Painting a Warhound Titan - Part II

A guest post from Kenny Boucher of Next Level Paintng who will be producing a series of articles on painting.  Here is Part II of painting a Warhound Titan.

Kenny here from Next Level Painting. We will be posting a series of articles charting the growth and development of one War Hound Titan's journey to bad ass-ness (paint job).

This series of pics shows the steps to laying down base paint to all the colors. Then all the details.

I isolate all the panels and use PP3 “cygnar blue base” and PP3 “cygnar blue highlight”  for all the blues. This is a simply radial highlight, moving from the center of any panel out toward the edges. I even take it one step further and add a small amount of white to the “cygnar blue highlight” and make a third small centralized highlight. At this point I  reload the airbrush with the “ cygnar blue base” mixed with a little black. The purpose of this is to almost trace the trim and designs to create more depth. Once the paint fully dried I used GW “brass scorpion” and GW “burnished gold”to detail and create depth to the metal trim. I focused on the contact points for the darkest effect and the raised points for the lightest effects. The trim is all paint brush.

Using the same procedure as above I isolate all the opposite panels and use PP3 “ember orange” and PP3 “cygnus yellow”  for all the yellows. Once the “cygnus yellow” fully dried I used “ember orange” mixed with Reaper “harvest brown” to trace the trim and create depth. Next I pull out the paint brush again and use GW “leadbelcher” and GW “ironbreaker”to detail and create depth to the metals. I focused on the contact points for the darkest effect and the raised points for the lightest effects.I also use GW “nuln oil” to help with some weathering effects over the bolts.

Now you can glue on all the panels!

On the weapons I used an OSL effect. I sprayed on some PP3 “iosan green” then PP3 “necrotite green” and finally GW “flash gitz yellow” This process is another example of a radial highlight. 

After wards I use the paint brush to pick out subtle raised surfaces for additional glow effects.

Basically this model is pretty easy to paint with the right tools and prep. I thought it would take longer and that this article would be very extensive but its already finished and it took about 3 days.
Kenny

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