Painting?!

Well, I'm done school. As in, completely done. Graduation is on June 17. That being the case, I'll now have significantly more time to do the hobby related things I want to do.

Apocalypse Paint or Die! Is passing us by, and most of us have slowed our progress down significantly. None of have quit, but we've slowed down. I, for one, plan on not failing, and will enforce the rules if someone doesn't finish, myself included.

To that end, I thought I should post my methods for painting each piece on my miniatures so that I would have central place to look, should I forget, or someone is curious. I paint things slightly differently depending on if its a normal trooper or a special character. I'll list "Normals" first, then any differences for "Special Characters".

Normal Troops

Armour

Base: Mordian Blue Foundation, washed with blue

2nd Layer: Ultramarines Blue

1st Highlight: 50/50 Ultramarines Blue/Space Wolves Gray, wash with asurmen blue wash

Points highlighted with white.

Anything Red:

Base: Mechrite Red Foundation

Layer on Blood Red

Highlight with Blazing orange, wash with Baal Red

re-highlight with blazing orange

Anything Metal:

Boltgun

Wash with black wash

(sometimes) re-boltgun on raised surfaces

highlight with Mithril Silver

Anything White:

Astronomicon Gray

Skull White

Anything Gold:

Dwarf Bronze

wash with brown

shining gold

(sometime the steps above may be reversed)

highlight with 50/50 mix shing gold/mithril silver

Parchment, Etc

Base with Dheneb Stone

Bleached Bone

50/50 Bleached Bone/Skull White

Skull White

I have some other things to get done right now, so I'll update later with my methods for painting special characters.