Paint Warriors - Weekly Challenge #3 - Completed
Welcome back to Paint Warriors — the weekly challenge where I roll the dice on a random 5-color palette and see where creativity takes us.
The rules are simple:
Keep it fun. This challenge is all about enjoying the hobby, getting neglected minis painted, and experimenting without stress.
Stick to the palette. Each week includes five paints. You can only use those specific paints or close matches. Mixing and thinning is totally fair game!
This week’s palette has some really awesome color variation. I'll be able to use the Phoenician Purple and Morghast Bone as substitutes for black and white to create some really interesting color combinations.
1.) I started things off by giving the whole model a base coat of Phenician Purple. This base color from the Citadel paints line offers a distinct dark hue that is easier to build off of than other bases.
2.) Next, Warboss Green! I love this color for several reasons, Orruk Warclans being my main army for Age of Sigmar, chief among them, but it's also great because it's easy to dilute to do things like the goggles lens or plasma coil; or you can use it to layer up a nice nuterual green like you see on the leather belt and bag. It also gradients well into other colors, although this model doesn't depict that skill.
3.) After the green comes the Teclis Blue. I usually reserve Teclis Blue as an edge highlight, as it is very bright. However, because of how Phoenician Purple and Teclis Blue play together, I felt comfortable using it on the pants and shirt to make them stand out without doing much work on them.
4.) Morghast Bone was next. With these challenges, possibly the hardest is when it involves more than one base color. Morghast Bone wants to just dominate whatever surface you put it on, no matter how much I seemed to water it down. I used it for the skin, jacket trim, skull belt, plasma coil highlights, and even on the metallic surfaces that were still purple to give them just a little metallic sheen.
In the same step, I also incorporated Evil Sunz Scarlet. I concentrated this on the shoulders, gun/wrench, and various pads. You'll see in the above image that I tried using it at first for the skull belt and knee pads, but switched a bit in step 5.
5.) To finish things off, I cleaned up the model. This is where I put the trim in, put a layer of Evil Sunz Scarlet on the cloth, which looked better than the terrible transition I tried to do with the Morghast Bone. I also hit certain areas with a really watered-down Phoenician Purple to build some shadow, like on the belt buckle, the scars on the face, and the recesses of the clothing.
When all is said and done, we wind up with this!
2.) Next, Warboss Green! I love this color for several reasons, Orruk Warclans being my main army for Age of Sigmar, chief among them, but it's also great because it's easy to dilute to do things like the goggles lens or plasma coil; or you can use it to layer up a nice nuterual green like you see on the leather belt and bag. It also gradients well into other colors, although this model doesn't depict that skill.
3.) After the green comes the Teclis Blue. I usually reserve Teclis Blue as an edge highlight, as it is very bright. However, because of how Phoenician Purple and Teclis Blue play together, I felt comfortable using it on the pants and shirt to make them stand out without doing much work on them.
4.) Morghast Bone was next. With these challenges, possibly the hardest is when it involves more than one base color. Morghast Bone wants to just dominate whatever surface you put it on, no matter how much I seemed to water it down. I used it for the skin, jacket trim, skull belt, plasma coil highlights, and even on the metallic surfaces that were still purple to give them just a little metallic sheen.
In the same step, I also incorporated Evil Sunz Scarlet. I concentrated this on the shoulders, gun/wrench, and various pads. You'll see in the above image that I tried using it at first for the skull belt and knee pads, but switched a bit in step 5.
5.) To finish things off, I cleaned up the model. This is where I put the trim in, put a layer of Evil Sunz Scarlet on the cloth, which looked better than the terrible transition I tried to do with the Morghast Bone. I also hit certain areas with a really watered-down Phoenician Purple to build some shadow, like on the belt buckle, the scars on the face, and the recesses of the clothing.
When all is said and done, we wind up with this!
I had a lot of fun painting this Orlock model this week, and a little sad that my backlog of Orlocks is drastically shrinking due to this painting challenge (I've had a little practice up to the full launch of this challenge that you might see in the future). I'll be back on Monday with a new palette!
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