Tutorial: How to paint grim Age of Sigmar Stormcast Eternals Liberators!

Hi to everybody!

As you have seen in the recent posts, my last work are the Age Of Sigmar Liberators.
I've tried some new technique and I've decided to use a small choice of colours, to make them dark and different from the other Liberators you can find -for example the GW's are bright and with a lot of colours, mine are the opposite-. I think also that on the battlefield a "black mass" of those bulky guys has a great visive impact.

I also decided to crack the armours to give an "old but strong " veterans feeling (and I wanted to experimentate that idea).

I decided to share my painting scheme hoping to be helpful. As you'll see, it is simple, fast but IMHO very effective.




First step, before painting, apply some layers of this two "colours" (more agrellan than armageddon, you can avoid armageddon).
Remember it could be very scary to cover your minis with those, because it gives you the idea that you are covering all the details, but agrellan when dries do not cover too much them. My advice is to put thick layers onto the areas without details and very visible (chest for examples) and thin layers onto the others. You can give also more than one layer, depends on what you want. Remember that the primer is going to cover the smallest cracks.
Ah I've painted the shields apart ( not in the tutorial but the procedure is the same).

Leave the mini for one night and the day after you are sure that agrellan is dried. Apply some sand to the base (I use a "natural" sand, because it is more irregular than a modelling one) and apply an hand of black primer.

Now the base colours

A generous hand of black wash, it is going to reduce the blueish effect

Lets recall the base colours

As you can see the Polycolor black gives a natural and subtle shadows (shadows are given by black, non by the light of the lamp!).
Now lets add to the bases a light grey to give a monotone light

Recall the black

Now a part that I love: lets add  a brown glaze: this remove that weird plastic feeling that grey sometimes give. You can use whatever colour you prefere.

Lets give the last light (same colours) and recall the shadows if needed (always same colour), add metal highlights, apply the gloss onto the black. I love the contrast gloss/matt.
Base him with sand drybrushed with eshin and fortress grey (o rly?).

Then I dip the mini in a wash of water and black do make more soft the base-only the base-!

Last I use a bit of Vallejo still water for some puddles. I do not put onto all minis of a unit -for example- a bush or a puddle, it is too much inprobable that all the soldiers are near a bush or a puddle -and only one- in the same time. So I've done five of ten with a puddle, also to distinguish them in two units if needed.
Here the result!

What do you think?