Painting
Tutorial: Painting Deathwing
Introduction
I've had several requests asking how I painted my Deathwing. I can empathise with this, since Bone can be a very difficult colour to do properly. It was frustrating for me when I was looking for painting guides and tutorials online and couldnt really find any, back when just started on my Wing. Finally I just used a combination of several techniques to come up with my current style.While it can be time consuming, I feel that with a Deathwing army it is worth the investment to make a good looking force- especially since there are so few models to paint! Others prefer Darkseer/Midnight Resistance's slightly darker style- I would recommend this if you are after a faster method that still looks great.
If you are after the basic methodology
without having to read the extensive tutorial, my technique for bone can
be summarised as:
-> Skull White undercoat, then
-> Bronzed Flesh , then
-> Watered Flesh Wash, then
-> Bubonic Brown, then
-> Bleached Bone, then
-> Bleached Bone/Skull White highlights, then
-> Skull White highlights.
The following pages describe this technique, as well as several hints and tips, in more detail. It also describes the methods used for other details on the model. Feel free to use as many or as few of the techniques described here as you desire.
Some notes:
-Click thumbnails for larger view, or in some
cases, several photos showing the colour progression.
-Where photos of arms or body aren't shown, assume
the same technique is done to them as is done to the shown area, unless
specified.
-All paint colours are described in terms of GW's
range. I use several Vallejo paints in combination with GW's, but I will
keep it simple and just use the equivalent GW names.
The Model to be Painted
