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Greetings and welcome to our first Top Tips page.
Here we are going to show you some of the uses that we have discovered from our experiments using the Citadel Technical paint, Waystone Green. With a few small changes all the ideas and techniques shown here would probably work for the other two paints: Soulstone Blue and Spiritstone Red. The main thing that we have learnt is that you must shake this paint pot thoroughly before using because the colour sinks to the bottom, more so than other paints. Also, as ever, two or three coats are better than one.
Step One:
First up paint a solid flat dark colour of your selected paint. We used a couple of coats of Caliban Green for ours but we would recommend using Kantor Blue or Khorne Red to get the best results for blue or red respectively.
Of course you could always try a different colour to get something a bit out of the box, if so we would love to see the results.
The Polished Emerald Glaze Look
Our first and favourite technique gives the look of a highly polished glazed piece of metal that has a fantastic depth to it. This look works great for Stormcast, Space Marines or any other highly disciplined and decorated warriors. Here you can see we have used this on both the shield and the shoulder guard of this Stormcast miniature. Coupled with the bright gold and silver of the rest of his armour this polished emerald look makes him look like one of Sigmar's finest.
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It takes only a few easy steps to achieve this great look and it can be easily customised to suit your own personal painting style or suit the effect that you are going for on your model.
Step Two:
Secondly it's time to get some dry brushing done. This is the stage where you can add a pattern that will look like it is shining through the polish. We used both a heavy and thick drybrush on the larger areas and a lighter drybrush on the outer edges. The colour that we used was Moot Green, it is important that your selected colour is very bright for it to shine through the polish effect. For the Red we would suggest using Wild Rider Red and Troll Slayer Orange and for the Blue you could use Lothern Blue and Temple Guard Blue.
Step Three:
More Drybrushing! except this time you have to be super careful so that you give the selected area only the lightest and slightlest of coverings. You can use any silver colour to do this but we used Runefang Steel. The silver gives some much needed sparkle to the final effect and this is a very important step to get right.
Step Four:
It is now time for the first coat of Waystone Green. Remember to shake the pot well to get the best of the colour pigment to your brush. Give the designated area a thorough coating. This will take some patience to achieve because the paint does not stick to the surface of the model like a normal paint. Try to get a good even coating and leave the model for a few hours to dry, perhaps even overnight.
Step Five:
After the first coat has dried properly, make sure it is not sticky, it is time for another. As above with the chosen area, give it a complete and even coating and let it dry properly. After this you will start to see the desired effect coming through.
Step Six:
You guessed it, more coatings of Waystone Green! For our finished model we ended up using 4 coatings of Waystone Green. This gave us a brilliantly vivid and deep emerald effect. unfortunately we have not managed to take a photograph that does this effect justice. Feel free to build up as many layers as you think will be required for what you are trying to achieve.
There we go, a simple but effective use of Waystone Green to enhance your models. Multiple coatings were used to create a deep and polished emerald effect on the Stormcast. We also used a similar effect on one of the Chaos Cultists. We used only a single coating of Waystone Green to give the look of a well cared for weapon to slay the False Emperors lap dogs!
Haunted Earth
The earth cracks and splits beneath the feet or this mystical warrior. The raw power of this being opens up great gorges in the earth that glow with a haunting light.
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Another use of Waystone Green could be to create a spirited glow effect. This looks especially good if it is below a much darker colour, to give the illusion of it escaping or breaking apart.
This was achieved with the following easy steps.
Step One: Paint the cracks and recesses of the base with White Scar, including the sides of the cracks.
Step Two: Paint areas of Runefang Steel into the deepest cracks. These will be hard to see but they will add an extra little bit of sparkle to the finished product.
Step Three: Give the painted areas a good covering of Waystone Green, for best results let it gather in small pools which when dried will add a natural shade.
Step Four: Neaten up the top parts with the chosen earth colour
Marbled Turquoise Armour
Another armour based option for Waystone Green is to use it for making plates of armour look like they have a sea green marble style look about them.
Step One: Paint the armour or desired area with Temple Guard Blue. A solid flat colour looks best and this may be easier done over a white undercoat
Step Two: Paint small blobs of Waystone Green onto the blue and spread them unevenly around the area. Let them pool up of their own accord to get a multi-tonal look.
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When this dries even the areas that have little to no Green on them will still shine and look polished if they had the Waystone brushed over them, hopefully the glaze will spread but the colour pigment will pool up. This is quite a difficult technique to achieve but hopefully you will agree that it looks great. As you can see from the comparison pics of the Tzangors adding the Waystone Green significantly changes the shade of the original armour.
The Wet Look
This picture shows two of the Chaos Familiars from the Silver Tower set. They have both been painted using Caliban Green, drybrushed with Moot Green, the tails and fins done with Altdorf Guard Blue highlighted with Temple Guard Blue. Both models were washed with Drakenhoff Nightshade. Once this was all dry we gave the one on the right an experimental wash with Waystone Green, we layered this on quite thick and left it to dry. As you can see it has worked like a glaze and makes this creature look like it is wet and scaly. We were really pleased with the results and now we only need to paint the eyes and the teeth.
Common Uses
Waystone Green and the other two Gem Stone paints (Soulstone Blue and Spiritstone Red) in the Citadel Range are more commonly used for small areas that are intended to look like they are shining or have an internal glow. Our pictures show how we used Waystone Green for, gems, jewels, orbs, internal lights, power weapons and our favourite, eye lenses. We find we get the best results if we use two layers of the colour over a bright silver.
