Saturday, January 12, 2019

"Painting" 40K Poxwalkers with Sharpie Pens

As we have been playing Warhammer 40,000: Killteam, I have been attempting to speed paint a number of small forces to try out with the game.  Before this latest attempt, I painted a squad of three Chaos Marines with some Sharpies a little while ago.

One of my most recent attempts has been to paint some Poxwalkers, using Army Painter color primer and Sharpie pens.  After priming them green, (with a zenithal overprime of a lighter green primer), I used Sharpies before dipping them using Royal Walnut Satin Mixwax Polyshade.  I used normal acrylics to paint the the bases and added some flocked foliage to complete the models.  I used a silver Sharpie for the eyes which turned out looking great.

In all, they turned out alright, and the approach did save some time over painting them with acrylics.  Because the model are Nurgle, the dipping method definitely worked better than it would have on other types of models, where a more clean look is appropriate.



2 comments:

  1. Interesting technique. Wouldn't have guesses that pens were used.

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  2. Thanks Skully - yes, still experimenting to see where this works and where it doesn't. So far, it have found it DOESN'T work for models with bright colors - red, yellow, white, etc. You have to start bright and tone with Sharpies. The only other example that worked were the Black Legion - black with metallic Sharpies.

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