Morannon Orc Captains