Not dead! <Orcs and Goblins WHFB army begins>

I guess there's no secret the moment you use a base colour that it's not the exact tone you need, but is opaque enough to hide the black in one coat. Then you tone it using your favourite inks, then it's the easy part: Do you remember all those old paints that never covered stuff nicely? Like some greens, yellows and so on? Use that in your favour: Transparent paints are made with that in mind. Made them thin and use the brush always in the same direction: Works like witchcraft.

When I see people using 12-14 layers of mephiston red to get the exact red I'm like: "man, there's one red in AK-interactive's chart that can do that in one in a half".
 
Fimm McCool said:
How you do such glowing colours over a black undercoat mystifies me. Top work.
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I've been thinking about this for a while now, and you actually gave me an idea. This method is the other war around, using more modern paints. I've primed this guy in Vallejo grey, then used one coat of 3 AK colours (see picture below). After that I used Vallejo Goblin Green for the base. (I forgot to take a picture to the amazing Scarlet Red I used on the eye).

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I added a drop of water to the paint because I've got my AC on (we're officially starting our first big heat wave of the season today) but other than that it's just a single coat of every colour. I'm doing it in reverse compared to the goblins, adding darker (more diluted) shadows but using a small pointy brush, probably will use a gradient from purple to magenta to the forearms and maybe half the foot. I'm not use on using bone for the nails. Looks OK in the single thumb line on the hands, but I'm not sure for the little toes.

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Those are Magenta, Aquatic Turquoise and Pale Sand.
 
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Thanks for sharing. I've only just tried one AK paint (the yellow) and was impressed by the coverage, evidently this is something they are very good at!
 
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This is the "shadow lining" using first a mix of a darker blue and the base colour, then an ink, with care, drawing lines. Next step is refine mistakes and wide lies with the base colour, then start to build the lighter ones (the idea is to end in kinda-edge highlights so it looks like "bubbles"; let's see how this ends.).

I tried to do the bone but discovered I don't like how AK Bone brown looks over pale sand, so I've tweaked it a bit.

I just realized I should paint the wrinkled fingertips purple...

(I love this model so much I'm asking you to hug Kev and show him this you see him at BOYL this year).

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Well, one thing lead to another and... I'm not calling it "done" but it's almost finished. Still needs some refining (more contrast) specially on the hands, and Varnish, but it's almost there. It took me 35 years since I saw Adrian Smith's splash-page B&W illustration of the Horrors and the Lord of Change t get the model and painting it, but here we are.

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