alright so now i started working on the white there's only a few areas on these models that are white we have the ultramarine symbol on one shoulder pad and their close support marking on the other shoulder pad i also chose to paint the grenade in one of their hands white usually white doesn't scream to me as a color for a grenade but i actually think it worked out well mostly due to the fact that there's so few colors to work with it just gave a little bit of contrast to the model and showed off that he was holding something in that hand once i'd painted the white though i realized that i really could have done this at the start when i talked about basing it all and then putting the one wash down because it was just sitting too flat for me so i actually went back and applied the agrax earthshade wash onto the white as well here i sat back looked at my models and said probably should do something else maybe it's the years of hobbies screaming at me but i just couldn't quite leave it there that black was sitting there with no highlight and i was looking at those eyes that had absolutely nothing in them these eye lenses which traditionally i'd probably pick a red for an ultramarine but we didn't have one so i just went ah i'm gonna do a simple mix a really basic mix so i just grabbed the black and the white mixed them together to make a mid-gray and just did an edge highlight along the weapons just those black areas the leather pouches the weapons just to make it pop and give it a little bit of depth because it was looking very flat a really cool trick with the edge highlight for new painters who often oh looks really sort of hard to do it's such a narrow straight line i didn't take too much time doing it on these models because they're a bit rough and ready but you just use the side of the brush so use the flat side of the brush with not too much paint on it and just glide along the edge of the model following there i made a really small and quick blue and white mix which i just dabbed into the eye lenses and then topped that off with a small dot of white just to make the lenses look like they were sort of a light and that was almost the end of the story for those models i grabbed the astro granite texture paint that is in the packet slapped it all over the bases and once that was dry i put an aggrex earthshade wash onto that as well and then to finish the model and give it that sort of game piece look i trimmed the base in the abaddon black again and put a final agrax earthshade wash all over that astro granite just to give it some depth and there you have it uh i hope you can see how with a really really limited selection of paints and tools that are quite accessible for someone starting out to the hobby you can actually achieve some pretty cool things and i encourage everyone to give these sort of simple techniques a go with their new model uh journeys and um just have the confidence to dive in and you know give it a go yay you did it congratulations your first set of minis or min a single mini or just mini painting experience not as
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