Stormcast Eternal Hunter Prime - A Painting Guide

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Man, do I ever agree with you on how garish and silly the default stormcast look to match them up with the ultramarines. I just feel the bright stuff is a better fit for 40k marines.

Edit: I find your *very* exact details extremely helpful, I know they are tedious to write up. For example, how many coats.

And that's it. All you need is a steady hand and a good eye.

Ugh. YOU MAKE IT SOUND SO EASY.

Thanks for writing that up. That was a really interesting read, and the mini looks fantastic. I just started painting minis in the past year, and I'm hopelessly addicted now. I went to the board game store this weekend, and I barely even looked at board games. Instead, I spent my time gazing at Reaper Bones and paint colors. I can't believe how excited I get to shop for freaking PAINT. Oooh, do I have this shade of purple?!?

Gary Sax wrote: Man, do I ever agree with you on how garish and silly the default stormcast look to match them up with the ultramarines. I just feel the bright stuff is a better fit for 40k marines.

Edit: I find your *very* exact details extremely helpful, I know they are tedious to write up. For example, how many coats.

Thank you. I'm aware that there a lot of painting guides out there that I think that I as a beginner wouldn't find quite comprehensive enough. I see people asking questions like "How do I stop my hand shaking?" and "How many coats should I use with this paint?" so I'm trying to approach the tutorial thing from a slightly different angle.

Basically, I think that everybody should have miniatures painted to a standard that they're happy with, and I think that is achievable with the right information. At the very least I think everybody can get some sort of catharsis from it if it's taught right.

Joebot wrote: Ugh. YOU MAKE IT SOUND SO EASY.

Thanks for writing that up. That was a really interesting read, and the mini looks fantastic. I just started painting minis in the past year, and I'm hopelessly addicted now. I went to the board game store this weekend, and I barely even looked at board games. Instead, I spent my time gazing at Reaper Bones and paint colors. I can't believe how excited I get to shop for freaking PAINT. Oooh, do I have this shade of purple?!?

Ha ha! I'm glad you're enjoying it so much. And that line was supposed to be encouraging - apologies if it wasn't! My feeling is that there is quite a bit of misinformation about painting certain colours out there (white, black, yellow and flesh tones in particular) and I want to try and take the apprehension out of painting those colours as much as possible. They're colours that turn up a lot so there should be efficient ways to paint them!