Skaven are dark so a black primer undercoat is fantastic. Step 1: Overbrush entire modelĪfter assembling and texturing the bases, spray prime everything black. If you want to choose different colors, try to see if you can limit the amount by using the same color alternatively as block and highlight color. This way I did not need any extra colors to add highlights, reducing the steps needed per model. For example the clothing is alternating Castellan Green and Adeptus Battlegray, where I used the gray as highlight on the green clothes, and green as highlight on the gray clothes. In choosing my colors I made sure I could use them alternatively as “base” color as well as “highlight”. Dheneb Stone or similar “bone/offwhite” color for eyes and teeth.I am not kidding.įor my skaven clanrats I limited the used colors to: By doing the same “thing” on 10 to 20 models you will become extremely fast in repeating that step, knocking out as much as 20 finished models in an afternoon’s work. The important thing to effectively paint large amounts of models to a good standard is to limit your amount of colors and steps, making sure to finish one “step” on all the models before moving on the the next step.

So most of you are likely familiar with the concept of batch painting. Paint models in “batches” not “singles”.When painting a large amount of models, there are a few things that will help you a lot:

I hope this tutorial helps you get inspired to paint some of your own, and maybe take away some tips to help you speed up your painting! These are the clan rats from the Island of Blood set from Games Workshop.

The results I got turned out pretty awesome so I wanted to share them with you. When I decided to build a Skaven army, looking at several hundred (!) models to paint, I sat down to come up with a good looking, yet incredibly simple paint scheme. But sometimes it’s just more fun knocking out good looking models very quickly! Especially when you need to paint a lot of them 🙂 I’ve been painting warhammer miniatures for almost 20 years (lol I am old!) and am now able to paint mini’s up to a high standard.

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