Friday, September 21, 2012

Chaos Cultists

Once again, I've fallen victim to the "painting a whole unit at once" stigma so it took a long while to complete but it's finally done and here is the end result:


As you can clearly see, the colors of this squad are way different than what they did in the DV set. Initially, I wanted to paint them the same, but I took a look at what paints I had and decided to go with a more "renegade IG" - soldiery look. I used the same red scheme on the chaos icons but overall the whole squad looks very different.

To be honest, painting them was a big pain in the ass. The main reason for that is diversity. In a normal unit, most if not all of the models have the same color scheme so, although painful (for me at least), you get to pretty much just repeat exactly the same steps on each one and you're done. Here, you get 2 independent type guys, and 4 X 2 types of other guys which makes a total of 6 different types of guys so unless you want your unit to look like a unicolor blob, you're gonna have a rough time mixing it up.

My approach was to first do the skin, then pants, jackets, cloaks, boots, weapons, shoulderpads and finally details. For each category you need to think up a color + think how it will look with the other parts on the same model + how it will mach whatever combination you'll put on the other guys. Aaand you get 6 model types, GG. I took some shortcuts and for example made all the cloaks as well as the robes of the indep the same. Guns are also the same and so are the chaos symbol details.

Because of the different color variants, I won't go into details today, which went where. If you want to ask about those particulars feel free to use the comments. I will however tell you which parts I'm very happy about.

First is the blood. I finally managed to get my hands on Tamiya Clear Red paint. It's semi transparent, kind of thick and already look very nice on it's own. You put the outline of the blood blob with pure red and then add some badab black/nuln oil in the mix. That creates a really dark blood color which you apply partially onto the blob. Afterwards you coat the whole thing with gloss varnish and voila - very realistic looking blood effect. ME GUSTA.

Second little detail that I'm particularly happy about are the eyes on four guys - those rambo type dudes and those two with maces. It's very hard to paint irises well and make them menacly looking so I'm quite satisfied with the effect that I was able to acomplish. It's some truly clockwork scale stuff :)

There you have it, first cultist squad complete. Now I' have to soothe my psyche a bit and focus on a single model, which will obviously be the hellbrute. I've already prepped him for painting so, this time, it shouldn't be too long before the next blog update. My goal is to have him done by next tuesday, so that I have clear concience when MoP hits :)






14 comments:

  1. Very good work! I think that the ritual scarring and boils on that one guy turned out really well.

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  2. They look horrible, and I mean that in the best possible way! I love the cultist models and you've done them justice, really good job!

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  3. thanks guys! I sure hope the next batch turns out good as well :)

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  4. Very nice looking squad. Chaotic in colors but maintaining the cohercy still. Good job, keep it up!

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  5. Hmmm interesting comment. I was actually trying my best to make a coherent but varied color scheme within the paints I have. But I guess chaotic chaos aint't that bad :-)

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  6. Piotr! Your models are in the flickr pool next to the What's New Today Post! I saw them there and instantly recognised them as your work, so I realised that meant you had painted another fantastic unit.
    Brilliant choice of colours, by the way. It makes them look like the renegade militia from Siege of Vraks.

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  7. but of course they are. we are used to it here ;) I'm pretty sure he has 100% success ratio on showing up on What's New Today :)
    great job btw :)

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  8. Awesome painting! Congratulations!

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  9. I saw this on the GW web. Awesome job!

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  10. This is why I hate painting orks. And to think about it, why I will hate painting these same guys when I finally get around to buying this.

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  11. love the colour scheme! can i enquire what colours you used for them?

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  12. Wow! This is amazing. They look dreadful with a pint of grim dark goodiness. Although my newly bought cultists will have a Slaanesh devotion, these pics really inspire me.

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  13. How did you paint the Cloaks (light beige) on these gentlemen.

    I've been trying to figure out how to do dirty robes that colour, and you seem to have nailed it down.

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