Salamanders

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    20 Dec 2023
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    11 Mar 2024
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Green armor

  1. Prime with Vallejo Black Primer
  2. Zenithal Highlight with Liquitex white ink
  3. Gloss Varnish
  4. Blackline with Tamiya Black Panel Liner
  5. Karandras Green all over
  6. Zenithal highlight with Lime
  7. Moot Green edge highlight

Details

  1. Paint black and metallic parts (shoulder pads, knees, elbows, aquila, weapons ...) with Smoke Black
  2. Drybrush/stipple weapon casings and basecoat eyes with Scarlet Red
  3. Basecoat purity seal wax and paper with Offwhite
  4. paint purity seal wax with Hexed Lichen
  5. Paint purity seal paper with Dead Flesh
  6. Leather details with Beasty Brown
  7. Sergeant helmet stripe with Hexed Lichen

Metallics

  1. Gold details with Retributor Armour
  2. Metal details with Gunmetal thinned with Black Ink

Washes

  1. Wash weapons, steel, leather, elbows and knees with Nuln Oil
  2. Wash gold parts and purity seals with Agrax Earthshade

Highlight details

  1. Mephiston Red highlight for eyes and weapons
  2. Highlight purity seal wax and sergent helmet stripe with a 1:1 mix of Hexed Lichen and Magic Blue and purity seal paper with Bone White
  3. Final eye highlight with Hot Orange

Basing

  1. Mix water, glue, modeling sand and wall filler
  2. Smear it on a base
  3. While still wet, lay cork on top of it
  4. Once dried, aribrush the hot blue lava using Liquitex inks. Titanium white, cerulean blue hue and phtanocyalin blue, do the same to the marines from below for some environmental OSL
  5. Paint the cork with Smoke Black
  6. When the model is solidly glued to the cork, carefully add glue and sprinkle black sand on it
  7. Fix the sand with sealant (I use a mix of glue, water, matte medium and isopropyl alcohol)
  8. Drybrush with Sombre Grey followed by Stone Wall Grey
  9. Nuln Oil wash the stone
  10. ....
  11. Profit!

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AK Interactive 3rd Generation Acrylics
Standard 2
  • AK11002 Offwhite
  • AK11028 Smoke Black
Citadel Painting System 6
Base 2
  • Mephiston Red
  • Retributor Armour
Shade 2
  • Agrax Earthshade
  • Nuln Oil
Layer 1
  • Moot Green
Contrast 1
  • Karandras Green
Green Stuff World
Fluorescent 1
  • 1700 Lime
Vallejo Game Color 11
Base 10
  • 72.009 Hot Orange
  • 72.012 Scarlet Red
  • 72.015 Hexed Lichen
  • 72.021 Magic Blue
  • 72.034 Bone White
  • 72.035 Dead Flesh
  • 72.043 Beasty Brown
  • 72.048 Sombre Grey
  • 72.049 Stone Wall Grey
  • 72.054 Gunmetal
Ink 1
  • 72.094 Black Ink
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