Painting Ray's Viking - part 1

As I am painting up Ray's Viking I thought I'd post a 'plog' of the colours I used, etc. not really a tutorial, but just my ramblings about painting it!

First up, the metal. As there's a good bit of drybrushing to be done, I always do chainmail first, as it's easier to cover over the bits that missed than recover from getting metallic paint on a finished bit of the model. I tend to follow the same recipe for armour type metals: a heavy drybrush of VMC German Grey/VMC Gunmetal Grey (about 50/50), a second drybrush of just VMC Gunmetal Grey, a lighter drybrush of GW Boltgun Metal and a final drybrush of GW Chainmail. The pictures below aren't great, so it's hard to tell the progression of the lighter highlights, but they are there! :)

German Grey/Gunmetal Grey	Gunmetal Grey
Boltgun Metal	Chainmail

Next, I tackled the face, hands and beard. The whole lot was base coated in VMC Red Leather, as I decided Ray's Viking would be a red head. A little wash of Devlan mud around the beard gave it some definition and then the beard was drybrushed with VMC German Camo Orange Ochre and then VMC Yellow Ochre. The flesh was painted with VMC Beige Red and then a final highlight of VMC Basic Skintone. I wanted a pale flesh, as he's a bit podgy and I think he spends most of his days and nights at the ale house! It all turned out a bit too pale, though, and the beard lacked depth so I gave it a bit of attention with GW Ogryn Flesh wash.

Red Leather	Beard - Orange Ochre / Face - Beige Red
Beard - Yellow Ochre / Face - Skintone	Ogryn Flesh wash

Next I painted the tunic sleeves. For this I just used Foundry Boneyard, which I acquired recently and really like. I forgot to take individual shots, so here's just the finished arm. The photo is a bit washed out, but it looks better in person.

Lastly, I painted the trousers Foundry Forest Green shade, but I was too tired to do more. Hopefully I'll get it finished over the next night or so and post part 2.