[Wargaming] The quickest paintjob in months.
Brain at 0300: Ainsleigh will drive by tomorrow on his way back home to Finland. You haven't touched the Tarrasque you printed 8 months ago just for this occasion. He needs that gift painted, so just stop being a lazy fuck.
Me: Let's fucking go!!
Brain: :Happy Deadline-fueled Dopaminenoises:
5 hours later I was crosseyed, the sun was shining brightly through the window and the cats were screaming bloody murder as they wanted breakfast.
Speedpaints still feel like magic even though I have used them for a fair number of models at this point. Probably around 300+.
I seldom use them anymore as I find myself going back to acrylics and washes and my old way of painting with speed. In the past I have mentioned somewhere that I stopped being a model-painter a long time ago, and instead became an army-painter. Simple color schemes, neat blocking and minimal highlights before drenching it in a wash.
Nowadays all the cool kids apparently calls it marine-wash. (Sonic Sledgehammer :king:)
I am likely far from being the first, but I did figure it out on my own all those years ago. My original mix was some off-the-shelf burnt umber ink with a Windsor Newton Flow Imprower and water.
Nowadays I'm using Agrax mixed with whatever medium I have on hand in a 1:1 ratio. Apart from Agrax, I use Nuln on top of some colors, often diluted as above or straight up. All I will ever need.
The first army I painted with my then newfound speed painting style was a commission for a buddy's dwarven army for WFB 5th Edition Herohammer.
Loads of hammerers (!), cannons and gunners. Greens, yellows, bronze and reds if memory serves correctly. Ended up doing 2.5K points in 2 weeks for him, in what now is considered to be "table-top plus". Revolutionary for a notoriously slow painter who struggled with getting Necromunda gangs table-ready for months on end.
Anyhow, back to what this post is about; The Tarrasque.
After spraying it out in the barn and waiting for the primer to dry, I ended up pouring copious amounts of Speed-, Xpress- and Contrastpaint in 4-5 steps. Drybrushed the whole beast with khaki and after picking out some details like teeth and claws I sloshed on Ye Olde Agrax.
Oh, I painted up it´s baby aswell.
(Still wet from wash, I was tired and had to go and headbutt a pillow as an old friend puts it.)
/Skald
Ps. He got happy and surprised reciving it as he didn´t know anything beforehand. Fitting gift for an all around great guy and creator of the homebrew "The Valley of the Tarrasque".