Painting Mustard

I've been asked several times now, both in person and in certain forums, how I go about painting the my Retribution Forces. Seeing as how I have nothing better to do at 2am on a Tuesday(Wednesday?) night,  I thought I'd post it here.

First, All the yellow is done as follows, all will with Games Workshop paints:

- Over a white basecoat, paint Iyanden Darksun foundation
- Wash with Ogryn Flesh Wash
- Leaving the wash in the recesses, paint with a 2:1 mix of Iyanden Darksun and Bleached Bone
- Leaving the previous layer showing a bit, paint on a 1:1 mix of the same colours
- For highlights, I use a 1:2 mix of the same colours
- For spot/extreme highlights, I use pure Bleached Bone

Anything that's metal:

- Since painting metallics over white is @$$, I paint it with Astronomicon grey to darken it back up.
- I paint a few thin layers of Boltgun Metal
- I wash it fairly heavily with Asurmen Blue Wash
- I then reclaim most of it with more Boltgun Metal
- Another, light wash of Asurmen Blue to smoothen the transition
- Highlight the edges with Mythril Silver

All the Grey Stuff:

- Astronomicon Grey Foundation
-Badab Black Wash
- Astronomicon Grey to reclaim some spots
- Highlight with Codex Grey

The Cloaks/Capes:

- Charadon Granite Foundation
- Devlan mud wash
- Reclaim with Charadon Granite
- Highlight with varying mixes of Charadon Granite and Codex Grey

For spot colours, I tend to use either Hawk Turquoise or Ice Blue. I know purple is the complimentary colour for yellow, but I like blue better. 

Special Characters

More on my painting methods, now for special characters.

For armour, I paint as recommended in "How to Paint Space Marines":

Basecoat with a mix of Chaos Black and Regal Blue (or straight Necron Abyss Foundation), then layer on a mix of Regal Blue and Ultramarine Blue, then highlight with Ultramarine Blue.

For red cloth, I follow a method that was shown in White Dwarf 361, Feb. 2010:

1. Basecoat the cloak with Scab Red. Shade the area first with a 1:1 mix of Chaos Black and Scab Red, followed by a 3:1 mix of the same colours

2. Begin highlighting the areas with pure Red Gore, before blending up to a 1:1 mix of Red Gore and Blazing Orange

3. Continue to bend the highlights to a 3:1 mix of Blazing Orange and Red Gore. Apply a final highlight of pure Blazing Orange

4. Create a wash using a 1:1 mix of Devlan Mud and Regal Blue; apply this directly into the recesses. Overlay with a wash of pure Regal Blue to finish

For Purity seals and parchment, as in White Dwarf 360, Jan. 2010

Wax part:

1. 1:1 mix of Scab Red and Chaos Black was applied to the purity seals

2. Layer on Scab Red

3. Highlight with Blood Red

4. 2nd highlight with Blazing Orange

5. 3rd highlight : A 1:1 mix of Bazing Orange and Skull White

6. Dot highlight of pure skull white

Scroll Part:

1. Basecoat with Dheneb Stone

2. Two watered down washes, Baal Red, then Devlan Mud

3. Layer on Dheneb Stone.

4. highlight with a 1:1 mix of Dheneb Stone and Skull White

5. final highlight of Skull White, then letter with watered-down Chaos Black

For pretty much everything else, its the same, except with a few extra intermediary colours on some things.

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.