How I Paint: Jade Tigers

The Jade Tigers are my daughter’s mercenary unit for the campaign that we’re playing. Initially she was just using my Clan Jade Falcon Delta Galaxy miniatures, but I decided to paint up her units in a custom scheme. After chatting a bit about ideas, we settled on light grey units with green, tiger-striped accents.

For the Jade Tigers color scheme, I used the following process:

Start with a grey base coat (I used Vallejo Grey spray)

Paint the model with Administratum Grey (pretty close to the Vallejo Grey spracy)

Paint metallic bits with Leadbelcher

Pick out some accent areas (I did the lower legs and top of the torso) and paint them with Warpstone Glow

Wash the entire miniature with Nuln Oil

Re-layer the panels with Administratum Grey and Warpstone Glow

Edge highlight the grey with Grey Seer

Edge highlight the green with Sybarite Green

Paint tiger stripes on the green areas with Black Templar

For the tiger stripes, or other small details in black, I like using Black Templar contrast paint because it flows nicely off the brush while having enough pigment to still end up as black stripes. Alternatively, a standard black paint will work but you’ll want to add a bit of water to dilute it enough so that it flows nicely off of a small brush.

So far I’ve only painted three of these, but I’ll be painting more when my daughter decides to buy additional units during our campaign.

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