This month, I’ve decided more images, more helpful tips and less mumbo jumbo. I’ve also decided to feature warhammer fantasy this month.

Onto the painting tips...


Painting Dwarf Skin
mix a little red gore into dwarf flesh paint as basecoat, then build up the layers with dwarf flesh, then mixing bronze flesh with dwarf flesh, then bronze flesh, then elf flesh. Always water your paints down, blends and lays flat better.


Painting Gold Armour
Brazen brass base coat, then flesh wash watered down all over, then brazen brass mixed with shining gold, then shining gold, then very fine highlights of mithril silver.


Painting Emblems Better than Transfers
Make sure your “to be painted” area is flat. Lumpy paint schemes are not good for detail work. Then with a hard pencil (2H) draw out the design. Use geometric shapes to build the design up rather then freehand. Use a pencil, because you can rub it off, you can’t with pen. Then use watered down paint (consistency of milk) to paint the outline of the design. Then fill it in.


Painting Fur
Look at real life examples for the way the different colours blend in. Then from black build it gradually. Several light layers, rather then one “loaded” layer. Even though you’re building up a lighter shade, don’t be afraid to dry brush darker shades in as well.



Competitions
This month you have to guess how many paint pots are on my painting desk. Closest guess will win a Games Workshop Starter Paint Set (rrp £15). One entry per person.

The winner will be anounced in next months newsletter. Anyone can enter, its open to all Countries and ages.

Last months winner of the Space Marine Vet. Squad is SCOTT WILLIAMSON and his painting tip is...

“Basically I have used this only on my IG army. After watching a movie set during World War 2 and noticing the dirt and grime the soldiers were covered in, I wondered how realistic a clean and neat army would actually be...

As I am a completely average painter, I have painted my guard simply and neatly. I only used five colours on them. But something that really makes them look that much better is highlighting / drybrushing the entire model in brown and other dirty colors. If used in the right amounts, this can really make them look dirty without overdoing it, and visually gives them the die hard doctrine appearence. It also helps to unify the army. With the correct basing (I use a brown painted base with dirt colored flock), you can make them look like theyre fighting in the muddy trenches, or wherever else.”

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