Painting the Deathwing

I'll be there first to admit I love my dark angels a tad to much, it didn't matter what army I go to collect (and I've had a go at most of them at some point) I always come back to my dark green marines. This time is no different, sheet working on my Taghmata Omnissiah list for a while, I'm now preparing for the Apocalypse Tournament in November, 10,000 points. To start off this ordeal, Im back to painting my deathwing terminators, so far I've finished the first 25, so im just about a quarter of the way through them :) I figuired I'd posted a quick guide to how i do it. I apologise for the picture quality, its the best i can do with my current camera

Starting with the base colours, i spray the whole model bleached bone army painter spray, and then put the base colours on the rest of the model, so they look very flat

Next up is chipping, lightly dabbing the colour you want, in this case rhinox hide (actually i found a 50/50 mix of rhinox/abbaddon black is preferable, as it gives two tones in the chipping), then fold the sponge back slightly, to spread the material out, giving less blobs of paints, and more chipping effect

This is then followed by washing the whole model with Oils, i really like the burnt umber oil, with AK White Spirit, theres cheaper options for white spirits out there, but this is what im comfortable with, i actually just pour some of the oil paints straight into the small container, and then mix it through, so it becomes a pot full of the wash, instead of having to mix it each time individually. That definately stemmed from efficiency, not laziness ;)

This is then followed by a spray of mat varnish, to seal it. The bases for all 100 terminators will be done together, this is to minimize variations in the basing styles.