Hi, i wanted to share my battle grenadiers progress and paint scheme. im not entirely sure if it is a work in progress or if im finish. i could go back and try to highlight some parts on the weapons and armor but i dont think that with my crappy highlightning ability it would turn out better then it already is. however as soon as i find a suitable pigment / weathering paste i might add some rust to the armor and base.

i used an airbrush with vallejo air black and vallejo air light grey to do a zenithal lightning and shading respectively.

Thais was followed by a basecoat of snakebite leather for the leather areas elf flesh for skin and black (still got some from tamiya left over) for the googles and belt - well now i noticed that this is the one miniature where i forgot the belt ^^ ooops… the metal color is laso from tamiya.

The boots and armor were washed with badab black - or nun oil or whatever its called now. the skin areas with ogryn flesh and the pockets and gloves with abrax earth shade - the new devlan mud.

for the base i wanted to try something new and got my hands on some vallejo black lava. wanted to try the dark earth but was not available in korea, where i live. the black lava paste was applied with a modeling knife and took quite a while to dry but saved a lot hassle with loose sand and also was already black so no priming anymore. good stuff - will continue to use it. the base was then drybrushed with scorched brown and a grey.

the base of the rim was painted metal and washed again with badab black. the googles were painted with the same metal and got a blue wash (i belive its called azuremen blue and is also from games workshop). for weathering i tried a new domestic korean product called easy mud from marutechnics. its dirty cheap (5500 won or a bit less then 5 $) and works like a charm. its a heavy paste which dilutes well with water and applied straight gives the muddy effect seen on the boots and when diluted with water the effect seen on the pants.

The snow is tamiya snow effect straight from the bottle. also a first for me. that stuff also is very hassle free. get some on a heavy brush or modeling knife, dab it on the base, let dry… and finish. but that stuf is expensive. a small bottle which is suposed to be good to cover the size of a B4 sheet for around 10$. for bases i feel its ok but for larger dioramas or gaming tables i woldnt use it. it is however very strong and looks quite realisitic.

thank you for reading and CnC always welcome.

regards

alex

Good job. I might do a tad more shading, but it's not what I'd call necessary. I love the mud. Very well done, both boots and pant splatter.

Me, I would have been done at photo two! LOL. Great looking fig.

That's a lot of effort for a battle grenadier, and it shows. Great looking mini!

You could explain away the lack of a belt using fluff. The Axis were trialling a new belt-less uniform and that grenadier was selected as one of the first to try it.

Cannor said:

Or, rations are low at Zverograd and he boiled his belt for dinner!

I need to grab some of that mud stuff. The mud effect is great.

Cannor said:

LOL great idea.. might do that ^^

@all thanks for your kind comments.

@cannor: effort wise it was quite ok because i used airbrushing for preshading and all the ready mad e products like the mud, snow and black lava.

its my first time using all that stuff and it is, in my opinion really worth it. especially the zenithal lightning is great ( well i might feel like that because my attempts to paint clothing with a layering method always turned out horrible).

@strombole

i totally love that mud stuff, im however not sure that they sell it outside of korea already. looks like its till now their only product. you can find their homepage here: marutechnics.com/

Another product to try for basing are the Liquitex Effects Mediums. They have lava, sand, flake, bead, and fiber mediums. I haven't used these in years, or on miniatures, but I bet they would work.

The more I look at them it looks to be the same thing. The Liquitex version is just larger volume and cheaper price.