Around the middle of last year, I decided I wanted to break into Fantasy. One faction in particular fed my need for amazing models clad in armor with an air of bad ass. Warriors of Chaos would become the army I would lead onto the battlefields of the Old World. We will plunder and destroy, well once I have them painted that is.
I bought this guy from ebay late last year. I knew I wanted to pick him up once I started the army. It's such a strong sculpt I knew I had to have him, even if he didn't fit the original theme idea of an all cavalry warband. When he arrived I got started.
Having at him with metallic paints to start off I painted most of the model in GW Chainmail. The armor was then washed with successive layers of Devlin Mud, the weapons and chainmail link armor with layers of Badab Black. With the weapons I played with the idea of true metallics, as they're called, going to the extreme black where appropriate and using a gradient to give variation to the surfaces. I then used a few small brush strokes of GW Chainmail to scratch the surfaces of the armor and weaponry.
The browns and bones were done using Bestial Brown, Snakebite Leather, and Bleached Bone in various combinations. The skulls caught a final highlight of skull white. This is my standard method for tabletop.
The fur was started with a black base color, highlighted with fortress grey and given a final highlight of skull white. The end result is a very vibrant white that gives a stark contrast.
The chaos star was done by painting layers of Gryphonne Sepia over chainmail. Scratching done the same as above.
His cape was painted black and given a few line highlights of Bestial Brown, highlighted lightly with Snakebite Leather. I really like this look and have used it before on other Warriors of Chaos models as a way to do black leathers.
The base was drybrushed with Codex Grey and then Fortress Grey to highlight.
All in all, it's a very subtle paint scheme that really lets the models strong sculpt work shine through and not detract from what's been established with the pose and imposing look of the piece. Overall I'm very happy with it and can't wait to see him taking skulls and slaughtering the weak.
