In Games Workshop's "Warhammer" miniatures battle game, Ostermark is one of the 10 provinces of the Empire, a human nation beset on all sides by foes. Although the soldiers of each province are armed in similar ways, they wear distinctive uniforms reflecting their origins. The soldiers of Ostermark wear burgundy and gold, the heraldic colors of their homeland. As Imperial armies tend to be large, you'll need to paint a large number of figures to get the proper effect. Follow a few steps to make painting Ostermark troops quick and easy.
Instructions
1. Cover your assembled models with an undercoat of black paint. You can spray or brush this on. If spraying, you may need to touch up hard-to-reach places, such as the undersides of arms, with a brush.
2. Decide which parts of your models will be purple and which yellow. Empire troops need not be completely uniform in appearance, so this can vary from model to model.
3. Paint on the base coats for each area of color. For the burgundy areas, begin with a deep purple such as Liche Purple. For yellow areas, a darker yellow such as Iyanden Darksun makes a good base coat. For a particularly faded appearance, you may wish to basecoat the yellow areas with a light brown. Paint a dark flesh tone on exposed skin and metal onto armor and weapons.
4. Highlight the models. For burgundy areas, paint thin lines of a light purple such as Warlock Purple onto the raised folds of the cloth. On yellow, use a brighter shade of yellow, such as a mix of Iyanden Darksun and Golden Yellow. Highlight flesh with a lighter flesh shade.
5. Apply washes to provide shading. This technique involves brushing on a layer of ink or thinned-down paint. This will pool in the recesses of the model, giving it a shaded appearance. Use black for the purple areas, a light brown such as Gryphonne Sepia for the yellow, and a reddish-brown tone for the skin. Wash armor and weapons with black, but carefully wipe up excess wash on flat areas of armor or weapon blades.
6. Pick out the details. Paint small objects such as plumes, buckles, hats, pouches, weapon hilts, shoes, eyes or ribbons. Keep your palette simple. Shoes, pouches and hats should be brown or black, while buckles should be bronze. Weapon hafts and gun stocks should be brown with a reddish-brown or black wash. Plumes and ribbons should either be in state colors or in a neutral color like white.
7. Add terrain to the figure's base. Brush on a thin layer of PVA glue before dipping the base in a basing material such as flock or sand.
8. Protect your figure with a coat of varnish. This can be sprayed on or applied with a brush. If using a brush, keep brush cleaner handy, because water won't get varnish out of the bristles.
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