by Vjaas
This (ahum) guide shows how to paint our friend Tomble in less than 2 hours.1. Get a reference for your model. The character sheets in Descent are adequatly large and detailed enough.
2.Give your model a good sprayover with a basic primer so it covers all plastic areas. I used the standard Citadel Chaos Black paint, but I guess any primer will do. You can also manually paint a primer on your model, but I find that spraying gives a much cleaner and equalized result. Allow 15 minutes for the paint to dry.
3.Choose the paints to use for your model. For Tomble I chose these mainly
4.Cover the largest monotone areas with the darkest shade of that color. I used the Mechrite Red for the pants and the Calthan Brown as a foundation. Again these are Citadel paints, complete with their ludicrously funny names, but any brand will do. As a first layer, I prefer to use paints from the foundation range as they tend to cover better and equally than the normal paints
5. Follow up with covering the smaller areas. (Bleach Bone on the shirt, and some fleshy mixture on the face and hands) Its ok if your brush slips here and there at this phase, as you will be adding more layers on top of these later on.
6. Now you can start adding layers of lighter paint on to of the basecoats.(Blood Red on the pants and cap, and skull white on the shirt) Try to be as minute as possible now. For the larger area of the cape and the boots I decided to save some time by just lightly drybrushing Vomit Brown straight over the basecoat.
7. Apply a wash to all the creases and folds to simulate shadows.
8. WAIT for the wash to completely dry. Think about stuff you still needed to do.. like empty the mailbox, go to the toilet or.. feed the cat.
9.Continue adding highlights and little shadows as you see fit with a very thin brush. I like to make sharp edges of capes and cloaks pop out with a very bright thin line of paint. Also consider highlighting things like buttons, belts, the tip of the nose, the cheeks and in general everything that sticks out and would catch the light
