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 Post subject: Painting army of the dead
PostPosted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 9:20 pm 
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Hey,
I was just wondering if anyone could recommend a quick and easy method for painting army of the dead, I'm not looking for anything fancy just a simple basecoat, wash or two and a drybrush however I'm not sure on which paints to use so any help would be appreciated.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 9:26 pm 
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Ukfreddybear did a great guide to army of the dead its on page 6 i think of his WIP - click HERE

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I've been working on some Army of the Dead guys lately. My quick method is as follows:

Basecoat -- Astronomicon Grey
Wash -- Thraka Green (Heavy)
Drybrush -- Astronomicon Grey

It's never going to win any awards, but I am strictly a tabletop painter. I'll try to post a pic in a little bit.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 7:56 am 
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My army of the dead are:

1)Black basecoat
2) Heavy Codex Grey drybrush
3) Skull White dry brush
4) Hawk Turquoise wash
5) Snot green wash

Easy as 5 steps. I think it looks good :D

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 2:15 pm 
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Those do look good! I prefer to do mine to match the Evil Shades and soforth as my plan was always to use them in War of The Ring. I tended to paint the metallic stuff separately, though. It was quite a lot more involved.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 5:07 pm 
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Sorry forgot to reply :oops:
Thanks for the help guys, I'm loving the simplicity of John's method as they do indeed look great however I love the look of UKfreddybear's greyish warriors, do you think a badab black (or whatever it's called now) wash instead of snot green would help give a less green more grey look without looking silly??
(no idea here very inexperienced painter :oops: )
Thanks again for the help
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 6:06 pm 
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I am using a Badab Black wash over the Dheneb Stone basecoat on my Goblin Town Goblins and it gives a good grey base to the model. Check out this picture.

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The left side of the model has not be reset to Dheneb Stone, so that is what it looks like with just the wash.

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