Hello fellow Rune Warriors!

I'd like to share with you my first painting guide for Runewars:

I hope you like some of the ideas in the video and that they help some of you realise your own vision for your Daqan army. Here's a couple of shots of the golem with his posse (who I gave quite a quick paint job - praise the Shades!):

I can't wait to see what other colour schemes you all come up with!

Sorastro.

EDIT: To save people from searching the thread, I'm adding episode 2 as well as the PDF quick guide link below:

A PDF Quick Guide for the regular troops can be found HERE.

Enjoy!

Thank you Sorastro. Always good to see you here I discovered you some years ago on these FFG forums. The descent II forum to be honest. Always great work coming from you.

5 minutes ago, Elrad said:

Thank you Sorastro. Always good to see you here I discovered you some years ago on these FFG forums. The descent II forum to be honest. Always great work coming from you.

Thanks a lot Elrad! I really appreciate that

I just love the colour scheme you have chosen! Those spearman are amazing. I know you didn't get the interest you were hoping for in relation to this game from your supporters on Patreon (I could only vote once unfortunately) but I hope you can still provide some content for this game, I really don't want to paint it without you.

6 minutes ago, Sorastro said:

Thanks a lot Elrad! I really appreciate that

Don't mention it, You're appreciated by a lot of peoples here and elsewhere. What's more normal ? What I like with you is that you dedicate your video to us, you want to help us go into painting and provide us with so many good advices and without being like lecturing peoples but considering them as they are. You put so much work in your videos and they are clear for everyone. I painted a bit before finding your videos so I can watch your video with my experience and I learn a lot. When i've painted some stuffs, I'll post the photos here for everyone to enjoy (or to throw rotten tomatoes at) what I can actually do. Many among us will do the same and it will be great to see what we wanted to bring on the table.

So again, thank you for your work !

Just now, Doodlebug said:

I just love the colour scheme you have chosen! Those spearman are amazing. I know you didn't get the interest you were hoping for in relation to this game from your supporters on Patreon (I could only vote once unfortunately) but I hope you can still provide some content for this game, I really don't want to paint it without you.

Thanks Doodlebug! Oh I'm going to collect and paint this game regardless - just because I love it! Even if I only have time to produce a limited number of videos for it, I'd be happy to share the paint schemes I've used for those units that I don't manage to cover in a video (such as the infantry, cavalry etc.). I'm working hard on the Carrion Lancer video at the moment, but I'll prepare a brief visual guide to how I've painted the other units and share it here when I get a chance.

By the way, on the official pictures they have drawn symbols on the bucklers. I thought it was transfers but it is not...did you ever painted yourself symbols on buckers ? I could not paint two times the same symbols if I tried...

Just now, Elrad said:

By the way, on the official pictures they have drawn symbols on the bucklers. I thought it was transfers but it is not...did you ever painted yourself symbols on buckers ? I could not paint two times the same symbols if I tried...

Good question! Yes - I did paint a shield design on one of the shields as a trial. It looked pretty good, but to accurately reproduce it on all of them I think would have been more trouble than it was worth. I always try to achieve the optimum effort to output ratio and for me, providing a simple gradient and a few scratches hit that sweet spot.

ALL HAIL THE DAQAN LORDS OF KHADOR! lol i really enjoy the red color scheme @Sorastro I'm looking forward to getting some free time to watch this video!

1 minute ago, jek said:

ALL HAIL THE DAQAN LORDS OF KHADOR! lol i really enjoy the red color scheme @Sorastro I'm looking forward to getting some free time to watch this video!

Ha ha -Thanks buddy

24 minutes ago, Sorastro said:

Thanks Doodlebug! Oh I'm going to collect and paint this game regardless - just because I love it! Even if I only have time to produce a limited number of videos for it, I'd be happy to share the paint schemes I've used for those units that I don't manage to cover in a video (such as the infantry, cavalry etc.). I'm working hard on the Carrion Lancer video at the moment, but I'll prepare a brief visual guide to how I've painted the other units and share it here when I get a chance.

