
Black stripes are painted with Contrast Black Templar. Ropes are basecoated with Stegadon Scale Green. See the banner for both effects side by side. Apply a solid coat of Contrast Black Templar or Gore-Grunta Fur. Metallics begin with a coat of the bright silver. Apply thin wash of Seraphim Sepia to back and face. Lightly airbrush the front with Ushabiti Bone. Lightly airbrush the backs and faces with Reaper Tanned Leather (looks very much like the new Hobgrot Skin). Create a Zenithal undertone by painting them Rhinox Hide, Ushabiti Bone, and Skull White. The Hobgrots adorn themselves with blue in honor of their larger, stronger master. My Kruleboy heroes will be painted like the Blue-Tongue Skink this lets me carry the eyeshadow motif through the entire army and use blue as a thematic spot color. That led me into a broader search of skinks. I found the Peter’s Banded Skink which looks like a lizard going through a My Chemical Romance phase and figured it’d be perfect. I knew I wanted to get out of the swamp and started researching desert amphibians. My paint scheme begins as most of mine do: weird research.
I also forgot to take work in progress pictures, but the steps aren’t too difficult to replicate. I’m really looking forward to applying these schemes to the rest of the army.
The Kruleboy colours are also really forgiving and you can get away with a lots of sloppy mistakes as the washes and the dry brushes tie everything together. The Hobgrots in particular are only a couple of hours to do in batches of 5, which is great when there are so many in the box. Overall I’m really chuffed with how these all turned out, and both paint jobs are super-quick to paint. Here’s a group-shot: Grotz and Bolt-Skewers – Credit: RichyP Paint eyes with a dot of VGC Orange-Red and you’re good to go.Rust up metal weapons and banners with Citadel Technical Typhus Corrosion and stab it with VMC Orange-Red.Highlight Flesh with very thin VGC Sun Yellow and the ropes with VMC Orange-Red.Pick out teeth with Citadel Wraithbone.Wash the Armour-plate metals and the eye sockets with Citadel Coelia Greenshade and the other metals with Citadel Contrast Basilicanum Grey.Paint the ropes with Citadel Contrast Flesh-Tearers Red and any Wood or other straps in Citadel Contrast Wyldwood.
Paint the metal areas with VMA Gunmetal. Wash the flesh with Citadel Serpahim Sepia. Paint the flesh with Citadel Contrast Iyanden Yellow. No step-by-step for these, but they’re really easy to describe. Same technique applied to the Guttrippaz Guttrippaz – Credit: RichyP Paint Citadel Coelia Greenshade into the recesses of the flesh and Citadel Contrast Basilicanum Grey into the recesses of the cloth and you’re done. Highlight Flesh with Citadel Karak Stone, the red areas with VGC Sun Yellow and the off-white areas with white. Highlight flesh with thinned Citadel Death Guard Green and the off-white areas with Citadel Karak Stone. Wash the wood, metal and Wraithbone areas in Citadel Seraphim Sepia Shade. VERY lightly drybrush everything with Citadel Karak Stone. Paint the wood and any straps with Citadel Contrast Wyldwood and any ropes/bandages/feathers with Citadel Wraithbone. Paint the metal areas with VMA Gunmetal. Paint the red areas with Citadel Contrast Flesh Tearers Red. Paint the cloth in Citadel Contrast Black Templar. Wash the flesh with Citadel Coelia Greenshade. Like most thing I paint at the moment, I primed the model Citadel Death Guard Green Spray. The method I used is a slight variation on the one I use for my Gloomspite Gitz. RichyP’s Methodīeing an Ork/Orc/Orruk fan, I couldn’t wait to get my brush on these guys and me being me I couldn’t wait to find a way to paint them up really quickly. They’re also very good models for drybrushing, thanks to all the small details. This opens them up to a wider variety of techniques – you can still make them bright and cartoony, particularly where the shields are concerned – or you can go for something darker and more Lord of the Rings-like. They’re more detailed and a bit grungier and less cartoony than traditional Orruks in Age of Sigmar. The Kruleboyz models have a wonderful aesthetic that’s different from much of what we’ve seen before in the Age of Sigmar.