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SAGA Viking Warband Paint Tutorial PDF
SAGA Viking Warband Paint Tutorial PDF
Sven Forkbeard painting tutorial Now it is time for basic painting using the Warpaints acrylic
colours from The Army Painter and the Saga Warpaints we
Unbleached
Wool
- by Jonas Faering from made for Gripping Beast. To speed up things, I only used the
Saga
The Army Painter Wargamers: Regiment Brush (roughly a size 1 or 2 brush). Big
brushes inevitably make you paint faster. Dont paint the chain
mail leave it Gun Metal spray. Any slip-ups onto the metal
Gaming with painted is the joy for most gamers, but getting there can were touched up with the Warpaint Gun Metal acrylic colour,
sometimes be a bumpy and rough ride. Fortunately there are helping which happens to be a 100% match to the spray of the same
name.
aids for busy folk like me with too many games to play and too many
miniatures that need painting. The Army Painter product line has Colours used: Tanned Flesh
Leather
Brown
been designed with the sole purpose of speeding up painting, thus
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skin: WP Tanned Flesh, dark leather: WP Oak Brown, belt:
allowing you more time for gaming! WP Leather Brown, skull: WP Skeleton Bone, scabbard:
Desert
WP Desert Yellow, shield and rim: GB-WP Viking Red, hair:
In this article Ill take a look at painting the Viking Hero GB-WP Cloak Grey, clothes: GB-WP Unbleached Wool.
Yellow
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from Gripping Beast for my Saga Warband.
Warpaints Quickshade
Inks Viking Red Oak Brown
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The Base
Finishing off the base is almost as important
Viking Warband
as painting the model, but again I want to save
time. Once the base has been painted WP Oak
painting tutorial
Brown I glued in Battlefields: Black Battleground
- by Jonas Faering from
(which is basically pre-coloured sand, ready for
drybrushing), highlighted with WP: Monster The Army Painter
Brown and WP: Skeleton Bone. And lastly I glued
in some Battlefields XP: Swamp and Wilderness
In the first section of this article I demonstrated how to paint my Saga Warband hero
Tufts using a spot of super glue.
Sven Forkbeard, painted and highlighted to a masterclass standard. In this article
I will be showing how to paint a Saga Warband using the fast The Army Painter
Technique, using different Colour Primer sprays and Quickshade
Dipping.
The models in the Warband are all plastics, primarily the Viking
Hirdmen and the Unarmoured Dark Age Warriors from Gripping
Beast with some extras from Warlord Gamess
plastic Celtic Warriors..
This spray step is where you really save touched up with the Warpaint of the same
precious time. The Army Painter Colour name as the Colour Primer, which is a 100%
Primers allow you to prime and colour the match to the spray.
miniatures in one coat. And by chosing the
right spray for the right job, youre half way Army Painter Master tip: Save
done before you even begin. For my Saga time and energy by spraying your
Warband I used: miniatures in their primary color
- giving you more time for gaming
Colour Primer: Plate Mail Metal for all
Plate Mail
chainmail armoured Hirdmen Metal
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A mix of Colour Primer: Desert Yellow
/ Army Green / Leather Skeleton
Brown for Bondsmen Bone
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Colour Primer:
Barbarian Flesh
for the half-naked
Berserkers
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Warpaints Quickshade Dip Other miniatures in
The unique formulation of the Quickshade Dip allows you to Svens warband
add instant shading to the whole of the model in just a few
seconds. Using a pair of pliers, dip the whole of the model
into the Quickshade can and remove the excess Quickshade
by flicking the model a few times. Its messy business, so do
it outside!
extra SHIELDS were dry I coated the whole shield with WP Matt
Varnish to remove the shine from the transfer.
The shields were left in the sprue for easier handling
and sprayed with Colour Primer: Leather Brown Glue on model
in the back and Colour Primer: Matt White on the Glue in place using a spot of Super Glue and you
front. are done!
Adding transfers
Following the instructions from LBM I added the
transfers to the shields. Super quick!
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