Well, I’ve been having fun with Warhammer 40k for the last month. I didn’t play any games so far, as I’m still building my army, but I’m having a great time learning how to paint. Even though I’m doing more “advanced” stuff right now, I would like to start this blog with my first painting job. Not exactly my very first painting job, but the first one I used the core techniques of washing and drybrushing.
The minis below are from the Battle for Macragge starter set. Lt. Varras was the last marine I painted and the only one I really used the techniques.
I didn’t have a good selection of paints when I started working on Varras (well I still don’t have). For his robe, I used mordian blue foundation paint for the base coat, added chaos black and more water for the wash and skull white for the drybrush. I didn’t want to use the base blue color for his upper armor plate so I painted it with the drybrush mixture. I really liked the blue tonality and, as a matter of fact, this color will definitely be a major component on my IG army: the 13th Valhallans 
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A quick note about his eyes: can you see how crazy he looks? Well, I got that completely by accident. That was my first time trying to paint eyes and, as I would find out later, part of the iris should be covered by the eyelids. But anyways I think it is looking good, better yet in the context of a battle.
Now he has a lot of reasons to be mad 
. I would with all those nids after me.
