Tutorial 1

Painting the kroothound

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1. As with nearly all of my models I didn't have a clear idea of how I was going to paint them. The colour scheme therefore evolved as I painted them. Firstly I primed them all black and then washed over them with watered down black paint to cover any bits I missed.
2. I then drybrushed several coats from a mix of black and codex grey, gradually increasing the amount of codex grey, then added fortress grey (in all about 8 stages). I also added a tiny amount of purple ink into the later stages.
3. For the browner kroothound, I then painted its belly white and washed over the whole model in a mix of brown ink, flesh wash and a tiny bit of purple ink.
4. Next I highlighted some areas in bleached bone and then white (namely around the mouth, the raised edges of the skin and some of the wing struts).
5. Finally I added some speckles in flesh tones and bleached bone, then washed over these bits in the wash mix given before.
6. For the greyer variant I have basically kept the same basecoat pattern in step 2, then added some lighter grey stripes which has given it grey tigery camouflage look (urban pattern anyone?).
7. I then painted the other two Kroothound in similar patterns.

Basing

1. I could have given these a desolate desert look, which would have been more in keeping with the film.
2. Having said that, I thought this would be rather boring, and given the foresty coulors, I decided that a woodland look would be better.
3. So, I bought a packet of metal tree stumps from a model railway store, along with some Woodland Scenics flocks.
4. The bases were painted with scorched brown.
5. First I painted the stumps, then drilled a hole in the base to accommodate them.
6. I glued the stumps in, then the kroothounds were glued into the slotta bases.
7. I built up a bit of litter with some brown floor scatter.
8. Then other types of flock were added, as well as some bits of moss that I found locally.
9. That's it! You can see the finished results by clicking on the above pictures.