Basecoating my Cygnar Army

It’s over a month since my last post and my projects are moving slowly, very slowly. Well, my family and my job keep me busy. If I can bring in the harvest from performing in these duties, it will make a happy Parcival, however. I sure do enjoy playing with my daughter and wargaming won’t run away.

That being said, my projects haven’t come to a complete halt. In the meanwhile I built all my Warmachine miniatures and primed them with their basecoat:

For that purpose, I used a new priming technique I saw first on Massive Voodoo. After that, I also saw it in one of GentleBen’s tutorials on how to paint a Warjack over at BoLS. The method is very simple, but creates a great effect:

1. First, you prime your models with a black spray from all angles until they are pitch black.
2. Second, you apply a little white spray from top, just as if snow were falling on them.

This will give you a neat light/shadow effect on your basecoated miniatures. If you continue and use thin layers of paint so that the basecoat still shines through, you get an easy light effect without putting any effort into it.

I am not very good at painting with watered down paints yet, but I sure wanna take these miniatures as a challenge to do my best and get those lighting effects done. Either way, you will see the pictures on the blog, so you may decide if they are a success or fail.