I’ve been working on it on-and-off for years. I painted the bulk of it when I was unemployed a few years ago, and had no money to spend., but lots of figures & paint.
My main Clanrat unit was damaged moving house a couple of years ago though, so in the end I painted it twice!
Dark Flesh then Tanned flesh, then dwarf flesh, then bronzed flesh, then elf flesh, then wash with Flesh Wash, then a mix of brown ink and flesh wash.
Boils are tanned flesh then red gore, then blood red, then fiery orange, then blood-moon yellow, then sunburst yellow, then a tiny drop of bilious green.
Each layer leaves a little of the layer below around the lower edges.
All going to plan, I have a week off soon, and I can use that time to finish my Plague Monks and modern screaming Bell and Warlock. Then I can start putting together my DoW (Chaos) Dwarf Mercenaries.
I am liking the colours, especiall the clan skyre i havent seen that before. I can appreciate how much fun it is to paint skaven as i painted quite a few for my brothers advanced hero quest badguy collection last year.
If i could give one small peice of advice, it would be to water down the inks a bit more and do successive layers, as this will stop it having that shiny look to it. I think a good example is on the rat ogre’s, where the skin looks great but the hair next to it looks almost laquered. Have you noticed that painting flesh ink straight onto dwarf or tallern flesh gives a great fake tan look
Another way i think works is to do the base colour, then wash the recesses, and then do the building up highlights after that. Do you have a full army shot on a battlefield?
Thx. The idea was to give each clan a different colour of robe. I also varied the metals on two clans (Skryre and Moulder) to separate them a little more. By keeping all the other colours the same, it keys the army together, so it doesn’t look too random, but does allow an emphasis on the different clans.
I actually do water the inks down. The shine is due to my poor photography, they’re not that shiny in real life
I also use the painting-over-wash method with my champions, characters & big models.
I don’t have a battlefield shot right now, it’s something I need to do. I took those photos because I’d been asked for them here and elsewhere. I don’t have enough terrain for my new table yet.
poor photography is the bane of the miniature painter! I have a good camera as well its just ran out of batteries so i use my phone instead.
Also i apolagise, i never actually considered that doing full highlighting on a massive horde of skaven might just be too much! I can completely accept that anyone would only do it on the centerpieces.
i can imagine. im used to my brothers night goblin army, which you can imagine is half just undercoated and the other half painted to the bare minimum. Thankfully we use a house rule stating if a model is undercoated but not painted it counts as having no armour, and if it is not painted at all it counts as having no armour or weapons. I think this idea first came about in battle fleet gothic?
I have a feeling that when your up against a horde army painted as well as yours you know your opponent really takes his warhammer seriously lol
lol