Since this has been a fairly extensive project, I wanted to link at the previous painting stages together in one place. So here they are:
Stage 1: Priming, basecoating & stonework
Stage 2: Laying down metallics
Stage 3: Washes and metal area details
Stage 4: Marble inlays
Stage 5: Posters & green Aquilas
Stage 6: Rust & guttering
Stage 7: Lamp effects
Total paint consumed... 2 cans black primer, approx 2.5 pots skavenblight dinge, 1 large airbrush and 1.5 small pots of leadbelcher. 1.5x pots each of nuln oil, agrax earthshade and athonian camoshade. Half a pot each of zandri dust, dryad bark, castellan green, balthazar gold, agrax gloss and probably a full one each of administratum grey, necron compound and typhus corrosion.
Total painting time... unknown. These were done over the course of roughly 3 months, mainly an hour or two on weekends; however the steps covering the most ground (roads and basecoats) were only a couple of hours, whereas the smaller the areas of detail the longer they took to finish. It initially felt like a couple of days would be enough for everything, but once a level of detailing comes in... that gets exponentially further away.
Anyway... I had a brief chance to set up 2 of the boards on dining table along with the full set of killteam ruins (painted here) from about 18 months ago. These are from the killteam box, plus a sanctum kit and a spare set of small ruins that I did at the same time. Plenty for a space this size.
If these were being build as a fixed environment, it would look a lot more natural to have these layered up with heaps of rubble and debris - that would finish the whole thing and make the setup more life like.
Think they look pretty good - loads of detail all around it, and the general gothic feel of the walls and floor feel like they are part of the same place. Feeling pretty happy with the result, as well as managing to keep focused on chipping away.
Each step can be such a slog to do at scale across all the boards - the temptation is to rush ahead on one board alone, but kept quite disciplined about applying each step to everything before continuing. Drybrushing necron compound in several sessions over 2 weeks without touching another pot was probably the hardest part.
Total paint consumed... 2 cans black primer, approx 2.5 pots skavenblight dinge, 1 large airbrush and 1.5 small pots of leadbelcher. 1.5x pots each of nuln oil, agrax earthshade and athonian camoshade. Half a pot each of zandri dust, dryad bark, castellan green, balthazar gold, agrax gloss and probably a full one each of administratum grey, necron compound and typhus corrosion.
Total painting time... unknown. These were done over the course of roughly 3 months, mainly an hour or two on weekends; however the steps covering the most ground (roads and basecoats) were only a couple of hours, whereas the smaller the areas of detail the longer they took to finish. It initially felt like a couple of days would be enough for everything, but once a level of detailing comes in... that gets exponentially further away.
Anyway... I had a brief chance to set up 2 of the boards on dining table along with the full set of killteam ruins (painted here) from about 18 months ago. These are from the killteam box, plus a sanctum kit and a spare set of small ruins that I did at the same time. Plenty for a space this size.
Think they look pretty good - loads of detail all around it, and the general gothic feel of the walls and floor feel like they are part of the same place. Feeling pretty happy with the result, as well as managing to keep focused on chipping away.
Each step can be such a slog to do at scale across all the boards - the temptation is to rush ahead on one board alone, but kept quite disciplined about applying each step to everything before continuing. Drybrushing necron compound in several sessions over 2 weeks without touching another pot was probably the hardest part.
So with that - it's time to switch back to some smaller models.
There are a family of terminators already primed red that need some attention.
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