Jon Grant Miniatures

  Painting Aeronautica Imperialis Bases One thing I’ve never understood about Games Workshop’s Aeronautica Imperialis range is why they don’t paint the bases. The sculpted radar screens and industrial-style riveted metal details give a fantastic thematic vibe—but left unpainted, they make the miniatures look unfinished. So, here’s my personal take on painting these bases to bring them up to par with the rest of your models. Paints Required Leadbelcher Spray Nuln Oil Abaddon Black Caliban Green Warpstone Glow Moot Green Warplock Bronze Agrax Earthshade Balthasar Gold Hashut Copper Leadbelcher Preparing the Bases Before painting, disassemble the bases to protect the altitude and speed dials. Use a Citadel greenstuff modeling tool to carefully prise off the backs of the bases and remove the dials. Spray both the top and bottom parts with Leadbelcher . Step-by-Step Painting Process 1. Rivets and Metal Wash Using a small detail brush, apply ...

The Knives of the Crone are a sub-sect of Daughters of Khaine. Unlike their sisters they do not worship Khaine, instead they follow Morai-Heg, the Crone. I wanted this warband to match my other Daughters of Khaine warbands, but at the same time shift away from the bright blood reds and move to the blacks, greys and dark red-purple more in line with the Crows. You can see my Daughters of Khaine warbands on the following pages: Morgweath's Bladecoven - Beastgrave Gryselle's Arenai - Gnarlwood The Shadeborn - Nethermaze My painting guide for the Daughters of Khaine - Wych Aelves . Paints used: Chaos Black (spray) Mechanicum Standard Grey (spray) Abaddon Black Barak Nar Burgundy Leadbelcher Rakarth Flesh Corax White Incubi Darkness Stormvermin Fur Screaming Bell Stormhost Silver Kislev Flesh Flayed One Flesh Pallid Wych Flesh White Scar (or Army Painter Matt White as an alternative) Emperor’s Children Genestealer Purple Eshin Grey Dawnstone Ironbreaker Hashut Copper Kabalite Gree...

I’ve really enjoyed painting the Azyrite Ruins and other terrain features for Warcry and Age of Sigmar . I’m starting to build up a solid collection of pieces, and it’s been incredibly rewarding to see the table come to life. In this article, I’m focusing on the bone components of my Warcry terrain—specifically, the skeletons and skulls . Let’s be honest: if you paint GW miniatures, at some point you’re going to paint bone. There are literally skulls everywhere in the Mortal Realms and the Imperium. I sometimes wonder if the dead just get buried without their heads? Anyway, here’s a quick guide for painting bone that’s been weathered by the elements. I use this recipe for both terrain and bases. Paints required: Wraithbone spray Morghast Bone Athonian Camoshade Karak Stone Screaming Skull Pallid Wych Flesh Agrax Earthshade Optional Zandri Dust Start with an undercoat of Wraithbone Spray —assuming the piece can be painted separately. Then apply a base coat of Morghast Bone . If th...

I’ve really enjoyed painting the Azyrite Ruins and other terrain features for Warcry and Age of Sigmar . I’m starting to build up a solid collection of pieces, and it’s been incredibly rewarding to see the table come to life. In this article, I’m focusing on the wooden components of my Warcry terrain—specifically, the wooden walkways and barricades . These differ from the wooden planks found on the ruins, as the branches used in these structures still have bark. I wanted these to look subtly different from the planks, and after a bit of experimenting, I’m really happy with the final result. The process is fairly quick, though a few steps require drying time.   Paints required: Skavenblight Dinge Dryad Bark Wyldwood Agrax Earthshade Rakarth Flesh Deathworld Forest Zandri Dust Ushabti Bone Screaming Skull Dawnstone Administratum Grey Elysian Green Seraphim Sepia Chaos Black Spray Start by undercoating everything with Chaos Black Spray . The wooden planks were then basecoated with...

I’ve really enjoyed painting the Azyrite Ruins and other terrain features for Warcry and Age of Sigmar . I’m starting to build up a solid collection of pieces, and it’s been rewarding to see the table come to life. In this article, I’m focusing on the metal components of my Warcry terrain—specifically, the metal grates found in the Azyrite Ruins and the ruined eight-pointed Chaos stars on the barricades. I wanted these metal parts to look like they had been exposed to the elements for a long time, corroding naturally with rust. This effect adds some lovely orange tones that contrast beautifully with the grey stone, green moss, and brown wood. For this tutorial, I used a barricade miniature. I painted the wooden stakes first, but the rust technique can be applied to any metal surface you want to weather.   Paints required: Leadbelcher Rhinox Hide Nuln Oil Black Templar Agrax Earthshade Doombull Brown Skrag Brown Trollslayer Orange Ironbreaker Lahmian Medium Chaos Black Spray...

  Of all the Powers of Chaos, the daemons of Nurgle have always been my favourite. There's something captivating about their grotesque, despair-inducing appearance contrasted with their gregarious, almost jovial personalities. I've been collecting a Nurgle daemon army for many years, amassing a large force of Plaguebearers along the way. The classic green and brown palette has been a staple of my collection, reflecting the decay and corruption at the heart of the Plague god's followers. Despite their foul nature, I've always found a strange charm in these embodiments of entropy. Paints Used: Chaos Black Spray Zandri Dust Cassandora Yellow Reikland Fleshshade Ushabti Bone Lahmian Medium Athonian Camoshade Biel-Tan Green Druchii Violet Ogryn Camo Screamer Pink Pink Horror Blood Angels Red Red Wash (Army Painter) Averland Sunset Yriel Yellow Abaddon Black Agrax EarthShade Karak Stone Screaming Skull Pallid Wych Flesh Leadbelcher Nuln Oil Skrag Brown Trollslayer Orange Fire...