Yes, I have a new painting plan as well

Why am I changing my painting method?

There are a number of reasons actually; they are listed here:

1. I want my Humans of Araby to have a uniform appearance
2. I want to keep the painting simple while still having layers
3. I think some of my former painting ideals are rather unrealistic
4. I wanted to take advice from a friend before deciding on coloration

Now that that is cleared, let me break this down by the layers and paints without making you have two or more tabs open

The Armor painting

Believe it or not, these guys will share an armor-layering fashion with my "The Lord of the Rings" Easterlings; due to both being masters of bronze armor.

I will base the armor with Screaming Bell and ink it with Reikland Fleshshade. This will end with me doing Detail Brush highlights with Sycorax Bronze.

The Silk Painting

My Araby guys are going to all have their silks collectively base-coated with Kantor Blue. Next I will ink their clothes with Drakenhof Nightshade, and finally apply highlights with Alaitoc Blue. However, this will be the only glazed part of my guys. Their silks will have a Gulliman Blue glazing

The Blade painting

I am still using the same blade painting method as with my Easterlings for LotR but both will have simple 3-step layering, like this: Base of Leadbelcher, Shade of Nuln Oil, and Layer-highlight of Runefang Steel, because honestly I feel like Ironbreaker makes better iron than steel

Painting the Genetics

Because Easterling humans of Middle-earth and Araby-humans of Warhammer World share the Indo-Saharan phenotype (medium-tone skin with dark hair and dark eyes) with one-another, they will receive tan skin and dark eyes. The Men of Araby in particular will get their hair painted Abaddon Black with Nuln Oil wash and highlights of Eshin Grey. Also, unlike the Easterlings, the Araby guys will actually have their skin layer-painted: Bugman's Glow for starters, then Reikland Fleshshade to fill gaps, finally highlights will be done in Cadian Fleshstone. They will have pretty much the same eye-coloring as my LotR Easterling guys: White Scar dots by Detail Brush, then a Fine Detail brush gives them Rhinox Hide outer cores and Abbadon Black inner cores.

Genies' skin

Genies will be the only beings in my army with pale blue skin instead of "medium nougat" skin. Starting with Caledor Sky, I will then put Drakenhof Nightshade over it, then the final steps will be Lothern Blue highlight with Gulliman Blue for glazing.

Elephants

The Sgt. Major Miniature Elephants will be painted with Mechanicus Standard Grey with Nuln Oil and Dawnstone for skin. They will have plain Abaddon Black eyes, and their tusks will be layered with Celestra Grey, followed by Nuln Oil, followed by White Scar. I will armor them with makeshift armor of thick cardboard and paint it like the human armor. Their War-paint will be just plain Altdorf Guard Blue. The howdah will be layered like the human silk, and the woman-warriors up top (converted from Wood Elf Waywatchers) will have identical painting to their Core Unit and Special unit counterparts.

Basing

I am simply going to leave the sand glued to the tops unpainted and then I shall paint the rims of the bases and movement trays with Kislev Flesh, a layer paint.

That's all

Yup, I have changed both my collecting plan and my modelling plan, and now I have changed my painting plan as well. I will post something new some time from now.....

~KP