And So It Begins...

I finished touching up the undercoat and began applying the actual color to my models this weekend. Man, it feels so good to be actually painting instead of doing all that prep work. Although I had a bad experience last Saturday when I dropped one of my miniatures on the floor while I was painting it. I had the mini in one hand and my paint brush in the other and it slipped. I'm not sure why I wasn't over my desk like usual. It hit he floor and broke into it's component parts like one of my son's Lego creations. So in the midst of my excitement with painting, I had to return to the border of gluing.

Anyway, after that traumatic incident, I got back to my base coat. That's coming along just fine.

I was having an e-mail conversation with my friend Chris today about different shading techniques. I broke down for him my plan with my Thousand Sons. I figure I'll publish it here:

I'll start with a black undercoat, then paint on Midnight blue, leaving a little black in the seams. Then I'll overbrush/ stipple Regal Blue, again leaving a little black and Midnight (I've actually already gotten to this point on a couple of models) Then I'll follow with a layer of ultramarines blue, mostly stippled or drybrushed. After that's all done, I'll do a wash with thin blue ink to tie all the layers together. I'll probably have to retouch the highest highlights. I think the idea is make the highlights a little brighter than you want, and then tone them down a bit with the ink wash.

Well, that was easier than retyping all that.