Body Guard of Bolg WIP

These figures have been gathering dust for years, but with the house move coming up the race is on to finish every thing on the work top.

 I have been having some fun with Citadel’s new Contrast paints. I only have two at the moment, a skeleton colour and a wood brown, they are very useful in changing colours. They also have a nice vibrancy about them which is quite welcome with my usual dark wash way of painting.I shall definitely be getting a few more in the future.

I think I’ve just nailed the Black Uruk skin colour from the Jackson films.

 First, block in all the armour and clothes etc, leave the skin to last. 

Then use Tamika ‘Field Blue’ to block in the flesh. Now here comes the new bit... use Army Painter inks to put a wash over it. Mix a little blue ink in with the black! This gives a much better effect than just using black on its own. You don’t need to highlight the flesh, just let the inks do their thing. The AP range of inks are more of a stain than an ink really and they subtly tweak the hue of the paint underneath. The subtle blue ink is the key to the good looking Black Uruk skin. 

The bright red war paint looks very striking over the dark skin colour. When this is all dry I gave the whole figure a black wash with Woodland scenics black as usual, slightly watered down.

The orc above has had his horns washed over with the wood coloured Contrast paint, the result is a slight different hue to the horns. It’s tiny little touches like this, that are making these Contrast paints great fun to work with. Very handy little paints, not cheap; but worth getting a pot or three.