Darren Latham - Lord of Blights Masterclass - Part 01: Preparation and Planning.
Darren Latham of Games Workshop and 'Eavy Metal fame started to teach a step-by-step course on painting a display quality miniature through the media of YouTube.
I decided to take part around the start of January a little under a month behind the video uploads. I fancied a little change of pace and thought it would be nice to paint something outside my normal comfort zone and to brush up on some actual painting techniques.
Even though I have years of hobby and painting experience behind me, I decided to try to switch off that auto-pilot and follow the video series letting Mr Latham guide me through every step as if I was coming to this for the first time.
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This part of the series is about the proper preparation of the miniature, mounting the pieces in sub-assemblies to make painting easier and finally planning out the colour scheme and the thoughts and processes of planning a display miniature.
So having decided to take part a little behind everyone else I was able to read the colour selection for a few videos ahead. Then when I popped out to my local Warhammer store I picked up a selection of paints I didn't already have in my collection. Among them some of the new Contrast Paints, so this was going to be new experience too later on.
After following the video I had a fully prepped and mounted miniature ready to begin, just a black prime needed to move onto the next step. Even this stage is a bit of a departure to me. I don't really paint in sub-assemblies. I find it a little odd and uncomfortable and much prefer a solidly built miniature to work on. But this is what Mr Latham instructed, so shall it be...
Full disclosure here. At the time of writing this I have already worked my way through to part 5 of the series and part 6 has just recently been released. I'm going to write each up as separate posts mainly so I can discuss any thoughts I had or problems with the specific part (oh and there were some problems!)
I'll schedule each part to post at different intervals over the next few days.
So until then, take care.
