Finished base coat

Base coated with Valejo Black then a "zenith" of Game Air White and a couple of drops of the same black.  41 miniatures now need a little color!  (And I get to move their progress bars to 30%!)
 

Base Coats for Trenchers

Set up an overspray box for the airbrush.  It really needs some air flow but its big enough I can make it work.  

And the obligatory cleaning of the air brush.  More to come.

Airbrushing Primer on Runewars

Airbrushed some more Runewars over the weekend. Vallejo Black Base and their Game Air White for underlying highlights later. About 30 minis in a couple of hours. #runewarsminiaturesgame #boardgames #wannabpainter #miniatures #vallejopaints #runewars #minis #paintingminiatures #paintingminis #daquan #waiqar #laituri #airbrush

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Side shot showing the light and dark sides. These are, from left to right, the Latari Elves Aymhelin Scion, Daqan Humans Rune Golem, and the Waiqar Undead Carrion Lancer.

Used white tac to stick them down temporarily to some cardboard and cut up paper plates.

Used Vallejo Primer Black for the Base Coat through the airbrush.

Used Vallejo Game Air Dead White through the airbrush for some "zenith" highlights.

        

Base, Prime, and Airbrush Ol' Rowdy

2 Days to go until I want to have Ol' Rowdy painted and ready for the tabletop.  I have this evening, tomorrow evening, and a couple of hours on Saturday.

Ol' Rowdy ready for priming.  I normally stick the mini on the base but I wanted a handle for airbrushing.  Then the handle needed extra support to stand up...

Here is the arm on a separate cork.

For the base, I did two pieces of cork, layered, then white glue along the edges and dipped in sand.

This is the primer I used.  It does a good job of a fine mist and the paint really sticks to it.  On a metal mini, it works great. I am not so sure about it on plastic minis as I had a horrible batch of Bones miniatures a while back and I don't remember which primer I used on them.

Base primed 

Both pieces primed 

Airbrushed P3 Thamar Black thinned with a 50/50 mix of distilled water and blue glass cleaner (Windex)

"Blue Tac" which in this case is white, used as a masking agent

I pushed the tac into the crevices  

Airbrush P3 cygnar blue base thinned with the 50/50 mix of water/glass cleaner

This is the cygnar blue highlight thinned and airbrushed on 

And without the tac 

Base blue and highlight blue airbrushed on.  I like the top of the oversized shoulder pad.  I need to look more into where to place the highlight on things like the forearm brace.

And without the tac

Currently = 45%

After Dry Brush, I will call it 50%