Last week, I decided to clear my workbench of every current project (except for commissions) and start from scratch. All my half done projects either went in the Pinesol or the Simple Green... so clean slate achieved.
The next stop on "Project Get Out of a Rut" was to choose a project I could knock out rather quickly to build a little momentum. Something that could have a simple color scheme yet would allow me to use multiple painting techniques. With all that in mind, I went for Epic/ Epic 40,000/ Epic Armageddon.
Since my Epic collection is pretty huge, I opted to start off with some early 90's Ork Dreadnoughts (shown here on the right). They are all based on half inch fender washers and have had sand and gravel glued to their bases. Why did I base them in this fashion? Easy, round washer bases just look better. The examples in both Epic and Epic 40k have dreadnoughts and other mid sized models mounted on rectangular bases made of plasticard....and they looked friggin' hideous. Seriously, one model on a 40mmx20mm base alone just looks awkward and horrible.
Once everything was cleaned up and based, I slapped a coat of primer on them. Even though I opted for an Evil Suns color scheme, I still went with black. For the record, now you can pretty much primer everything black since the foundation paints came out. The only thing I actually primer white now are models with massive amounts of flesh showing...like barbarians (or skeletons since they have massive amounts of bone white everywhere).
Once the primer had dried, I base coated the model with Mecharite Red and washed it with Ceramcoat Dark Burnt Umber. I then went and picked out the raised areas with Mecharite Red followed by Blood Red. I finally finished off the red areas with a highlight of Blazing Orange. The metal areas were given a coat of Boltgun Metal mixed with a small amount of Chaos Black. I then washed the metallics with Dark Burnt umber and once that dried, picked out the raised areas with Boltgun Metal.
I then basecoated the weapons with Chaos Black and picked out the edges with Fortress Gray. I then glazed with Chaos Black to take the intensity of the highlight down a few notches. I picked out the barrel of the las cannon and the missle with boltgun metal.
The "window" and the "access panel" on the front were painted with Scorpion Green and then highlighted with Scorpion Green mixed with Skull White. The dags on the shin guard and shoulder pad were painted with Bubonic Brown and highlighted with Bubonic Brown mixed with Skull White.
Once the other four are complete I will take a "glamour shots" style picture of the detachment.
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