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Painting a New Kingdom Egyptian army is not that
hard as the color scheme is very simple. Basically, it's all clothes
white, dark skin, sandy bases, bronze for the metallic parts and
red/leather colors for the details.
I'm using the Citadel colors. You can find them
in any good Games Workshop shop. Well, let's go, step by step !
Step One - Preparation
First thing I start with, I clean the minis,
filing carefully all the casting remaining trails.
Step 2 - The base
Using Superglue, I stick the minis on small base
(20mm x 20mm) made of old plastic cards.
I then stick under the base a square of adesive
magnet. Using magnetic bases have only advantages : easy
transportation and, making metallic movement trays, you can move your
units on the table without losing half of them during the move.
Step 3
I use a kind of coating to level the base. Using
white glue, I then covert the base with small sand.
The modelling part is now ended !
Step 4 -
The undercoat
It's now time to undercoat the minis. I use the
Citadel Skull White spray.
Step 5 - Painting,
the black & white part
First thing to be painted : the clothes,
headgear and light armor. I paint them first because the black ink I
use to give some relief is always overflowing on the other parts of
the minis. It's then far better to paint these parts after.
Well, I paint all the clothes with black ink. The ink will fill the hollows and leave the reliefs white. I then drybrush the minis with white. I usually do this several times to have a good plain white. Most of the time, you will find it sufficient but I like to spend more time with a very small brush to outline the black and the white where they were somewhat mixed. The result is shown on the picture below :
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Step 5 - the black & white part
Step 6 -
The skin
I'm now ready to paint the skin. Very simple !!
For the color, I use a mix composed of 3/5
Bestial Brown and 2/5 Bronzed Flesh. You can vary the proportions to
have a darker or lighter color. Once all the skin parts of the minis
are painted, I use the Flesh Wash to outline the details : eyes,
fingers, muscles and skin/clothes edges.
Step 7 - The base, again...
When painting the feet, the Flesh Wash tend to
overflow the base. I can now recover this by painting the base, first
with plain Sunshine Yellow. I then use the flesh Wash again to brown
the sand. Final touch : I drybrush it with white.
The result is shown on the following picture :
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Step 7 - the skin and base are now completed
Step 8 - The details
Congratulation ! The longest and hardest work is
now done and the minis are almost finished. But the most boring part
still remain : painting all those nasty details such as weapons,
arrows, sandals, shields etc. The metallic parts are all painted
black first, then with Bronze Dwarf.
When painting the minis, I try to keep them very similar from one to another but using different colors for those small details give you a small touch of mixed equipement. You can see for instance on the following picture a funny leopard skin for the quiver.
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Step 8 - the details
Step 9 - The eyes and the stripped headgear
When painting my bretonnian, I never painted the
eyes. I found them far to hard to paint but a friend manage to
convince me to paint them on my egyptians soldiers. It's a little
funny when considering that the Citadel miniatures for WFB are bigger
than Foundry's !!
The eyes are not that hard to paint. You just
need a small brush. I paint the eyes with a small white line over a
black one. A little black point then make the pupil.
The headgear is the most enjoying part to paint
because this is what give your minis its final touch. I just paint it
with Blood Red.
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Step 9 - the eyes and the stripped headgear
Step 10 - The final touch
The minis are now finished : just glue the
shields !!
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Step 10 - the final touch !
