Hey everyone.
Its that time of year again where holidays mean that I can get back to wok with what I love most of all... painting. So its also about time that I fulfill a promise I made to Starky to post a tutorial or a step by step thread of how I paint my Wraithguard. I know I promised it to you some time last year but at last im delivering and have time to do this properly.
So far I have painted up a single Wraithguard from a unit of 10 as a test model to find the right scheme and see what would and what wont work. I have found a scheme I am happy with.
Now dont get me wrong I love Iyanden (as if you couldnt tell) and I love everything about them, but I wish they would hurry up and make some plastics for wraithguard as the current metal models are god awful models to make look good. Whilst the model its self does look quite cool there is such a lack of detail and alot of areas that seem to blend into eachother. Because its an old model and an old casting mould the models do not have much definition on them. But I think ive done an ok job on it, its certainly nothing special.
I know you all want pics so here goes...
Part of the idea for this unit is that the tribal style designs on the helmet will be different on each model, but they will all encorprate the eternity circuit symbol in its design somehow... Im sure you can see where it is on this first model.
So what am I going to do now... well I've shown you a final product, and now I am going to paint up the rest of the squad and take pics of each step and give some explanation to show you how I got to the final product you see here.
Hope you enjoy