My Wood Effect Guide on Skaven Doom Wheel

Recently someone asked me how I painted my Doom Wheel so I thought I'll post my stages here.

The following shows how I went about it. As I'd mentioned, I only got back into painting after near 20 years absent and was testing different colours and practicing dry brushing and highlighting.  A lot of trial and errors were involved so you learn different techniques.  The effect I got looks ok. 

1. Base paint with P3's Umbral Umber (if you using GW paint anything that's dark brown).

2. Wash with Shadow Black Ink or equivalent.

3. I then mix Umbral Umber with P3's Beast Hide to and drybrushed for a base highlight. (I should make note of ratio!)

4. Drybrushed a smaller highlight of just Beast Hide on top.

5. Mix Beast Hide and small amount of white for gentle drybrush on some edges for the worn out look.

6. Using Tamiya weathering I appled the middle shade of Light Sand for some moss effect.

7. They I apply matt varnish.

Hope this helps.

 

Skaven Doom Wheel

You would thought I start by painting the basic models first from the Island of Blood set.  But no, I thought I'll take it easy and start on a Doom Wheel!  I'd never intended to start with this first but I wanted to have an army ready to play a game.  Due to the nature of how the Doom Wheel is assembled it would be difficult to paint once the model is glued together and there was no temporary way to fix the pieces together.  Therefore I made it my task to get this painted and assembled to bring it to my basic army.  

I had spent several hours painting the wooden wheels as I was playing around what colours would suit it and just learning the basic technique. Not the best way to learn painting techniques but like I said I wanted to put this thing together.    It took me some time to understand and know what I wanted and am happy with the worn wooden effect I got.  The next stage was painting the chassis which was more challenging as I wanted a worn bronze look.  

From the pictures this is where I am, though I'm not 100% happy with the bronze look but will have to make do for now.  

The look I wanted for the wheels

Temporarily assembled to see what it looks like.