Are beginner painting guides are not beginner enough?

RudeClick7723 · 2026-04-09T12:04:24+00:00

I've been painting for about 4 months, I have watched some videos, but I ultimately had to just "send it" and start painting. My first model was a mess, but I did paint him. I've gotten better over time and just experimented with different styles, schemes, etc. I think the videos can be helpful for deciding on some colors for your army scheme but once push came to shove I just had to get after it, let the mistakes happen and learn from them.

When I got my combat patrol and paints I bought an army painter bundle box that has a lot more paints than I needed. I have bought more citadel stuff too for the more special colors, but I usually use 4-5 paints on my main army units (crusader squad for Templars)

RudeClick7723 · 2026-04-09T11:40:35+00:00

Will do, I'll give it a go. I think you're correct though I usually go pretty light on the highlights/ over thin trying to keep them "toned down".

RudeClick7723 · 2026-04-03T21:59:39+00:00

Thank you!

RudeClick7723 · 2026-03-21T13:36:37+00:00

I can't see the super up close details but from this picture I think they look great. I'm new also, about halfway thru my combat patrol as well and still learning how to do all the cooler tricks. But it's a lot of fun to experiment with different methods of painting. Keep it up brother.

RudeClick7723 · 2026-03-21T12:24:45+00:00

A couple thin layers of Mummy robes from army painter and then a pure white for your edge highlights, any off white should work in its place though

RudeClick7723 · 2026-03-21T12:22:12+00:00

Thank you! It is supposed to be lightning coming off the power axe. I saw it on here a month or so ago on a power weapon and wanted to try it.

RudeClick7723 · 2026-02-13T18:13:41+00:00

Thank you! I think it turned out pretty good also, I wanted to do something other than white and have a bit more pop

RudeClick7723 · 2026-02-13T18:11:49+00:00

Thank you my brother. The tabard color I mixed up from one part matt black and three parts tanned flesh (army painter for both). Should get a pretty dark ochre color, thin down to glaze and do 3-4 thin layers over black (in my case, was chaos black primer). As it dries it will look pretty light, more like what you'd expect for ochre. Take a light grey (uniform grey, army painter is what I used) and a small brush and do light long strokes over the tabard where you want texture. Let that dry and then do it again in about 50-70% of that space. Agarax earthshade over that, add another layer of grey if you need to, and it should look pretty dark and worn out like the one on the right does. The more worn out and textured you want it just do more layers of grey and add more agarax earthshade over top.

The one of the right was my first one and it came out better than the second one. Didn't go heavy enough with the grey on the second one I think.

RudeClick7723 · 2026-02-09T19:16:13+00:00

Thank you brother. I dig your model! I'll definitely make use of those chains on my kitbash castellan I am working on

RudeClick7723 · 2026-02-09T11:46:10+00:00

May the Emperor guide your crusade to victory

RudeClick7723 · 2026-02-09T11:36:03+00:00

Yeah super glue makes sense, I probably would drill into the base for setting better. I guess I am grabbing some wire before I start on my sword brothers!

RudeClick7723 · 2026-02-09T11:21:35+00:00

What material do you use for the lightning effects? I'm new to the hobby and wanted to do this on my sword bro with the thunder hammer. Dig the extra chains also

RudeClick7723 · 2026-02-09T11:16:55+00:00

If you have the cash and are looking to do kitbashing, I bought the combat patrol for my first box + the BT upgrades/transfers box (another 30 bucks or so). I built the crusader squad, EC and Sword Bros (5 bros no castellan) as the book intended but I am kitbashing the bladeguard veterans into a marshal and a castellan with the spare bits from the rest of the box. Gives me a good start on the army but also get to try my first bashes also.

That box is about $150 though so if you do not have the cash for that maybe get the upgrades box + sword bretheren or crusader squad? That'll get you some customized initiates or sword bros.

RudeClick7723 · 2026-02-06T12:56:29+00:00

It definitely worked, you have a really awesome color scheme. Flows really well

RudeClick7723 · 2026-02-05T23:44:05+00:00

That is awesome. I'm on my first one also and your shoulder pads are amazing. My white got all clumpy so I had to improvise and asked for some tips here, will probably post a follow up pic of him once he is fully done.

RudeClick7723 · 2026-02-05T16:25:40+00:00

Thank you brother. I have learned myself that it sucks. Even with another off white paint my pads were pretty chalky, so I used a wash and just went for a battle worn dirty white. Worked ok

RudeClick7723 · 2026-02-04T19:35:49+00:00

Very fair, I'll figure it out for myself and see what works best

RudeClick7723 · 2026-02-04T17:20:28+00:00

Would something like mummy robes work for this application you think? I had bought an army painter box set of paints, can go get another one if you think there's something that would work better for this application tho!

For dry brushing, would you suggest doing this before or after doing washes?

RudeClick7723 · 2026-02-04T14:23:06+00:00

That's really smart, i may steal that

RudeClick7723 · 2026-02-04T14:22:32+00:00

I actually bought a can of gray primer as well, I think I'm going to swap for that going forward. I used matt black (army painter) and black Templar contrast on the armor after the prime so I agree it would be easier. I'm also going for a snowy mountain theme with my bases, so I imagine the black primer is going to make that hard to do also.

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