painting article

Why Snow Basing? Well it all started when I first joined CN. I'd just completed my Winged Vampire Lord (for the thread click here) for my Games Workshop's Brotherhood of the Brush Painting competition. Many of you fell in love with the model, but more importantly, as many fell in love with...

As originally featured in Carpe Noctem's online magazine "The Invocation" Issue #3 Happy holidays all! I hope everyone is staying warm during these cold months and keeping busy. While I normally am an outdoors person myself, winter is a perfect time to sit down and practice your various...

Introduction Hi everyone! As I finally got my apartment all set up and ready to go, I found an old folder of mine that I’ve been compiling articles and anything painting related. I’ve had this folder since I was a freshman in college and it’s helped me come a ways in the painting aspect of the...

This tutorial was originally featured in Carpe Noctem's Invocation Magazine. The names of the paints used have been replaced with newer citadel paint equivalents, with old paint names referenced in brackets. As an army, our minions use all sorts of weapons, many of them are med of steel and...

Hideous Hues and Petrifying Pigments - A Beastly Guide to Monstrous Skin Painting skin can sometimes be a tricky business, particularly when it comes to the ghoulish delights that the Vampire Counts or Soulblight Gravelords have to offer. A model’s skin is often a big focal point, so getting it...

Please give the article a thumbs up if you find it useful! I saw some posts with tutorials and various painting techniques, so I decided I also share my experiences. I would like to describe two ways of making rust effects I use. Please note some of the colours have since been updated, old =...

People, online and in-person, have asked me several times about the technique I use for my ethereal models and it's deeply flattering. I'm almost embarrassed, however, to admit how dang easy it is to do! People see my Banshees, or whatever and assume that something which looks so striking (at...

Please give the article a thumbs up if you find it useful! Long time ago I was experimenting a lot with getting just the right combination for painting patina / verdigris on my models - and that was before Nihilakh Oxide was a thing. Eventually I got the thing right, wrote down the recipe and...