Standard preamble: This is not a painting tutorial, as I’m not a good enough painter for that. It’s documentation of how I painted something.

Painting the Gunmage Unit Attachment

For a break from painting Ret, I’m going back to my half-painted Cygnar to try to fill in a hole here and there. I started by dropping sand on the base (my Cygnar don’t use fancy bases like my Ret), and using the Citadel black spray. My intention is to use the P3 Cygnar blues for the coat, and fill in the rest of the colours as I can.

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Quick preamble: I can’t paint well. Don’t take this blog as advice on painting, but just as a record of what happens when someone who can’t paint well tries regardless. If nothing else, it helps me remember my colour schemes.

Painting the Arcanist

Having bought the Ret army box, I guess I’d better get back on the painting wagon and start with the Arcanist (not so much of the white on it as most models, which gives me a chance to practice on a less hostile canvas after my Kaelyssa disaster). Before starting, I put it onto a nice base, and primed it with the same gesso/white/water mix I used on Kaelyssa. I’m likely to regret this, as I’ve never had much success using this on metals, but it was dark and wet outside so I couldn’t use a spray.

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Painting Kaelyssa

Hi folks, this is my first (and possibly last, we’ll see) post about painting. I’m not a good painter, and my models don’t end up looking great, but I thought it might be interesting to document what happens when normal folks paint (It solves two more purposes too - hopefully better painters than me (everyone) can give me tips, and documenting what I’m doing gives me a chance of replicating the scheme later). I recently bought the Retribution of Scyrah Battlegroup, and the first model I’m looking at is Warcaster Kaelyssa, Night’s Whisper. I haven’t done any painting in a while (over a year, I think), I haven’t tried this scheme on a tester model, and I’m writing this post as I go along, so I’ve no idea how it’s going to turn out. We can probably be confident that my photos won’t be the greatest, though - sorry about that.

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