Contrasty Cult Army: Something of a Paint Guide

Realizing my limitations as a painter I´m not trying to educate anyone here. Just wanting to share the way I´ve found for using Citadel Contrast paints to in my opinion satisfactory result with a Genestealer Cult Army.

The colours that tie the different bands of the cult together are black, purple and yellow. Two or all three of those colors appear in almost all models of the cult. Check the earlier entires

 Undercoating with spray. First Grey Seer all over followed by Wraith Bone sprayed just from above.

This gives a bit deeper shades than using just Wraith Bone.

 First colors on. Magos Purple for psykers shirt and  

Talassar Blue for beastman skin.

 Spyker´s pants and beastman´s horns were done with Nazdreg Yellow.

 Guilliman Flesh for hands and face of the psyker.

 Leather parts using Black Templar. 

 I use Leadbelcher for metal parts and treat them with Agrax Earth Shade.

Some Agrax is added to areas of deepers shadows too.

 Wyldwood is used for weapons shafts etc.

Finally I highlight skin and fur parts with mixture of contrast paint and normal white diluted heavily with medium. I try to add several thi layers to make sort of gradual highlights.

For last I traet the base with Snakebite Leather, pva glue and some flock.

Here´s another guide I did for speed painting desert themed Imperial Guard.

Mind and muscles

Cult Army grows with four models: three beastmen and a rogue psyker. The beastmen are all those non-alligned ones that don´t show clear alligiance to one of the chaos powers. But with paint job I´ve tried to both make them look Slaaneshian and to tie them together with the rest of the cult.

 Classic Realm of Chaos beastmen and a psyker.

As with the rest of the cult these are mostly painted with Citadel Contrasts. 

I´ve grown to actually like those. 

The rogue psyker. His head held together with a metal band. Or maybe

that´s some sort of device that amplifies his abilities. The model is quite small

and those plastic arms look pretty big on him.

Contrasty Scarlocs´ Archers

It sure has been a while since I worked on fantasy elves. As you know it´s been all eldar and IG as of lately. But I´ve had these Scarlocs´ archers sitting around in their original box since late 80´s and finally with arrival of those contrast paints I got myself together to actually throw some color on them.

So it´s only ten models now and that leader is not Scarloc himself but an ancient Legolas from a Lord of the Rings box I bought back in the days. Far from the best Scarlocs´ you´ll see around but I´m pleased with them as I wanted to test how fast I can make table top ready models with those contrasts. I wouldn´t hesitate pushing these around on a battle field.

Not going to set myself any deadlines here but I think I´ll have a beginning of a wood elf force here. It´s just 20 more archers and a general to meet the 3rd edition minimas. We´ll see what happens as I have a couple of other project going on too.

 All completed models so far. Some shields are still missing. Will add them later.

A closer look at some of the troopers and the standard.

I general I´m really happy with the way those contrasts work for this kind of mass painting. The result is just good enough for gaming and you can make units quite fast compared to regular paints. Just sprayed base on a few more Scarlocs´, a wardancer and a couple of other elves.