MAY 2023 PAINTING BATCH - LIBERATORS AND PROSECUTORS
But before we started, I've been adding several new paint pot into my arsenal. Dreadful Visage, Naggaroth Night, and Genestealer Purple should bring a rich purple colors I needed for my Kruleboyz batch later. And by the way, Dreadful Visage is my first contrast paint pot.
And I also bought a new 5-layer acrylic paint rack, which still not enough to stuff all my paint pot. Well I might soon buy another paint rack parallel next to this one. But even so, I barely touch some of them at all, while other pot like Retributor Armor quickly used up, and now I already bought my second Retributor Armour pot.
So tried my own techniques to paint the minis right at the sprue, which I will regret later. I decided to do this because I want to apply the base color to cover the whole parts, because narrow area sometimes inaccessible by the brush if the minis already assembled. Its effective, but it turns into a bigger mess. Because once the parts cut from the sprue, they left unpainted spot, which bring me not only extra work, but caused uneven paint result. What's more this is the first edition Age of Sigmar, which use glue rather than push-fit to assemble. And its very horrible because not only the glue won't stick to the painter surface, but it also corrode the finished paint. I will never gonna do this technique again, and its a lesson learned. So here you can see the minis parts at the sprue and right after its cut-off.
Next step, I assembled the parts to form the units. I only done it for Liberators, but for Prosecutors, I want to finished the wing first before assembling. And then I continue to adding paint on more detailed parts. Now, we've got the basic colored minis, ready for any battle. The color palette consist of Kantor Blue for the blue parts, Retributor Armour for the gold parts, Runefang Steel for the hammers, Mephiston Red for the hammer's handle, Wraithbone for the perchament strip, and Celestar Gray for the wings. In addition I also put Technical Agrellan Badland for the base.
Finally here's the final result after I put final touch with wash, layer, and other details. Liberators looks amazing in its standard Stormcast Eternals colors. But Prosecutors is truly majestic with its wing. I'm still studying to create a more impressive and bright wings into them.
Nice job! Sorry for your experiences with painting the parts attached to the sprue - I guess we all had to learn that lesson 😅 I went over to drilling little holes into the parts and sticking some toothpick into them before painting the base coats but even then sometimes the toothpick breaks. Or when I try to glue them together there is paint in the way that I have to scratch away - which also has lead to some broken plastic I had to glue again. So I would recommend next time just get one mini out of the sprue, remove moldlines and glue it together before painting - perhaps you will see it's not as bad as you initially thought. I realized when the mini is properly coated with the base coat the spots you cannot reach are still ok in the overall look. In fact the observer's eyes mostly fix on the more interesting parts that are usually not in the deep recesses 😀
Its a wrong method that I used, and better not to try it. I totally agree with you, its better to left the unreachable spot unpainted, not only its barely visible, but also it save a lot of my time to paint detail on other more important parts.
Every time I see people painting their miniatures with gold/yellow paint, I'm always impressed how they get it done. I always get a crisis when I paint small details in gold. Do you have a specific color or which one do you use from Citadell?