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Cadian Shock Troopers (Blue Squad) added Sep 23, 2005
When it came time to start painting these guys, I decided to follow GW's painting guide and start with black primer. I've always primed with white, but I figured it would be a good experiment. After a little getting used to it, I was quite pleased with the way things turned out. It's a very different technique building color up from black rather than putting color on a blank white surface. It's very easy to achieve strong shadows and not as hard as I thought to get bright colors. Some colors (especially red), are very hard to get bright, and have required some extra steps. I'm glad I decided to do the black primer, because the multi-part nature of the figures creates a lot of areas that are nearly impossible to paint, for example between weapon and body. Also, since most of the shadows make themselves, there's less need for washes and therefore less long drying stages. I decided to do a grey urban camouflage on these, with blue body armor. After repainting a squad of six identical draconians recently, I got seriously burned out on the idea of painting units, but the wide variety of poses made painting these minis a much better experience. I painted the first seven of them one at a time, but the last three I did simultaneously. I think I'll do the next squad in batches as well, so I can make better use of each color of paint as I mix it. Finally, I decided to make the urban theme more obvious by painting the bases with road markings.
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