If you’ve got big bad beasties to paint for your Age of Sigmar army, keep it icy with these wintry color schemes for any army in the mortal realms.
Another General’s Handbook has arrived, as Age of Sigmar is back in full swing with newly revised points costs and rules. If you’re looking for a icy color scheme to paint any of your big bad beasties, checkout this wintry color pallet I used to paint my Ogor Beastclaw riders. From Ogor flesh, to beast fur, and even icy horn fades these tutorials got you covered!
I feel like the most striking quality of my army is the Ice detail work that I did on all the Beastclaw horns, so here’s the in-depth breakdown on how I did it, along with two video tutorials on how to paint your beasties to the tabletop level, and then above!
Start by laying down a base coat of Mechanicus Standard Grey at the base of the horns. Then lay down the base blue using some of GW’s Air Macragge Blue, the air versions of GW’s paints are easy to use and can go right into the airbrush without any prep work.
Once the base blue is dry start the highlight process using another of GW’s air range, this time with Lothern Blue, cutting the highlights in using your airbrush.
Next up is another highlight using a GW air paint. Instead of using pure white for the final highlight, we’re going to use Ulthuan Grey. This nearly-white color is great for highlights, and covers significantly better than plain white.
After the final airbrush highlight is dry, it’s time to tie everything together with a glaze of Drakenhoff Nightshade mixed with a little bit of Pledge with future floor wax. Before applying the glaze it’s important to coat the model with a semi-gloss or full gloss varnish.
The floor wax helps to break up the surface tension and stops the glaze from pooling as it dries, ensuring a smooth even coat.
Once the glaze is dried its time to apply a final edge highlight using a little more Ulthuan Grey. This razor highlight is applied using a detail brush.
Now it’s time to paint the rest of the model!
To see how to take your big beastie from plastic grey to beyond table top level just click play on our TWO video double feature below:
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