RATS! Rats Everywhere! (dipped skaven)

[Elmir]

Hey folks.

I have a bit of a picture carpetbomb of my fairly recently started skavenarmy. The army is now a little over a year old... I did manage to paint over 200 models of this army, along with a boatload of other projects.

The reason: I used quickshade (aka "dip") on these rats. The models aren't just dunked into the pot however, but the quickshade is applied as if it were a regular wash (by brush).

The pallete is rather simple, I only put extra effort in on the greens.

Here's a few shots to show you what I mean.

My clanrat bunker for the battle standard bearer:

Warlock engineer with condensor:

Warpfire trower:

Slaves! Lots of slaves!

Ratogres:

Doomrocket engineer!

And finally, the army as it stands now:

I'll see if I can dig up some more decent photo's of the warpstone cannons, the doomwheels etc.

Hope you like them, and if you have any questions about how these were done, feel free to ask. I'm sure VC players know the pain of having to paint big blocks of worthless infantry...

 

[Chaos_Born]

That is a very nice BSB conversion. I tried to do a similar thing with my doomwheel banner, but I couldn't get the blighter to stay on the pole:frown:

The vivid greens, especially on the rat ogres, really highlight the unnatural, magical nature of warpstone.

And the doom rocket Wow the doomrocket...

 

[Elmir]

I did have to put a metal pin through the hand of the warlord model to attach the banner and the pole on the bottem. If's kinda tricky, but the bannerpole is thick enough to pin it IF you are able to drill straight into the pole.

 

[Monkey's_Uncle]

They're all very nice!
The first Warlock engineer in particular is stunning!

More photos would be great.

 

[Nigerian Prince]

Great job! The glow effect is really well done.

 

[Nagashizzar]

Awesome job! Put more photos please!

 

[con-fusion]

Man, those are nice results. What's your paint time on these?

 

[Yorga]

As an owner of a fully painted Skaven army I have to say I am jealous! Your army is so themematic! I demand a close up of your Bell though.

 

[Elmir]

I tried to go for a skryre theme for this army. That's why it's pretty unified up untill this point. The next unit will most likely be a unit of plaguemonks with a furnace... Although I have a VC army in the making for armies on parade, so it'll be a while before more stuff is added.

 

[Elmir]

Oh, and I nearly forgot to include some pictures of this little guy: The FW exalted verminlord.

He was an utter joy to paint, but a true pain in the neck to clean and assemble... A lot of lovely opportunities to use my airbrush on however:

 

[Chaos_Born]

I think those sewer pipes are really cool, how did you make the slime?

 

[Elmir]

The slime is a mix of uhu type clear glue with paint mixed into it. The first layer has dark green ink mixed into it, the second layer has vallejo model colour skorpian green mixed into it.

 

[Chaos_Born]

I didn't notice it properly before, but that object source lighting is really quite special. A masterful job on the whole guy

 

[Yorga]

The Bell! Please please please show us a close up of the Bell! Well the whole model actually....

Love the sewage drain on the Verminlord.

 

[Monkey's_Uncle]

The Verminlord is exquisite!
He really looks like an evil mutated-by-warpstone rat to me.

 

[Nagashizzar]

The Bell! Please please please show us a close up of the Bell! Well the whole model actually....

this!!

 

[Elmir]

Man, those are nice results. What's your paint time on these?

The army was done in about 5-6 months I think. There was a gap in between, so it's hard to tell. By using an airbrush for some groundlayers and the quickshade, it all went really fast though... It's not exactly the best work for close inspection, but it more than holds it's own on the table.