The Skaven Invasion: Painting Queek Headtaker Part 4

Hey all,

well today I bring you the final part of my guide to painting Queek Headtaker, which really was just his trophy rack and touching up the base.

The Skaven Invasion: Painting Queek Headtaker Part 3

So here is part 3 of my guide to how I did Queek, and this pretty much finishes him off as a character, thought I will do the trophy rack and post that. Anyway....

The Skaven Invasion: Painting Queek Headtaker Part 2

Sorry for the delay all, but I have had a busy week! Well today I finally got round to painting some more on Queek, and I have really impressed myself with the results, as usually I'm not very good at skin tones and the like, but today it just seemed to come together.

The Skaven Invasion: Painting Queek Headtaker Part1

Well here is the first pic of my WIP Queek Headtaker, I'm really loving painting this model so far, lots of detail, and it looks good even though its only slightly done. Need to go back and neaten the black areas ready for the chainmail to be done. After the black undercoat I did his armour like so:

a) Mechrite Red coat

b) Heavy Devlyn Mud wash

c) 3:1 Mechrite Red : Blood Red, leaving shading in the recesses

d) 1:1 Mechrite : Bood Red, working up from the previous layer

e)  Blood Red for the 'normal' colour

f) 3:1 Blood Red : Bad Moon Yellow for the highlight

g) 2:1 Blood Red : Bad Moon Yellow for final highlight

Queek looks a lot less orange in real life, and a bit darker too, also I realise that you can't get Bad Moon Yellow any more, so using Blazing Orange would work just as well. If anyone has any tips for a better recipe of red please feel free to drop me a comment. I will also post the complete step by step as I do it into the Step by Step page, as when it has disappeared into the warp that is the older posts, it will still be easily findable on that page. Also on a related note, Blackmane is doing a complete  Dark Eldar Raider Step by Step which he will have hopefully posted by the end of today for everybody.