That would be wonderful. I really enjoyed watching that video and while a few of the techniques might be a bit to advanced for me, there was a lot I can use there! Getting a list of colour choices for the spearmen would be wonderful. I really enjoyed the look for them. They had an almost Lannister feel to them.

Thanks again Sorastro, great work as always.

@Sorastro Have you been a follower of yours, do you mind if I put your video on my blog?

Just now, maul said:

@Sorastro Have you been a follower of yours, do you mind if I put your video on my blog?

I don't mind at all sir!

Oh, I almost forgot: for anyone that doesn't use Army Painter paints, here's a brief conversion of the main colours I used for the golem video:

BRAVO

Absolutely amazing once again. I love the little things you pick up on Sorastro, like the glow effect of the runes on the Golem. Very well done, thanks for this.

9 minutes ago, FrogTrigger said:

Absolutely amazing once again. I love the little things you pick up on Sorastro, like the glow effect of the runes on the Golem. Very well done, thanks for this.

Thanks mate - I appreciate that! It just seemed central to the whole being of the golem that the runes had to look like they were glowing. I struggled with the idea for a while until I made the distinction between the central head and chest runes - which I treated as the main source of light - and the other smaller channels. The good thing is that it's actually quite an easy effect to achieve once you commit to it

2 hours ago, Sorastro said:

Hello fellow Rune Warriors!

I'd like to share with you my first painting guide for Runewars:

I hope you like some of the ideas in the video and that they help some of you realise your own vision for your Daqan army. Here's a couple of shots of the golem with his posse (who I gave quite a quick paint job - praise the Shades!):

I can't wait to see what other colour schemes you all come up with!

Sorastro.

@Sorastro Gr8 work Gr8 guide From a Gr8 Artist

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Is FFG making a move to have Army Painter be the official paints of their products?

Does this mean a change in brand to IA and Descent?

8 minutes ago, flightmaster101 said:

S,

Is FFG making a move to have Army Painter be the official paints of their products?

Does this mean a change in brand to IA and Descent?

Hi mate! FFG do have a relationship with Army Painter and Army Painter sent me a very generous "care package" of products to try out. Whilst I was happy to include a range of AP paints in this video (their metallics are pretty excellent!) I don't think it would make sense for me to switch brands in the middle of an established series such as IA or Descent, so fear not!

Just now, Sorastro said:

Hi mate! FFG do have a relationship with Army Painter and Army Painter sent me a very generous "care package" of products to try out. Whilst I was happy to include a range of AP paints in this video (their metallics are pretty excellent!) I don't think it would make sense for me to switch brands in the middle of an established series such as IA or Descent, so fear not!

Whew.

For the record I have been buying GW paints with your tutorials, but I don't have a good local source for either Val, or AP paints. And online prices are outrageous! So that is good to hear.

Hey Sorastro, Im planning on painting my guys similar to this. Im wanting the gold to be a dark orangish color, but the color changer wouldn't cooperate. I will be adding more orange than this, and change the cape color. What GW colors do you recommend? I also dont like mixing colors if i can avoid it, nags me when i cant match the mix later on. Lol.

And thanks for the videos as always!

Here's a video of his painting the HK droids from IA an orangish/metallic color, spoilered for size, I personally love Troll Slayer Orange, very deep. I make notes when I mix paints so I can go back after and look to see how I did it, usually I can get it to be close enough to identical that you can't tell unless you are a few inches away.

Sorastro,

What do you think of the idea of using Decals on the shields? I have a custom decal system from Testors and the Sheilds of the spearment might be flat enough for decals rather than hand paint.

15 minutes ago, flightmaster101 said:

Sorastro,

What do you think of the idea of using Decals on the shields? I have a custom decal system from Testors and the Sheilds of the spearment might be flat enough for decals rather than hand paint.

I'll be doing shield decals because I can paint fairly well, but can't freehand at all