HOW TO: paint cadian 8th troops 18 PICS

[newcomer]

this tutorial will show you the basics of painting guardsmen from the cadian 8th, as the title says.

SKILL LEVEL: basic, you just need to know how to take care of a brush and how to drybrush

PLEASE NOTE
the model i used is a special test model that was built to show all of the types of model parts on any of your guardsmen
PAINTS USED:
tallarn flesh, mechrite red, calthan brown, scorched brown, mithril silver, bleached bone, catachan green, knarloc green, Iyanden darksun, and dwarf flesh
STEP 1: undercoat your guardsman
basecoat your guardsman black via any means necessary it should look like this


STEP 2: The armour and fatigues
paint the fatigue (cloth) scorched brown, and the armour, catachan green. you should get something like this


STEP 3: highliting the Armour and fatigues
using Knarloc green, drybrush said colour onto all of the armour. then using calthan brown, drybrush onto the fatigues

STEP 4: finishing off the armour and fatigues
you now need to use bleached bone to drybrush onto the cloth, once this is done, youre done with the armour and fatigues

STEP 5: Flesh and gear
using scorched brown, drybrush all ammo pouches, canteens, belts, straps, boots and anything leathery, then paint the flesh calthan brown


STEP 6: highlighting flesh and gear
drybrush the gear calthan brown and then drybrush tallarn flesh onto the skin, then drybrush again with dwarf flesh

STEP 7: lasguns\pistols and chainswords\knives
for lasguns and laspistols, paint all but the barrel, gun sight, stock, and grip catachan green. drybrush mithril silver (or chainmail) onto the barrel, sight, stock and grip. for chainswords and knives, drybrush them mithril silver and for the handles, any kind of brown.


STEP 8: commissar style caps, SGT chevrons, yellow tassels, and the imperial aquilla (the eagle fingy)
using mechrite red (or any other red) pait the caps red, then (if applicable) paint the eagle fingys gold, or chainmail as well as any other metal bits. for the SGT chevrons, use Iyanden darksun, as regular yellow will take 5 or 6 coats, same goes with the tassels



This now concludes my tutorial. Any and all feedback\appreciation is welcome, as well as any pointers to mispelled words, errors, missing pics.

[newcomer]

so noone wants to comment? i need feedback for future tutorials

[thefishki345]

Nice tutorial newcomer. Really good and well set out. We need some new tutorials for new people coming here, the pictures are good and always help. Hope to see more of your tutorials soon. One thing I would point out, is on the face, maybe put another coat of flesh because you can still see a little bit of black, pure flesh always looks good. Also, sometimes if you think your model is lacking depth or is too bright just paint the whole model or area with black ink (plain or watered down) or just black paint diluted with water to a 1 part paint 2 or 3 parts water depending on how you want it.

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Oh, this helps...just purchased 2 cad snipers and 3 catachan snipers...I don't lie when I say I'm just startin' out. Yess indeed this was helpful!! RC

[Deleted]

yeah i like the tutorial nice colour scheme. look forward to more

[Deleted]

I have this really simple way of doing the cadian pattern and it looks really good ill do a tutorial for it as soon as i get a better camera, as mine has very little detail. And the reason why nobody comes here is because everyone goes straight to the things they see right away not the sub-groupings