Monday 16 April 2012

Warhammer 40K - Painting and model room setup

Hi guys, it's CoreyPizzle here with that promised guide on how to get a good setup for making your Warhammer 40K painting, etc. room. This tutorial is pretty picture-filled so if you don't want to look at them i'll leave a video at the bottom of the post.

Here is an overall look at my setup which is on  a desk with a rollout keyboard compartment underneath.



This is obviously the most important  product that you will need for your setup - An unpainted model!





You are obviously going to need some paints. There are 4 types of paints to get, colour, foundation, undercoat black and washes.
Colour - For the details.
Foundation - One of your main colours.
Wash - Used for shading.
Undercoat Black - For the undercoat of black.... I think. LOL


For gluing your models together you should use plastic glue , I use CONTACTA PROFESSIONAL.
Here is your most trusty tool... the brush! Brushes are colour-coded in the CITADEL world.
Light Orange = Superfine Detail
Yellow = Fine Detail
Black = Starter Brush


You can find that sometimes your pieces of your model can become ruined during the clipping process so you my want to file down any rough edges using a file.




Sometimes your models base - the black stand it is on - can look a bit bland, so you can put on some terrain  like this sand terrain I have here. In later tutorials i'll show you how to use it.


Sometimes when you are trying to paint the eyes it can be a little tricky so I use the sharp end of this dart and dab some paint onto it and  lightly poke the eyes on my model.




The 'Chaos Black' spray paint is quite commonly used for 'Undercoat Black' for the models such as an Imperial Bastion or Ork Stronghold.


And finally we have our small cup with some water in it to clean our paintbrushes.


Here is the video if you couldn't be bothered looking at the images.




Thanks for reading and watching and sorry for the shaky video, I tried to stabilize it using the YouTube video editor but it just made it look like a slow motion pendulum.

CoreyPizzle


1 comment:

  1. Really informative post wee man. Brilliant.....as always. Lee x

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