One of the only benefits of having insomnia is that when the wife and kids go to bed I have to be quite and the best way of doing that is to hide in my man cave and paint.
So over the last week I have assembled another to tactical squads and an Assault Demi squad for the 5th company as well as the Company HQ and 1 troop HQ
That will take the 5th company to 2 Troops or 60 mnes+
I have also assembled 9 Tactical support Demi squads for the 6th company.
And then the Airbrush came out and it took a few nights of spraying to get them to the stage where I could pick up my brushes.
Painting went like this:
Undercoat: Citadel Chaos Black Spray
Basecoat: 60/40 VGC yellow Olive/Black
1st highlight: 80/20 VGC yellow Olive/Black
2nd highlight: VGC yellow Olive
3rd Highlight: VGC Yellow Olive/ Cayman Green
final Highlight: Cayman Green/ Desert yellow. Helmet only
Each highlight was concentrated on a smaller area with the last highlight being from above only.
This produces quite a light finish but I plan to go over this with first an Oil pin wash of black and then an oil filter of dark blue to blend in the shadows.
All my other Dark Angels have been painted with Dark Angels Green but I've never been happy with the finish
The next stage was to spray all the guns with Chainmail silver, this will have a few washes applied to dull the effect and then black painted in places.
Blue eye pieces were painted next using Electric blue. 174 in total
now the long process of lining all the armour joints and pipes with grey, studs, pureity seal parchment, company markings and wings in Khaki and pipes, skulls and extra armour in Bronze.
All the bare heads were airbrushed black undercoat followed by a directional dusting of GW Tallarn Flesh and Vallejo Panzer aces highlight flesh. these will get glazes and stuff at a later date.
So thats were I am tonight. It'll take a few nights to get the grey and Khaki done
Till then Happy painting
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