Beastmen Ungor Painting Guide

Hello everyone,

I’ve been working on my Averland State Troops recently, but found the time to paint a really quick, easy and fun ungor scheme as a test for some Beastmen I have waiting to be assembled. This is my attempt at emulating the Warhammer Fantasy 6^th edition GW studio paint scheme for Beastmen, shown below. Where theirs is quite brownish or orangey, however, mine is a little deeper and redder and I really like how it turned out, and honestly prefer it. Without further ado, here’s the recipe:

Games Workshop Warhammer 6th Edition Studio Scheme

ROUGH PROCESS

1. Basecoat then drybrush any metal parts

2. Basecoat skin

3. Basecoat fur, wood, leather wraps, horns

4. Basecoat loincloth

5. Wash the metal, the fur, hair and leather wraps and belt with Army Painter dark tone wash

6. Wash skin, leather and loincloth with Army Painter strong tone wash

7. Apply highlights

I don’t normally use washes on anything but metals, but playing around with the new Games Workshop Contrast paints has made me a little more comfortable with deviating from the traditional base – layer – highlight – edge highlight method. I’m finding the Army Painter washes are particularly good at giving really nice subtle natural depth on browns, but perhaps a little less so on other colours. I came up with this painting scheme after testing both the Army Painter washes mentioned above on some of my favourite brown colours on the belts, scabbards and shoes of some of my Averland troops. After finding combinations that complemented but also stood out from each other, I then applied them to this lone Ungor.

METAL

- Basecoat with Citadel Warplock Bronze

- Drybrush with Miniature Paints Silver

- Wash with Army Painter Dark Tone

SKIN

- Basecoat Miniature Paints Chestnut Brown

- Wash with Army Painter Strong Tone

- Highlight with Chestnut Brown

- Edge highlight with a 50:50 mix of Miniature Paints Chestnut Brown and Cream, especially on the cheek bones, nose and most prominent muscles, as shown below.

FUR AND HAIR

- Basecoat Miniature Paints Chocolate Brown

- Wash with Army Painter Strong Tone

- Highlight with Chocolate Brown

WOOD

- Basecoat Miniature Paints Chocolate Brown

- Highlight wood grain with lightly watered-down Vallejo British Uniform

HORNS AND BONE

- Basecoat with Miniature Paints Chocolate Brown

- Wash with Army Painter Dark Tone

- Stripe the horns upwards, toward the point, with Vallejo British Uniform. The lower half of the horns should still have the basecoat showing in stripes, but the upper half to third of the horn should be almost entirely blocked in with British Uniform

- Stripe the upper two-thirds of the horn with a 50:50 mix of Vallejo British Uniform and Miniature Paints Sand. When doing this, leave a tiny bit of the basecoat and a decent amount of the midcoat showing for half of this distance, with the other half (so, a third of the horn or less) entirely blocked in with this paint mix.

- Finally, highlight the upper parts of the horn in stripes using Miniature Paints Cream, with only the very tip of the horn fully blocked in

HOOVES

- To paint the hooves, use the same process as for the horns and bone, but do not do a final highlight of cream. If you want to save time, you could even stop at the British Uniform stage described above. Remember to stripe your hooves to create the realistic laminated keratin effect one sees, for example, on horse and goat hooves!

LOINCLOTH

- Basecoat the cloth with Miniature Paints Sand in two thin coats

- Wash with Army Painter Strong tone

- Highlight with Miniature Paints Sand

- Highlight with a 50:50 mix of Miniature Paint Sand:Cream

BELT AND LEATHER WRAPPINGS

- Basecoat with Miniature Paints Chocolate Brown

- Wash with Army Painter Dark Tone

- Highlight with watered-down Citadel Skrag Brown

And there you go! A simple and very quick way to get nice-looking Beastmen on the table, I hope it proves useful.

Thank you for reading, and if you haven’t seen it already please check out my Instagram account - @warhammer_skirmish_project, where I post more often than on here. Alternatively, if you came from there, then thanks for looking!

Owen