So I eventually got these finished… I have really enjoyed doing them and am pleased with how they look.
They are, with the exception of the metallics, all done in Contrast paint (apart from Army Painter dark wash on the hair). The contrast paint was added over a cheap white car primer (well £4 a can). One day I might splash out and see what the ‘proper’ undercoat colour looks like, but I doubt it. I would rather spend my money on toys and not undercoat 😉.
I could go over bits and do highlights, but haven’t worked out how with this paint yet.
As these were finished, I made a start on the Beasties…
I got all six built, these went together easier than the Fey. So easy in fact that I had to superglue one of the heads on as I reckon I would have lost the thing eventually.
So once built, I warmed up my spray can in warm water and then gave them a blast.
I will have to have a think about the colours, they will be a lot less bright than the fey, I would imagine green and gold would not feature heavily in their wardrobe choice.
Regarding colours, if you had asked me I would have said I had painted these with a very limited palette….
It was this many!
Guilliman flesh
Aggaros Dunes
Flesh Tearer red
Black Templar
Snakebite leather
Skeleton horde
Plaguebearer flesh
Gryph Charger grey
Militarium green
Iyanden Yellow
Gryph hound orange
Ork flesh
Gore Grunta fur
Wyldwood
Blood angels red
I forgot to show warp lightning, this was used on the gems in the belly of each of them
I also didn’t bother showing the paints I repainted a different colour.
This is not all of the Contrast paints I have, but for the beasties I will probably have to mix some of the colours rather than purchase any more.
I have decided to leave the fey bases as is for the time being as they are beginning to grow on me.
Bogenwald 
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They look great. Can’t wait to see how the beasties turn out.
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Cheers, hopefully the beastmen will look as good.
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They look great, you must be well pleased.
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Cheers Dave, I am really pleased with them
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They look lovely finished.
Looking forward to what you do with the beastmen.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Cheers Pete
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Brilliant! I think I’d be happy with those bases as they are and it’s surprising how many colours we do get through! I’m imagining that you’ll use 50 Shades of Brown for the beastmen! 🙂
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Cheers John, I will see how many browns I can get on 5hem
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They are great and you go through them in no time. Just love the whole colour scheme for them.
Lokking forward to seeing how you tackle the beastmen.
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Cheers mate
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They turned out really well ,good job mate ,just out of interest ,what is the benefit of warming up the spray can ?
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Helps the paint mix with the propellants. Something useful in cold climes but probably not a worry in New Mexico. You still have to shake the buggery out of it, but I find it goes on better. My paint sits in my big shed, which is sitting at about 10 degrees C so it needs all the help it can get to go on smoothly.
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Thanks mate ,very interesting, I’ll keep that in mind as I also keep mine in the shed and it can get pretty cold in there in winter down here in Melbourne .
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