Chaos Dwarves for my 40k warband

i love the model in the middle of those chaos dwarves, not sure about the ones with the helmets.

but the paintjob is super!
 
Yes they are a bit idiosyncratic. I can be a bit self indulgent on a project like this and so made "weird" helmet heads that dont exactly fit, but that I wanted to make. Also, the heads are separate for that very reason, so you can put your own on. 8-)
 
Every new update I go back to the first pics to see the evolution and I've only just realised you didn't even prme your models! (or maybe I'm just wrong)
 
No priming. The grey is a great shade to start with. I cant really see the point of undercoats anyway, they dont seem to make the paint adhere any better. Well at least not with my style of painting! I tend to just do undercoats in the base colour of the model usually if there is alot to be one colour, or if I need the right underlayer. Yellow is problematic so I would probably undercoat in that case with some bone or white. With these and the rest of the warband I knew I would be highlighting straight away with the white, so putting it over the grey gives instant tonal depth. The problem areas for losing paint will be the raised edges, which got a very many coats of paint applied during the process, so I think they will be robust enough!

Yeah, dont be a slave to the painting style you are "commanded" to do! Break all the rules except your own. Then it is called "your style"!
 
ramshackle_curtis":n1awpy60 said:
No priming. The grey is a great shade to start with. I cant really see the point of undercoats anyway, they dont seem to make the paint adhere any better. Well at least not with my style of painting! I tend to just do undercoats in the base colour of the model usually if there is alot to be one colour, or if I need the right underlayer. Yellow is problematic so I would probably undercoat in that case with some bone or white. With these and the rest of the warband I knew I would be highlighting straight away with the white, so putting it over the grey gives instant tonal depth. The problem areas for losing paint will be the raised edges, which got a very many coats of paint applied during the process, so I think they will be robust enough!

Yeah, dont be a slave to the painting style you are "commanded" to do! Break all the rules except your own. Then it is called "your style"!
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I get it, my only concern would be to have a consistent colour depneding on the parts used; th eprime is also helpful to "read" th emodel more easily and I've found a grey prime is the best for that. I do think it helps getting a better resilience because th egrey prme I use now (AP) is really thin and allows to save details but paint whips from th emodel like it never does on black primes. Anyway I strongly agree with you about testing whatever yo ucan to find what you like in painting.
 
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