Sronax/Stampede

This week, we flash back to the first CounterCharge Army in a Weekend Spectacular, where Ryan painted up 1000 points in a weekend! This time, we'll look closer at how I did the Sronax, which will be a Stampede in my Herd army.

This one's going to be a bit different. Since I was painting rapid-fire, far less emphasis was placed on starting one color, finishing it, and moving on. Instead, I would paint with what had been mixed, and was often jumping from unit to unit as I went. As a result, my notes are going to be very rough, and I wouldn't trust them at all!
I re-primed the unit black, after a failed experiment with Zenithal priming. I still think this was the right decision for this task.

Unit, primed

For the first pass, I did the first layers of skin and fur. For the fur, I used 3 SS Camo Black Brown, 3 Dark Flesh, 1 Medium Grey, and 1/2 wolf grey. For the skin, I used 4 Dark Fleshtone, 2 Medium Grey, 1 Electric Blue, and 1 Black. I wanted the blue to make the grey skin stand out slightly from what was going to be a brownish-orange "woolly mammoth" shade for the fur, and Medium Grey went into both so they would seem to have a dirty, muddy shade - just like an actual rhino.

Skin layer 1

Fur layer 1

I did a the second layers on the skintone, then jumped into the blues.. For the fur, I used 2 Dark Fleshtone, 2 Medium Grey, and 1 Wolf Grey. For the skin, I used 2 Dark Fleshtone, 4 Medium Grey, 2 Electric Blue, and 1 Stonewall Grey.

Fur/Skin layer 2 done, First two layers of blue done

After the blues were done, I went back and did a third layer on the skin and fur. These would be the last layers for CCKoWAWS, but I would come back later to finish highlighting. For the fur, I used 1 Medium Grey, 2 Elf Fleshtone, 1 Wolf Grey For the skin, I used 1 Medium Grey, 1 Bestial Brown, 1 Electric Blue, 1 Stonewall Grey

Blues done, skin and fur on third layer

After the skin was done, I did the non-metallic metal. I went almost to the end of what I would normally do, leaving only the last highlight for post-CCKoWAWS work.

Adding NMM

The unit as it stood at the end of CCKOWAWS

Once the challenge was over, I took a day off to recover, and then jumped right back in to see if I could finish the unit up.
For the fourth layer of fur, I used 1 Medium Grey, 2 Bone White, 2 Wolf Grey.
For the fourth layer of skin, I used 2 Stonewall Grey, 2 Wolf Trey, 1/2 Electric Blue, 1/2 Glacier blue.

Fur, Fourth Layer

Skin, fourth layer

After that, I shot through the final two layers of each.
For the fifth layer of fur, I simply added 2 Wolf Grey and 2 white to the previous layer.
For the fifth layer of skin, I used 2 Wolf Grey, 1 Electric Blue, and 2 Glacier Blue
For the sixth layer of fur, I mixed up 1 Bone White, 1 Wolf Grey and 4 White
I finished the sixth layer of skin with 2 Glacier Blue, 2 White.

The unit after CCKoWAws, versus after the skin and fur were completed

Rank-and-file, post-fur

Qaano detail, post-fur

Once the fur was done, I finished up the last bit of non-metallic metal I had left, two quick layers.

Final NMM layers

Finished NMM, left side of unit

Finished NMM, right side of unit

Detail shot, NMM finished

Detail of Qaano, the unit commander

Once the non-metallic metal was done, I came back in and did the wooden handles of their weapons, as well as the ice-head one warrior was wielding. At some point in the process, I also decided this unit needed to be a Stampede, so I made a new base that size and magnetized the unit to it.

Rebased on Stampede base, adding wood and ice

Painted weapons

Closer in on the finished unit

Rebased, finished unit

Below is a quick reference of the colors I used for the fur, skintone, ice weapons, and wood. Unless otherwise noted, the first coat was cut 4:1 with water, while other layers were cut roughly 3:1 with water.

Fur:

First layer: 3 SS Camo Black Brown, 3 Dark Flesh, 1 Medium Grey, 1/2 wolf grey
Second layer: 2 Dark Fleshtone, 2 Medium Grey, 1 Wolf Grey
Third layer: 1 Medium Grey, 2 Elf Fleshtone, 1 Wolf Grey
Fourth layer: 1 Medium Grey, 2 Bone White, 2 Wolf Grey
Fifth Layer: 2 Wolf Grey and 2 White added to the previous layer
Sixth Layer: 1 Bone White, 1 Wolf Grey, 4 White

Skin:

First Layer: 4 Dark Fleshtone, 2 Medium Grey, 1 Electric Blue, 1 Black
Second Layer: 2 Dark Fleshtone, 4 Medium Grey, 2 Electric Blue, 1 Stonewall Grey
Third Layer: 1 Medium Grey, 1 Bestial Brown, 1 Electric Blue, 1 Stonewall Grey
Fourth Layer: 2 Stonewall Grey, 2 Wolf Trey, 1/2 Electric Blue, 1/2 Glacier blue
Fifth Layer: 2 Wolf Grey, 1 Electric Blue, 2 Glacier Blue
Sixth Layer: 2 Glacier Blue, 2 White

Ice

First Layer: 2 Electric Blue, 1 Glacier Blue
Second Layer: 2 Purple wash, 3 water, 1floor wax
Third Layer: 3 Glacier Blue, 1 Electric Blue
Fourth layer: 3 Glacier Blue
Fifth Layer: 1 Glacier Blue, 1 White

Wood

First Layer: Bestial Brown
Second Layer: 1 Bestial Brown, 3 Leather Brown
Third Layer: 1 Leather Brown, 2 Elf Flesh